New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-30
ruE BRIG WAS BOTTOM UP.
mn NEARLY 500 SLAVES on BOARD.
u,,,pr RE1NG TAKEN TO MEXICO TO WORK
Ar STARVATION wAGEs-ALL SUP:
POSED TO BE IOsT.
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rrarcisco. Nov. 29.-In a brief dispatch
,,anzanillo comes news of the wreck OF the
ION TaIdti. with every soul on her. 27O South
he tavcs missing. This wreck is noteworthy
" !, marks the failure Of the first extensive
ee al black birding on the Pacific Coast.
Re%p a.;r Tahiti. il will be recalled, touched in
l~ ~ Raw fifteen miles north of Golden Gate,
W Ssntember, crammed with Gilbert Island
@N ID, contract TO coffee planters in the San
es district of Mexico. All the horrors of
~A I've traffic on the African Coast were re-
"a dnring the few days the Tahiti lay in
mixes Bay in distress
u. American steamer Roseville arrived at
emilio on Friday from Islapa, and her cap
-. -snorted that he had passed the wreck of the
-; eleven miles southwest of Lizard Point.
- ,yas floating bottom up, with her rudder gone
% ,ha ballast shifted. 1t was evident that she
"a ,snsized while on the starboard tack as all
y, mart rigging had been cut away in an attempt
,revent her going over. The disaster had oc-
s..s5 thirty days before they sighted the hulk.
The steamer stopped and sent boat of, but
-, a living thing could be found. The vessels
s,.Jor could not be searched to determine how
W. of the islanders bodies were still between
,,,Es The briggs yawl was still by her, but her
txo snail boats we've gone. This gives little hope
as, spy lives were saved for only the yawl would
lave stood any chance of surviving the storm.
T,m Manzanilo inquiries were sent to many
,iuts on the coast, but not survivor was reported
.s having made thershore
The Tshitrs cargo of contract slaves was OBJ
,iped on Gilbert Island. There the people were
,erly starving, and they were easily induced TO
f,r 4b,no 80
~, month, with the provision that at the end
Il the term they were TO receive free return
vasage II. Ii. Leavitt, of New-York. was a
areiourths owner of the brig, and Captain Fer
tusa owned the remaining fourth.
On September SO the brig put in at Brakes
hy for repairs to her rigging. DR.. Gibson, the
ssreon. left the vessel and returned to San Fran
80 He declared he would not remain longer
On board if he were paid a fortune, as she was
unSawOrthy, and there was also "a chance of
toable with the islanders. August 10 the brig
was caught in n squall. The tOpsails were blown
into shreds and both fOreSall and malnsal were
aued away The vessel lurched in the heavy
sa and the islanders cOOped up in the hold were
thrown into deadly terror. After the wind sub
SIDED light sails were Tigged, and the vessel next
put into brakes Bay for repairs. Ferguson ON
account of sickness in his family was forced 10
stay here, and Captain {. Erickson took charge
strong effort was made to induce
the Government TO stop the shipment of these
labOrerS to Mexico. but il failed, as the ships
papers were declared all right The islanders
were simple people and evidently knew nothing
Of the hard work in store for them. They refused
70 accept half-dollars for Some pretty curosites,
but readily sold the same articles for nickel,
with which they were familiar. Few could
speak any English Besides the captain and the
27O Islander, the Tahiti carried three mates. a
physician DR.. ScrymSer. two cooks and twelve
seamen. Not word has been received from any
Of these by their friends in this city.