The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25
DOGS TAPPING
 BROUGHT RESCUE
A Captain and Eleven of His Men Orifted Eleven Days, Five Without Water-Fate of Twelve in An
 other Boat Not Known.

Brooklyn, March 1s.-After drifting for eleven days on the open sea in a liteboat. containing little hardtack and less fresh water Capt. Andreas Andre son and eleven of the crew of the schooner Sydnaes were brought ashore when the tanker Vaari, which picked up the men March 1S, docked nere today. Twelve others of the Syn daes crew have not been heard from.
 AS the vaarli wes diving through heavy seas last Saturday morning, Tolli Tollison. the first officer, called the attention of Capt. Hendrick Olsen to faint flare appearing and disap. bearing on the horizon as the ship rose and fell.
 Doc's Bark Brought Reseuers.
 At considerable risk, Captain Olsen brought the tanker about and present Iy overhauled a lifeboat. In the twilight of dawn and the dim light of the torch, the boat appeared to be un- occupied and the vaarli might have resumed her course but for the faint yapping of dog. That induced Cap tain Olsen to bring his vessel along side and when this was doae his men could make out other men, apparently dead. heaped in the boat.
 One of these figures reused, how ever, and shook the others, before cIambering up the side of the Vaarli. ? Water. For Gods sake give my men water" said the man, who proved to be Capt. Andreas Andresen, as he fell into the arms of several deck hands.
 One by one and very slowly, for they were weak and shaky, the eleven other men climbed the rope ladder to the vaarli's deck, the last one carrying by the slack of the neck small white dog. Popsey. who had done the yap- ping.
 Captain Tells the Story.
 After they had been given bowls of hot soup and dressed in dry clothing, Captain Andresen told this story:
 T was the captain of the 4-masted schooner Syndaes which sailed in bal last from Montevideo. On March 1 we struck gale and sprang leak The sea was running very high and we made eight feet of water in a few hours My men manned the pumps until they became choked with sand and would not work any more. Then we tried bailing out of the forward hatch with barrels and buckets but the next night our sand ballast shifted and we abandoned ship in two boats,
 First Officer Hans Wenz of Man dahl, Norway, was in the first boat with eleven men, and I had eleven with me. Each boat had two kegs of water and what we thought would be plenty of provisions The line connect ing our boats parted in three hours and called out to Wenz that we would try for Bermuda. l heard him say they would try it. too. Then a wave parted us and we never caught sight of them again.
 Were Rowing in Our Sleep"
 We rowed and rowed just to keep our boat into the wind Sometimes we were rowing in our sleep. Presently a sea carried our small compass over board, so We could not steer a course.
 After six days our first cask of water was done. We were not much alarmed by that, but when we went to break out the second cask we found that the bung had started and all the water had leaked into the bottom of the boat, mixing with the salt waer There was not drop left
 If you have been without you know what hell is.
 From the seventh until the thir- teenth we drifted. and all the time, day and night, the words of the ancient ! IsAriner kept running through my head
 Water, water, everywhere and all the boards did shrink.
 Water, water, everywhere and not 6 drop to drink"
 The Last Drink Was Popsey.
 We must have drifted four hundred or five hundred miles after that. It was cold and We were getting weak used to sit in the stern of the boat. holding little Popsey in my arms. She would lick my hand and wag her tail. Popsey did not know what was thinking about. was thinking that if 1t came to the end of our endurance without water we could cut her throat End drink
 oh well. it's over now"
 Ole Terjensen. r, the youngest member of the Sydnaes crew. never .'broke" once during those desperate days.
 q sign for the trip; finish the trip" said Ole, sI'm sailor" ruSsYEooT JOHNSON IN FRANCE