Arizona republican., 1909-08-25
Suffering of Survivors Of
 Wrecked Norwegian Bark WEEKS ON BARREN REEF
Widow of Captain, Fearing Her Children Would Be Eaten by Famishing Com panions, Cast Them and Herself Into the Sea.

Victoria, B. C.. Aug. 24-Few more tragic tales of the sea are on record than that brought today by the steamer Makura. from Australia, of the wreck of, the Norwegian bark Errol, which struck Middleton reef on June IS, and the suffcrings and trag- edies of the survivors which were briefly reported by cable Five re- mained of the tyenty-two when the Tofu took them off, so emaciated from thirst and starvation that they had to be carried.
 The Makura brought detailed stories of their vain struggle to find water on the reef, and their unsuccessful search for a cache of the provisions and life boat maintained there pFe- vious to 1882, and which the sailing directions, stated still existed. and their final abandonment of hope and subsequent delirium.
 Captain Anderson and the second mate were drowned while building a raft. Anderson's wife and children looked on, wringing their hands, and finally, after the others had sue cumbed and the remainder were weak from starvation, the captains wife drowned her four children under the impression that the five survivors were planning to resort to cannibal ism, and she followed the children into the waves.
 The five survivors were too far tn al Af Patrick Palmer, an American, who joined the ship at Coquimbo, said:
 Five of us got away on raft We went all over the reef in search of water, but found none, and one of the party died on the reef. We had some difficulty in building d raft and the captain and the second mate both got drowned. The captains wife stood within a few feet 'of him watching him and she saw him drown. As she stood there wringing her hands she had her four children, from a baby one year old to an eight-year old girl. standing beside her.
 We thought we would be able to find water on the reef and save the life of those we had left on the wreck, but those sailing directions lie. They said there was water there, and life boat and food, and there was no food and no life boat. Ole, he died; he fell down on the reef and dropped his head on his chest. He was lucky. There was another wreck on the wreck and we thought it was a storeship. We boarded it but found nothing to eat. It was musty. ,II aH hc1d rsrif h about two gills of water than had been there for years, judging by it's horrible taste. The carpenter drank it.
 We afterwards found some water and, although it was bad, we drank it. We then decided to build punt from the wreckage and while we were working at this, we lived on shell fish.
 The captains wife thought they were considering cannibalism, and she asked them not to eat the children. Her mind had gone. Suddenly she ran into the sea and drowned her four children. following them into the sea.
 When relief finally came there were but five, four men and a boy, and these were so exhausted that they had to be carried by the rescuers. The steamer Tofu was bound from the islands to Sydney when the two wrecks were seen at Middleton reef. where formerly there had been but one. Tn steamer bore in and sent boats ashore One of the wrecks was near the punt built by the survivors. who historically seized jugs of weak
 fn them.