The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-20
NIGHT RESCUE BY The APACHE.
10 PASSENGERS WAKE IP TO
LOOK on Ar IT.


Had Made . Flare AGht With the
Forecastie stoye-Negro VINO Went
Oyerboafd Came back on Sea Unhurt.
Nearly all the seventy cabin passsn gers
aboard the Clyde liner Apache, In yester-
day from jackson vile and Charleston.
were awakened by the sudden cessation
OF her engines, the changing OF bells and
hoarse orders OF officers when she was
about sixty miles of the South Carolina
coast at $40 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
Capt. Staples who was on the bridge.
had seen on his starboard bow fare light,
and, few minutes before the ship stopped,
he had headed for it. He made out indis-
tnotly in the gloom, through his glasses,
that the light was aboard the low lying
hulk OF dismasted sailing vessel
The whole ships company, variously
dressed, came up and gathered along the
rail to see shipwreck rescue. The sea
was calm and there WAS no trouble about
lowering a lifeboat and taking of the men
of the wrecked craft. The boats crew
from the Apache had provided themselves
with oil, naturally supposing that the wreck
was that Of a lumber carrier and intending
prevent her endangering some coastwise
steamship.
Five weary and sore footed men were
assisted up the sea ladder Of the Apache,
while the passengers looked on. The night
was intensely black, and none Of the crowd
that lined the rail got glimpse of the wreck
until the fire that the boats crew had started
aboard lit up her mastless outlines. Later
in the morning every passenger aboard
the Apache lea rned all about the wreck,
and some took the signatures OF the ship
wrecked men as mementos OF the event,
large in the log Of coastwise travellers
The yarn may be spun this wise on ma
terial supplied by Gunnar Edelmanu, A. b.,
Of Finland, who was one OF the seven men
Of many nationalties in the little three
masted Barbados schooner Syanara, Capt
Morehouse, which sailed from Savannah
on Oct. with yellow pine. for Digby, N. s.
The Finn told his story in bed at st. Vim
cents Hospital. He had been standing
four days in sea water and his feet were
crippled by salt water bois.
When the schooner was three days out
on Wednesday OF last week she ran into
a mighty gale from northeast. By Friday
she had lost her deckload. was leaking and
swept by seas and all hands sought safety
on the poop. The schooner threatened
to capsize last night and they out away
the starboard standing rigging The masts
went and the vessel righted.
The prospect of being rescued $50 miles
of shore by ship that might land them
In American territory was small, and the
crew set about rigging jury sail forward
to work in toward the coast. The boom
OF a forestaysaii was lashed TO the break
OF the forecastie. and a part Of the mainsail
was bent on the spar. The skipper had a
dim hope that he night get somebody to
tow hin, to port.
WhlIe the crew were working forward
on the jury rig great sea leaped over the
starboard bow and swept away the mate,
George Rudolph, Able Seaman Nyberg and
Jack London. a West Indian negro. The
Finn hung on to the ships bell The skip
per Rugged the capstan.
Jack London surprised the skipper by
boarding the schooner again on a recurv-
ing sea, lighting on his head, which APP
parenhy had a good plate of armor. He
was not hurt, but said he had been some
what startled The mate and Nyberg
were seen timbling in the ferment nearly
a hundred yards to leeward Capt More
house ordered his uncrippled men to bend
a line on a hatch cover and launch 1t to
leeward. Meanwhile the two swimmers
had got hold OF a heavy beam that had
formed a part Of the cargo and we're sc,illing
it laboriously toward the ship They
abandoned the beam for the hatch cover
when they got within few feet OF it and
were hauled aboard, almost dead from
exhaustion.
For four nights all hands slept on the top
Of the afterhouse under a part Of the main
sail. In the day they few the British en-
sign, union down. from their improvised
mast forward. At night they used a novel
means Of making a fare The forecastle
stove had been brought up on deck and 1t
was Allied with wood and grease. By alter
r,ately lifting and putting on the lid OF the
stove fine fare was created
On Monday morning the lights Of the
steamship were sighted, and Capt. More
house act his stove distress signal going.
The steamship, which was the British
freighter Barrister, bound for Liverpool,
bore down on the wreck and offered to
take of all hands and land them at Liver
pool. Capt. Morehouse and four Of his
men decided that they preferred to land
somewhere nearer home, and stuck by the
wreck
seamen Nyberg and Petersen were taken
aboard the Barrister, which supplied the
wreck with provisions The schooner was
then within eighty miles OF the South Caro-
lima coast. She crawled into the track OF
coastwise liners early on Tuesday morning,
and there the Apache found her. The
skipper finally decided that what was left
Of the old craft (she was built twenty -four
years ago in Nova SCOTIA was not worth
saving.