The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-05
MRS.F. !. WALKER
DIED AT HOSPITAL
Heroine Of Wreck Of Wandering
Minstrel and Castaway
Colony Of Midway r.

Elizabeth L. Walker, wife Of Capt.
r. b. Walker aud mother Of r. 9. h.
Walker, Henry 4. Walker and Charles
ID. Walker. all Of this city, died at
the Queen s Hospital, of paralysis, at
half-past ten o clock on Saturday night
aged seventy one years and three
months. Death followed an illness Of
four months. ~ ~
l Mrs. Walker was removed from heI
AFTERNOON, and her death was hourly
expected. a....s y. 49, ~ ..r.r
Heroine Of 5hipwrsck g,
The deceased was born in Liverpool
Imaking her first visit to Hawaii IT,
1879. With her ~ husband, Captain
Walker, she made many voyages Il
various parts of the world \. 3.
In April 1889 Mrs. Walker aecompa
nying her husband and child, arrive,
j from Midway Island in the schoone.
Norma, which had picked them up, to
gether with fourteen other survivors
the wreck of the schooner Wanderint
Minstrel, who. had spent fourteen
months as castaways on the island
There were twenty -eight in the ship
company when the schooner went ashor
on Midway early in the year of 1885
and Of these only sixteen survived.
The Wandering Minstrel was purchas
ed in Hongkong for the purpose o
shark. fishing. From tho time Of sail
: ing from Hongkong, Friday 0etobe
:. Ii, 1887, nothing but in luck, gale
} and q typhoon attended the schoOne,
itill her arrival at Honolulu for re
. lpairs. 80 ~.
3 When the voyage was renewed tn
! bad weather continued and when Mir
I way was sighted three days were .spen
waiting for the wind and sea to mod
crate. ...E ..--yt'.
snip Driven Ashore t.,=
WeIles Harbor was entered never I
be left again. It was gale after gale
till finally the chains parted, and afte
the vessel struck heavily, several time
those aboard left her and reached shor
only with the greatest diligently.
The Wandering Minstrel had broke
) UP by the following morning and eA
cept for few tins of provisions wfic
were washedsashore the castaways wer
without food. The remains of tn
wreck were taken out to sea by tn
strong current.
Two months later part Of the ster
was washed up ON the beach, froi
which some clothing was secured.
About three months after the wrec
six of the crew took the best boz
at night time, and went to Green Is
\ and, and thence, the following da
y started for the open sea.
2 "A heavy, gale set in that! night an
there is no doubt that all per she
as no tiding were ever heard of ther
Much Hardship Endured
IL The life Of the castaways was OF
Il continual hunt for food and :errib
&c privations were suffered. Scurvy WI
q prevalent and three deaths resultt
% from this cause.
On the arrival Of the schooner whiC
81 took the crew of the Wandering Mi
strel away, the members Of the part
q were in a deplorable condition. Aft
m delay of eleven days to enable Il
D. sick to recuperate sufficiently to G
" on board, the castaways bid goodbye
e the scene of Their fourteen month
p captivity, on March 20, 1899.
" The anchors, chain and iron tan
"a of the Inflated craft are still be SCI
at the bottom. though IL is tv'ert
tC seven years since the Wandering Mi
" strel was wrecked.
u Mrs. Walker lived n simple, earne
II fife and was unostentatiously iden
fed with many good works. She W
I'll be mourned by a host of friends.
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