The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-18
Cargo of Bones
Ships Crew That Deserted
and Never Vas heard from


Nsxt u gunaoxder TIA worst esrSo
thaS q saIp can carry IS Lead %
bones. saxs ne New oxrk Man and Ex-
press This faet Is aos generally known
among even shipping people. bst there
are = Few master marines who have lad
an experience Wlth shipments q hsuss.
and these say a sileEt prayer every uaas
Sheg hear 81 q SAP being chartered -
carry the Skeletons q the animals q he
Held B0neS are used N TIE manufacture
81 al sorts q domestic SrtscIes. from
tao-a brush % the handle u cato ana
tails- The immense cattle pains os tha
Argentine RaFaS-ic furnish &c thu Unit
ed states more taaa 3 per cent q TIA
lster's importation Of bones
One OF ths sgrazgeSt accounts Of mis-
fortune TO a eoze-Iasiea ship Is that q
the Austrian bark via. which left Egyps
Nay a lSS1. for this port Nothing Vas
heard Of the craft from that tine until
August 80 0f tne sane year. when tha
Norwegian steamer Brefaablfk found her
abandoned on Cape Haseras and toWed
her into port The bark Vas IN almost
perfect condition. bat her pApsEs we're
gone. and there wasn't scrap q food
q any kind 10 be found OF board There
seems 70 Be no question that the crew
had voluntarily deserted their eharge. bat
from thar day 20 this neither TIE ofscers
nor the men was were 81 her have ever
been heard from Their fate Is as great
an ocean mystery as tia a.sappsaranee OF
the crew o. The Marie Celezts. Which Wa
the subject o. an extensive investigation
b. the State Department IN Washington
some years before. The explanations adj
vauce1 for the disappee-ancs Of the Via
crew were countless. os; 40 substantial
one VAS made untn the schooner Wallace
J. Boyd arrived At Philadelphia. froz
M3ntevideo. vita a cargo Of bones slns-
l1- 10 that IN the VIA.
Tie people Of the Boyd IN an oalcial
statement made at the time said THAI
shortly after the snip eft Moataxides tho
craft became Infested with SCORPIONS and
other deadly insects. watch were due %
the. cargo. The men were driven fron
their hunks By the pestiferous buss aud,
although every effort was made to rio
the schooner u the plague. they consin-
Ted 70 multiply in enormous numbers.
They became 80 bad az Iasy that the zen
were forced to ehange their clothlng a
not free them of the smaller inaectA
The log5ook of the schooner showed thas
from August Il. the day Of departure
from Montsvideo. until September s. the
agony vas constant. On the Iast-nanied
date the plague became aggravated by
the appearances OF large green bugs w-hlcA
swarmed over everything and continued
untl port was reached. A feW days ee-
fore the vessel reached the Capes the IN
sects became 50 thick and annoying that
the men hal on several occasions 20 take
refuge aIeft. several % them lashlng
themselves In the rafiines and sleeping
there. The pilot who came aboard a. IA
Breakwater fed when he saw tbs scor-
p.ons crawling about the deck. and ths
master az the Graf, had 70 bring her up
the Delaware uuaIaed.
II 3 supposed that ihe Insects hal Ia-
Tested the bones on tae plains. ard the
intense heat q the bold Ga re tropics
caused them 90 breed excessively and
drove them on deck The experience OK
the crew u the Boyd Vas such that nata-
ing could iRduCe tsem 10 shl3 IN a baue-
laden Graf, again. and The news % their
sufferiag travelled So extenslvely thar fs
succeeded In getting a aew crew. IRE
Boyd was lost the following gear a. Sa-
yzssa-
The Italian bark Clemeatina Lass ysas
arrived at Philadelphia from faT-aWay
Crusuar. with q cargo - boaca aad an
experience with scarcely "a parallel TIE
bark loaded the bones az Busnos Area.
uith tire understanding that she was O.
take them % Antwerp. She Vas ordered
o. Philadelphia instead The bones weFa
fresh when taken or board. and accord
Ing 70 her skipper Capt Domestic. 81
least 5eo so bugs were put into The held
wdth them soon they oEsrraa the ahlu.
and the crew. after ths first week cut.
saeFeled them uD ard threw them ever
board g the rate 0f four barreIs day,
The Insect Sas known az tae boring Bax
When only seven days out the bugs be-
came 80 thick that three q The cras
Weat aloft and remained there except for
the time IN whieh they rushed % deck.
grabbed some food and ssrr!s4 algft
again.
Near che Equator TIE Clernensina ran
into series - gales. aad one - tae ~
waves STAT broke On board carried away
part 81; the main hateh ard washed Il IN
% he 81 Al the height Il ths storm the
crew noticed that aa English tramp
steamer va following r. Der waks. To-
ward ezeaina ire steamer ovsrhasiss ths
uiud3a1auaer aad ere latter. rflTinfaE thai
scmstafnE Wa auiss. hove - Tho
atsanler lowered a boat ana hsF rsats
CA me ALONGSIDE
Hos l5zg have yeu been an arsT' -
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stand tas question. byathe oIcer - tss
steamer ex9la.ns3 sfpsf a. On his vessel
had Hesn the bark b3axiag aereclr far fks
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