The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-11-13
'ORTY HOURS
In A LIFE BOAT
hrtnS Experience of the Passengers and Crew of the
Steam Collier Titani, In Abandoning the Sinking
Ship and Finally Being Picked Up-Stories Of the
Survivors,

iSan Francisco Chronicle Nov. 10.)
Captain Thomas Gunderson, twenty.
fonr men and nine passengers arrived
ou the Norwegian collier Titania yes.
efday morning and told of the thrill
ng disabling and abandoning Of tho
Dam schooner Charles Nelson of
unpqua. on the Oregon coast. and of
lae experience Of forty hours in two
lIieboats, through all of which hard.
anip5 every person from the unfortu-
nate schooner passed with no serious
Jury and no loss but personal effects
ne men and the single woman who
US aboard speak in most cordial
pms Of Captain Gundergon, to whose
hlnvcry and GOODNESS they attribute
their doliverance from death.
The courageous spirit of the skipper
So far imbued his crow and passengers
that thcy profess not to have felt
efent fear for their lives, and say that
81 thc midst Of the dangers they were
nsle TO appreciate tho udicrous stu.
Mions. which appear to have arisen
ith frequency.
Tho most trying hours were during
the whole of Thursday night, when
ne two lifo-boat5, each loaded to it's
mn with seventeen persons. rocked
a the lee Of tho cbardoned ship.
iearful Of pushing of into the raging
sens and tho sweeping gale. In tho
midst of Il a portly Engllshman,
Fhilip Bradley insisted upon trying
ID reboard the ship for dry clothes
nd fell into tho ocean His life pre-
Fervers buoyod him up, and tne
Spectacle Of four sailors laboring with |
fopes to hoist the burly passenger
into the lifoboate again caused peals !
10 laughter from the wretched and
Wet refugees, who had no assurance
that all might not speedily go swirl
ing down TO Davy Jones.
After forty hours of drifting IN a
rpnning sea, tho captain was stand
ing on a scat and straining his eyes
at what seemed to be a lighthouse on
d rock. Bradley clutched Captain
funderson's coat and jerked him
Down into the boat.
Tell me quick-I never thought OF
j before-what in the name Of heaven !
DO they do with lighthouses in the !
baytime?" cried the Englishman.
"On, they fold them up and tuck
Ihem into a canvas bag" replied Mr.. |
6underson cody The Captain had
ost the direction. and when he looked /
bgain thore was not even the aug-
kestlon Of a lighthouse to guide or
ive them hope.
Most Trying Time.
The mcagcr provisions in the boats |
consisted of canned goods mainly
aimed clans Bernard Doughorty, a !
freman, seemed so near famished that
le was given a whole tin Of the prec-
bus food He swallowed the clans
sreedily LOST them through nausea,
and grew so weak that another can
had to be administered before
stomach could be rogu-
'ated il scecmed that the others must
be left without any provisions what
ager, so continuous was his cry for
BOD and so prompt It's rejection. on
b be second night in the open boats
.everal mon became dolirious, and
be was barely restrained from leap
BE- overheard. Mrs. George Cox, the
Vie and assisstant OF the cook, s,ood
be strain finely and talked inteili
ently Of the details of the neyer-to-
4eforgo, ten experience. Tho men
encrously gave up their own wet
arments to aid in keeping the cold /
Fom her
Her statements of Captain Gundcr-
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