The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-30


Lumbert coliared him, but he escaped
from hts hands
Fisher had succeeded IN securing the gun
and actually presented the bayonet to the
monsters head. but Comstock assuring
him that his life should be spared II he
gave il Up. he did so. when Comstock i'm
mediately ran Lumbert through the body
several times He then turned 10 Fisher,
and told him there was no hope for him!
You have got 10 die said he. and he
alluded to the wrestling bout between
them, and the fun force Of the threats
made at the time rushed with fearful dis
tinctness to the mind Of the doomed man.
Finding his enemy deaf to his remon-
strances and entreaties, he said: If
there is no hope. / will at least die like
manF And having, by the order Of Com
stock, turned back 20. said in a firm
voice. I am readyi' COmstock then put
the muzzle of the gun TO his head and fired.
blowing of the entire top Of his head, and
scattering the brains on poor Lumber who
lay writing on the floor, suffering fright
rul agony from the bayOnet thrusts in his
stomach and abdomen. The body Of the
captain was brutalIy mutiiated and then
thrown overheard. The first and second
mates were still alive, Notwithstanding
their terrible wounds. but the cruel Com
stock threw them both overheard along
with the body of the third mate.
Similar in diabolical atTocity. both in the
lack of prOvocation and in the carrying
out of the plot was the terrible mutiny on
the ship Junior, of New Bedford, in 1851.
The ship sailed in July on a whaling Voy-
age to the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Christmas came, the day of hallowed asso-
Citations to the natives of civilized cOun-
tries, whether their place of sojourning be
on the land or the sea The day passed
TRANQUILITY on board the ship, Capt Mellen
serving to each of the crew in the evening
ole aF a-gA 70
the return Of the Christian holiday. To all
outward appearances, this kindly act of
the captain, an act which has a specially
friendly significance 10 the mariner, was
appreciated and reciprocated in sentiment
by the crew. This being accomplished,
Capt. Mellen retired to his cabin, and soon
he and his officers were calmly slumbering
in their berths, little dreaming that hands
that had but just received the token of hos
pitality and good feeling from them would
ere another sun had dawned, be reeking
with their blood. Most of the crew that
were not needed in working ship or in the
crows nests, who had no suspicion of the
cOld-blooded schemes of their comrades,
also turned in" to their hunks to dream
of home and loved ones far away.
At about 1 o'clock on the morning of the
10Th of December, the ringleader in the
! mutiny, Cyrus Plummer, with four of his
associates, all armed with guns cooked and
extra loaded, entered the cabin, having
first stationed five others outside 10 pre-
vent aid reaching the officers in case they
gave the alarm. With the muzzles of their
guns almost touching the bodies of their
| victims, the conspirators, at the word from
/ Plummer, fired. Three bullets pierced the
body Of the captain, who was almost in
stantly killed. The first mate shot by six
| balls, survived. The third mate was kill
ed with whaling spade as he rose.
Alarmed by the DISCHARGE of the firearms
the remainder of the crew rushed to the
deck, when they were confronted by the
| whole force of the mutineers, those who
had killed the officers hurying up to aid
those left on guard. In the confusion the
first and second mates hid themselves from
their would-be murderers. The loyal men
of the crew, finding themselves completely
in the power of the revolving ones had no
recourse but to submit, After the first
| burst of passion was over, the second mate
| made his appearance, and his life was
spared The chief mate had secreted him
self in the hold, where, in spite of the
torture from his wounds, he remained for
five days undiscovered, and when at last
he was found, the mutineers spared his
life, rs they required his services to nav
igate the vessel.
When within about twenty miles of the
coast of Australia, Plummer and his ac-
completes, taking two whaleboats, and RI
| fling the ship of everything they could
| find of value, left the vessel and landed
upon those shores, where eight of them
were subsequently captured. The first
| mate survived his terrible wounds and
safely naVigated the ship back to New
Bedford.
One of the most terrible disasters that
ever happened to an American whaling
ship-and it is an instance of another dan
gerous element in the whaleman's life-oc-
CURED to the crew of the ship Awashonks
OF Falmouth, Mass, Prince Coffin, Mas
/ ter.
on Oct. ., many years ago.
the ship touched at Nawank Island, one
of the Narsbad group in the Pacific ocean,
/ to recruit. The natives came on board the
ship, as was usually their custom, but in
no extraordinary numbers, and they mani
tested only the ordinary curiosity common
| to all those islands in those days. At noon
the captain, mate and second mate went
down to dinner, leaving the third mate,
! Silas Jones, in charge of the deck. Hav-
ing finished, they returned, and the third
mate went below, coming back in about
fifteen minutes.
The ships company at the time were
scattered about the vessel, three of them
were aloft on the lookout for whales, and
one watch was below. Just after the re-
| turn of the third mate to the deck the at
tack commenced The natives, who had
unnoticed, grouped themselves, suddenly
made a rush for the whale spades, which
were in their accustomed places in
the spade rack in the spare boat
Capt. Coffin was the first one to fall, being
beheaded with a broad-edged spade and
almost simultaneously the man at the
wheel was killed. The first mate was
! butchered as he leaped down the fore
hatch, while the second mate who had
run out on the jib-boom, was struck with
some missile, and, falling in the water
was dubbed to death by the savages. In
the meantime the third mate had seized
a spade, and after struggle secured it.
/ This he threw at native, but the savage
/ lodging it, fastened firmly into the wood
/ work. Before the third mate could loosen
it two natives had hold of the pole behind
/ him.
/ Unable to secure it and the inequality
/ of the conflict becoming each moment
! greater thethird mate made run for his
/ life. At this time he was the only white
/ man on the deck abaft the try works and
/ so closely was he beset that he was una
/ BILE to escape until he reached the main
/ hatchway, down which he jumped The
/ deck was now in possession of the saw
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