The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-27
A NIGHT OF HORRORS.
The Terrible Experiences of the Survl

The Terrible Experiences of the Survi-
 vors of the Unfortunate Stella.
 The London Daily Mail of the Sd of April has the following in it's account of the recent loss of the Channel Islands steamer Stella
 It was in the boat which was, after twenty-two hours at sea, picked up by a l French government vessel, the occu- pants being taken to Cherbourg, that | the sufferings of the shipwrecked reached their climax, Swamped when being launched from the ship, this boat had drifted away keel upwards. Mir Roland Ellis Vesian of Harrow swan to her, and managed to chamber on to | the keel.
 | There" he states, T was joined by nine others at intervals. and all of them succeeded in elambering up in the same way that I had done. There were dog ems of others floating round on wreck age. They could not swim to us, and we could not help them. They made piteous appeals for assistance. It was heartrending scene.
 We drifted about at the mercy of the waves, and then one by one the cries round us ceased as the poor victims be- came exhausted with the cold and dropped off the wreckage to which they were cingng. It was awful to see them drown close by us. Among those whom noticed clinging to wreckage that was near the boat were the chief officer and the chief steward. There were also few ladies who had life-belts and were clinging to wreckage.
 -Four strong swimmers managed to reach us on the upturned boat, and all together our total was raised to four teen. We were all wet to the skin and bitterly cold. Most of us had no hats. The sea was lumpy, and we rolled and tossed about in distressing fashion At nine o'clock at night, as nearly as I can judge, a big wave rolled under us and rghted the boat We were all thrown into the water again, but with the ex- ception of two we managed to scramble tint the boat. The two who were drowned were the cook and a fireman.
 "Tl1en to our great distress we found that the plug was out of the boat. She filled up almost at once to the gunwale and was only kept afloat by her air tanks. The water washed in and out of the boat. All through that bitter night we sat in the craft with water up to our waists
 we were entirely unable to find substitute to plug the hole with. Pres ently we saw lights, and our spirits re- vived. We got the oars out, but the boat was too water-logged for us to make way against the current, and to our despair we saw that we were drift ing further and further away from the goal we were striving to gain.
 Another horror came upon us at mid night. One of the passengers died from exhaustion. was thrown overheard. Almost directly afterwards we found that our craft had drifted among the rocks and that we were in the terrible race which prevails at times near Alder ney. uge waves then continually broke over us Then with the set of the tide we drifted back again towards the Cas- ket Light. Then another of the passen gers died in the boat. He had been grief stricken at seeing his friends body thrown overheard, and also succumbed to the awful exposure. An able seaman named Johnson, fine old man, who had rowed necessarily despite the fearful conditions that prevailed, who had never uttered one word of complaint, fell back from his oar exhausted and died on his thwart.
 Both he and the other passengers were also thrown overheard. Still, we did not give up hope. We yelled singly and together al intervals throughout the night with the view of attracting help | The morning broke dull and foggy. There was no land then in sight. One