Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-03-24

IN OPEN BOAT.
Crew Of Schooner Adelens Suffer Ter.
rbly for Three Days.

Tlply TOT lnTee Days'
Boston, Mass,-Weak and weary, and
stil suffering from bruises and chill
the result of a 72-hour sail in an open
boat on the high seas in a storm,
without food or water, but grateful for
their deliverance, Capt. Isaac Smith
and his crew of FIVE Of the British
schooner Adelene reached Boston
Wednesday on the fishing schooner
Margaret Dillon, Capt. Richard To-
bin.
The men are Mate Edward McDer-
mott of St. John, N B.; steward Irv-
ing Sabrean of Hampton, N. s.; his
cousin, M. Sabrean of Fort Loring,
N. s.; William A. Martin of St. John
and Leonard Ferguson, a lad OF II,
also of st. John.
The story of their sufferings is one
of exceptional hardship. The schoon-
er left St. John Tuesday Of last week,
loaded below and above deck with
laths for New York. Wednesday was
ra1r day, but uDvut p 4ThurS
day it began to snow and by o'clock
there was fierce gale that drove the
snow in binding sheets. The schoon-
er was then off Duck Island, on the
coast of Maine.
To add to the troubles of the crew,
the Adelene began to leak, and the
men had to work the pumps as well
as look out for the sails. Although
they devoted their efforts to the pumps
they made no headway, and the water
gained on them.
Friday morning at 2 o'clock there
was several feet of water in the cabin,
and every wave seemed to open new
seam, through which the water pour
ed. At p. m. Capt. Smith gave up
all hope of gaining on the inflowing
water. The water in the cabin at that
time was breast high, and the clothes
of the captain and men were so far
| beneath it that they could not get
at them. Their food in the galley was
watersoaked and useless. The deck
load of laths had been washed over
board and the sails had parted and
gone.
At o'clock Capt. Smith gave orders
to launch the schooner's iollybOat, a
stanch craft about IS feet long, built
for hard usuage. Into it the men tum
bled, after lashing the wheel of the
| Adelene.
Then began their 72-hour row in a
stormy sea, with nothing to sustain
| them but the hope of being niol'HI "p'
| Thev were ~, pain OIL Salllng YES
I sells and steamers. Before abandon
ing their own vessel they had sighted
a three-masted schooner, only quar-
ter of mile off. Although it was
make out her hull and sails. They
| lighted a fire on the deck and burned
torches, but the schooner kept on her
way east
The first night out they sighted a
steamer about mile away and shout
ed unsuccesSfully to attract attention
! The men were getting discouraged
The cold winds and colder water that
IWUPI !
them and their little boat was tossed
here and there, bruising the men
against the thwarts. Sleep was impos-
sible.
Monday morning the fishing schoon-
er Margaret Dillon was sighted. Her
men were out with travis after tbs
storm and they got sight of the drift
ing jOlyboat almost as soon as the
crew of the Adelene sighted them. The
men on the Dillon dropped their travis
and with fishermen's sympathy for
others in distress, rowed over to the
iollyboat and took her in tow to their
schooner, where the men of the Ade-
lene were cared for and brought here,