Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-08-25

MOTHER SLAYS CHILDREN
AND JUMPS INTO SEA
Driven Mad by Hunger Unfor-
tuoate Woman Thinks Stary-
Ing Sailors Are About to tat
Her Helpless Babes,

IBl Morning Iournai special Leased Nirsl
Victoria Aug. 2i.-~Fcw more
tragic tales of the sea are on record
than that brought today, by the
steamer Maakura from Australia. of
the wreck Of the Norwegian bark En-
rol. which struck Middleton reef.
June Is
Five of the crew OF twenty-five
when the steamer Tofu took them OIL.
SO emaciatcd from thirst and starva-
ton that they had to be carried The
Maakura brought detailed account
Of their vain effort TO fnd water on
the reef. their unsuccessful search for
cache of provisions and a life boat
maintained there previous to 1882 aud
Which the sailing directions stated
Istill existed. OF their final aDandon-
mont of hope and subsequent deli-
lrlum.
Captain Anderson ana the second
were drowned white building raft.
Anderson wife and children looked
on, wrngng their hands and finally.
after others had succumbed aud the
remainder were weak from starva-
tion. the captains wife drowned her
| four children, under the Impression
| that the hv, Survivors we're banning
Ia resort to cannabalism. She then
followed the children into tho waves.
The nvc survivors were TOO FAR gone
to talk much Of their sulforin9s. Pat
lIick Palmer an American, who joined
the ship at Coquimbo, said,
Five of us got away ON a 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 the raft
ana the captain and second mate were
both drowned The captains wife
stood within Il few feet of him watch
iuE him ana saw him drown as she
stood there Wringing her hands; she
had her four children, from baby
one year old to the eight year old
girl. standing beside her
we thought we would be able to
ma water on the reef ana save the
lives of those we had left on the
wreck but those sailing directions lie.
They said there was water there.
life boat aud food and there was no
food ana no life boat ole he died:
he fen down on the reef and dropped
his head on his chest He was
lucky
There was another wreck ON the
reef and We thought il was store
ship We boarded it but found moth
ing to eat 1t was very Old and all
IL held was bottle with about two
glls of water that must have been
there for years by the horrible taste.
ana and the carpenter drank II. We
afterwards found some more water
and although 1t was bad we drank it,
We then decided to build punt from
The Vrcckage and While We were
ou this we lived Oh shell
iishS
Anuthc survivor took up the story.
lic said that when the sufferers were
sitting on the sand thc captains wife
thought they were considering can
uihalism ana she asked them not 10
at her children Her mind was
gone When relief finally came.
here were but i've four men and
boy Aud these were 80 exhausted
hat they had to be carried by the
'cscucr-
The steamer Totu was bound from
hc islands of Eydncy when the cap .
ain noted two wrecks were formerly
her, had been but one. The steamer
pore I'm and sent boats ashore. one Of
%, wrecks was near the punt built by
ho survivors who hystericaily seized
hr jugs of weakened brandy and bcef
,assDd tu them