The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-16
WRECKED AMONG PIRATES.
The Thrilling Adventures of an American
Crew.

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Charles Stuhr, lately steward o
the schooner Gellert, who arrived Il
this port on the steamship Clyde las
Saturday, brought news of the wrecl
os that vessel on the reefs of the is
land of Catalinita, in the Caribea1
sea, April q; of the attack of pirates
and wreckers, Of rescue by passing
trader and Of, the mutinous conduc
Of the crew.
The Gellert, Capt. A. G. Long
sailed from this port Santo Domingt
and the San Bias cost with mixed
cargo and carrying a deck load O.
lumber. A tornado struck the
schooner when past the Isle OF Pines
and made things lively for two. days
The lumber was thrown overheard
but the vessel, still unmanageable
was thrown by the surf on the innel
reef surrounding Catalinita Island al
dawn Of April 81.
The schooner struck between two
rocks and was firmly held. The
crew, regardless Of discipline, man
ned the long boat and went ashore
deserting the captain, the mate and
steward.
They collected some -four and bis
cult and when the sea went down
went ashore in the dory. The sal.
lors had found neither food nor wa,
ter and welcomed the provisions. A
camp was made.
That same night three stark naked
natives, armed with swords and pis-
tolls, appeared. After some parley
they went away to get help to loot
the vessel. The crew, already much
exhausted, were frightened, and at
daybreak LAUGHED the long boat and
went out to the vessel, but were IN
able to reach her. While trying, a
native coaster appeared and mum.
ber of armed men put off in a small
boat for the Gelert. The frmness
of Capt. Long and the mate, backed
by a pair of pistols, kept them off.
The savages went ashore, stole the
dory and the clothes Of the wrecked
sailors and went back to their YES
sci.
The captain and mate, by jumping
and swimming from rock to brock, got
out on board of the Gellert safely.
Wreckers, who were meanwhile flock
ing to the shore, failing to entice
the sailors ashore, threatened to kill
them and began building RATS. Then
too, the pirates from the coaster
made another attempt to board the
schooner, bat the captain and mate
made a good fight. The sailors,
thinking, as they say, that both were
killed, put out to sea.
They were at sea on their oars for
over twenty-for hours, when the ex-
hausted men were picked up by a
trader from Santo Domingo and car.
ed for. When the captain heard
their story he straightway changed
his course and Heht-tto--the-W wreck.
There they found the captain and
mate alive, who had driven off the
pirates, wounding several. The two
captains decided to transfer the
whole or part of the cargo to the
trader and take it to Santo Domingo,
$50 miles away, but the crew of the
Gellert refused to work, claiming
that their pay stopped when the
schooner was wrecked. They said
the captain had no authority over
them, and that they were too SICK TO
work anyway. Threats OF shooting
did not bulge them, so the cargo
was left on the wrecked vessel and
the trader with the Gllert's crew,
sailed for Santo Domingo.
At that port Capt. Long charged
his crew with mutiny. and the men
were tried before the British consul
and acquitted.-New York Herald.