The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-17
BARK ALIENS SURVIVORS.
MEN DRIVEN TO CANNIBALIsM IN
THE NORTH.
The CHASTITY Sight That Met the Eyes OF
the Rescue Party-Returned
Sailors Story.

James Allen. which sailed for the north
from San Francisco on the 18th day OF
last April, ran on an unknown reef at
80 o'clock on the morning of May 18th
and wa wrecked. Five men are known
to have been lost. Fifteen are still
missing.
The following is the story of the
wreck and suiferings of the crew as told
by Captain Huntley to the San Francisco
CdH after the return of the fifteen sur
vivors:
at was o'clock in the morning. |
was ON deck directing the course OF the
bark. The fog was thick and we were
travelling dangerous part of the sea,
1.-THE ship must have drifted on to an
unknown rock. She struck and the
panic came. Order was restored quickly
and the men behaved well.
II ordered four boats cleared away,
which was done. | then told the men
to get into them as soon as possible.
"All obeyed with the exception of
the fifth mate, who refused to comply.
He stuck to the ship and am certain
he must have gone down with her.
"The Allen listed, her stern sank
slowly, then with a plunge she disap-
peared.
sin the darkness the boats were sep
arated, but as morning dawned the
craft in which had embarked came up
with two of them. The third boat is
the one that is still missing and was in
command of Second Mate William f.
Allen and manned by fourteen men.
The sea was rough, so l ordered the
two boats to follow mine and l then
headed for Amlia Island, where we
landed and remained until the 10th of
May.
There were twenty-six men in our
party all told. Our provisions were
very low. We consulted and agreed to
put off for Unalaska, a distance of about
100 miles. We left on the afternoon of
the 10th.
"Heavy weather came up on the 18th
and the wind continued to increase in
violence until we were obliged to aban-
don one of the boats and divide the men
among the other two.
"The storm continued through the
night, causing great suffering among
us. Our hands and feet began TO
swell. and we could scarcely use the
oars or manage sail.
ION the morning of the Goth my boat
capsized, and the crew and myself,
number thirteen souls, were thrown into
the sea. The remaining boat came
quickly to our rescue but still too late
to save the lives of John White, an en-
gineer, and William Fitzgerald, a sailor
and native son of California, G. E.
10y and Frank Murphy, seamen. These
poor fellows were all drowned before
our eyes.
son the 21st we landed at Unwak
island, living there from hand to mouth
by gathering shellfish and catching cod.
Our hooks were made of wire and rem
dered our angling only partially sue
cessful.
"From the day of landing up to the
9Th of June six men died of exposure. |
They were: William Dory, Joseph
| Pena, Sam Masterson, Austin Gideon,
Harry Taylor, and Pat Connolly. All
were buried under the sand of the beach. /
"On the 9Th l selected a crew of five
men and started for Onalaska for help. |
| We provisioned our boat with a fresh |
haul of Goldfish and several gallons of
| fresh water, of which there was luckily |
plenty, and sailed away, arriving with.
out mishap at Onalaska on the 12th.
II boarded the Bear and told of the
nine men we had left behind. Captain
Healy lost no time to getting under way, |
and on the 14th we arrived back at the |
island, finding the men alive but Just |
able to crawl about"
Here the Captain paused and passed
his hand across his forehead. Then he |
continued; "This part of the story
would rather not relate, for / found
them in smoke. brimmed hut, clustered
about pot that was boilding over a
fire. That pot contained human flesh.
The nine sailors in duck uniform told
the story of how they were forced TO be-
come cannibals better than Captain
Huntley could hope to relate it. They
repeated their experience without any
greater show of remorse, and did not
hesitate to unfold the detail of their
feast Of death.
| William Andrews, foremost hand,
acted as spokesman. He is an intelli-
gent blue-eyed man, OF not more than
80 years OF age, with pair Of badly dis
figured hands that had suffered severely
from frost bite.
After the captain left for Onalaska,"
commenced he, 1--WE used our two re-
naming fshhooks to catch fish. Our
luck varied, and it was difficult for us to
depend upon the catch for food.
"Our quarters were in a little dug
out that was hardly large enough to
accommodate all. We burned a fire in
the center of the abode day and night,
but the driftwood we gathered was so
water-logged that it smoked fearfully,
affecting our eye-sight.
eve had shotgun and plenty OF am
munition, but there was nothing to
shoot except seagulls, and these were so
wild that we could not get within range
Of them. Shellfsh then became our
food.
1--WE secured the island for bivalves
and soon exhausted the supply. There
was spring OF water close TO the dug
out. We almost lived on water.
"Days came and went and still no sign
OF rescue party. 1t rained almost con-
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