New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-01
Two Women. LaSled, AL
most Choke as Waves
Wash Over Them.
SHARKS BEATEN OFF
BY BLOWS ON HEAD
Ethel V. Boynton Breaks
Up; Captain, Wife, Niece
and Grew Escape.

Twelve OF them. ten men and two
women, were out there on the Atlartio
for four DAYS, tossing on ~ca-madc
raft. and no ono in this town knew O.
it until Yesterday. when Charles Olsen.
the mate. a six-foot. fair-haircd Swcdc,
came in on the Ward liner Monterey
and told the story.
Il was some story, too. this simple
chronological narrative of the break
ing I'D OF the American barkcntine
Ethel Y. Boyntor some sixty miles cast
Of Wilmington, y. c. Olsen said il
wae God alone who saved him and his
mates. None OF them ever expected to
SEQ lana again.
- won't tell all VIC went through"
he said half smiling. because, in the
first place, Il would take too long. and
then whcr | cot through you'd think
| was thinking things, especially when
] told YOU how tho sharks swan round
waiting FOR Us and VIC beat them Off,
hitting them on their heads with our
paddles.
Maybe I'd better begin at the be-
ginning Ike ! was reading from the
log. SO ! don't forget it. take il down
right here now that the twelve Of as
lived Tor six da-s on . two-pound can
Of 'riDe and three cans OF bluberries."
The barkentine left Mobile December
%, with lumber for Genoa. Italy. in
command Of Captain G.. w. Waldemar
and crew Of nine mon. On board was
MrS. Waldemar and her young niece.
Miss Gladys La,rock
Just at sunrise January H." said
Olsen, 1--WE ran into a hurricane thai
came up from the south. It got 50
bad that we hove TO at s a. m. until
midnight 1t eased up little. but
came up again strong by o'clock next
morning, January 10. We fired the
deck load overheard had to do il, and
do it quick; she was leaking pretty
badly.
"Ab ut 1915 a. .. p cane ,ne of
/ those racers-you know what mean,
three waves chasing one right behind
another. 1t came full at us and swept
clean over. 1t seemed to curl up about
forty feet above the deck.
Uneasy About the Women.
That wave tore out about thirty
feet OF our quarterback and carried it
over. At midnight we were complete
.ly waterlogged. Next morning, at 2:30
it was the 13th-we shipped another
Of those racers, and it carried Off the
for'rid house and the fo'csle deck.
1--WE got kind Of uneasy about the
two women. They never said word.
If they were scared they didn't let
anybody know it, and we didn't let
them know we were worried about em.
At a. m. we cut away the main and
mizzen sticks, and thought for a while
we were going 20 stay above water,
but at 9 a. m. we knew it was all off.
about OILS a. m. we launched the
yawl. But what was the use? We
Just did it on chance anyway. That
yawl had hardly hit the water when
she was smashed to pieces against the
side.
big st - Of lumber from our jctti-
soned cargo now slammed the bark
entine hard. At 10 a. m. the starboard
side opened up. That was some day.
At $3.50 p. m. the foremast jammed it
self throu-,. the bottom; a big part OF
foredeck drfted away with it. W.
wee just simply going { pieces. We
didn't know where to lash the women
because We couldn't say what part
would 60 away next.
"The lumber in tn, hol was just
raising he'll. Tie morning OF the 14th
at $3.50 o'clock the stern brok off en-
tirely. At $3.50 a. m. the main deck
s., intercl and so did the alte- house.
A half hour later we made a raft out
of the roof of il. We all got on to it,
lashing the women. They lay fat and
had a hard job to keep from choking,
because the waves were hitting Us
hard.
AT 1880 r. m. we sighted the main
deck and started out for u. 1t took
us two hours to paddle. Ne used
pieces Of the lumber that drifted &C Us.
When we all climbed on board W
made fast the raft to it. That was the
= t thing we did, because at /: p. M,
January u, after three days I'D
nights on the drifting main deck, the
thing busted 10 pieces.
"We'll Die True" Says Girl.
THAT was the only time the women
showed excitement They didn't want
to get back on that raft. The little
gal, Miss Larrock. she lives in Boston,
/ like do. She said 20 me: Mate. we will
never see Boston again ! said: 'Oh,
yes. Don't you give up, little gal,
not much She laughed it sounded
like she was laughing and she said
something she read sometime out of n
book. well. mate. we will die with
good and true hearts
well. we didn't die. The Ward
steamer Manzanllo came along at I0:30
n m. on January II, and we can thank
Warner here, the cook, that she saw US.
He grabbed the code flag r when we
left the vessel. and we stuck ii up on
a piece OF lumber on the raft. II is a
red flag. with r yellow cross, and they
could see it better than most any flag
Olsen turned 10 the cook and slapped
him hard between the shoulders.
Continued On maze g. column