The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-15

passengers: that she belonged to Messrs. Rowland & Ridgeway, of New York.
 He said the persons in the boat were Mrs. Atkinson, the chief mates wife, and an old woman in the steerage; one of the men was a sailor, the other a passenger; that thirteen left the ship and all had starved to death excepting himself; they had consigned eight to the deep and the others he had not strength to throw over. He had lived nins days and nights without a thing to eat or drink. It seems they left the ship in such a hurry that they had not time enough to provision the boat. All they took with them was about three pounds of crackers and one gallon of water. The crackers were soon eaten, but the water held out a day or two. They pierced the cork with quill and three sucks was all that was allowed a day-one at morning, one at noon and one at night. After Nye had besn in the boat about five minutes he became insensible. [ directed one of my men to get into the stern beat and pass rope out to tow 1 by, then to take an oar and steer her. We pulled out for the ship and arrived at the ship after an hours hard pull. Yves boat was hauled under the fore chains and made fast. A rope was passed over, which we made fast to Nye and hoisted him on board. As he went up the side I said to Captain | Wood, This young man belongs in New Bedford. Perhaps you know him. | He was taken into the cabin and in | about one hours time he came to and he turned out to be Mrs. Woods second or third cousin. (She being on board at 1 the time.) I ought to have stated that Captain Wood belongs In New Bedford, and l told him (Nyel before he became l inssnsible -<#ssxt..., .. ..- s We then hoisted our own boat up and hauled the other to the gangway, took out everything of any value and con signed the dead to the deep, hoisted the | boat on board, filled away the main topsail and stood to. the N. N. w.
 The story of the loss of the ship John Rutledge and the rescue of Thomas w.. Wye is a long one, but if any one (or l the reader, should say,) feels interast- l ed enough in what have written they ! will find the whole account in the New | York Herald of the 24th, 25th and 18th of March, 1856, one of which is in pos session of my mother.
 After Nye came to he reported that five boats left the ship. We immedi- l ately had man stationed at the F. T.. GallantmastIhead, on the lookout for boats, but saw none. At sundown the l wind vkered to E. N. E., cleared off l fine and we had every prospect of a | quick run across, the ice track and l Grand Banks, and many would have embraced the opportunity to have got { ten clear of the ice and gained two ] hundred miles or more, but Captain Wood, anxious to save life, and think 1 ing that some Of the other boats might ] be In the neigllborhooa, ordered sail to be taken in, the courses to be hauled and the main topsail yard to be laid to the mast and then wait until daylight I next morning, which we did. We also had two large lights hung in the rig ging and every man on the lookout. 1 At daybreak three men were sent aloft, but saw nothing. We then made l all sail and stood on our course.
 An incident occurred two nights pre- vious to Yves rescue which makes me l confident that we passed one of the other boats. It was blowing a heavy 1 gale at the time. All the canvas we | could show was a close reefed main l topsail and reefed foresail. The ship was on the port tack, jumping into g. tremendous northerly sea, showing and mailing in torrents and very cold. It was my watch and about 10 D. m. The men that comprised my watch were under the forward part of the poop. One man on the lookout and one at the wheel. The light went out in the sky l light and I stepped into the cabin to light it: was gone about seven min utes. When I came on deck the man at the wheel seemed frightened out of l his wits. He said, o, MT. Townsend, I have heard mans voice hail the ship
 to windward. I heard 1t twice and the l first I should think was not ten feet | from the ships quarters I told him
 he was nervous. It was the mizzen topsail yard creeking. He said no, that
 he heard it twice. It was long faint
 voice.
 I at once got upon the veranda deck
 and looked to windward and listened,
 but could see or hear nothing. I made
 up my mind the man was nervous or
 lying, but he wished to be relieved. ordered another man to take his place.
 He went away saying that he was sor-
 ry thought he was trying to deceive | me.
 Whether this man heard voice hail
 the ship or not, two days after we picked Nye up, and we had been in that
 neighborhood for five or six days pre-
 viousA I truly believe that the Germa
 mia was hailed by one of the boats ot the ill-taled John Rutledge.
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 HEBREW FIDDLER STONED.