Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-18

Her Crew Stricken with Disease aud
Several Die-NO Aid from an Ameri-
can Consul
From td4 Es,o Tork World.


Fr~o,, tde Vs,c FORK W0rid.
The Sandy Hook pilot who boarded the
schooner Joseph Farwell, which arrived
Saturday, thirty-one days from Aspin-
wall or Colon, found sad state Of affairs
on board that craft. she was under fore
and mainsail ana jib, and her main boom
was fshed with pieces Of old car blades
married down with spun yarn, her whole
appearance denoting rough usage on the
passage. There We're but two persons
visible on deck, one \. Sanderson, the
mate at the wheel. and the other leaning
up against the weather-rail. Iney were
the only men tit for duty out Of a crew Of
seven, two passengers and one stowaway.
The story of her trip was told to a
reporter by Mr.. Sanders0n. Sailing from
New York the schooner. in command OF
VIM. II. Davis, arrived in Aspnwall on
Sept. y last. While discharging cargo
at the Pacific mail dock the crew were
successfully taken down with Chagrcs
fever. There being but small accommo-
dali0n on board, application was made to
the American Consul to have the sick
removed TO a hospital. That functionary
said there was no place in which the
men could be cared for on shore. and
they were forced TO do the best they
could. Sept, 30 Neils Nelson, a seaman,
died on board, and with difficulty his body
was taken ashore and natives bribed to
bury il. Mate Sanderson, who had been
very low, commenced to recover and on
Oct. was atle to be up and about the
vessel. He busted himself among the
sick, but medicines were hard to obtain
and Of nurses there were none, and on
Oct. 4 Gustav Young, another seaman.
succumbed to the disease. Then the
others OF the crew Of four men becaue
thoroughly frightened and deserted in a
body, Can't. Davis being at the time con-
valescent. With great difficulty a crew
Of i've men was obtained, and, taking
two passengers on board, the schooner
sailed on Oct. IA with a load of ivory and
nuts for this port.
Hardly had the vessel got to sea, when
the captain and one man were taken sick,
and on the l1th, seaman Thomas Smith,
az II, native of Liverpool, died, and
was buried at sea. From that time until
the 9th, all hands excepting the captain,
were comparatively well, when on the
morning of that day he died. The vessel
at this time was near the port of Dame
Marie, on the West end of the island of
Hayti, and mate, Sanderson concluded to
make that port, so as to bury Capt.
Davis body on dry land. Two
DAYS afterWard, they arrived
there, and were about taking
the body on shore, when the
communicate Of the port forbid them to
do so. That night the schooner put TO
sea, and when clear of the harbOr the
captains remains were committed to the
deep. There were then three men sick,
two of them dangerously so. The mate
had resolved to 90 into the port Of Bara-
Goa when a change for the better took
place IN the CONDITION Of the men, and the
vessel continued on her course. With
the assistance OF the two passengers and
the stOwaway the schooner was worked
into the port.
To add TO the horrors of the passage,
after having been becalmed for seventeen
days and when in latitude 2130 gale of
wind from the nOrth-northeast came on,
curing which sails We're split and main
| boom sprung. Then when off Hatteras
another severe gale from northeast to
southeast was encountered which lasted
twcnty-tour hours, during which the
| schooner lay too under reeted mair-sails
and jib. Still another storm almost over
whelmed the vessel two days afterwards
while IN the gulf stream, and she was
sea running mountain high, during all of
which time the mate scarcely left the
helm.
The schooner Is consigned to Austin,
Nichols & Co., No. 81, Hudson street, and
her cargo belonged 10 Pierrz, Priano &
Co., No. Is Beaver street. Capt. Davis
left widow, two grown sons, one OF
whom is now at sea, and three daughters,
the oldest being Il years old.
When the reporter called at the pretty
little cottage No. 296 Furman street,
| Brooklyn, which had been the captains
home, he found Mate Sanderson there. He
had just broken the news to the widowed
mother. and she was in tears. Her chill
/ dren had been summoned, and sad
group they formed, as gathered around
their mother they tried to console her.