The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-20
lFLOATING HOSPITAL
uow Sickness smote the fated
Crew of the HI mory.
e,u OPS FELL LIMP ON THE DECK
SsiLOf
s,.k Men Tended Others Worse SICK
o,,s..ra,, Alter.lafs MIseries OF
Calm and storm.

NrgpfnFaff . aEtA -te 1917"
ca, - 'sfses than ire cregF fell limp w.lt
zena DAYS out. they struck a calm
- drfftea s11ut on fae smooth
90 - TIE Pscinc like a painted snip
r.srte8 ocean" In fact. the whole
49, .s..snag one very forcibly 06 ''Tae
80 -. - ns Ancient Mariner. foT "n.n
-, encountered a frez.aenina gale ara
- - asuI at the ropes, " ia heaNy
tis~ .na rfeless limb. they dropped
A.. ole by one.
-. - others might have been gotten
-, 80 fear xas that the wno.e crew ;
" 49, you'd ~ insufficient % take them
- make them fasl IN case OF blow
caring n -, -. ,-.,,, % ,v.,a,,.,,- so4,-
.haf vas stricken down several times
- 80 fever. One died, ara one "no
49,, ~ bad recuperated somewhat.
800 ne foreyard but the orope slip
g. .s.oaza his nerveless hands and he
- "a he deck. and was killed
trtse ta@v reached cooler regions matters
- gend much There would be ten
-, ssek 70 death fl the hunks and nine
- r,en 20 60 on watch in turn. Al they
- ~ vas TO take tricks at ne wheel.
.--ssv raised their limbs Ike uteiess tools;
80 wsrs ghas'ly crew.
-zsv re4de Cape Flattery after a time
= ,ssrs net a storm and were blown 20
- IN me northwest Under t0psalis
- nav managed 70 beat up again and
y ,s.F-o- Turn and turn about. ons man
80 ars.hcr would drop down with the
ss.kss and shen they came 20 anchor
- 60 harDor during wednesday night,
90, wee a sad and siclzly lot.
sles Men sent to Hospital.
g, ~ Inc men were sent TO the marine
Asssi,al AZ Port Townsend. and the cap
.,ir himself, after crossing the West Sc
as,is ferry. had o serious recurrence OF the
eavey bat managed 10 drag himself 70
eshwahaehefs wharf. where heo found an
IN frlen8 in Capt. Donegal, Of the British
so slyer How, and lay in his bunk all
afternoon. carefully nursed by the captain
and has wife.
rse names OF the six members Of the
,,svs ser. % the hospital areCJ0hn Wright.
herman Gamelcard. Fred f.imturg~ and
1ou's Aiings5n. rated as "able-bodied'
ssamen. and Miles Foster and William
e-ewart. apprentices. TWO other appren-
siafs Frank Farvey and Alfred Pryke,
were creealng van and splrltless about TIA
deck yesterday, and seemed as II The hospi-
,si had been a better place for them. too.
The name Of the man who died was Joseph
naly. and the one killed by falling from
the foreyard Max ErpegeT.
on boarding the vessel as she rode al an
Choir al West Seattle yesterday afternoon =
post-Inttl ligeRcer reporter found Conly six
men who seemed 81 for work. and all these
RAD gone through terrible siege Of suffer-
ing These we're Louis Fischer. the boats
vain. Carpenter Frank Fack3ond and bis
sslper a mast hand the second mate. Will
bm Perriit and the FIRST mate. J :. steven
son The last vas the exception. He is
q braw Seotchman who has been sailing all
n ufe and almost his first verbs were:
"Hech mon. but there's no understand
n Of IT, We have livery nationality
ss0ard and yet name could stand Il ex-
cspt the pulr scotchman.
Only Able Ia Clean ship.
The decks were trim. every rope cooled
ard In rs place. and the hulwarks and ev-
cry SPOT on the deck were as elcan - a
rew pin and brlgh; with fresh paint This
somehow seemed 20 belle or belittlc the
story Of terrible suffering. bat the Mark
Tapley Of a mate was ready with an COX
ranaton
Well We were becalmed for twenty
tays. an then we had plenty OF time 20
~ up And even after that the men had
no strength TO do anything else. 70 We
Kept them tidying up. just to keep no their
SPIRITS. Ike The only other thing they
eonld 80 was 10 take a trick at the wheel.
snt after a man had done that for two
there or creep of 20 his bunk"
Then the tough old salt told the story OF
a. trip as II be enjoyed the telling of Il.
FIRST Cold. Then Fever.
I've started from Hamburg" M said,
'oh March g. shver'ng with the cold. ana
here We have the same weather again. We
were making for Adelaide. and on the way
~ had L many bit colder than when We
started. We sailed for l.S1 miles through
Massive ieeoerss and pack ice and dr.ft
~ and al kinds or ice. We were eighty
iar days making Adelaide, and then We
sr1i % Newcastle the coal port OF New
toaih Wales. for Goals and started WiOh
fargo 81 e for Acapulco. ANA had "A pleas
~ eno0Eh voyage that time 81 nifty six
tlyA a, Acapulco il took us thirty-siN
ssfs 10 discharge our cargo ~ $3.50 tons
coal and then We took on ballast and
started FOR Seattle. That WAS on Tuesday.
AayemAsf 3
We rs not hecn in Acapulco more than
taFteen laws before sickness broke out
snong z. men two or three at time 81 ST
A.as aaf-l We SEP sal When sc Eot OUT
taa enc .elioR would dnp aud then am
s,aeT would drop, ANITA tn a few daNs. cot
twenty three men. 81, hai only fourteen
NeTS ship With After that We never
"a over nine who could work AT all. ana
use Eere iu taru sick Soma. ~ thsm
eea.a steer aHd some could not Some
~ aaF.ily keep lookout. We rouil only
.1aie ife small sails sIch as fhe top-
ass' aa3 for days and DAYS tho ship
at Na} enough on heg - steer her. 50
t2a
tae captain. De- was s.ek TOO. N eui
oal es bAl to go up a1ett au3 t4ni}e
sa's Aai when the follows d.3 40 a
peiirr ara tfl te do sometime tHrs.