The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-17
LOCAL SHIP LOST The We'll Known Coasting Schooner Van Name and King Beaten to
 Pieces.
SOME OF CREW co INSANE
CAPTAIN ". 4. MAXWELL AND
 SIX OTHERS LOST.

Die Outright, or Are Washed Away, or,
 Crazed by Their Fearful Experience,
 HurI Themselves Into the sea-Two
 Survivors Picked Up in PitffuI Con-
 dition-VesseI Owned Largely by
 New Haveners-BuiIt at Hanscomb
 Yards in Fair Haven.
 Boston, Oct. 16.-A typical North At lantic shipwreck tale, 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 fearful expe- rience, hurled themselves into the sea, was brought out to-day by the two survivors of the we'll known coasting schooner Van Name and King, of New Haven, Conn.,, which was beaten to by one, succumbed, were:
 coast on October 6.
 The two men who lived through the five days and were rescued by the schooner stilIfnan F. Kelly, which ar rived here late to-day are William Thomas and William G. Warner. both twenty-nine years old, six feet three inches tall and hail from Antigua, British West Indies. The six who, one since 1885, left Charleston, s. C., for
 Captain William A. Maxwell of New Jersey.
 Mate E. A., Chase. home unknown.
 Engineer, a German, name unknown.
 Colored steward, name unknown.
 Colored seamen William Grizen and Alfred Arthur, both of Jamaica.
 The Van Name and King, which has been plying up and down the coast since 1885, left Charleston, s C., for New York on October 3, with cargo of hard pine. Two days later, Thurs day, October 5, she ran into a heavy gale and after wallowing about ins sthe great seas for several hours sprang a leak. The pumps were started, but within a short time the engine room was flooded and the pumps choked.
 At eight o'clock on the morning of Friday, October 6, with her hold near ly full of water, the little steamer was hove down on her beam ends. The crew clambered up on the weather side and lashed themselves to the bulwarks. There they remained soaked to the skin by every sea that broke merci- lessly over them all day Friday, con- stantly on the watch for some passing vessel. That night the storm in- creased in fury and one great wave crashed aboard, breaking both legs of Seaman Arthur and sweeping GriZall into the sea. Arthur's companions could do nothing to ease his sufferings, but when, on Saturday, the schooner turned completely over, they managed ito cut his flashing and drag him on to a piece of the after house. It was sav- eral hours before they were all hud- dled together on their little raft. That night Arthur died in the arms of Cap tain Maxwell, and to relieve the over loaded raft his body was quietly dropped into the sea.
 Sunday brought ray of hope when a craft was sighted, but the gloom shut in again as she passed by without needing the little group of arm-wav- ing seamen.
 That night, however, the weather subsided and a little rain fell, which was eagerly caught in a tarpaulin and brought slight relief, but was only temporary, and not long after Mate Chase's mind gave way entirely and the raft was again lightened when be threw himself into the sea.
 The next victim of the terrific strain was Captain Maxwell, who on Monday forenoon became violertly insane and followed his mates example of self de- struction as a relief to his sufferings.
 The spectacle of two men voluntarily throwing themselves into the sea proved too much for the German en- gineer, and a few hours after Captain Maxwell's death the raft was frightened for the fourth time, when the crazed seaman jumped into the waves.
 The last victim was the colored steward, who expired on the raft late Monday night, and whose body was dropped overheard by the two remain ing seamen.
 Relief came twelve hours later when the schooner Stil1man F. Kelly, bound up the coast from Ceylon, Ga., to this port, sighted the little raft and hove to alongside.
 Both Thomas and Warner had to be taken off in slings, and for two days were. unable to move.
 The rescue took place off Cape Look out in latitude 33.10 and longitude 76.SO. The Kelly arrived here this afternoon, but the seamen were still too exhaust ed to land. They will come ashore in a day or two and will probably be sent home. Each of them lost thirty or forty pounds in weight during their five days exposure.
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