The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-01-14
INSANE In A. BOAT. AT SEA.
WHALERs, ApRlFT, BECOME 0ELIRl-
GUS FOR WANT OF FOOD.
One Raviug Maniac Tied by Bis CoInpan-
ions-Terrible Suspense When Vessels
Passed within Sight but Failed to q
Hear Their Cries.

States and Brazil line, WHlcn afr!Feu
in New York recently, brought into
port six shipwrecked whalers who had
been found at sea in an open boat De-
cember 80, by Captain Mcneil, OF the
British steamer County Glare. Their
names are john P. Pararo, third mate;
Alexander G. Wood, boatsteerer; Man
mel Horman, Antonia Perrira, Law
renee LodreVener and ADtonlaT Manuel
Lima. seamen. Alexander Wood, the
boatsteerer, is a negro, born in Connec-
ticut, and is the only one who TALKS
English fuently. His shipmates are
Italians. He said that they had sailed
on the whaling schooner Mary i. Sim
mons. from New Bedford some months
ago for the whaling grounds off the
coast of South America. :.
When about one hundred miles to The
eastward of Pernambuco, on November
90, school Of whales was sighted. Tne
first and second mates lowered away,
the former taking the third mates
boat, his own having been stove IN
on a former occasion. In . short time
both boats had made fast to whale.
From the deck of the schooner the
work of the two crews could be seen,
and there being other whales IN sight
the third mate ordered the spare boat
tohe lowered. She was without water
or provisions, and it was late IN the al
ternoop when q start was made. a big
spouter was selected for capture by the
third officer, and when near enough the
boatsteerer sent his harpoon into the
back of the victim. He proved to be
fighting whale of tremendous size.
AT che first stroke Of the harpoon he
sounded" or dived., Line was PAID
out and when he rose to the surface a
strong pull was made to get alongside
of him and the lance in the hands OF the
third officer was plunged into. his SIDE.
Then the whale "fuked" and lifted the
boat. men and all, out Of the water,
When they came. down tha boat had
been overturned and with great diff
culty it was righted. The whale was
dead and Law on the surface HARMLESS
mass of untried blubber, alongside
which the men hauled their boat, which
was stove and waterlogged. BY this
time it was nearly sunset and the
schooner was nowhere to. be seen.
Shortly before dark the sail Of one OF
their own boats was seen and the
wrecked men yelled and shouted to at
tract attention. Their. cries were not
heard and night coming on all hands
were obliged to sit on oars lashed across
the boats gunwale, with their legs
dangling in the water. After dark tne
,l;slts-ee stiae-eehaeaers collel--a'o'r'.oela- m
plainly, but 100 farotf TO WlndWard 10
allow a hail to be heard.
The reXt morning another schooner
was sighted standing toward them, ana
a mans shirt was lashed to a boat-nooG
and waved aloft. The schooner tackled
three times within eight or ten miles
of them, and at last squared away and
was soon out of sight. Weakness from
want of water and food and exposure,
added to the disappointment when this
schooner sailed away, made the men
almost desperate. Shortly afterwards
another vessel hove in sight and hope
was renewed. Frantic waving OF the
SIGNAL on the boat-hook failed to at.
tract attention, and again a feeling OF
despair came over them.
Dnrine the day seven sails were seen,
and ali passed on their way without
noticing the suffering men. When
night again fell, seaman Lima had Pc
come delirious and rayed Wildly. Hls
shipmates were compelled TO tie MIN
with the boats painter to prevent MS
jumping into the sea. All night the
men were forced to listen to the raw
ings of the delirious- man, but as sea-
man Wood said, cit seemed to distract
our minds from our own sutterlngs.
The third day passed and still no signs
of help, and the men were tortured
with thirst and hunger. On the morn
irg of the fourth day, November 3, two
more vessels passed by. At II A.. M. a
steamer was made out coming directly
towards them. She saw them at noon,
and the six exhausted, starved and al
most crazy seamen were taken on board
the County Clare. Every kindness was
shown them, but it was some time be-
fore they recovered their strength.
They were, taken into PernambQco
whence the American Consul sent them
home on the Advance. =. ~ ,
The schooner Mary T.. Simmons be-
longs to L. Snow & Son, OF New Bed
ford, at which port her men were ship
ped. When the Advance left Pernam-
buco the schooner was still at sea, prob
ably engaged in seach for the missing
crew.
The Italian bark Fiducio, which ar
rived yesterday from Smyrna. had on
board Captain Filippo and twelve men
of the Park Pietrc, abandoned at sea on
November 12 off the Madeira Islands.
CAPTAIN Filippo left Marseilles, bound
for Bunos Ayers, October 22, with a
general cargo. On November II, when
off Marderia, a terrific gale struck the
bark, and all her canvass, was blown
from the bolt ropes and several of the
yards carried away. The ship COM
menced to leak, and the crew gave
themselves up for lost, when on the
evening of that day the Fiducio hove
in sight and a boat was got overheard.
When they left the ship Captain Flip
90 said there was eight feet OF water in
Che hold and she was fast sinking. The
Fiducio lay by the wreck for two hours,
when she went down. She was 524
tons register, built at Castollamore, It
alv. in 1876, and owned by MariZie 4
r. &C ronoo HaptoiO FjIiDDO and