Year: 1872




and hungry sharks. The four men with whom the
reporter conversed yesterday were the only ones
who kept their senses In this uproar.


BLESSING FROM HEAVEN.


But their hearts were faint as they saw no raw OF
hope, and their lips and tongues almost ceased to
three days sae asy senss sse q dnT npnSsa %en
sggersa tie most from thirst .-., -..-..
have dried up-but with ''ie devout SssA'S heart
they prayed for rain. And rain came Next day
there was shower, and they held up their hand,
kerchlels TO catch the precious irons They wetted
their parched lips and their .oDuues which, as 0De
OF them said yesterday We're sticking to the very
iro fvus heayen % anT sn ane ram was nrs sing
vent thanks.


THE FATE OF THE MANIAcs-
The men who had lost their senses Plunged into
the sea one after the other. They talked wildly
were going to have, about the Wine they were
going to drink. The hunger and tht rst drove them
to seli.aestruction. they were we're saLed number OF
plunged into their graves. THEIR corpses foated
round the boat followed by the harks. AS the four
had been their good comrades, as they watched the
sharks they could not hen/thinking, 'rhis win be
ourfsate so0n-"


HERoIsM OF THE FOUR MEN.


And still they did not give up hope. They sat all
Word was SPOKEN: their iips We're re- almost par
alyzed after the eighth day and they could not
speak The sores on their limbs and feet





to deaeen and sometimes film came over their
eyes which had been nearly blinded by the spray.
came over them which seemed to be the precursor
OF death. But they still lived and hoped, and God
rescued them. Let the men tell their own
MR. CHARLES SINCLAIR.
oiler OF the Missouri, gave the following state
MENTION the morning Of the fire got up at halt
past eight. was going into the messroom for
breakfast when heard the alarm Of fire. ran
out on deck and met one of the dremen who was
on watch. He told me the whole top of the boilers
was on fire. l looked down to the engine
bulkheads ] ran up to the hurricane deck
and brought down hose; then heard the cap
tain tell the chei engineer that the fire was gain
| ing too much headway, and there was no use
playing the water any longer Then he gave or
ders 70 the men to go up to the hurricane deck
me where the names were breaking out through
rcane deck and helped TO launch q boat which
was lying bottom up Then tried to launch a
oouS Se ss side os BUT sna
that / had to get into the first boat.
This boat was full Of people, and III ! len three
boat before could get into it.. After had got IN
saw many men jump into the water from the
ship, while good many were washed overheard
from the boat.


EVERY ONE FOR HIMSELF.


Soon afterwards got into the boat, which was
full of water and now contained nine PERSONS We
dritted from the ship before very heavy gale. In
IN 1tot o ~ln we
and 6naliy they gave US bucket to bale the boat
out and we asked them when they came alongside
If they could not take us into their
boat. They said no, they had enough in, while we
could see that the boat could have accommodated
If they would not take us in tow or stand by us
until we got our boat Tree, because II was full OF
overheard and hold on to the boat while one Of US
could oale ale the ~ water out. They gave an,, us the
/ DRIFTING AWAY.


We drifted away and met with a boat bottom up,
| with two men on it, We determined to get on that
boat so as to get the water out OF our boat. They
| all went on the other boat. Only and another
man remained and we two tried to get the water
out. We tried hard but it was OF no use. When
the men came back from the boat which was bot
tom up one OF our men and one OF the two men
| nine men. We took this boat in tow, and de-
termned to approach the ship. as we could see her
burning. After pulling for while the line gave
way, and we lost the boat on which the two men
were. We could see the ship go down soon after
dark, and we took in our oars, as we could
water. very heavy sea ran all night,
and the water washed over the boat, that we
to see the Ship, mass OF lame, leap high into
the air. as II 1t were being thrown up to heaven,


A SAIL IN SIGHT.


The next morning we took again to our oars.
We did not know where we were. We kept pulling
all day. and when night came we ceased rowing
ana lay in the trough OF the sea. We had nothing
to eat or drink. Ths night the sea ran also very
about four O'Clock In the afternoon, we saw
q fishing sloop. which we thought was about
mile rowno or mile nile and snstaa nn distant slant We
made all the signals we could, but they paid no
attention to us, and finally sailed out Of sight.
1 Soon after this four Of our men died. The first
man was the porter OF the ship, Michael Shear. He
got crazy and jumped overheard two or three
! times. We saved him dozen times, and finally
| he perished. raving maniac The hunger and the
| thirst had made him crazy.


VICTIMS TO HUNGER AND THIRST
The second man the ships barber, William
Steer. He jumped overheard without saying a
word, and that was the last we saw OF him. 1t
| was very dark that night and we could not see
anything; it was impossible to save him. He had
suffered SO much that he had become crazy. The
| third man was the fireman, John McKoran.
he also died In the boat He was
complaining all DAY long that he was hungry,
than suffer such slow death, and finally we found
his corpse floating round the boat


The fourth man, Marks Antony, the oiler, also
times We picked MN up, but he said he
could not stand it any longer: He would
He said ne was gong home to get something to
eat and walked right overheard, and that's the
sea went down and the fifth man Tom Eagan)
died. lie died from exhaustion, hunger ana thirst.
| He was out of his senses and fancied that he was
/ going to his fathers house to get dinner when he


CHEERFUL COMPANY.
The fifth day the Gained down, and we baled
the boat out with two hats; one OF the maniacs
had thrown the bucket overheard. Then we had
three life preservers board, ana took the
oil and made square sail Of it.. We rugged 1t up
and sailed with 1t before the wind We sailed
along for three days. The boat was level with the
water and was surrounded by sharks. They put
their heads into the boat night and day. saw the
corpse OF Sam Eagan swallowed by an immense
shark. The sharks followed the boat incessantly


We were almost Naked We had only under
shirts drawers and pants. but we had no shoes, no
coats, no hats There were only two hats in the
crowd. We spent the nights mscraby, watching
all the time to see II We could not get glimpse OF
a sail. On the eighth day we finally saw land We
reached the shore at five O'Clock In the evening.
We felt very glad when we got on the beach.


WE STAGGERED LIKE DRUNKEN MEN
and we fell on the sand We a number or
houses q little way Of We approached them,
thinking we would find people living there. When
we got TO the houses we found they were all de-
serted. Nobody was living there; all the houses
were locked. Finally we found WELL We stopped
down and drank, and drank all night We Still
felt hungry, and slept under shed that night.


ON SHORE


The next morning we looked around to see what
sort OF place this island was We did not find