The Republican journal., 1883-01-25

under the excitement and suffering, and
came near losing our senses. The smoke,
too always coming up about us, always
frightening us with a scare of fire here or
there, wherever it was thickest. seemed
to have gone to our brains and craZed US.
| was the first to feel it. | had made
shift to creep into the cabin on Sunday
morning 1t was thick with smoke and
could not endure it long. tried to 60
on deck, and was going up the hatch
when the place got dark and fell down
scnseless. They carried me up on deck,
but it was quarter Of an hour before |
recovered. From that the men were all
more or less prOstrated in the same way.
| remember four who had severe attacks.
They were William Liscomb, the cook
the mate, Daniel Kane, and two seamen,
John Thompson and John Adams. They
were working on deck when it came up
on them. Their faces would get as white
as a sheet, and in iitfy they would be
down on the deck working in fit. 1t
was dreadful to see them rolling about
there, raving like madmen and looking
the picture Of death. 1t was the smoke
and the work and the exhaustion did il.
All we could do for them was to hold
them down and keep putting cold water
in their mouths and rubbing their tore
heads with it, suppose that the thick
smoke was the chief cause of the trouble,
and we battened down the companion
and secured all the hatches for good, and
from that time no one was allowed to
leave the deck
RESCUE AT LAST.
''Our little provisions were giving out
now. We had been able to bring up only
what we could readily look after in the
first instance. and it would not hold out
long. The men looked like ghosts and
were barely able to trudge about and keep
the decks wet Two of them-Lscomb
and ThOmpsOn-Were frost bitten, and
all were suffering severely from exposure
On the morning of Wednesday last The
smoke was coming through the timbers
from stem to stern The water began to
steam where it fell upon the decks. 1t
was hot under foot and we could feel that
the fire had traversed the vessel, burned
up all the inside and would soon break
out We looked TO the beats and dread
ed the moment we would have to take to
them on the open sea in such bitter
weather. We were all exhausted. Some
OF the men, after the hard fight, were for
giving up. 1t was two hours after mid
day and We all believed the vessel could
not stand TWO hours longer The fire even
then was rushing to the cabin and it
would soon be all over. Ii was Just then,
III our worst extremity, that help came.
The Neckar hove in sight. We hoisted
the ensign upside down and ran up uuder-
meath it the p"nnant and square flag, c
and \. to show we We're i'll distress and
wanted assistance. The steamer saw us
and lay or our weather bow till We
launched our boat and went out to her
We were taken On board and treated by
the captain with the greatest kindness
The smoke was rolling up from the Mary
Lizzie and the fire was beginning to break
out OurTescue had been timely. In ten
minutes We lost sight Of her in the thick
weather.
Captain Nichols and his men were we'll
cared for aboard the Bremen steamer
and they had fairly recovered from their
sutterings when they reached port yester-
day. They will seek assistance from the
British Consul.