The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-17
Narrowing Experience q Eight Sailors.
'Ix MEET THEIR DEATH
Exposure, Hunger and Tlirst
 Precede Insanity.
Survivors of Ceastins sshss.sr ns- late Hew rAsir Gran was mt tered ts Psscss aax Msw
 Cs~rssiens Mei Death

Boston. Mass, Oct. l6.--A story Of a North Atlantic ship wreck. in which eight seamen suffered co fearfully from exposure, hunger and fhirst, that sfx of them either died outright, were washed away or crazed by their fear- full experiences. 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 gale Of the South Carolina coast on October 5.
 The two men who lived through tho five days were rescued by the schooner Stillman, Kelly line, which arrived here today are William Thomas and William c. Warner. both about 20 years old and hail from Antigua, British West Indies. The six who. one by one. succumbed, were:
 Captain William A. Maxwell, of New Jersey; Mate A. Chase, home unknown; engineer, a German, name unknown; i; colored steward, name unknown; color ed seamen, William Grizell and Fred Arthur, both of Jamaica.
 From CharIesf0n, S. c.
 The vanname and King. which had been plying up and down the coast since 1886, left Charleston, s. C., for New York October 8, with cargo of hard pine. Two days later she ran into heavy gale and after wallowins about in the great seas for several hours, spranR leak. The pumps were started, but within short time the engine room was flooded and the pumps choked.
 At 8 o'clock on the morning of octo- ber (, with her hold nearly full Of was 1 ter. the little schooner was hove down on her beamss ends. The crew clam hered upon the weather side and lash- 1 ed themselves to the bulwarks. Thsra | they remained, washed by the seas that broke merciiessly over them ell day l Friday.
 That night the storm increased in fury. and one great wave crashed aboard, breaking both legs of serman Arthur and sweepihg GrizeiI from his fastening. Arthur'a companions could do nothing to ease his sufferinsa, but whan on Sunday the schooner furnsd completely oyer they managed his IasfliilE and dragged him on piece oi the aft house. It was several hours before they were huddled together on their raft. That night Arthur died in the arms of Captain Maxwell, and his body was dropped overheard
 Ray Of Hope sunday.
 Sunday brought a ray of hope, when @ craft was sighted but the gloom put in again as she passed by without heed ing the little group of seamen wno franticaiiy signalled her
 That night the waves subsidsd and q little rain fell, which was eagerly caught in tarpauiin and brought some slight relief. It. w&s only tenn pegary, and not long after Mate Chaseis mind gave way entirely and the craft was again frightened when he jumped into the sea.
 The next victim was Captain Max well, who on Monday forenoon became violently insane and followed his mates 2 example of self destruction as a relief to his sufferings.
 The spectacle of two men throwing themselves into the sea proved too much for the German engineer and a few hours after Captain Maxweifs death he too leaped to his death.
 The last victim was the coioreo steward, who died Monday night and whose body was consigned to the wa ters by the two remaining seamen.
 Heiief came twelve hours later, when the schooner Stillman F. Kelly, bound up the coast from Ceylon. Ga. to this point sighted the little craft and hove to alongside.
 Both Thomas and Warner had to De taken off in slings and for two days were unable to move.
 The rescue took place of Cape Look out. The Kelly arrived here this ar ternoon, but the seamn were still too exhassted to land.