Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-18
SUR VIVORS,
NEARLY DEAD,
ARE SA WE'D
SAILORS ENDURE HORRIBLE
SUFFERING
Four in Boat Escape from Wreck.
No Food or Water, One
Goes Mand and
Dies
Ply Associated Press.

Ply Associated Presp.
SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. ia dis
patch from Neah Bay says that at
about IL o'clock last night the crew
of the little six-ton sloop Teckla, lying
at anchor here, were startled by a
feeble hail from a steel lifeboat draw
ing up slowly in the light breeze.
In the boat were the forms of four
men, three living and one dead, sur
vivors of the American ship Emily
Reed, wrecked off the mouth of the
Nehalem river on the coast OF Oregon,
two hundred miles from Neah Bay.
The men in the boat were First Mate
Fred lube, Seaman Edwald Abild-
stedt, Seaman Arthur Jahunke and
ships cook, name unknown. The dead
man was the cook.
The three survivors were in pitiful
condition. Their tongues were swollen
from thirst so at first they could
scarcely artieulate. All three men were
in a terrible condition from hunger and
thirst, for they had had no food since
last Thursday night nor any water
since they left the wreck Of the Reed
at 1870 Friday morning.
lube said: almost the instant the
Reed struck the beach she began to
break UP. In a twinkling one of the
l1feboats was smashed by a big wave
and the decks were so deep in the
boiling water that there was no chance
to get aft, where Capt. Kersel and his
wife, with some of the other members
of the crew, were station. We jumped
into the remaining lifeboat and cut the
lashings. Before we had completed the
job big sea broke over the wreck and
carried us clear of the decks.
Swept Out to Sea
"A strong current swept us toward
the stern of the wreck. where we could
see Capt. Kersel and the rest of the
ships company clinging to the roof OF
the after house. We yelled to them to
throw us line as we went under the
stern, and some one threw one, but II
fell short of our boat.
MY arm had been broken when the
wreckage from the galley dropped into
us and there was only one good oar. as
best to get back to the wreck, but this
| spare oars washed away. We did oui
| best to get back to the kreck, but the
| set of the undertow carried us away.
I'VE tried to head for Tallamool
| light, but we had no compass to steel
| by. When morning broke / found We
were standing far out to sea. / thought
| 1t best to keep the boat we'll out, hoping
| to fall into the path of steamships
With this hope set the course north.
ward along the coast.
"The second night out we saw lights
| but 1t was too dark to venture in
| There was neither food nor water. and
we suffered terribly from thirst during
Saturday Toward evening the cool
| declared he could stand It no Longer
and took a drink of sea water. HI;
soon became delirious.
"At about o'clock Sunday morning
we saw a big steamer. She stopped
near us and we all believed we would
| be saved. But the vessel got under wa,
again and left us. The cook gave III
the fight then. He lay down in TIL
| water and In a few minutes he wa
| dead.
| About o'clock Sunday morning W,
made out Tattoosh island. We were al
| too tired to manage the boat very well
| but along toward Sunday afternoon
| got her headed back toward Neah bay
Sunday seemed the worst day W.
were out. We kept seeing all sorts o.
vessels passing back and forth, bu
none of them would answer our halls
| We were generally too far off to bt
made out plainly, guess"