The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-07-14
ATERRlSLE EXPERIENCE.
= Tale ofSh1pwreck. Sickness and Death
on the OCEAN

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i Tale of ofsh1pwreck. Sickness and Death
on the Ocean.
The correspondent of TIE Associated
Press has had an interview with Mrs.
Andrew Christie, widow of Captain
Christie o. the wrecked British shio
Irsveilsr, which we1t on the reels off
the Island OF Rodriguez, in the Iudiau
Ocean, $50 miles northeast OF Mauri-
:iuS, On the 4.h Of last February.
Mrs. Christie tells a .erriole story of
the sQferings OF the survivor Al
most Immediately after the Traveller
left Java for the Delaware Breakwa-
Ter, the Java fever broke out and
spread rapidly. E7eryood on board
vas more or less affected, includ-
lag the Christie baby, which died and
Has buried at ssa. Another victim
Ieaoed overheard and as dcowned.
Ga December IA the chief officer
died, and on December 2S Captain
Christie succunoed, leaving only ten
nsn to man the snip.
Second Mate Rich then decided to
steer for Mauritius, and when the
Traveller finally approached Rodri-
euez Island only he aud two seamen
were able to work the ship.
a pilot who pu: out from the island,
oo learning the state of atf airs, refused
ID 90 on board, aud returned to the
shoce, where ne spread the report that
every body on the Traveller had the
| yellow j 4ck.
Hoers passed and no assistance
c4me. The second mate, fearing that
the Traveller would 90 ashore, launch
! ID boa. and took the sick survivors
sitn him, with view of landing
them. The governor and inhabitants
Of the island rushed down to the shore
and threatened to shoot them if they
! landed Mr.. Rich appealed TO them,
inploring them if Ehey were Chris
tians. gno to o5have inhuuanly.
He said his men were too weak TO
pull back to the ship, and that if they
succeeded in getting there they would
| probably be drowned. He asked for
assistance to sake the Traveller out of
her dangerous position aad begged for
mercy.
His appeals were roughly ignored,
and he was obliged to put about and
90 back TO the vessel, wlich they final
| IL reached, almost dead with exhaus
| ton arG Gcsnair. The last man had
scarcely quilted the roTooa: when it
was weps away aud lost. No assis-
tance came, and that night the Tray
eiler was carried upon the reefs and
| wrt cked.
The next morning the R odriguez au.
taoritles sent pilot and brought of
| Mrs. Christie, her Surviving child and
others, and then with the assistance OF
blacks from the island, the survivors
were taken to desolate sand island
IN the vicinity, where they were kept
for % days, living IN nuts made OF
| leaves and with nothing but leaves to
| lie upon.
| So fearful were tie R2driguers Of
contact that food for 1h9 survivors was
transferred from boat TO boat before 1t
was finally left upon the beach of the
;sand island. Blacks we're semitic cook
it, but no Phsyician came for fort.
night, and even when be did come, &C.
cording to Mrs Christie, hedid not land
but examined the sick through glass
from lis boat. Meanwhile two had
| died, and the second mate was the
only man strong enough 10 dig their
graves.
On the twenty-second day, realizing
! that the monsoon would soon sub
! merge the sand island, the RodriguerS
moved the unfcrtunates to Rodriguez,
| where they remained tHo months and
we're well treated From toat point
lbay were carried 10 Mauritius and
then proceeded homeward.
Mrs. Christie says that the behavior
of the RoGrisu5rs IS all the more in
explicaole in view Of the fact that
they allowed lar-e part OF Jae cargo
Of tae Traveller to be SAVED.
Fen Fifseen Rundeed Feet.
A thcu1htess six year old boy lost
his life Friday il Oakland, Cal,
through his desire to 60 up IN g balloon.
Charles Coulon, an amsteur aeron.
aut was advertised to ssc>nd in hot
air balloon at Biair's park and descend
by q parachute. Younr Bertrand
Hill, son Of Chauocey & Il. a LBS
Angeles architec., saw the IL dating OF
the balloon aud other preparations.
No one noticed the boy in the bury
aad excitement Of cutting loose the
ropes; but the crowd wss horci6ed as
soon as the balloon ross 10 clear the
earth, to see little boy clutching one
of the sand bags. H. vas fully 81
feet above the aeronsut, and ii re wss
no way Of reaching hlro. Apparently
ne shouted to the child to hold tis h,
bu: it vas plain the little fellow was
getting bewiIdered and dizzy. GroaDs
| of horror came from the men and
screams fromsthe women and children
as when the balloon had reached a
height of aoou! !. 800 feet, the child
vas seen to fall. Women faintel and
men wepJ as the body came whirling
down. Il struck nearly m;ie from
tfe park. Il is believed 'he boy was
dead before the body reached the
.round.