New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-16
THEIR PERILOCS FEEDING TRIP
CAPTAIN DRISKo's BRIDE WAS WASHED OVEN
BOARD IN TIE STORM WHICH WRECKED

CAPTAIN DRIsKo's BRIDE WAS WASHED OVER
BOARD IN TIE STORM WHICH WRECKED
Ills vEssEI-sAvED BY \ STOUT LINE
Captain r. y. Drisko. recently OF the schoone'
Drisko, left this city for his home IN Jonespor''
Me- last night. with his bride. after one OF me
most exciting wedding trips on record. captain
Drisko Is not over thirty years old, ana mas pee"
AN industrious sailor since first ne was ap'e W
go to sea. He saved up enough money 10 ouy ''e
three masted schooner Drisko, and then gut mar
ried The Drisko was loading at Charleston >. C''
with lumber and shingles for Jamaica. The cap
tain proposed that the wedding trip be made on the
schooner and the bride consented. They joined the
vessel at Charleston. and sailed from that por. o
October s. There seven people, ihc"uins
Mrs. Drisko. board BY midnight OF TIE hrs'
day out 1t was blowing a hurricane and the Cap
tain hove the schooner to under ciose-reeieu
spanker and mainsan. The seas we're tremendous
and came from all distances at once. Az O'CLOCK
in the morning he started to run. and went SOUTH
ward until daybreak. when, as ne says seventeen
hurricanes rolled into struck him. he iooEeo
at his barometer. and saw. az he expresses IT,
''shipwrcck written all over it
The schooner steering wildly and threatening
to breach to. He had two good suits of clothes on
board, one Of which his wedding suit He gave
,hfs to his wife to put on and put on the otner
himself. He considered that Mrs Drsso could make
dressed def in ens clothes than IN wornens big
wave struck the schooner ana tnTe" ner llto t,e
trough Of the sea. second wave finished the
wreck and third threw her on her beam ENDS
The Captain dashed his bride TO an iron bar on Top
of the deckhouse and signalled to the crew to cut
away the n,asts They cut the weather rigging, the
masts broke off. and the vessel righted She was
waterlogged and the top of her deckhouse was
the only place where II was possible to exist on
board. There all the crew had gathered, lasning
each other TO the iron bar.
Waves frequently broke over the deckhouse, ana
one of them washed Mrs Drisko overheard the
CAPTAIN had tied her with long line and the line
held. that by its aid the Captain ana crew drew
her back on the deckhouse again. -
The next day was a continuation of the hurri-
cane but on Friday the gale abated. They had had
nothing to eat drink while they were dashed on
the top Of the house and now that the worst was
over began to feel hungry A sailor dved down N1
into the hold and brought up can of vegetables:
which they divided. A sail bag was found and
from II a big flag was made and hosted on a piece
of timber.
On October 1G the British steamer Mexican. from
New-Orleans for Liverpool came along and rescued
Fem. They were treated kindly on board and the
stewardess supplied Mrs prisko with , Sloth hin
ria for New-York Mrs. Walker. the wife Of the
captain of the Etruria. sent an outfit OF clothing
to Mrs. Drsko, with pleasant note OF sympathy
The United States cruiser San Francisco recently
reported having sighted the wreck Of the Drisko
off the Florida coast, sinking it.