The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-31
FROM SANTOS IN Ill DAYS.
GREWS0iIE STORIES BROUGHT M
The TRAMP DORSETS SKIPPER.

In the Yellow Fever city They DO Not
Always Walt for the Sick TO Die-Two
rectiouS-The ID rset Left Nine
Mn III the Graveyard gu side the Tow n.
The British steamship Dorset with crew
recruited from nearly all tho nations OF tho
earth. had Just enough steam In her patched
and leaking boilers to get her UP to Quaran-
tine yesterday morning. She had been
all tho morning creeping along the Jer-
sey coast Her stokers toiled and sweat
ed as they never had before TO keep
tho propeller turning. and they were OK
hausted when the hapless tramp got abeam OF
Quarantine. Her boilers gave out completely
then. Capt. Daniel Couch SUNNI oned three
tugs the Dalzell. the Lohman. and the At
wood. ana after the Health Onlcer had passed
the ship they brought hcr to the city.
Never had any steam craft spent so many
days on u voyage from Santos, Brazil. The
Dorsets usual time from the fever-infected
port is twenty one days. This time she made
It In ] II days She left four OF her officers and
fivo OF her crow in tho graveyard at santos
The officers were Chief Mate s. W. Page
Chief Engineer II. Peters Third Mate Peel
and Donkey Engineer Van Dorm Wingert
Capt Couch caught the fever first He spent
two weeks in hospital at Santos, and several
weeks recupernting in the highlands OF San
Paolo. The larger part Of the Dorsets crew
left her at Santos. and shipped for this port on
the steamship Stanmore
Capt Couch says he received llttle atten-
tion at the hospital. where there were no ply
sicians who could understand English. He
tolls some gruesome yarns. Of which his rau-
teal countrymen were tho heroes This is
one:
no IAN apprentice from a bark that had lost
% next dsy he tupsod s4 up
aSes[d Ih ssia He /. SnG only w0ai1G
move Or cry out. After he had been shut in
the s,rests dSwa s0s Ks SE sS hns
It was suggested to the Captain, that he
might be ahle to recall other remarkabe re-
Sms as e he
'Ah lie ms aiss Of the poor who die Of the
HI ,Hs d fall victims Sda the disease tats
m rench sn t fnd Il
Allied with nnicklime. The hod!os are carried
to hota the o cemetery ss in boxes in wagon The
tn, ,ron drive q IA t6e dead wagon takes icsd
s5nk ' Rnrls SsfG sam '1s
My. was uougnt. was dead. was
eorpses beside him and several underneath.
The wagon ioted u good deal. and the sailor
front OF the tavern. The driver got out and
went in; The sailor sat ~ and iocked around
enough to make him thirsty. He got
wagon. and went into the tavern. The driver
s sna tie apnariition went behind the lar and
III h the hs
The SECOND mate OF the Dorset. who was
ferred from the hosritAl to a church opposite.
tss Wbsn 1s
h The Rites soy the chareh
The Dorset had much trouble getting a crew
at Santos to bring the ship to this port Sea
men from fever; infected places will not ship
usual monthly pay in healthful iatitudes. She
sailed short-handed on April 10. and met
cyclone on her way to Rio Janeiro. She rolled
tramps. and her boilers began to leak. She
was ten days, getting to Rio. where she patch
ed up her boilers she sailed thence to Bahia.
Where she remained seven weeks repairing
work made, Of it. and before the snip got
Ing lise lobster pot" The native mechan-
cal talent Of Barbadoes was thirteen days
running up bills against the Dorset, The
got, out to sea Twice tho Ores ' we're drawn sne
and. while the ship sluggishIy moved north
ward nnder sail; the engineers and hremen
caLklng sl"rced out. and when the shin got
to Quarantine the water dripping into the fur
Tss sa Prs " S fe f have bs..,
tho record" and he Is right.