Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-19
Endured by Shipwrecked
Sailors Of Emily Reed.
Three Finally Reach Safety
One Dies During Struggle.
Mass Of Wreckage Washes Ashore
on Block Island.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 1S-A dispatch
to the Post-Intelligencer, from Neap
Bay, says:
1.-The crew o. the little six-ton sloop
Treklan, lying at anchor here, were
startled last night by a feeble hail
from steel lifeboat, drawing up slow
ly in the light breeze. In the boat were
the forms of four men, three living
and one dead, survivors of the Ameri-
can ship Emily Reed, wrecked off the
mouth of Nehalem river, on the coast
Of Oregon, 200 miles from Neap Bay
The men in the boat were: First Mat
Fred Zabe. Seaman Ewald Abildstcd,
Seaman Arthur Jahunke, ships cook,
name unknown. The dead man was
the ships cook. The survivors were iii
q pitiful condition. Their tongues
were swollen so from thirst that at
FIRST they could hardly articulate. The!
had had no food since last Sunday
night nor any water since they LET
the wreck of the Reed Friday morn
ing. Mr.. Zabe said:
almost the instant the Reed struck
the beech she began to break up. In
a twinkling one of the lifeboats wa
were go deep In the boiling water that
there was no chance to get aft, wherr
Captain Kersel and his wife, with some
other members Of the crew, We're Sta
toned. We jumped into the remainipr,
lifeboat and cut the lashings. Fcfnr
we had completed the job, q big 60"
broke over the wreck and carried ue
clear Of the decks. A strolg cilrr u
swept us toward the stern o. Il.
Ureca. W,.rrc We could see Cap. kerS.
and tn rest of the ships compa,'v
clinging to the roof of the after house
We yelled to them to throw US a liz
as we went under the stern and SOM
one threw one. but it fell short of ou'
boat.
MY arm had been broken when tn
wrecka2e from the galley dropped on
US and there was only ono good oar,
as the other had been broken and tn
spare oars washed away. We did ON
best to get back to the wreck but III
set OF the undertOw carried us away
I'VE tried to head for Tillamooh
light but we had no compass to steer
US. When morning broke we wer,
standing far out to sea. 1 thought il
OCSl " hccp Tie bodl wen OUT, IOplIlS
to fall into the path of steamships
With this hope I set the course north
ward along the coast.
1.-THE second night out we saw lights
but II was too dark TO venture in
There was neither food nor water and
We suffered terribly from thirst during
Saturday. Toward evening the cook
declared he could stand il no longer
and took drink of sea water. He
soon became delirious.
AT about o'clock Sunday morning
we saw big steamer. She stopped
near us and we all believed we would
be saved. But the vessel got under
way again and left us. The cook gave
up the fight then. He laid down in
the water and in few minutes h was
dead.
About O'Clock Sunday morning w
made out Tattoosh island. We Were
all too tired to manage the boat ver5
well but along toward sunday after.
noon I got her headed back towarG
Neap Fay.
Sunday seemed the worst day we
were out. We kept seeing all sorts al
vessels passing back and forth but
none of them would answer our hail
We were generally too far off to bt
made out plainly. / guess"