The Pulaskian., 1915-02-12
Two Women Among CastaWays From Barkentine Wrecked Off
 Georgia Coast.
SHIP HIT BY TIDAL WAVE
Women Act as if shipwrecks Were Natural Part of Sea Voyage-Hope Almost Abandoned When Steam ship ManzanIlo Comes
 to Rescue.


 ing aspect and ancestry, recently ar rived from Cuba with a vivid yarn of the wreck of his ship in hurricane blasts and ponderous seas off the Geor- gia coast
 The wife of the skipper, Capt G. w. Waldemar, and his niece, Gladys Lar rock of Boston, were in ships com pany of 13 all told that drifted six days lashed or grasping life lines on a raft and the detached deck house of the barkentine. Sharks swarmed around them at times and the more vigorous of the castaways, for diver sion batted the big fellows over the snout whenever they came near enough to disturb the serenity of the women
 The stalwart mate says the shippers niece and his wife acted as if ship wrecks were a natural part of a sea voyage and did not do any praying, as shipwrecked women are supposed to do in moments of unusual stress Per haps one thing that interfered with prayer, except of a mental sort, was the unremitting exertion of holding on and lodging wreekage and the crests of combers.
 Girl Almost Loses Hope.
 On the morning of Monday. January IS, few hours before succor came with the steamship Manzanillo, Miss Gladys had almost abandoned hope, and said to the mate: We never shall see Boston" He laughed and, batting her on the shoulder, remarked: Don't with smile, and said. We will die with stout hearts" She went to a hospital at Santiago with the rest, badly bruised and suffering from salt water boils, but she did not die.
 The Boynton sailed from Mobile for Genoa on December 26 with full cargo of lumber, large part dashed on deck. Off the Florida coast on January Il heavy southeasterly gale lashed Up tall seas and forced the lum- Der ship to heave to under storm try sail. The gale increased to a hurri- cane, and fearing she might pound out her bow in the crushing combers, the skipper turned tail to the blast and ran miles to the northwest under bare poles.
 The deck load shifted in the flight down the wind and the old ship began to leak. All hands were on deck, the starboard watch at the pumps and the port watch trying to jettison the deck load, which imperiled the lives of all hands. The women were safe from the tumult in the after deck house.
 The deck cargo, relieved of it's lash ings, went by the board on the morn ing of January 12. The Boynton was then waterlogged, her main deck al- most awash, and floundering in the trough of the waves.
 Hit by Huge Wave.
 A monster sea, which the mate called tidal wave" but which doubtless was a cumulative wave, or rose 40 feet above the vessel and de- scended on the deck thunderously. It arched over some of the seamen. None was in it's almost resistless course It tore off 40 feet of the quarter deck.
 At 2:30 o'clock the next morning a wave almost as big as the giant board ed the wreck and swept the forward house into the tumult The men cut away the main and mizzen masts at daylight The foremast later damned itself through the bottom of the ship.
 The yawl had escaped the smash ing seas and an effort was made to launch it. The drifting lumber stove it in and finally it was broken to matchwood. The cargo below the main deck, forced up by the water, lifted the deck from the after house to the place where the forward house had been and the big section went sailing off by itself and wal soon out of view to leeward The released beams and boards leaped and rolled out of the barkentine from both sides
 The skipper and the lusty mate. with the crew, attacked the after deck house and with axes and naked hands got off the top to use as d raft. All hands got aboard and the seas launched it.
 The next morning. the mate says. he did something that no castaway in his memory of wrecks ever did: that is, as he said smilingly. We sighted the main deck" which had drifted back in a shift of the gale.
 Rafts Lashed To1ethe..
 Ire smaller raft felt as ii it might soon go to pieces and it was decided to board the main deck. Two hours of hard padding with broken oars brought the little raft to the big one. and after flashing ;he two. the sea having gone down somewhat, all hands made the transfer. the men assisting v Eszzzs
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