The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-01-08

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. s.-When
the United states revenue cutter Bout
well was approaching the mouth OF et.
Johns river late last evening the lookout
discovered cat rigged yawl lying nag
of distress. One of the eosts sent TO In
vestiRate, found u sailor c1 the bottom
of the yawI unconscious. lie was wasted
to a skeleton md his moutl was on his
naked fore-srm as though he had trleo
To drink his own blood. lie proved to be
captain Charles Herman of Providence,
X. L., who left that place Nov. /, accom-
bsnied ty Charles Gladding in the yawl
Cocheco. When they left Charleston
on Dec. &C. they were blown out to sea.
Their provisions and water were soon
exhausted. Last Friday, Herman thinks II
was, the light house on Anastasia lsland
was sighted. BY this time Gladding wes
crazy and put off for shore in a boat at
tached to the Cocheco and undoubtedly
wss lost. Herman remembers nothing
else snd must have become unconscious
shortly after Glsddiug left. The Cocheco
then drifted up the coast with It's
uncons cicus master until discovered
| the Boutwell,. Herman weighed lSO
hounds when he left Providence. he now
weighs only 10 pounds and is SO weak
he can hardly raise his hand.
Herman and Gladding started from the
float of the Providence Corinthian Iacnt
Club on Nov. 1, intending to follow the
coast to Florida, w here Herman was to
spend tie winter and return in the
spring. They had an ample supply OF
provisions, and as the boat was compsr-
atively new and considered one OF TIE
best sea boats in the bay, little anxiety
was felt by their friends. Letters have
been received from them regularly until
Christmas Day, when the last tidings
were sent from Charleston, ;. Z.
Glsdding had been down the coast as
far as Newport News on tie Walker Arm
ington from this city some three years
ago, and his two years of service on the
Enterprise with regular cruising hao
fitted him to undertake such a trip aI
this with as great degree OF safety al
ANYBODY, and Herman was regarded b,
his friends as too GOOD seaman to NEE
: with any misnap which skill or judg
ment could avert.
The letters received by their frie nds IL
this city all tended to show that the!
q were having a very pleasant cruise AM
2 there was nothing in their communica
tions that offered a suggestion to thei
! friends that there was any great risk at
tscbed to their undertaking. The las
, heard from them was in the letters wri'
h ten from Charleston. South Carolins
where they spent Christmas Day. On tn
a following day they put to sea again
$ continue their cruise down the coas
n A gsle struck them when they reache
a deep water and they were almost imined
= | ate1y driven cut or sight Of land. In
. woult have occasioned little Gs,hcolty
!. the terrible force Of tho storm had nj
rendered their boat upmsnageaole.
Out on the ocean with only provision
for few days, in @ boat which th'
70 could neither guide nor control In OIL
q WAY. the two men were forced TO 81
- helplessfy wondering how far they hi
40 teen blown from shore, whether th'
, were In the track Of ses-going vessels al
ID even unable TO tell WHITTIER they we
ce drifting. Four long and anxious ga
ng were passed Ia this way with never
oh sight of a sail or sign or Feliei, O.
- then their provisions anu water were .
~ hsusied. with starvation aud borriI
thirst gosdiDg them TO cooperation. Ia
could still 40 not thing but resign the
selves TO meet death in a form attend
ng mig ght produce.
nd Last Friday their boat driited in siG
ek OF the lighthouse on Anastssia Island,
an short distsrce of tho upper coast of ri
io- IDA. and quite near 81. Augustine.
'u this time botn men were In frenz
las condition. With the lighthouse VIII
ow sight young 0ladoing could not
'h' longer In the Cocheoo and wait for de'
10 come TO him. Ho could DO nothing
navigate the yswl. IL was an extrem
hazardous chance that he took when
decided 10 try aud make land on I
coast in the small boa: attached to
Cochscc. Herman, tie Older man, II
49, to cissuudo bin from making tho
tempt. end eudoavorei TO point out
80 80 | MN INIT n wss stmpty tuvtrtuy spvur
death than could come TO them II I
remained IN the Cocheco. which mi
p,rhaps drift nearer TO land, or, bs
30 near the coast, might he sighted
OF pome vessel when wouid respond to
,eld Hag of distress which they had afixsC
ana the rigging.
Of Gladding va htlf crazc1 with
net. suiisrings VI bunger ana thirst.