Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-02-17
,gournal arto Courier.
Friiay Morning. Feb. II. 1882.
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the Sturtevant House by Herald reporter
last night He gave the following narrative
of his shipwreck and his rescue:
''We raised our anchor at six o'clock on
Saturday evening, the 4th of February, off
ST. Johns Island, Porto Rico. We had IA
vcrable winds until the afternoon of Thurs
day. At shutdown of that day was on deck
in the chart room MIR. Scott was with me
also, and said to the captain, That is a
rather peculiar shutdown, captain, is it not?
He said Yes, | think we shall have a little
dirty weather. However, we did not think
very much of that, and we remained talking
in the chart room until about ten O'Clock. /
then said to Mr.. Scott that thought l would
go to bed. About half past ten o'clock re.
tired. After had turned into my berth and
L suppose had woke up after my first sleep, ]
had hold of the brass rod that was over my
berth, for the ship was lurcting little,
think it was about twelve o'clock when ]
heard water coming in, for my stateroom door
were pumping, but I did not think SO very
much of that and went to sleep again
About O'Clock I woke up for the boat gave
little bit of list On the starboard side. I'm
mediately after that heard good deal oil
talking, but still remained quietly in my
berth until about o'clock, and I remember
I felt a little disposed to go off into doze
when L heard some one near my stateroom
which was No 10. The person proved to be
the steward I said, What is the matter ?
He said something about some water coming
in. Before he had done speaking I heard
Mr.. Sutton (the purser) say, The starboard
bulwark, two lifeboats and the side of the
house are gone in [ Immediately jumped
out of my berth, put on my boots and my
pants. AS I was going on deck Mr.. Scott
said to me that the captain wanted me. While
he was saying this the boat gave another ire
mendous lurch but went back to get my
coat. On my return the captain said to me,
You had better be up here, all ready 1t
was blowing very hard just then, and I lost
my cap overheard. I went to my ststeroonl
again and got my hat, but had no sooner
reached the dock than the hat followed the
cap and went right out to sea.
ROLLING IN THE TROUGH OF THE SEA.
''The boat by this time was settling on the
starboard side, the fires were put out, the
vessel rolled in the trough of the sea and the
waves seemed to me to be running from fifty
to sixty feet high. There was no use stay
ing any longer by the ship, and a wooden
boat was got out and the captain with seven
teen men got into her. They started first
and got about three hundred yards away
from the vessel on the port bow, when a
wave went over her and the boat was
swamped. just before this we had got out
another boat which was a metallic boat, con-
tanning thirteen of us, including the first and
second mates. The boat was thirteen feet
long, but we could only use ten feet of it for
slowing away thirteen men, We were, there
FORE very low in the water, not being more
than five or six inches above it. We saw the
captains boat swamped as we were in our
boat, but it was no use trying to 60 to her,
for we could not rescue them the sea was
too heavy, and they would only have
drowned u.s. We went due east for some
time, and then the wind shifted and we went
to the southeast, where we sighted bark,
but she passed us, evidently not seeing us.
That was about twelve o'clock on the next
day. About half-past two o'clock we thought
we saw a steamer and somewhere about
three O'Clock the steamer seemed to be about
two miles from us.