Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-10-17
Story of Disaster off the
Atlantic Coast
FIVE TORTURING DAYS
Only Two Of Crew Of Eight Found
Alive, the Others Having SucCum-
bed, or Driven Insane, Had LeaPed
Into the Sea.

Boston, Oct ia story of a north
Atlantic shipwreck in which eight sea-
men suffered so fearfully from expos
ure, hunger and thirst that six of
them died outright, were washed away
| or, crazed by their fearful experience,
threw themselves into the sea was
told today by the two survivors of the
coasting schooner Van Name and King
of New Haven, which was beaten to
| pieces by a gale off the South Caro-
lima coast on October 6.
The two men who lived through the
five days and were rescued by the
! schooner Stillman F. Kelly, which ar
! rived here late today, are VIM. Thorn
! as and VIM. G.. Warner, both about %
years old, six feet three inches tall,
and hail from Antigua, British West
! Indies. The six who one by one sue
cumber were Capt. VIM. A. Maxwell,
| of New Jersey; Mate e. A. Chase,
| home unknown; coIored seamen VIM.
| GrisweH and Alfred Arthur, both of
America.
The Van Name and King. which has
/ been plying up md down the coast
since 1885. left Charleston, S. c. for
| New York on October (, with a cargo
of hard pine. Two days later she ran
into a heavy gale and after walIOwing
about in the great seas for several
| hours, sprang n leak. The pumps were
started, but within a short time the
J engine room was flooded and the
! pumps chOked.
At s o'clock on the morning of OctO-
| Der g. with her hold full of water, the
little schooner. was hove down on her
beam ends. The crew clambered upon
the weather side and lashed them
! selves to the bulwarks There they re-
mained, washed by the seas that broke
mercilessIy over them all day Friday.
The night storm increased in fury and
one great wave crashed aboard, break
ing both legs of Seaman Arthur and
sweeping Griswell from his fastenings.
Arthurs companions could Go nothing
to ease his suffeIings, but when on
Saturday the schooner turned COM
pleteIy over they managed to cut his
lashings and drag him on a piece of
the afterhouse. It was several hours
before they were all huddled together
on their little raft That night Ar
thur died in the arms Of Captain Max
well, and his body was dropped over
board.
Sunday brought a ray of hope when
a craft was sighted, but the gloom
shut in again as she passed by without
needing the little group OF SedIlleA VINO
frantically signalled her. That night
the waves subsided, and a little rain
fell, which was eagerly caught in a
tarpaulin and brought some relief. 1t
was only temporary. and not long af-
ter, Mate Chase's mind gave way en-
tirely and the craft was again light
ened when he jumped into the sea.
The next victim was Captain Max
we'll who on Monday forenoon became
violently insane and followed his
mates example of self-destructiOn as
a relief TO his sufferings. The specta-
Gle of two men throwing themselves
into the sea proved too much for the
German engineer, and a few hours af-
ter Captain MaxwelTs death, he, too,
Ieaped to death. The last victim was
the head steward, who died Monday
and whose body was consigned to the
waters by the two remaining seamen.
Relief came twelve hours later when
the schooner Stnlman of the Kelly,
bound up coast from Ceylon, Ga, to
this port sighted the little craft and
hove to alongside. Both Thomas and
Warner had to be taken off in sings
and for two days were unable to move.
The rescue took place off Cape Look
ont. The Kelly arrived here this after
noon. but the seamen were still too eX-
hausted to land.