Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-20
THOUSAND MILES
IN AN Open BOAT
Thrilling Experience of Gallant
Young Norwegian Captain
And Two OF His Men.
ADRIFT IN ANTARCTIC OCEAN.
Eleven Men on n StOrni-swept Is.
In South Seas VIII Probably 1eoI
Soon be Rescued
snoclnl CORRESPONDENCE.

Special correspondence
III ELBGURNE, March 2O-In the
NH South Indian ocean on barren
and desolate island, thousands
OF miles from the active world
and far from the course of ships IL
men, shipwrecked there four months
ago are supposed 10 be stilI alive and
awaiting rescue, which, unknown 10
them, is now at hand.
Determined to risk everything to save
themselves and send rescue to their
comrades who had no other hope OF cs-
care from a living death, the captain
and two of his crew set out In small
doTy on a 1000 miles voyage To Austria
lila. The odds against them We're over
whemlng but fortune favored the three
brave men. After covering n thousand
miles In their tiny craft, they Were
picked up nearly dead from exposure
and exhaustion by q Dutch sailing ves-
sci and brought 10 this port
Clark Russell's novels contain no
more thrilling tale OF the sea than THAI
told by Capt Rec. He Is young and
stUrdily built Norwegian with fair.
curly locks and features which at once
disclose his nationality. Since child
hood he has been at sea, with the ex-
ception of six months, when, strange to
say. he was newspaper artist In Phil
adelphIa. And now. at the early age
of IS, he Is the captain OF q ship
wrecked crew after crowding into The
last 10 weeks more stirrlng Incidents
than usually fall to the lot OF L sailor
in life time,
UPON THE ROCKS.
His story runs like this; The Nor
wegian bark Catherine, under his conn
mand. was on Il sealing expedition Ia
Antarctic regions. on the first OF De-
cember last the vessel lay at anchor in
American Bay. Possession Island. This
Is one OF the barren and rocky menu
bers OF the Cr01et group way 20 the
south OF the Indian ocean. within the
zone Of floating Ice from the Polar re.
Gion. While the bay offered a good
shelter from westerly winds, IL was
open TO the east and when a gale
sprung up from that quarter without
warming, the small ship was at its mer-
cy The anchors dragged and the ship
WIS soon thrown against an unchar-
tered rock. The crew had barely taken
to. the boats when a m0nsirous sea
dashed their abandoned vessel To
pieces Their own boats came within
an acc OF being swamped. but as they
nearcd the beach q huge wave landed
them high and dry on the Island, There
they watched their broken vessel with
all their provisions, toss about In the
angry waters
The raging storm, as II to- tantall2o
is victims, ibrew small PIECES OF the
Wreckage on TO the shore. Punglng
into the surf. the men secured what
large pieces they could ana later built
d crude hut A search az the Island
disclosed a store OF provisions which
had been left there by British war
ship 27 years before, The tins OF pre-
served meat were n mass Of rust the
biscuits had turned green and the -four
WAS I'm a rotten state. Bat desperate
hunger did not defpise these things
They might as well die ~ poisoning as
starvation. The m0uldy hour WAS
made into pancakes and mixed wltf
penguin soup, Seals as we'll as pen
gums were found 10 be plenty. but as
a STEADY dIct only furnished men would
adopt H.
no OTHER HOPE,
From the first the captain had held
that their only hope OF ever being do.
livered fiom this terrible plight was for
some OF the party 10 SCI oui In a boat
ON the 1000 rallies voyage 10 Australia,
ana il saved, send some ship TO rescue
those lelt behind, The crew regarded
the scheme as a crazy one- There
wasn't one chance IN hundred, they