The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-11-03

ken one OF his legs in three places,
but had made out to get onto a good
sized piece Of the deck. 1 could see
him although the storm hadn't lot UP
q bit since 1t started.
For four hours we we're In the wa.
ter. all trying to get to Arthur. We
did finally pull ourselves onto a raft,
you might call 1t that, only to find
poor Arthur dying.
That night as he lay in the lap OF
Thomas, Arthur breathed his last.
He moaned for water until tho end.
We kept the body with US for an hour
or SO, but IL made us feel a good deal
worse and then we felt that we ought
TO lover it overheard. We didn't
nave to, though, for another heavy
sea lifted 1t into the ocean for us.
AT noon Sunday it had calmed.
We began to feel a little brighter
then, for we could soc some distance
away o -FOUR masted schooner and a
steamship going south and o bark
going north.
Hail, for Gods sake,' said the
captain, and we all did II best.
'Iain't no use capn, said l, after
L had shouted till l could scarcely
speak; they don't SEQ u.s.
mo, no. he yelled at me Keep
a sharper lookout; they must see us
l took a look at his face. / could see
In his eyes he was stark mad.
Then tho captain said, as he seized
me with an awful grip on the arm,
you must get some water, Warner.
Aye aye, sir says I, but L didn't
know where 1t was coming from.
Il don't know whether the Lord
sent it not, bnt that minute a rain
cloud came just over head and a show.
or descended. L held a sou'wester TO
catch what water we could and got
enough for everybody to take a big
drink. :.
THAT Sunday night the sea got
high again. The mate, E. A. Chase,
who hadn't said much all this time,
looked at all Of us in q queer way,
then before we could raise q hand to
stop him, he plunged into the water.
There vas a trail Of sharks that l
could sec all around us, and l knew
that poor Chase fell into their Jaws.
We stood looking at the place
Wt'N'S oiihtiC WOhU oSWh WHO'LL DuC
captain turned to me in O. strange
way and said, Warner you've got my
whistler
"'No, SIR says I, as respectfully
as | could.
"Nonsense' says he. L want it. l
can see my father. He's calling me. /
must answer him. Quick, give me
that WHISTLE
Poor mon, his mind had left him
altogether. "see. Warner says he
there's my father; he wants me, he's
holding out his arms for me SO como
to him. Look, look Then the
captain jumped overheard. God help
him.
I'VE we're all suffering the utmost
%tortures that Sunday night when the
steward, he was a colored man and /
don't know his name, jumped up and
I, shonhe6 ghsio,s land EIcan48seG
Poor fellow, his mind had gone,
too. He talked all night aud said we
were drifting out to sea when we
ought to be making land. He said we
were crazy and didn't know what we
we're doing. Ho shouted and called
all night. When the dawn broke the
steward sWore again that the land
was close by.
I'm a good swimmer said the
steward. I'll make it before any of
YOU and over he jumped. That was
about 4 O'Clock Monday morning. I
watched the wator and l saw the life
prcserver the steward had been wear.
ing loating along. / was sure then
that the sharks had got him.
The engineer-he was a German
al6 L never heard him called by name
lG vas dCilrious and called all the
tiino for fUoc and water. He wanted
TO lie down, but Thomas and | kept
talking TO him and saying, Be OF
good cheer, somebody will pick us up
yet
There he lay, his body becoming
o'clock, IS well as j car figure, he died
in my aims.
AT daybrcak Tuesday, october 10,
1t was calm, but there was nothing If
sight. Thomas pulled a buckle of
his ~suspenders and made 1t into {
kind OF hook. He iished for q Ions
time and finally caught a couple o.
fishes, littIe ones. He ate one and
the other. They tasted pretty good
but that Was not much nourishment
'Tnomas vas beginning to weaken
when ] said: Let me tell you Of (;
dream L had last night. | dreamed
that lady cam to me on a steam
boat and told me that we should boil
be brought into New York safely.
had not flushed when he saw tin,
Stlllnaan Il. Kelly. l waved ant
waved, and then / broke down anC
cried when | saw her answering on,
signal. Poor Thomas was pretty ia
gone, They had TO lift him aboart
the schooner"
Tho Vannamc and King was
three. master, 1905 feet long, 49,.
feet beam, l6 6 feet depth of hold ne
tonnage G2G and gress tonnage 1856
She was built at NAir Haven, Conn.
in 1865, and Owned by Vanname ant
King, OF New Haven, from which
port she hailed, She was valued O.
SIS, 0o0.
n Iittlo Boy Killed.
The Columbia Record says Hike,
| 9 tn>o a xul,IEn hnu ah,,,t 49, -. -