The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-23
MANY FATALITIES RESULT
Ten Survivors Have Fearfu.
 Experience in Boat.
While Delirious, Franz Banta obeysd the Fancied Reckoning of his Mother and Walked into
 the Ocean.

their sufferings, frost bitten and halpleeas ten men in boat were picked up hy the schooner Manhasset yesterday. forty-dve miles off Highland Light
 Then for the first time 1t was learned that the schooners Frank A. Palmer and Louis B. Crarey had been in collision and that they had been sunk off Thatchers Island on Wednesday evening. The sur vivors were landed here today. Of the twenty-one men who made up the two crews. six were carried down when tha two vessels sunk. four died during the terrible three days drift in Massachusstts Bay and another became insane and jumped overheard
 With no food or water, their clothes frozen in sold masses and their boat be- ing steadily driven before a bitter gale out into the Atlantic. it seems remarkable that so many survived.
 List of the Dead.
 Dead-Crew of the Louis P. Crarey, John F. Smith. mate, Portland. Me; w. H. Rowland, engineer; Hans Blank. Ger man seaman; David shanahan. New foundland; August Johnson, swede; of Berg, Norwegian; Peter Lache. South American; unknown seaman.
 Crew of the Palmer, Franz Banta, Fin land; Edward Jorgsen. Norwegian; Albert Spearling. Philadelphia
 Survivors of the Crarey. Captain wii- liam H. Potter, Orient, l.. l.; Louis Steinv engineer.
 Survivors of the Palmer, Captain J. k. Rawdin. South Boston; Svent Reinhart, Providence, R. l.: Alex Lundstrom, Fin- land; Edward Somerville. Providence. R. l.: Daniel Carlsen, Norway; c. Elforn- sen, Sweden; Vinton. mate; H. !. Almer. Sahoyer, New York The two schooners, both heavily laden with coal doubled Cape Cod in cDu3rany and ran into a strong Lorthwester on Wednesday night. Both captains put their vessels over towards the cape and shore When off Thatchers Island they split tacks and finally both came about at the same time and unknown to them selves headed toward each other, the Crarey holding north on the port tack and the Palmer south on the starboard tack and therefore having the right of way.
 The survivors today were inclined to lay blame of the acident on Mate Smith of the Crarey who had charge of the deck at the time and who went down with the ship They are of the opinion that he thought he could weather tl3e Palmer, but instead the Crarey crashed into the bow of the Palmer. The cut was deep and it was seen instantly that there was no hope for either vessel.
 Most of the small boats were smashed and some of the men were killed by the collision but others of both crews by quick work launched the long boat of the Palmer, into which clamoered fhat captains of both vessels and thirteen others. There was not a mome&t tur storing food or water in the boat and the rowers had propelled 1t only short distance from the schooners when tho Palmer went down. Three minutes later the Crarey disappeared.
 Indescribable Suffering.
 Without food and water. drnched tst the skin spray freezing to their garments the survivors underwent suffering indes- cribable Four men of the Crarey on Friday lay down in the bow of the boat and that night died. Eleven remained until Saturday night when Franz Santa went insane under the deiusion that he saw home and a Christmas tree and that his mother beckoned to him to come to her over the water. He stepped over the side of the boat in response to the fancied summons and the others were powerless to restrain him.
 Shortly after this, the two captains de- cided that the bodies of the four dead men should be consigned to the deep and bending over them. Captain Potter of the Crarey repeated as much of the burial service as he could remember
 Then the strongest of the survivors put the bodies overheard.
 In the three and a half days the men were afioat their boat drtfted steadily off shore until at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. 1t was 45 miles off Highland Light. There the lookout on the fishing schooner Man hasset caught a glimpse of the boat and within half an hour the ten men were in the cabin of the schooner. Captain Malone at once crowded on sail and and brought the survivors into Boston where they were taken to the relief hos pital During the day they improved steadily. They describe their experience as terrible