Evening journal., 1890-09-22
TOSSED Blythe TEMPEST
The Awful Ordeal of the Abbie
Clifford's Crew.
THECAPTAIN's wIFEswErTAwAY

five Days Adrift on the Open Sea Upon
Ran with Hair Box OF Raisins for
FoodA Thrilling Story OF Peril on
the Ocean.
NEw YORK, Sept 2a-The steamship
Orinoco, from Bermuda, yesterday brought
into port seven castaways They were
Capt. Storer and six of the crew Of the
Abbie Clifford, gallant bark which was
wrecked in the storm while making the
voyage between Boston and the Bsrbadoes.
Their stories OF their disaster and their
own sufferings were quite as heartrending
as any tales that have come from the sea
All had gone well with the Abbie Clifford
till they had got within 200 miles to the
southwest Of Bermuda.
struck by Hurricane.
1t was then Aug 81 and the sun came
up in the east in a clear sky without a
cloud feck to warn them OF coming dan
ger. The morning wore on and suddenly
the waves began to rise and seethe about
the ship and the wind to travel faster aud
faster. A storm was upon them, and in a
short time the sea broke over and over the
ship and hurricane snapped her masts
like matchwood. In half an hour masts
and spars and ropes and sails and every
thing that could be torn from the deck
were floating away, the playthings OF the
waves Capt, Storer and his crew did
everything that brave hearhs and hands
could do. but all their efforts were unayail-
ing. The ship was completely at the
mercy OF the storm.
Waiting for the Worst.
Then they waited patiently for the worst
TO come. the captain. who il an aged mar
iner, with his wife clinging to him and his
crew of six despairing men around him.
The skipper bade them be OF good cheer,
and his wife prayed fervently for aid but
no cheering light came into the sky and
not sail was in sight Once they thought
they could discern long line OF smoke
outlined against the clouds, but the next
moment it had faded away and death in
that terrible sea seemed their inevitable
fate.
Tons Of Water swep; the ship.
Fiercer and fiercer ragged the storm, aud
tons upon tons Of water swept the ship
Then a cry OF horror arose above the roar
Of the elements
The captain and his wife, clinging to
gether, were carried yards away from the
ship aud were being tossed upon the crests
Of the waves. Another moment, aud to the
great Joy Of the sailors, the waves restored
them. But it was not for long. Almost thl
next instant the sea claimed them again
and again their escape was miraculous.
Parted Forever by a Wave.
A third time they were carried away ant
one Of them never returned Wearied Will
the strife, the captains wife could cling
no longer, nor could the brave old skippe
save her from the wave that parted then
forever In an instant she had disappeared
from sight. "A few moments later the shiT
went TO pieces. She broke into three part,
and little later was merely lot of drift
wood.
Five Days ON u Raft.
BY an almost superhumAn effort Capt
Storer and his crew succeeded in lashing
few planks and spars together, and OF
these for five days they drifted about OF
the ocean, with only one-half box OF raisin
to subsist on. Hungry and famished anI
almost at the point Of death on the fiftl
day the poor fellows were rescued by tn
barkentine Beatrice that had herself JUS
come through the storm with only th
mainmast left. She reached Bermuda will
them, and there they shipped on the Orin
oco. The ship was the property OF tha cap
tain and mate, and was only partially GOV
cred by insurance Capt. Storer, who il 6
years OF age, is heartbroken over the los
| of his ''old woman" as he calls her. II
| has lost her and all he had ia this wOrl,
besides, but still he told a reporeSr he love,
i the sea.