The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-09
ALL HANDS SAVED.
The Shipwrecked Captain
J Mate Meet.
A WILD, ROMANTIC TALE.
The Sufferings of the Lady Lampson's
Crew End Like the Last Chapter
of a Fairy Story.
They me. in San Francisco yesterday.

They me. in San Francisco yesterday.
And what meeting!
Way up from the storm tossed southern
seas came the captain and mate of the lost
Lady Lampson.
Came the shipwrecked crews with them,
in two open boats that for days and weeks
bad been tossed about like shells on the
angry pillows.
One sailed to the north and east when the
bark went down, the other to the north.
And all were saved.
And all sailed in through the Golden Gate
yesterday to find rest In the peaceful har-
Dor.
Theirs Is wild and awful tale that the
faneiaS of a Melville never eQualed in dar-
ing. in suffering, in romantic denOument
Way down in the tropics on half-sunken,
treacher0uS reef lies the wreck of the bark
that bore them out from Sydney for the
green isles Of Hawaii.
1t was many years since the Lady Lamp
son was gallant" bark. She had passed
that stage, but the owners and the crew
were brave and darlng-the former because
they stayed on shore and the latter because
they were every inch" sailors.
And ii is well thatthe men were sU brave.
Ihey had need OF II all before a safe harbOT
was reached.
after the line had been crossed, the storm
king OF the tropics struck the Lady Lamp
son.
Under skillful handling she bore up well
TN the hidden reef was found near the
island of Palmyra.
And when she had struck hard and fast
and the waves were dashing her hull into
wreckage these daring mariners took to the
wild Sea in open boats.
captain Peterson, his young and comely
n AtraNg To- H.
Weldon, cabin boy; Frank Villen. the cook;
William Carlson and Charles Everson, sea-
men, went in the first boat.
First Mate r.. Miller and Seamen Oscar
Magnusen, w. Snyder, j. Jugensen and j.
w. Martin LETT the wreck in the second
boat.
And the storm kept raging but the fran
shells rode ii even better than the old, I'M
gallant bark.
And when the storm died out the sun
shone fereely, and the suferlngs of the
shlpwrecked men were intense beyond the
power of words 10 portray.
Alter four days the boats parted. The
captain sailed north and east and reached
Honolulu after twenty-six days.
And The mate sailed north till after six
teen days the schooner Martha w. Tufts
bore down upon him aud rescued the nearly
exhausted mariners
Yesterday CaptIin J. Peterson and all
the shipwrecked crew of his little open
bOdG hiliNcu IN lIllS CITY on Inc steamer
Australia from Honolulu.
"A few hours later athe schooner Martha
w. Tufts sailed into port with Mate Miller
and all the crew Of the second small boat.
And then some kind friend arranged
meeting Of the two crews.
Ali that was happy meeting Down
on the dusty gray docks it occurred. and
passers-by stood and wondered how queer
these strange, Sun-buTned weather-scarred
heroes acted.
The captain wrung the mates hand aud
the mate fairly Rugged the captain, and
even the captains wife. And everybody
cried-thOugh there was nothing in all the
world TO cry about And all hands laughed
though there was little to laugh a. And
all did something foolish, said something
silly and manly and feelingly. Aud there
was more heartfelt thankfulness, more sin
eere friendship, more deep and jDyous SEN
tlment crowded on to that narrow dusty
dock than II had ever held before or ever
Will again in all human probability.
III the sea had given L o its dead these two
crews could not nave been more surprised.
That both should enter the same port or
the same day. after their widely divergent
experiences, seemed little short of marvel
Gus
1t needed not the superstitious beliefs OF
the average "able seaman" to discern
guiding hand in this strange reunion, the
captains pretty wife declared, and every
heart said amen"
utsudS LIE OALis puDiiSneQ IN detail
the experiences of the captain ana his crew
and how they reached the harbOT at Homo
lulu more dead than alive.
He mates story is equally as interesting
though the pangs of hunger and thirst were
not added to their sufferiugs.
1--WE parted Company with the CAPTAINS
boat January 81" says Mate Miller, and
tried to-make Palmyra Island.
w lnds and tides were against US and we
were drifted far out of our course. We had
plenty OF canned provisions and little
bread with about I'VE gallons OF water.
The weather was good, but very hot.
by the eighth day we were ali very weak
from exposure, In fact, so weak that il was
with difficulty we could move about.
"On the evening of the eighth day the
weather altered some and we began to ex-
perience pretty rough seas, which continu-
ally washed over our little boat. rendering
it necessary for us TO bail for our lives, for
at times she was half full of water.
DAY after day passed and no sail was
sighted
We had almost given up hope.
If the weather only held out good we
had chance of making Honolulu, but it
was faint one.
February r. at the first break OF dawn.
we sighted a sail bearing down on US. You
can Imagine our feelings when we saw her
sheer off from us.
About O'Clock she again headed for u.s.
AT 10 o'clock her captain had sighted US
anu we knew we would be saved.
How glad we Were, paralyZrd almost by
exposure. TO get out Of our little boat that
had been between rs and Davy Jones'
locker for sixteen days cannot be expressed
in words
But we are here all safe and sound and
not man missing. The schooner Martha
W. TUFTS picked us up and brought us here
at once
I'VE were picked up in latitude 10 deg.
az MIN north, l DgiIude 100 deg. 81 min.
west"
The rescued mariners look remarkably
well lot men having suffered as they did.
They had boarded the water and provisions
and still had little lett when rescued.
ne TWO boats, one sixteen feet long and
the last one found but fourteen feet long,
will be exhibited in the city.
nat SO many human beings could exist
under any circumstances in such frail crafts
seems nothing short of miracle
lhere was only few hours difference
between the arrivals of the two vessels
bearing the two shipwrecked crews.
But the Australia came In first, and when
Captain and Mrs Peterson landed from the
steamer the former accorded short In ter
view to CALL reporter
lie SAID ne had nothing new to a Id to the
story OF The shlpwreck already published.
lie mad every confidence that the five men
In the other boat would be found all right.
when they leftus," he said, ''they struck
straight Tor the track of vessels running
betweeplHOnolulu and the Tanning Islands,
ana there Is strong probability that they
were picked up by the ship Douglas, which
would just be about in their neichborho0d
when they reached that latitude.
lhey had good boat 1t was fast
salier, and was well proYisioned and could
stand a long trip on rough sea-"
A lew hours later the captan and the
mate were wringing each others hands. and
The captains wife said the captain was a
good prophet; though little shaky oil the
Details she admitted.
San Francisco has never witnessed such
q ranniop hafnra