The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-10-22
SKELETONS ON
WRECKED SHIP
Captain OF British Vessel Reports
a Weird Discovery

London. oct, ga weird story of
the sea has been cabled from New
Zealand. II is tho story of the finding
Of the sailing ship. Marlborough. with
! twenty skeletons on board.
The marlborough, a Glasgow owned
bark, belonging To Mcssrs. Leslie ~
co" sailed from Lyttelton. New Zea-
land, with several passengers and 4
crew Of thirty-threc under the COM
mand az Captain Hird IN January,
1890. She was homcward bound By
the Cape Horn route ard was heard
from in the southern Pacific after
which no other word of her was ever
heard.
In April of That Year she was posted
as missing, and later on was given NJ
where the bones of many a good ship
and many a hundred seamen lie. \
government cruiser searched the
rocky and tortuous coasts OF Patagon
Ia. but no trace OF her was found. The
Marlborough Jecamc another OF the
thousand mysteries Of the sea
A day or two ago another British
| sailing ship arrived in Lyttelton with
the story that she had found the MARI
/ borough and the skeletons OF twenty
Of her crew in one cf the rocky coves
near Pmta Arenas (Sandy PoinO in
the Magellan strait.
The Captains Story
The captain is quoted as telling the
story III the following words:
we were off the rocky coves near
Punta Arenas keeping near the land
.or shelter. The coves are deep and
silent, the sailing difficult and danger
aus.
we rounded point into a deep
cleft cove, Before us q mile or more
across the water stood a sailing yes
sci with the Darest shrods Of canvas
iulttering in the breeze.
We signalled and hove TO- No an
swer came. We searched the 'strang-
r. with our glasses. Not a soul could
we see. not even 2 movement of any
sort.
''Masts and yards were picked out in
2reen-the green of decay.
AT last we came up. There was no
.,gu Of life on board. After an inter
val our first mate with member of
the crew boarded her The sight that
met their gaze was thrilling.
below the wheel lay the skeleton
# a man. Treadirg warily on the rot
ZEN deck, which cracked and broke in
places as they walked, they encounter
I'd three skeletons IN the hatchway.
In the messroom were the remains
Of ten bodies, and six were found
one alone. possibly that Of the captain
nn the bridge.
There was an uncanny stiffness
around and a dank smell Of mould
which made the flesh creep. A few
remnants of books were discovered ia
TIE captains cabin aud 2 rasty cut
lass.
Nothing more weird in tho histor5
Of the sea can ever have been seen
The first mate examined the still faint y
letters on the bows and after much
trouble read, Marlborough. Glasgow !
Hundreds of Ships Pass There
Punta Arenas is pretty large place
Us South American towns go. II has
10 population of several thousands, and.
# course, the Magellan strait is q
great Highway, travorsed by hundreds /
'C ships yearly, which take this way
- avoid doubling The horn with IL
furious gales
Tho whole of the Magellan strait.
rom Cape Nirgus To- Cape Pillar. l.
'amilitr to thousands of Scamcn and
ndentCd and rockbouud though II is.
t seems incredible that a ship could
lie concealed tor nearly q quarter OF
! century In that part near . place
Ike Punta Arenas.
Had the discovery been made among
he dosolate and multidincus isles of
he Cockburn channel or down about
'ook Bay or False Cane Horn--per-
APPS the widest coasts in the world ,
{ would have been more credible. In ,
Iced. shortly after the ship was lost
here was a report that the crew of = !
'assluc ship saw Seamcn signalling ,
rom an island down that way which B
5 800 or 100 miles from punta Arenas