Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-21
SWIM IN RAGING SEA.

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 Asainst Storm and 10 Driven Ashers
 on castIs Island = Survivors Are
 Brought to New York.
 New York. Sept 2i. - The Royal Dutch West India Mall steamship Prins Willem l. arrived from the West In. dies and brought Into port Captain Engebretsen and fourteen members of the crew of the Norwegian fruit steam. ship Yumuri. which was driven by the hurricane on the rocky coast of Castle island, in the. Bahamas, on Sept. 12. proving total loss.
 Few narratives contain the expert. enccs undergone by Captain Enge- bretsen and his crew In four days of peril, in which the men, weak from ex- haustlon, suffered from exposure and starvation and were forced to battle for their lives in the raging surf of a rock. bound coast after the vessel had been battered to piece on reef. Captain Engebretsen and Chief Engineer Carl Evensen were hurled against jagged rocks and rendered unconscious. That their lives were saved was due to the heroism of the crew. s
 Shippers Narrow Escape.
 In simple language the captain told of the Yumuri's destruction and the almost miraculous escape of himself and crew. When the Prins Willem docked the survivors had recovered from the effects of their experience with the ex- ception of Evensen, who is at the Ma rine hospital, Staten Island, critically i'll. He was taken ashore. when the steamer reached quarantine.
 "We left Port Antonio about noon on Sept. 10 in fine weather" said Captain Engebretsen. At o'clock the fol- lowing morning, when of Cape Maysi, q gale sprang up from the north. the wind quickly shifting to the northeast and increasing in violence. The baron,- eter began falling slowly. The wind was blowing with such force that the hatches were closed and covered with tarpaullns. Heavy rain squalls reduc- edvour headway one-half, although the engines were running under a full head ofssteam.
 Waves Hammer Vessel Back.
 'The sheets of rain made it impossi- ble to see more than fifty yards in any direction, and the steam whistle was blown continually. By o'clock in the afternoon we were only fifty four miles from Castle island. and four hours later 1t was thirty-eight miles distant. At midnight hurricane was blowing from the northeast, raising great waves, against which the steamer bare ly made progress It then shifted to the west and seemed to increase in force, if that were possible. Although the engineer put on full speed, the ship failed to make headway and failed to answer her wheel.
 II ordered the men to bail with buckets. Our fires were out, and the steam pumps would not work. It was 10 o'clock Saturday morning that we struck. We were driven hard ashore and crashing over the rocks while the waves tore away our deckhouses and funnel. Finally the hull began to give away, and we had our only shelter on Saturday night in the forecastle. We were only two ships lengths away from shore, and we could see the glare from the lighthouse in the. darkness.
 '..At. 10 o'clock in the morning the ship broke up under us, and we were plunged into the water We were toss ed about over the rocks. had six holes driven into my head, and the others were injured badly"