The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-06-29
SURVIVED HORRORS
OF THE DEEP
SUFFERINGs OF AMERICAN BARK
HOLLIswOOD Toll DBRIEFLY IN
SAN FRANCISCO PAPERS.

Last Friday, there arrived at San
Pedro, California, the American bark
Holliswood then out lis days from
Newcastle, N. s. w. for San Francisco.
The vessel was then overdue and her
crew had been starving for days.
In the news files which arrived yes
terday by the S. S. Coptic, the fol-
lowing story of the sighting of the
vessel before she made land is told by
the San Francisco Chronicle;
'Br. schooner Transit, from Columbia
River; sighted Am. bark Holliswood
Newcastle for S. F. $3.50 N, 1880 w;
leaking, sails gone; crew have been
without food or water for several days;
| supplied provisions.
Somewhere out yonder below the
summit Of the Hill of water that rises
to the skyline the captain and crew
OF an American bark are fighting for
their lives their ship and the cargo
intrusted to their care They have
been fighting their way up that hill
of water for nearly a month, at times
almost topping the rise to where it was
| q straight reach for "home" and shore
/ grub. and each time they have been
rolled back by adverse winds. Facing
death by starvation, weakened by over
work and exposure, their ship leaking
| badly and their sails blown away, they
are still fighting. At times they have
been within 100 or 200 miles of shore,
and at any time they might have aban-
dOned their helpless and waterlogged
craft; twice they might have tleen
taken off by passing vessels, but the
captain refused.
Give us something to eat and some
medicine and we will fight it out. said
Captain Knight. 1t is an American
bark and an American captain, and
with him is his wife and seven months
old tabe.
THE HolliswOod. 1884 net tons, owned
by Stephen II. Mills Of New York,
Knight, master, left Newcastle, Aus
tralia 113 days ago with a cargo Of
coal for this port and was due nearly
n month ago. She was posted yester-
day as overdue and 10 per cent asked
for reinsurance. In a short time the
rate had advanced to 20 per cent and
during the day about $4,000 was placed
on the overdue. There was a growing
belief yesterday afternoon that the bark
had fOundered
prior to last night the only time the
Holliswood had been spoken was on
May 26th. On that date the German
bark Servia from this port for Puget
sound sighted the Holliswood nearly
coo miles northwest of here and in an
swer to her signals bore down. The
HolliswOod was then leaking and the
men were on short rations. From his
own store Captain Falkman of the
Servia supplied the Holliswood with
four days provisions and Captain
Knight, signifying his determination TO
fight it out, the servia stood on her
course. That was twenty-three days
ago and the crew was then on short
rations.
"The schooner Transit, from Puget
Sound reached San Pedro last night
and Captain Klintholm, master, at
once wired the memorandum first
above given to the Merchants Ex-
change in this city. The date he sighted
the bark he failed to give, but, from his
report it is presumed to be on the '4th.
From the latitude and longitude given
the Holliswood was then a little over
100 miles southwest of this port. Twen-
ty-three days ago the ship was 800
miles northwest of here; now she is
days ago. Where she is now
Brief and laconic is the memoran-
dunn of the master of the Transit.
| Crew has been without food or water
| for several days. He goes into no
"details as to the condition of the
men; he simply states the fact as all
! in the davis work of those who fol-
low the sea. He gave them all the
/
slender store of his little schooner. He
would have taken the captain and rev
on board, but Captain Knight said he
would flight it out"
"Fo twenty-three days the ship has
been drifting and tossing from 100 to
200 miles along shore for a distance of
700 miles. The four days provisions
gwen the crew by the Servia is dis
I tributed on half-ration basis lasted
bly, eight days. If doled out in
one-quarter allowance it lasted sixteen
days, and yet there are four days I'M
accounted for when the Transit sighted
the bark on the 14th. They were on
| short rations when sighted by the Ser
/ via for a month that crew of an Ameri-
can bark has been hungry-starving, in
fact; but stood by the ship, manning
the pumps and trying to rig some rib
/ bons of sails, and on the ship is a wo-
man and a babe. When sighted by the
/ Transit the Hollswood had been be-
Gained fol. several days, but was then
struggling with adverse winds.
"The owner having appealed to the
Government the revenue cutter Mad
ming was dispatched yesterday on a
search for the missing bark. But the
Manning sailed northwest and the
starving crew of the Holliswood is
somewhere to the southwest. However,
a strong tug well provisioned will prob
ably be dispatched this morning to
bring the bari; to port"
Pains in the stomach, like toothache,
are not dangerous, but decidedly I'M
l pleasant Persons who are subject to