The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-30
ECLIPSE SURVIVORS


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noise Iu ln plainly heard u.uu tne
Fort George our lives hm. .u ...r
s.0'ne us. it seemed. and on. lives u.
three off us went ont whom $50 wore
f1rlNpu. deserted abandoned. U
seemed to be deliberate, t1 mu Nr. ur
course they may not have seen Dos. UI-
though do not see how they could
flil to see u.s.
when the Fort George went .NU0p-
ing ahead. leaving us. there was hor-
rib'e relapse rawlings broke out
afrcsh. The sight of her had cleared
the heads Of most of as and her for
saNng ms drove most of us mad again.
a Frenchman Topped breast down ON
the thwarts and expired, q mad wall,
half prayer. half curse, ON his lips
AS long as ] live ! shall remember
the picture of the first sight of that
devil ship. had been watching for
the sunrise and soon the red rim o.
the sun pushed over the horizon and 1
started with a thrill, for 81 seemed to-
me that there was a black winged
thing spotted against the bIoodike
disc. And as the sun rose the black
thing grew into ship And by the
living Jesus she passed us Bye
Following the death of the French
man. Maddox, when the Fort George
swung by, Pete Christianson a Norwe-
gian. gave up the ghost, hroken-heart-
ed. and on Sunday morning, just lit
tie before the Island of Maui was
SIGHTED. Stanley Ennis, young Amer
lean. q years of age, who has serveo
I'm the United States navy, joined the
dead. In each case the men died in
agony. raving. Another Norwegian OF
the crew said brief prayer i'm his ma
tive tongue over the body Of his coun-
TRUMAN before it was dumped into the
deem. The others were given to the
sea without ceremony. Every man re-
allied that his turn might come any
moment Indeed some courted death
and several attempts We're made to
Jump overheard, the less affected mem
bers restraining them with great diff
Guilty. The look of sea water when
men are dying of thirst, are crazy
with thirst, is a sore temptation and
the captain himself during a night OF
delirium had to be held in the boat
The poor chaps who went under had
become so insane with thirst that they
were drinking their urine. Nearly ev
cry man in the company, before he
would drink his small allowance o
water twice day, would fill his stom
ach with salt water and then sip the
fresh water to get the taste of the sal
water out of his mouth.
Captain Larsen had a task that was
not enviable in handing out the pro
visions. Each man got about a gill o.
water in the morning and a gill at sup
set. That was all. There were Blu
twenty gallons of water in the boa
at the start For food the men hat
two sea biscuits a day and about hal
a tin of salmon. For a few days they
= had a little timed mutton and foI
about half Of the trip each day a til
Of yFnp1I hn HfNrfHnI
, four men.
The boat was constantly leaking ant
four men, change and change about
were kept all the time at bailine
They had four buckets but they wer
worn out and had to be discarded an
then the alright compartments of tn
70 life-boat were cut out to be used 70
bailing. They were not alright, afte
. all, and would have been of no servic
as life preservers.
= There are two sides to the story G
e the ship Fort George failing to pic
l up the shipwrecked crew. And it ma
be said for Captain Fullerton of tn
Fort George that he probably did nc
t sand would not be heartless enough
6 pass by a boat-load OF suffering NJ
/ manity and if Fullerton mad seen tn
3, survivors of the Eclipse he woul
} have picked them up and taken tner
n. to port The captain is not usually o
p deck at sunrise in fair weather and ii
d man at the wheel is apt not to pay a
It tention to anything except the topsai
e, and the compass, while, after the sU
t. has risen, there is practically no lool
l. out, for the lookout on a sailing vess
y is a night proposition and he is {
)t the watch for lights. AS soon as da
II light appears he Is through with h
At work and the man whom the men
1t the open boat saw on the forecast
|: head Of the Fort George may ha'
ut been merely a swabber-down. If 4
n shipwrecked men in the open boat hi
rs been seen by anybody aboard the Fo
Id George the incident would have be-