New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-28
A VOYAGE FULL OF INCIDENT.
SAVING A SHIPwRECKED CREW.
BRINGING IN MUTINEER IN IRONS AND A
PILOT WHO WAS UNwILLINGLY
CARRIED AWAY.

The shin Iandseer. of Boston, reached port yes
terdav after a cruise Of III days from Ioilo.
She brought n shipwrecked crew into port, and
down in her hold, in irons was a mutinous sailor,
a Russian Finn John Matson, who had shipped at
Sydney, from which port the Landseer had sailed
to Iloilo for cargo of sugar Matson, weak from
his long confinement, taken from the Landseer
by the police boat Patrol and sent to the Church
ST. police station. Captain Ships reported that
he had been sury all through the voyage. On
August H. when the vessel was of the Cape
of Good Hope, Ships then first mate, ordered
Matson aloft to furl sail. He went aloft and
shortly came down.
The mate saws he had not done his work properly
and he was ordered back aloft Matson refused TO
CO. and retired to the forecastle. When the mate
started to go after him The sailor rushed out
with sheath knife and made two or three deS-
perate slashes at Ships. The latter got hold
of Delaying pin and protected himself as best
he could. Two sailors rushed up, and the Russian
attacked them with his knife. He finally
knocked down with a Delaying pin, put in irons
and thrust into the hold under the windlass where
anchor chains are kept. There he remained until
last night
Matson admitted last night that he attacked
the mate with a knife. but said the mate had
first knocked him down with the belaying-pn
He said the mate and crew had been nagging
him all the time. He says he did not hear
the orders of the mate to go up aloft the second
time The Landsecrs master, Captain Charles
f. Smith, whose home was Arlington, Me, died
of rheumatic fever September 2o, and was
buried at sea two days later. His wife and three
children were the vessel with him. lie was
Dfty-three years old
The shipwrecked men brought into port by the
Landseer were Captain Godfrey and eight men
of the crew of the schooner Jacob NJ. Haskell, Of
Boston, who were taken from their wdterlogged
vessel on October l Z in latitude 80 degrees, 80
minutes, and longitude 73 degrees, 30 minutes.
Captain Godfrey, OF the Haskell, says that he
sailed from Savannah October for this port, and
lad good weather till, Oh October -, fifteen miles
northeast of Barnegat, the wind shifted around
and blew "a gale from north-northeast. At p. III.
the gale was terrific, and accompanied by rain
squalls. The wind increased i'll force until 9
p. IN. on October IA, when the vessel was laboring
heavily and leaking badly. At 6:lO a. IN. on
October , the wind moderated but at p. IN. "a
hurricane struck them, blowing away foresall and
mainsail They got the vessel before the wind
and ran till a. on October 16, when the YES
sci broached to. The vessel was kept free, how
ever, till a. m. on October I, when she filled.
The cargo was yellow pine lumber
At a. N. they were sighted by the Landseer
and taken off. All hands were badly used up
when rescued. The crew lost all their clothing
except what they had on The Haskell registered
ass TONS and was owned by j. ii. Conant and
others, of Boston.
Pilot Josiah j. Russell was carried TO sea on
October "a on the steamer Santiago, bound for
Nassau. He was taken from the Santiago on the
following day, 80 miles from Sandy Hook, by
pilotboat No. q, the Ambrose Snow, and he after
ward was transferred to the Landseer winch ne
piloted into port.