Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-22
ADRIFT AND DYING.
Shipwrecked Sailors just Res
cued in Time.
SURVIVORS OF A sUNKEN VESSEL

rounderiug of the Earnmoor with Fiji
teen of Her Crew-EIeven Only Secure
Boat and but Seven OF Them Roach
Home Alive, One Drowning Alongside
the Rescuing vesssl-Thrse Weeks in
nm Open Boat Without Food.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct x2-The seven sur
vivors OF the Inflated steamer Earnmoor,
which foundersd at sea Sept in cyclone.
800 miles off Turks island, while bound
from Baltimore to Rio Janeiro, arrived here
yesterday from New York, whittier they
were brought yesterday morning by the
steamer Santiago, from Nassau. They tell
a story OF great suffering The Earnmoor
struck a terrific gale on Sept. 4, which in
creased in force, and at $50 a. N. on the
following day the vessel gave lurch and
foundered.
Only One Boat Anoat.
As the steamer sank, the port life boat
hoated OF from the ship between the funnel
and the mainmsst and the following men
chung TO the boat and scrambled in-the sec
ond officer, second and third engineers. four
ssilo :, three fremen and the cook. An effort
was made to save the rest of the crew and a
drag was made of the painter, but the boat
was blown away and the oars wrested from
the hands of the men so that no moro could
lie saved. The cries OF the drowning men a.
they were dashed about by the mountainous
waves were heard by the men in the boat but
they could not be reached and had TO be a ban.
doned TO th, ir fate. Ii WAS impossible 10 put
the boat back for them. 1t was an oversight
that the boat had not been provisioned in an
ucipation OF the calamity, as il would have
saved the terrible sufferings OF the survivors
Fortunately the boat drifted into the gulf
stream and the air was warm, but this in
crea ed the intensity of their thirst.
Adrift without Food or Water.
The horrors of hunger on the second day
he anne awful" said Carl Crane one of the
survivors, and II increased as time wore on.
We managed T. pick up seaweed from the
Gult stream, which gave us a little nutriment,
and on the third day u flying fish was caught.
T. is was Immediately cut up into portion
for each man and devoured. We also captured
ssa bat and sucked its blood, and then ate
its ficsh after il had dri d In the sun. The
first man 10 die was a seaman named William
Robinson. OF Baltimore, an the second was
the third engineer, Thomas Hunt, of Phils-
delphia. enc night while we were all asleep,
ex ept a German fireman named Plagg, who
was on watch he suddenly became insane and
jun ed overheard. We were too weak TO save
him. We were without compass, and steered
by the sun by day and the stars by night
Hesrtiess British Crew.
Eleven vessels passed us-one, a British
bark, We are certain. saw US. and delib 'ratsly
left US t. our fate When 800 miles of Hat
teras we were picIei NJ by a schooner. can
not describe In words our joy at the sight of
this deiverance. We W re so weak that we
had 10 be lifted mp on the We ssel's deck, and
one of our men. Ed Johsnson, a Norwegian,
fell overheard and was drowned.
The Earnmoor was largely owned in Phil
adelphia Those who were saved are: H.
Stone, second mate, and Thomas Metorum.
second engineer. Philadelphia; William