The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-14
BRIDE keeps MEN
FROM SUICIDE IN
RAGING SEA
cAsTAWAYs ON NEARLY SUB
MERGED VESSEL RAVE FROM
THiRsT-WoMAN SANG AND
PRAYED WHILE THEY DRIFT.

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ing herself. her husband. Capt. Hud-
son. and his crew OF five men has
come across the seas. and the res
cued ale now on their way here as
consular passengers.
The skipper and his bride were
making their honeymoon trip In the
schooner Henry Clausen. Jr., which
sailed from Gulfport. Miss, for the
Azores. Thirty days out the 1S-year-
old schooner bent to a hurricane and
the strain was too much for her.
The seams opened. the water rush
ed in faster than the crew could pump
II out. The bride insisted on taking
her turn at the pumps. but all effort
amounted TO nothing.
Bit by bit the Henry Clausen Jr..
began to break. First her mainmast
was the next to go. The jibboom
broke off and the foremast threatened
TO fall.
The woman and the men had TO
take shelter higher and higher upon
the parts Of the vessel not yet sub
merged. They took with them such
timed stun and biscuit as they could
snatch from the rising food that In
vaded the store room.
Fresh Water In kep.
Fresh water was carefully husband
ed in a keg after the last water butt
had been covered by the sea that NIL
ed the deck to the top OF the bulwarks.
Grub and water had to be most Sc
curely dashed and watched. The
weather and waves continued con-
trary and aggressive, driving them at
times from the top OF the cabin, the
only place above sea level, to the
spanker boom. still clinging at its
jaws to the stump OF the mizzen and
braced and dashed at its outer end.
What little food and water they
had been able to save was soon ex-
hausted and now the horrors of star
walton and thirst had to be faced. II
was now that the courage Of the bride
was put to its seyerest test. Her
determination and hope. her cheer
and songs were the only means or
buoying the spirits OF her husband
and crew. She sang hymns and all
the songs she knew. She told them
stories and narrated the remarkable
shipwreck OF the Apostle Paul; how
he had been saved by divine interpo-
sition. after all hope had been aban-
doned.
I'VE will be saved" she told them.
Don't give up. We've had a terrible
time. Let us endure little more"
In their rawlings OF thirst the men
would sometimes start to throw them.
selves into the water, but she plead
ed with them and chung to them. For
three days and nights now they had
been without food or fresh water.
cit 70
Steamer to Rescue.
On the morning OF the day before
help came at last Mrs. Hudson saw
the smoke OF steamer on the hort
zon. I'VE are saved" she cried. Our
prayer is answered. / told you that
1t would be So
The steamer did not pick up the
signal of distress floating from ths
stump OF mast. Hope faded away
and departed from all but Mrs. Hud-
son. 1t was their last night, they felt
sure. The miserables babe one an
other farewell.
But in the morning, to their intense
JOY they saw the masts OF the steam
er growing more distinct. She was
observed the inverted flag and was
hiohhib BOouN piOSicSo ONSI luo DOuuu-
ing seas.
The castaways were huddled to-
gether on the cabin trunk. The FRS.
lifeboat put over the side of tbs
steamer was smashed against the
plates of the succoring vessel
Tins OF oil had to be poured over
the bow and side Of the steamer be-
fore the waters would lie fat enough
to allow the launching OF q second
lifeboat
The chief officer with four men OF
the steamer finally made the lee OF
the poop wherein were the drifting,
half submerged castaways. Seas
broke over them continually.
1t was necessary for each castaway
to jump into the sea. Then they were
hauled through the waves into the
lifeboat. Mrs. Hudson went through
the ordeal without shrinking.
Their rescuers belonged to the
British steamer Snowdonian, Capt. r.
o. Jones. bound from Philadelphia
for Messina. Capt. Jones afterward
set Are to the part of the poop re-
naming and landed all hands at ST.
Michaels.