The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-04-10

Schoonmaker was nearly washed
away in his efforts to get him out.
A few minutes later the Captain
was told that his steward Brisbane
was lost) he said, "poor fellow,
poor fellow, too bad, too bad. :" L
passed TO the Captain one end Of
the rope which was using, but as
one leg of the gattling gun was
broken and the rail was giving way he
fearful OF being crushed to death by
its fall. He was now very weak and
when the deck began to break up,
Lieut.. Carlin tried to persuade him
TO make an effort to reach the rig
ging, but he had not the strength.
\ minute later the sea again striking
us, the Captain let loose his hold
and in doing 50 was dashed against
the ships side and after the sea had
passed, he was seen no more. There
was no one left on the poop-deck
then but Lieut.. Carlin and the En-
gineer's yeoman, B. +. Davis.
Lieut.. Carlin then went up into the
rigging on the port side. Davis
after terrible beating and nearly
exhausted jumped overheard and at
tempting to swim for the shore was
carried around the bow OF the Nip
sic, and out to sea. After staying
in the rigging some time Lieut..
Carlin came down ON the deck again,
and after standing heavy beating
against the bits went back into the
rigging where he stayed until taken
off by the Trenton. Il. j. Downey,
Paymaster's yeoman, the most po-
pular man in the Vandaiia's crew,
genial, whole, souled Tommy" with
heart as large as mountain, went
over and down without struggle.
Long will his sweet kindly nature
remain green in the memory of his
shipmates. Payclerk John Roach
who had been washed out of the
lower main rigging attempted to swim
for the Nipsic, but was carried out
TO sea and lost. Although an officer
he stood at the pumps, raised his
voice with the men, sang and worked
with will until he,grew exhausted.
NJ. Josephs, ships yeoman, next was
washed away from the foot of the
mizzen mast and sank, almost imme-
dlately. At Z p. m. (l6th) the
Trenton was seen drifting down on
us with all her men in the rigging
and as she neared they gave three
rousing cheers, which we answered
family, but with whole heart, The
sea was running mountains high
when she with her spanker sci
drifted on us stern first. Backing
up to the foremost she cast line To
our fore yard and took every man
off, then backing down on top of the
main mast knocking it over and
taking everyone out of it, Then came
our turn in the mizzen mast which
she felled with one blow, saving all
Then calling all hands she haulee
ahead off of the reef which she hat
struck in rescuing us. just befor,
the main mast went over Ensign
Charles S. Ripley jumped over ant
after hard struggle succeeded ii
reaching the beach, where he Sc
about to find boat to bring us off
An offer of assistance was made t
him 10y native chief named Sua
mana which he gladly accepted. Wit
the aid of the chief and his follow
ers they found the Nipsic's gig
They carried it down to the beach an
at 4 am. on the 18th they launche
it and attempted to come off to tn
Trenton for line, but the sea bein
too rough did not succeed. AT 7:3
they came off again with better sue
cess and from then on made regula
trips until all were taken off. En-
sign Riply stood on the beach to re
ceive the wounded and had them al
carried up TO the native church
which was turned into hospital
The Vandalia's crew is now quarter
ed near the U. :. Consulate, wher
they are supplied with fruits by tn
natives
Long will the sick and wounds
of the Vandalia's crew remembe
the hearty welcome and happy smiI
ing greeting of the Samoan people