The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-10-19
TERRIBLE TALE !:
OF A SHIPWRECk
North Atlantic Schooner Van,
name and King Was Dashed
to Pieces,
ONLY TWO WERE SAVED
Six of the Coasters Crew Succumbed
to the Awful sufferings the Men
Were Subjected to Before
the Waves.

Boston, Mass, Oct. 1s.-A story OF
a North Atlantic shipwreck, in which
eight seamen suffered so fearfully from
exposure, hunger and thirst that six Of
them either died outright or We're
washed away, or crazed by their fear
full experience threw themselves into
the sea, was told today by the two sur
yivors OF the coasting schooner Van
name and King, of New Haven, which
was beaten to pieces by a gale off the
South Carolina coast on October 6.
The w men who lived through the
five days and were rescued by the
schooner Stillman F. BENTLEY, which
arrived here late today, are William
Thomas and William G. Warnock, both
about 29 years of age, and hailing from
Antigua, British West Indies. The six
Who one by one succumbed We're:
CAPT. VIM. A. MAXWELL, Of New
Jersey.
MATTE E. A. CHASE, home unknown.
ENGINEER, a German, name un-
Known.
w. M. GRIzELL, colored seaman,
and
ALFRED ARTHUR, both of ia
maica.
The Vanname and King, which has
been plying up and down the coast
since 1886, left Charleston, S. c., for
New York on October 3 with a cargo
of hard pine. Two days later she ran
into a heavy gale, and after wallowing
about in the great seas for several
hours sprang a leak. The pumps were
started, but within a short time the en-
CINE room was flooded and the pumps
We're hoked
At s o'clock on the morning Of Oc-
tober G, with her hold full Of water,
the little steamer was hove down on
her beam ends. The crew clambered
up on the weather side and dashed
themselves to the bulwarks. They re-
manned there, washed by the seas that
broke mercilessly over them all day.
That night the storm increased in fury,
and II great wave crashed aboard,
breaking both legs of Seaman Arthur
and sweeping Grizell from his fasten-
1ngs. Arthur's companions could do
nothing to ease his Sufferings, but
when on Sunday the steamer turned
completely over they managed to cut
his lashings and drag him on a piece
of the a~fterhouse. 1t vas several
hours before they were all huddled to-
gether on their little raft. That night
Arthur died in the arms of Captain
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
needing the little group of anne
VINO Ifantlcally Slgnaled her. That
night the Waves subsidized and a little
rain fell, which was eagerly caught in
a tarpaulin and brought some relief.
1t was only temporary, and not long
after Mate Chase's mind gave way en-
tirely and the craft was again light
ened when he jumped overheard.
The next victim was Captain Max
well, who, on Monday forenoon became
insane and followed his mates example
of self destruction as a 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 after Captain MaxwelTs
death he, too, leaped to his Heath
The last victim was the colored stew
ard, who died Monday M whose body
was consigned to the waters by the two
remaining mt
Relief came twelve hours later, when
the schooner Stillnan F. BENTLEY, up
the coast from Ceylon, Ca, to this
uoint. sighted the little craft and hove
to alongside.
Both Thomas and Warnock had to
be taken off in sings, M for two days
We're unable to owe
The rescue took place off Cape Look
out. The ~I<entley arrived here yester-
day afternoon, but the seamen We're
still too exhausted to and