Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-24
TALE OF DEATH
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AWFUL EXPERIENCE OF EIGHT
SURVIVORS OF A SHIP
WRECKED VESSEL.
SCHOONER Is WRECKED
OFF CAROLINA COAST
Only Two of Luckless Sailors Alive
When Help Finally Arrives
i Il Adrift ION Raft Without Food and
Little Waterloo Tsnpass.

Il Adrift on Raft Without Food and
Little Water for TenDaSs.
Boston, octs1S, "A story pf North
Atlantic shipwrecls. id which eight
seamen suffered SO fearfullysytrom ex
posture, hunger andy thirst that six of
them either died outright. we're washed
away, or, crazed by their fearful eX-
perience. threw themselves into the
sea. was $ t q Y9aesy &1hsswo sur sur
Name and Kin, of New Hayep, Which
was beaten to- pieces-bg gale off the
South Carolina coast on October 6.
The two men Who'll ltYs5 riirough the
five days and were rescued by the
schooner StAlman F, Kelly (WHICH ar
rived here ilatecMonaa% are WILLIAM
Thomas and William G. Warnock. both
about 30 years old, six feet, three
inches tall, and hail from Antigua.
British West Indies. The six who,
one by one, -succumbed -wsFei-C Capt.
William "A, Max Maxwell " Isf sMsw Jersey;
Mate p, A. Chase, home unknown; en-
gineer, a German, name. unknown; col
ored steward, name unknown Icolored
seamen, William Grizelll and Alfred
Arthar, both of jamaica. % 10 Z;
The Van Name and King. Which has
been plying tip and down the coast
since 1886, left Charleston, S.; e., for
New York on October 8, with, a cargo
Of hard pine, TWO days later she ran
into a heavy gale and, after wal5Mins
about in the great seas for o(sCveral
hours; sprang aleak.J The pumps We're
started, but within a short, time the
engine room was flooded and . the
| pumps choked. J, At II eight O'CLOCK on
| the morning of October 6, with ne1
/ hold nearly full Of water, dhgoslittle
schooner was hove down onhsf1 liean
4 teldsS The crew clambered up fonl the
| weather side and dashed themselves tc
4 the bulwarks There they remained
washed by the seas that broke msScl
lessly over them all day Friday.l45M
4 Awful Suffering
/ That night the stdffm ihcfeased il
fury and one great wasYe crashed
aboard, breaking both Legs Of Seamer
4 Arthur and sweeping Gidzell from hi.
fastenings. Arthdr's companion:
could do nothing SO ease his suffer
ings. but when 4ons Saturday the sclloon
er turned completely over, they man
aged to cut his lashings aud drag bin
on a piece of the afterhouse. 1t wa:
several hours before they were al
| buddled together on their little aft
That Htght Arthur died in the arms OF
Capt Maxwell, and his body was
dropped, overheard boz Sunday kroa1eM 6
ray of hope, when craft was esishted
but the gloom shut in again asdssh'
passed without heedingtthe littleigaou]
OF sesmen who frantically signallel
her. That night the waves , slibsldet
and little rain fell, which vas eager
ly caught in, a tarpauiin, ,aHa ptfsuelhl
| some slight relief. 1t was only ltsm
pofary, and not long after Mat
d Chases mind gave waNnentirely, am
the craft was lagain iighssns9 whenyh
jumped into the sea; s'ii!lii w y 2I','t.
i The next victim was Capt. Maxwell
WIZ, VII lDGgilp0S, OSSuAl
violently q, insane 1nan4 a'fatlpsssdY hi
mates example of iself-destruction as
;. relief to his sufferings. The spectacle
of two men throwing themselves int
the sea proved tos much for the ,Gel
man engineer and a few .hoHfs ate
!; Capt. Maxwell,s death he. too, leaps
/ to his death. The last victim vas ii
colored steward. fwhoor died s Moada
!, night and whose body VAS Ie9nsisne
to the waters by the tive Iremainin
seamen. rs h9 lum @TF2 phf i"n' ~
i Relief came 70 hours later, whe
the schooner Stirlman F. Kelly, b5un
up the coast from Ceylon, Ga, to hi
| port sighted the little craft and hoy
! to Alongside. Both Thomas AND War
mock had to be taken Off in sings, an
for two days were IN at,e 10 smoEe
4 The rescue took ptsce off Cape LeeA
out. The Kelly arrived here Mtondaa
afternoon, but the seamen were stll
J too exhausted to land. 40 ldGtiul-