The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-16
Tale of Two Alleged Survivors
From a British Ship
cAPSIzED BY A SQUALL
One Of the Saved Thinks II Was q
Tidal Wave
The Merchants Exchange in San Francisco
Doubts the Yarn-The Ship
ID Not Listed

Portland, Ore, March 15.--The following
dispatch was received tonight firm Marsh
field, Ore.
Daniel Clark and Thomas Moore, sup.
posed to be the only survivors Of crew oil
thirty-one persons from the British shir
Yeoman, arrived here last night on the
schooner Leeds.
The Woman went down on the morn
ing of February % in latitude "a north,
longitude 45 west. She was bound from
Antwerp to Redondo. Clark related the
details of the loss of the ship and crew
and his escape as follows:
1T was my watch on deck. The wealth
er was perfectly calm, but l feared a
heavy squall and began to shorten sail.
/ had ordered sail taken in, but scarcely
had the sailors started to execute my
command when sudden squall struck
us and the waters became very rough. A
heavy swell like tidal wave struck us,
capsizing the ship. | was forward all the
was carried with it overheard. lull fol-
lowed and the ship righted. l got on the
ship again to find no one on deck. The
cook was lying in the galley with his
head split open and hardly alive. | went
down into the cabin and found Captain
Ferguson and the second mate were
drowned. l went aloft to try and spread
some canvass, but the ship was continu-
ally sinking. | then decided to abandon
her and loose a lifeboat from the davits,
got the cook into it and just got clear of
the ship fair enough to keep from being
swamped by the suction as she went
down.
1--WE were fourteen days in the boat be.
fore the schooner Leeds sighted us and
pipked ZIG ny, .duripc which TINA we Suf-
Tered more than language can express.
We had to fare all the time on sixteen sea
biscuits without drop of fresh water.
We ate two biscuits apiece each day until
they were exhausted and would drink
salt water to throw it up again. This made
our tongues swell up and ouI mouths
and Threats got as raw as beef steak.
when the biscuits were exhausted we be-
came too faint to pull an oar or guide
the boat so we drifted to and fro until
picked up. We could not speak our
names and our eyes were swollen shut.
We were so hungry that we ate the uppers
off our shoes, also sucked the bloodout
of each other.'
: Here Mr.. Clark exhibited his leg. which
showed great red blotches, certifying the
of his story.
Continuing. he said: 81 have been
around the Horn nine times but this was
the toughest trip ever experienced. We
lost four men overheard in gale on the
Horn and Paul Hessnig fell from the top
sail yard and was killed. We were fourteen
days in making seven miles and drifted to
the southwark. 1t was nothing but bad
luck from start to finish. Had not the
Leeds been. blown so miles out of her course
it would have been all day with u.s."
San Francisco, March l5.-The dispatch
from Marshtield, Oregon. about the
wreck of the British ship Woman is not
credited here. The Merchants Exchange
has no record of such a ship. the nearest
name to that being the British Woman
which sailed from Astoria for England last
December. The schooner Leeds, which
is said to have picked up the sole sur
vivor of the wreck. sailed from San Pedro
for Umpqua twenty-one days ago and if
the wreck had occurred month ago
anywhere near the California coast it
would have been reported before this.