The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-11-05

YET ~ vivid was the impression Coz
vsysd BY the one IN queslon. that drlr.
in6 al the following wsAch I felt my
spirits oppressed BY melancholy which
would permit me TO think only Of ship
wreck, starvation and death.
/ Il was early that forenoon, when one
Of our men, q work aloft, reported, an
unusual object OF t1e lee-bow. Upon
standing In its direction, We discovered
II TO be . portion Of vessels deck, on
which were i've men. Yet they hardly
seemed men, for their faces and forms
were those Of frightful skeletons. They
had almost lost the power Of articula-
tion, and not one Of them was able to
rise upon his feet. ,.-..-.....--...
After being carefully lifted to our
deck, they showed IN anxiety to In
form us Of others of their. vessels crew
who were somewhere drifting In . like
condition. Three or four Of " ran
aloft, away up TO the royal mast heads.
In q moment or two we hailed the
deck, announcing q discovery, and the
ship was headed for the forlorn OBJ
feet which We made out upon the dis
tant waters.
We came down from our lookout TO
hnd one Of the five poor sufferers al
ready dying, and our lkind-hearted tars
doing Ill In their power to alleviate
the misery Of the otherA
That portion Of the wreck for which
we were steering was soon visible to all
hands, and a. we hove-to and towed
IL alongside with our boat, It was seen
that among the nine persons who lay
upon It were Q woman and boy.
Until this moment had not con-
nected the Catherwood with the tragic
scene, but the sight Of these two in
spired sudden thought Of her, and
recalled my dream Of the night BE-
fore.
Yet that they could be Mrs. Dore
and her son appeared almost impossible
this CHASTITY woman and boy who re-
sembled nothing living that had ever
seen before.
The child appeared at the point Of
death, but the woman, although very
weak, seemed to have borne up better
than any other Of the sufferers. She
could speak with no great difficulty,
and her first words, upon being handed
over the ships side, were those Of
anxiety for her boy.
"Do not mind me now," she said. AT
tend to him. Oh, do not tell me that he
Il past help!"
Still, we could not see in her Mrs.
Dore, or in her son the little lad we
had 50 petted q most welcome WIS.,
itor only few weeks before.
But presently she added:
1--WE belong to the brig Cstherwood.
I remember your faces. I came on
board your ship OF Brazil. Save my
poor boy! Oh, to lose him now, after
all this suffering!"
Her woeful, sunken eyes were wholly
dry, as she spoke, but those Of our hon
est sailors were moist indeed.
In the meantime, one Of the unfortu-
mates had already breathed his last or
our deck, and most Of the others looked
as If they must soon follow him.
There were now 13 remaining, five
Of whom died within three days; but
Capt. Dore, with his wife and boy, and
Ave Of the foremost hands, began slow.
ly to mend.
They told us that the Catherwood had
been caught in q hurricane to the south
west Of Bermuda Her masts were
swept by the board. and she, became
water-logged, but the oil she had below
prevented her sinking. The casks, how
ever, thumped SO heavily as, after some
days, to start the deck, which, break
ing into two parts, foated with the
crew, the remainder Of the vessel 60
ing down. e ( Pr
There had been IS persons on board
Of whom three were lost in the hurri
cane, while eight had died Of starvation
before our ship hove in sight; the only
morsel of food tasted by the sufferer
during their ordeal Of IA days having
been the carcass Of small dog belong
ing to the captain.
| A week after the rescue, we placed
the survivors safe on shore at our owl
port, where in few months they re
gained their former strength.
Capt. Dore, being under no neces
sity Of returning to England, accepted
the command Of a Ane American whale
man, while Arthur, as intelligent a
modest, became the most popular DO.
in the school of his suburban neighbor
hood. f
BY the time had told the master th'
story, the boys had all gathered around
and ! left them standing, with looks O
admiring sympathy, about their littl
marine associate, who had seen and sui
fered 30 much more than themselves
Golden Days.
Abbot lsiip's Rsb.s.
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