Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12
Capt. Bride Upheld Courage of
ShipWrecked Crew.
NO FOOD FOR THREE DAYS
All Gave Up Hope When Steamer
Sighted Failed to Come to Aid.
ENGLISH VESSEL SAVED THEM
Six Men and Woman Afoat on Set
tied Schooner-Night and Day
on Deckhouse Roof.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK. December "Details of
the abandonment In midocean Of the
American schooner Henry Clausen. jr.,
were received today at the maritime ex-
change.
The Clausen, a three-masted Bath.
Me-, schooner Of 500 tons, was dis
masted and sprang leak while bound
from Gulfport. Miss, for the Azores with
lumber. Those on board. including the
bride of Capt Hudson, the skipper, were
rescued by a British steamship after be-
Ing without food and water for three
days.
The Clausen sailed from Guifport Octo-
Der 1. For month she met with almost
continual head winds or Gains. She was
still some 800 miles from st. Michaels,
her destination, when heavy storm arose
November 10.
Big seas commenced to sweep the vessel.
Some heavy timbers carried on deck. torn
from their lashings. carried away part OF
the bulwarks on the starboard side.
Rolling heavily, 1t was soon discovered
the schooner was aleak. The men went
to the pumps. November II the storm
increased to hurricane proportions. Main
and mizzen masts we're carried away.
Take Refuge on Deckhouse Roof.
The water gained on the pumps. When
the jibboom was carried away the
schooner was entirely unmanaseable. Lit
tie by little the vessel settled until her
main deck was awash.
1t was too rough to launch a boat.
With cabin and foFecastie house flooded,
all hands, including Mrs. Hudson, sought
refuge on top OF the deckhouse.
The Ciausen carried Ave men besides
the captain. For three days the little
group huddled on the narrow deckhouse,
continually in danger Of being swept
overheard.
Mrs. Hudson never lost hope that they
would be saved. She sang hymns and
told Biblical stories to keep up the spirits
of the men.
No sign of q passing ship was seer
until the morning of November 10. wher
q steamship was made out far to the
northward. She evidently did not see
the waterlesged schooner, as she kept or
her course.
Those on the deckhouse had been with.
out food for three days then and hardly
had strength to speak. When the steam
ship passed the men grew much dis
couraged and seemed ready to give up the
night. Mrs. Hudson and the skipper still
held up.
English Steamer Rescues Them.
Soon afterward the smoke Of a steam
ship was made sOut on the western hori
zon. 1t grew in volume. and soon the hull
could be seen. The vessel seemed to be-
bearing down ON them. There was re.
Joieing in the famished group.
The English flag few at the vessels
stern. She was soon standing by. Those
aboard the schooner saw the crew of the
steamship try to launch boat from,
amidships and saw the boat smashed
against the side of the vessel.
Another boat was tried, this time from
the quarter. This one got safely away.
1t was quickly alongside the schooner.
and the castaways were taken aboard,
Mrs. Hudson first. wrapped in an oilskin
coat.
All got safely aboard the steamship
which was the Snowdonian, bound from
Philadelphia for Messina