The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-20

of his difficulties, and for the next five
days the two men chung to the wreck.
Their situation was desperate and all
but hopeless. They were entirely with
out. food or drink. The Sally being
nearly water-logged scarcely showed
above the level Of the sea. Only one
miserable resource in the way of sus-
tenance was left to them. This con-
sisted of hapless cat which had es-
capped in the rush of waters and re-
manned with them in the vessel. The
men killed the poor creature and
drank her blood. On Friday, the fifth
day, the storm-tossed mariners near
ly gave up in despair. The wreck
rolled heavily in the trough of the sea,
and their strength was almost exhaust
ed. On Thursday afternoon they had
seen bark gliding along the horizon
and had made every possible signal to
attract her attention. But she did not
or would not see them. and with the
sunset her topgallant sails sank in the
sea and all hope sank with them. On
Friday morning the two men drank
what was left of the blood of the cat,
and then made mournful agreement.
They resolved if help did not come by
another sunset to abandon the ship and
drop into the water. They were suffer-
ing terribly, and to die. they reasoned,
would be better than to endure their
agonies longer.
Toward noon on Friday Michel went
mad, and wretched struggle ensued
between the two men, Diaz, weakened
as he was, straining every nerve to
save his shipmate's life by keeping him
from leaping overheard. In this he
was successful, and by afternoon
Michel partly recovered. But the sun
went down, and down, and still there
was no sign of succor. To Diaz the
situation now must have been pecu-
liarly appalling. The delirium of
Michel was likely to return in the
night. There was no longer an atom
of the loathsome substitute for food
and drink they had consumed before.
Another night, in a word, must have
| seemed to Diaz to be the sure witness
of inevitable and cruel death. Dark
ness came creeping over the sea, and
the mariners fell into the stupor of de-
spair. Suddenly through the gloom
there arose the hull of huge steam
| oHAp. OHc was wearing SGTcalSnC QOWn
upon them-so straight that she was
sure to see signals that the DETECTION of
point in her course half an hour before
would have rendered invisible. She
was the Spanish steamship Enrique,
from Mantanzas, and bound for New
Orleans. In five minutes she stopped
her engines close by the battered and
PROSTATE wreck of the Sally; and in five
minutes more the poor fellows who were
the sole survivors of her crew were in
comfort and safety.
Michel, the German, says that during
the twenty-nine years he has passed at
sea he has known no storm so terrific
as that in which the Sally was cap
sized, and is amazed and grateful for
his providential deliverance. The men
were treated with profuse generosity
by the Captain of the Enrique, who
for Diaz and Michel had lost every
thing they had in the world-supplied
all their wants with an unstinted hand.
Of their comrades nothing is known,
and nothing probably ever will be
known, for the Sally papers have gone
to the bottom with her, and even the
names of these unfortunates cannot be
repeated by the survivors.-M. Y. Eves-
ing Post.