The Yale expositor., 1905-10-20
MAD FROM SUFFERINGS
Shlpwreeked Sailors Leaped Into Sea
and Perlshed.
SIX OF CREW OF EIGHT DIE
Two Who Survive Tell Heartrendlng
Story of Days of Exposure, Hunger
and Thlret-Wrecked In Gale OFF
South Carolina.

Boston, Oct. IA story Of north
Atlantic shipwreck, in which eight
seamen suffered so fearfully from eX-
posture, hunger and thirst that six OF
them either died outright, were
washed away, or, crazed by their fear
full experiences, threw themselves into
the sea, is told by the two survivors
of the coasting schooner Van Name
& King, of New Haven, which was
beaten to pieces by a gale on the
South Carolina coast on Oct. 6.
The two men who lived through the
five days and were rescued by the
schooner Stillman F. Kelly, which ar
rived here late Monday, are William
Thomas and William G. Warnock, both
about 20 years old, 6 feet inches tall,
and hail from Antigua, British West
lnnies The six who, one by one, sue
cumbel were:
Capt William 4 Maxwell, of New
Jersey; Mate e. A h2S0 h'me up
known; engineer, a German, name 81
known; colored steward name I'M
known; colored seaman, William Griz-
ell and Alfred Arthur, both OF Jamaica.
Struck Hard Gale.
The Van Name & King, which has
been plying up and down the coast
since 1886, left Charleston, S. c., for
New York on Oct. with a cargo of
hard pine. A few days later she ran
into heavy gale and after wallowins
about in the great seas for several
hours, sprang a leak. TNo pumps were
started, but in a SKIRT time the en-
CINE room was fec ed and the pumps
choked.
At s o'clock on the morning Of Oct
g. with her hold nearly full of water,
the little schooner was hove down on
her beam ends. The crew clambered
up on the weather side and dashed
themselves to the bulwarks. There
they remained, washed by the seas
that broke mercilessly over them all
day Friday.
That night the storm increased in
fury and one great wave crashed
aboard, breaking both legs Of Seaman
Arthur and sweeping Grizell from his
fastenings. Arthur's companions
could do nothing TO ease his suffer
ings, but when, on Saturday, the
schooner turned completely 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 Arthur died in the
arms of Capt. Maxwell and his body
was dropped overheard. SUNDAY
brought a ray of hope, when a craft
was sighted, but the gloom shut in
again as she passed by without heed
ing the little group of seamen who
frantically signaled her.
Rain Relieves Suffering.
That night the waves subsidized an
little rain fell, which was eagerly
caught in a tarpaulin, and brought
some slight relief. 1t was not only
temporary, and not long after Maze
Chase's mind gave way entirely and
the craft was again lightened when
he jumped into the sea.
The next victim was Capt Max.
well, who on Monday forenoon became
violently insane and followed his
mates example of self-destruction as
relief to his sufferings.
The spectacle of the two men throw
ing themselves into the sea proved too
much for the German engineer, and a
few hours afto" Capt. Msxwells death
he, too, leaped to his death.
The last victim was the colored
steward, who died Monday night, and
whose body was consigned to the wa
ters by the two remaining seamen.
Relief came twelve hours later when
the schooner Stillman F. Kelly, bound
up the coast from Ceylon, Ca. to this
port, sighted the little craft and hove
to alongside.
Both Thomas and Warnocll had TO
be taken off in sings and for two days
were unable to move.
The rescue took place OFF Cape
Lookout. The Kelly arrived here Mon
day afternoon, but the seamen were
still too exhausted to land