The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-17
.CASTAWAYS End
AGONY IN OCEAN
Tragic Story Of Sea in Tale of
Two Sailors Who Survived
Eight.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Boston, Oct. l7.-With thrilling tale
of disaster and death to tell, two
bronzed giants Of the deep have been
brought into this port by the schooner
Stillman. Kelly. The sailors are Will
liam Thomas and William G. Warner,
each about 20 year., years, old and each Is. SIX
their peril on Oct. l, when their six
companions had miserably persisted,
they were still so weak from the effects
of the ordeal that had all but robbed
them of life and reason, that they could
not walk ashore.
The story is one of shipwrecked men,
adrift upon an angry sea for five days
and four nights, suffering 50 terribly Ply
some some Of the little party became stark
mad, hurting themselves into the ocean;
others, weakened until inert, were swept
away to destruction from their wave
washed craft, while others fell for lack
of strength and lay painting upon the
raft until relieved by death.
Shippers Heroic Finish.
Brave Captain Maxwell, skipper of
the wrecked vessel, fathered his sailors
until he met his fate. One poor fellow
died in his arms, and little later the
ShlppcT, Ills UIdAA tulhOS ~ VIZ
MES Of the situation, tragically passed
to the storm-tossed waters.
The lost vessel was the schooner Van
Name and King Of New Haven, widely
| known among seafaring men for a Tor
mer wonderful adventure thru which
she passed. The skipper was Captain
William A. Maxwell Of New Jersey;
the mate, E. A. Chase, home unknown
the engineer, German, name unknown
and two ,seamen, besides, the rescued
men-William Grizell and Alfred Ar
thur, both of Jamaica, w. I. There was
also a negro steward, whose name j.
not known. The rescued sailors hal
from Antigua, British West Indies.
Schooner Sprung a Leak.
The Van Name and King, which hal
been plying up and down the coas1
since 1886, left Charleston, s. c., fol
| New York on Oct. 3, with cargo o.
hard pine. Two days later she raj
into a heavy gale, and after walloWlnf
about in the great seas for severa
started, but within short time thu
engineroom was flooded and the pump
choked. -.-
| At 8 o'clock on the morning Of Fri
day, Oct. 6, with her hold nearly full
of water, the little schooner was hove
down on her beam ends; The crew
clambered up on the weather side ant
dashed themselves to the bulwarks
There they remained, soaked to the ski
by every sea that broke mercilessly
over them, all day Friday, constantly
on the watch for a passing vessel.
Storms Fury Increased.
! That night the storm increased il
fury, and one great wave CRASHED
aboard, breaking both legs Of Seaman
Arthur and sweeping Grizell into tn
sea. Arthur g companions could d
nothing to ease his sufferings, but when
on Saturday, the schooner turned com
pletely over, they managed to cut hi
1ashings and drag him onto a piece O
the afthouse 1t was several hours be
, fore they were all huddled togethe
! on their little raft. That night Arthu
:: died in the arms Of Captain. Maxwell
and to relieve the overloaded raft, hi
/. body was quietly dropped into the sea
Sunday brought a ray Of hope, whe
craft was sighted but the. gloom shu
in again as she passed by without heeo
ing the little group of seamen wavin
arms at her. .-.~ - - %