The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-10
a STORY OF suIrwREcK.
Eie.en Days OF snirsripg-H without VIA,
ter or food. :

ter or Food.
NKw YoRE, December S.-The steamship
State OF Pennsylvania, Of the State Line
brought 10 this port to-day six men and q
boy, rescued from the wreck OF the British
bark Bepefactreas. The Captain Of the
bark was among The saved. The crew,
fifteen in number, left the vessel in an
open boat, two days before the State Of
Pennsylvania sighted the wreck, and are
supposed 10 have been lost. The rescued
men, on arriving at this city, were sent by
the British Consul TO the Sailors Home in
Cherry street. They were eleven days on
the wreck without water, and suffered ter
ribiy.
1t was after dark when the rescued men
and boy entered the Office OF the Sailors
Home. They were; Jehn Lindsay, first
mate; James Birkett, second mate; Neil
Brown, Carpenter, James Newry, cook;
Joseph Cairns, steward, and the boy,
Alexander McLachlln. Aa soon as their
names had been registered by the clerk
they went into tho reading-room, where
they gave reporter an account OF their
sutierings and rescue.
Is TIE ST I'm.
ave were from Quebec, bound for
Greeno0k, Scotland, ," said the second mate.
"We let Indian Cove, just below Quebec,
on November 9, with aload Of lumber.
We we're honeward bound, and as most Of
us were married men, and had wives and
children awaiting US in old Scotland, and
though We sailed on a Friday, We looked
for swift run home. The second Thurs.
day out it began to blow pretty hard, and
on Saturday, November II, 1t had increased
to q hurricane. The seas ran mountain
high, and the wind blow from the west.
northwest with terrific violence, We
ran btf1rc the hurricane as bes. We could,
and though the vessel labored heavily, she
kept scGIding all right until $50 In the
evening, when che suddenly broachsd too
hard ag,inst the helm on the ttarboard
tack. This threw her on her port aide, and
she was OH her beam ends with the water
up her main batch. Everything was swept
from the Ieces, q great wave went wash
Ing into The cabin and washed that ont,
and another broke into the to'gallant TO-.
cGs:le, and washed away the mems bed.
ding, clothing-tvcrything that belonged
10 them.
ADRIFr ON THE OCEAN.
ave clpng for our lives, all the bitterly
cold night, to The s!arboard rail, and as it
grew light we got an axe and cut away The
topmas;s. She righted then, but continued
to roll ieslia!ly. A loose spar on deck
went driving about like batteripg ram,
smashing the bnlwarks and everything
else 1t came in coptsct With. The vessel
was then watefloggeh, and the boats were
over her matches. Oar drinking water was
10 tanks below, and We could not get at 1t.
30 the twenty yone Of Us, all told, huddled
together In the to'g4llant to'castle with
few pieces OF dried bread and a bag OF ap-
p!es to support life on until we Bhould be
rescued or die.
.'The next day the terrible Storm abated
somewhat in lis fary,, though the weather
continued rough and boisterops until the
day We were r, scued. So for eleven days
we lived without water, and with no food
but the few dry crusis and the applee. We
tried to sleep in the bunks on the weather
aide ofthe forecas.le, but the wind shifting,
we were washed out and had 10 Bhiver and
freeze on deck. The apples were meat and
drink for US. II 1t had not been for them
We conld not have kept up. The moisture
in the fruit in a measure supplied the place
Of water.
RrcoMISe DEsPERATE. -
1.-THE crew became desperate, and, though
the captain advised them not to, decided
to take helong boat, the only boat that re.
mained, and quit the wreck. The captain
did Try TO prevent them, but when they
came 10 him. aud asked for the compass
and the couRe, gavethem TO the men. The
course be gave out IVES east southeast.
This was as near as he could guess II. Tho
day the bark bfoached to We were in lati.
:ude 59o north, longitude 330 west, but We
had been drifting since the l7!h, and II was
now the 2O:h. OF all the crew, one boy
only decided TO stay with US. The rest got
into tho long boat. We gave them their
share Of the apples, they waved their
hands to us and pulled away. It blew
heavily the next day; and, Ha the filtsen
men in the longboas loaded her down pret-
ty well, have no doubt that they wsro
lost. On November 2S, the first vessel We
had seen since tho l7Lh, the State Of Penn.
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