New-York tribune., 1901-12-07
SAYS T'AR'S EYE WAS CUT OUT
r,Ir Oh, CRI7ELTY on BARK DE-
MED BY THE CAPTAIN-BIG
WATERSPOUTS.

4 member of the crew OF the bark Brls'o',
seventv-eight days from Rio Janeiro by way OF
barbados and Vineyard Haven, which arrived
here Yesterday in tow from Bridgeport where
she anchored because of frozen sails. told
story of cruelty. The crew, which was uIS
charged last night, was almost as mixed III
color as Joseph's coat. There We're two Fill
rinos two negroes-One very old-a native OF
Argentina a Canadian. said to be seventy-tWo
wears old and to have had a sea experience OF
fftv-fve wears before the mast, and a swede
among those who worked the bark to this port
The fingers Of several of them were frozen on
Long Island Sound while they were trying 10
furl the stiff icebound sails.
The bark. which is a well built craft. halls
from Windsor, Nova Scotia. Captain D. T. San
ford is her commander. The crew numbers
eighteen.
Three or four months ago the Bristol sailed
from, Ship Island Gulf of Mexico. for Rio ia
metro with a cargo of pitch pine lumber. Ac-
cording to her captain, the crew, which ne oo-
tanned at Shin Island, included a powerfully
built but intellectually weak Austrian named
Keyser This shanghaied aboard with
the other sailors. and his mental disability was
not known to the captain until the vessel hau
sailed.
second mate an Irishman. was obtained
from a steamship at Ship Island. With the ex-
aD+tor of two the entire crew deserted at Rio
Janeiro The captain said they became cargo
sck'-did not like to work at unloading 'He
shin Among them was the Austrian oHe VI
the two VINO stood by the ship was Albert An,
darson the Swede. He told the tale yesterday OF
persecution and cruelty on the part or the SEE
ond mate who also left the ship at Rio Janelro.
.oThe second mate drove the Austrian crazy
with his prosecutions" said Anderson anu anu
one time he cut him under the eye with knife,
laving the eye the fellows cheek Ihlnss
we're scandaous. 1 could tell lots OF Things.
The Austrian had to jump overheard INTO d
TIGHTER TO get away. The second idte "'3
afraid TO come here. for he left the vessel too'
..Things are different here than they are III
Pto There YOU do most anything Win d
sailor Here there are laws and you cant
Captain Sanford said last night that tie aus
tran had not been obliged to work nara, o~ tns t
70 his mental condition He was well htteo ioi
SonIIing ~ ail lumber" said he "as he was so Dig.
Wa vas cute enough to drop over to nghlei
+rb;Ia I was at dinner, and hide among the IuiiiI
har He was not cut by the second mate
baya heen a master for twenty-five yea >, 60
no one has ever been cut on one OF my Siiap ,p.a
TIC second mate in question got SHORE I
-, I,e cot to Rio and was drunk TWO ddyH
no,,dr,t stand that, and / paid him on. ne
heIongad to the English Naval reserve.
ON November 16, when about nan way ~ ~
Barbados to Vineyard haven, lae los o u.ere
RrjstoI shows that three waterspouts ere
eigbted CAPTAIN Sanford says that they ~ r e.
a sisi.. r. Tesse1 He was obliged TO pay OH loi
enc and he ran under the crook OF aHot' tIio's
yrh,cb was as thick as the Wioth OIL d So ht,,+
"a HI. he said It sprang from the Wa'ei a,ine III
,btrtY feet from the side in oolfe, ." 60,
vase and rising to point ABOUT MY tbs
above the tops of the nlasts, curieu o'e
Vessel and up again to the CLOUDS