The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-14

outside beggars any description from
me. Intensity any storm You have ex.
perienced on land couple of thousand
times. add all the terrors that darkness
can furnish. add the thoughts OF terri.
BILE death staring You in the face every
minute. with the sights and sounds of
Dante s Inferno, and then perhaps Won
can gain some idea of our misery.
"At daylight the seas swept across
and filed up our decks. Then il was
that Spartan measures had to be taken.
The matches were ordered to be batten.
ed down. thus combining in a death tran
nearly two hundred mules. We knew
it meant death by suffoeation TO those
that were still living. but our own lives
were at stake. and to save our own
the animals must be sacrificed.
81 am now writing in the chart.
room If we sink. I don want to be
caught like rat down in my cabin, al
though there will be no chance for life
in any case if we 60 down.
''To make our terror worse the Aus
trian fremen have mutinied They
heard that the captain had given up
the ship, They were right for he told
us to prepare for the worst. Think of
knowing that we have cot to drown,
Our boats are all smashed and hanging
in bits at the davits. The fremen tum-
bled up on the deck looking like demons
from the underworld. Then Captain
o Neil showed his true nature. He be-
came the hard, steel-like soldier. He
sternlv ordered them below, but the
men did not move The cowboys knew
instinctively that without steam to
turn the engines we must surely found
err. Two of the COWBOYS seized the ring
leader. and, placing the ends of a lasso
about his wrists and thumbs started
to draw the rope over a guy wire.
threatening to string him up by the
thumbs. Captain O'Neil had turned
awav when these men took the prisoner
in charge. Immediately the frightened
crew turned and fled down to the stoke
hold.
"Who can blame the poor beggars9
Life is as sweet to them as to us. Two
hours later they came up again, but
the display of an army revolver in
Captain O'Neil's hand caused them
to retreat.
"The chief engineer an Englishman,
has gone insane Thirtv-three years
at sea, and now he has gone to piecesi
The terror of the long vigils at the
throttle unnerved him. I passed him
a little while ago; he was sitting in
his cabin wailing piteously. his face
blanehed with terror The little Scotch
second engineer has been on duty al
most every hour since the night of
the 30th. His whole back was scalded
by steam. DR.. Calkins bound it up in
nothing had happened, brave little
fellow
SO a. m, Tuesday morning. October
3rd.-Another chapter in my experience
of Hades. No one is on duty except
the ships officers. 1t is a ship of the
dead. I have just taken look down
the upper stable division. and the sight
sickened me- The poor brutes of horses
and mules. mangled and torn. lay in
heaps. the live ones trying to extricate
themselves from the dead
''At last the typhoon has spent itself.
and by tomorrow morning we shall
probably be able to get back on our
course and make a fresh start for Ma
Mia. Nearly all the horses and about
two hundred mules are wounded as far
as we can ascertain. Soon the matches
viii be taken off, and we can learn
the horrible truth
"October 4th.-All morning long the
dead animals have been hoisted out and
thrown overheard. How horrible it all
is! The men working in the lower
holds are overpowered and compelled TO
: come up on deck every few minutes.
We have three steam-winches going.
We found only one live mule in the
lower hold. Captain O'Neil has been
shooting most of the live animals, for
they are beyond hope in their terrible
condition.
"Captain Raicich told me to-day that
for four hours Yesterday he did not
know whether the ship would pull
through. The Siam got into the trough
and could not be steered. He said he
was prepared then for death. He said
he has never before experienced such
terrible storm. We don't know just
where we are yet, a we can take no
observations.
"What terrible change in Captain
Raicich's appearance, He never left
the bridge for three days and nights.
He, as well as the two men at the
wheel. were dashed to stanchious. He
wore two oil 'slicke~s.' Init they are in
ribbons. and the tar from them has
sunk into his hair and beard and deep
into his skin. He Is dirty and wretch
ed-Iooking. His cheeks are sunken and
there Is an almost insane glare in his
ewes He looks like wreck but n
spite Of his terrible ordeal he is as
decisive in manner as before. Poor fell
low. he hardly ate anything during the
whole Of the typhoon. He saved our
lives.
1--WE have just located our position.
We are a hundred miles north Of Luzon,
and close by are the dreaded c5ral-teeth
we tried to avoid.
October 5th.-We are now nearing
Manila Bay and have cleared IN the
vessel fairly we'll and thrown most Of
the carcasses overheard. The ship IS
wreck: everything seems to have been
twisted. broken. torn. or damaged IN
some way. Up to last night We got
overheard three hundred and fftv-hve
carcasses. This morning four more
found dead and two others had to be
shot. We now have only twelve animals
left. some of which we NAV land at
Manila alive This is all we have eft
out of the three hundred and seventy