Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-02
STRANGE SHIP STORIES.
Odd Occurrences Related By Old
Sailors.
Painful Athletics and peasha DrsasAs
About Among searfArins kso
In Mysssriees Man

While q reporter was talking with
some idle tngboat men who were sit
tang on the stringPieoe of South
street pier, where tugs lie while await
ing orders, the conversation turned Oh
strange, true stories of sailors adven.
lures, and the reporter asked the men
to relate each the most remarkable
story that he knew to be true. The frst
one said:
When was working In Ph:lndel-
phia, several years ago, the Italian
brig Leonore came in at the capcs, aitel
a passage OF 81 days from lisbon. We
got the tow and the mate passed US his
hawser l took q couple OF turns with
it and sung out to him to make fast.
At that couple Of men started 10 do
SO, but they had only got one turn
around the windlass when enc of them
dropped and grasped his arm az if he
was going TO scratch himself. But the
moment he did this he gave q yell. sad
then the other man began to scratch
his leg and yell, while the mate reached
| for the back of his own nccl: and how led
as bad az both the others together.
Then the man at the wheel seemed &c
catch the infection from forward, for
he dropped on the deck, leaving tho
brig to steer herself; but what as
tonished us still more was that the cap
tain, portly, solemn.looking man, de.
liberately put his glasses down on the
top of the cabin. clasped his hands
across his stomach. leaned over the rail
and groaned as If he were dying.
ut looked as we'd q crew OF crazy
Dagoes In tow and no mistake, hut
after minute they all got quiet again.
and then we learned the trouble. They
had sailed out of Lisbon with provisions
for 40 days When only few days out
a sea washed the deck cssli Of water over
board, end they werE necessarily put
on Ell allowance OF water. Thereafter
they had hard lucl; in winds, and event
ually had TO work on short raticns. The
result of it ell was that some kind OF
rash broke out on every soul of them,
and il Was rash that itched heyopd
endurance, and yet made them 50 sorc
that when they tried to relieve the it,.
ing they hurt themselves no that they
could not help yelling. They had hacn
suffering that way for a couple OF
weeks when they passed IA that line"
you would think that ship war
about the best place in the world for
pure air wouldn't your" asked another.
We'll, l was shipmate with two mrr
who were snffocated in their bunka f.
want of pure air. II was on he British
steamer Dcerhound at anchor eff Loenr'
Point, Baltimore. Chief Engineer viii
liam kirl.iey, Second Engineer j pr
Hull, Third Engineer George Qunton
and Dick Weber. a boy. all turned iato
their hunks in the engineers cabin one
frosty night for an all-night-in sleep.
Next morning when the steward came
TO call the boy he found Mr.. kirkley
lying face down on the floor, with hit
head near the door, and unconscious.
'rhe rest were in their hunks. The boy
WIS dead and the rest were supposed 70
be; but when they were carried out or
deck Kirkley and Quinton revived. while
Full, whose heart was still beating.
died. They had been suffocatcd by gas
from leaking coal stove.'
I'VE towed the Norwegian bari.
Donna Zoyca into the Erie basin ore
day." said third, land when we got heT
there ~c had to call on the 'longshore-
men to help make her fast because IN, *,
was not one man on board OF her fit for
duty. The ambulances carried the,n--
ten in ALTO the hospital, where ops.
soon died, but the rest got well. She'1
sailed with that crew TO Cadiz. and there
she got cargo for Rio Janiero. ca.
the way the captain and ten men took
sick ard at Rio they were sent TO the
hopital, where the captain rot br.ter
and returned on board. Then the YES
sci went to Aracaci, where the captain
had 10 lie left in the hospital and the
mate, with the cook and eight men, un-
lertooil bringing her to New York.
Curing the whole voyage no one had
.nown what allied the men, but the
',eath authorities over in Brooklyn
found they had all been poisoned by
white lead used in painting a water
Etunk."
II was working in Milwaukee one
url:ner," said fourth, when the cap
| tain sent me around to the hospital tn
inquire after n friend of his who was
there. AS reached the door a couple
of grain trimmers that / knew were
| just lifting man out of Il grocer =
wagon. They carried him into the hos
! pital and said he had been landed from
the fishing tug Belle ard she ka'l
steamed out of the harhor as soon as
he was clear of her rail. The iaan
seemed to he dead at first, and he was
almost. For two weeks he was dclirious
With brain fever and spent most OF h;s
time cnrsing somebody for leaving h.in
| to drown.
''Hc had heen q sailor CT schooner
that left Milwaukee for Chicago two
nights before was sent 10 the hoRpitnl
Il was rough night and wavc Yaehe, 4
him overheard. He would i.axf
drowned quickly, but mate had .:seI
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