Year: 1872

and from there he brought us TO Green Turtes'
cay xsscG we landed at nine O'Clock at mig


When we arrived there we were so weak y
a coqd a. mot go out OF the boat We We ss srr,sS Ms
oysters Ss's and snda little ana later p9cssS picked
mRy u we' .ney gave W css1 Ssea Is nen and
the bed: %s. rsSy ao ys9sS In.S our g0resm aa-
faces A asd our na.ods Geeaea fesa ana Sn less eSs
wsre ful 81 sores. Two men men boiled some me- leaves,
with which they wasfled our Sores They kept us
they could. After we had been there week we
eat quite strong, and the Consul took us ON board


ssd IN Nassau Se yce s q Mr.
sers, took us to hotel and took the best care OF
us until the Moro Castle arrived.


CHARLES CONWAY,


fireman, gave the reporter the following state
ment t:-When the fire broke out was ordered to
out to ge the boats reay to the
that contained the nine men. The boat got
swamped, but they still kept jumping into her,
overheard between the boat and the ship. Iswam
till discovered boat tied to the stern OF the
ship. They cut the painter and then | saw the
ham Stewart-came up swimming. He said, "Give
me y hold I'd q your hand" ,. pulled him up We
while was getting on the bottom OF the boat saw
Colonel Albert Evans in the water. In about
twenty yards from me-. The sea ran pretty high,
and ana It wa. was impossible to to save ave him nv. we
snveq she botta@ as the eoa a5a e e
right side up. We now saw the boat containing
the nine men approach US. They beckoned to us
OF their men got into our boat They had to go
back to their boat, however, for was sinking.
and Stewart still remained in the boat finally
joined the nine men. One Of them left to take my
place on the other boat SO that we stll
only numbered mine nine MEM men on this boat
Between seven and eight O'Clock we saw the ship
go down-a great light went high up and down
wind. The second day the sea was running high
felt very hungry. had no coat, no shoes, no hat
that night-nothing but my shirt and pants. That


WE FIRST SAW THE SHARKS


great number. ! hit one with an oar. While the
boat was full of water of the sharks lsbbed his
back right against the keel. Afterward jumped
overheard to wet my clothes, and a shark came
along and watched for me right at the place where
Sometimes we would try to pull-the water up to
our waists when we were in the seats-sometimes
us over. We really did not get five
we had got the water out OF the boat. At night we
could do nothing except


TO LOOK AT THE STARS


John Feeney, assistant engineer, said:-The
Missouri left New York on the 18th OF October. He
had considerable difficulty with the boilers up to
the goth. and the engines could work but very
slowly. From the 10th to the 2lst everything worked
well; there seemed to be nothing the matter with
the engines or boilers. On the 21st was on watch
At two O'Clock in the morning--it was tuesday,
had occasion to go on top OF the boilers to fix the
steam gauge pipe. Everything seemed pretty not
but stlll nothing more than usual. Up till four
O'Clock that morning everything worked we'll The
second assistant engineer thenrelieved me. The
and there was heavy sea running. / stayed with
him up till half-past five that morning. then
went to sleep, and at about twenty minutes past
eight was awakened by


THE ALARM OF FIRE.


ran down to the engine room and looked at the
glass gauges. They seemed to be all right. then
opened the door which was over the boilers and saw
the flames all round the boilers, and the pantry was
=; also 70 on on re We then got the hose and attached
played the hose until the names drove us away.
Captain Green came along and asked us If there
ut VIII be or no use, Captain" He ordered US to
stop the engines and we did SO. Then he ordered
rush for them. Invent straight to the promenade
deck and found the captain, the first and second
mate and good many others engaged in launch
the boat was clear of the rail about thirty men
jumped into her. was one OF the number. by


THE BOAT WAS FILLED WITH WATER


All let go and jumped into the water. When the
boat came up from under the water there were but
nine men left out OF the thirty; the others had
been crushed between the boat and the ship and
perished in the waves. We drifted clear of the
the vessel was in flames. / saw the Captain, Pur-
ser Hempsted. Mr.. Brown, the first mate and Mr.
vesseI-the only part OF the ship that was not in
flames. Only two boats were on the ships deck.
and one OF these was on fire. The sea was terribly
TO the top OF some high wave we saw the vessel,
but we had lost sight OF the men. We suffered
frightfuly. the waves washing right over our
heads. We came up to boat containing twelve
men, This proved TO be


begged them to take US on board. "For Gods
dying.' Mr.. Tunnel, OF Nassau, who was in
body on board; he had enough men already. He
had twelve men and had room enough Tor twenty
sve e captain cumer gave Us bucket
us on board but Mr.. Tunnel and Mr.. Jones, a
sailor objected. | said. "Well If we are saved,
round the boat for their lives, but they did not ex
tend TO one OF them helping hand They then
steered Tor land and


We then came alongside boat in which were two
men. They were clinging to her keel. We swan
was full of water. We suffered terribly for three
days, heavy sea running and breaking over us
day we fishing smack. After some hard pull
ing we & came,as we imagined within a mile of
asg oSr SHIRTS a aa on tG e Of ens of 0ss cs
oars, which we held up as signals. They did not
seem to- notice us, but sailed out of our sight.
That night we lost four men; two OF them died on
board and two jumped overheard. They had been
in great agony, and we had had great trouble with
them, as they jumped several times into the water.
One man, Mark Antony, who was perfectly crazed,
asked me TO tell his wife and child that he should
have liked to kiss them before he died here.


WATER.


Our suffering from hunger and thirst was some-
thing indescrbable. We had two or three showers
and caught some OF the water, which refreshed us
greatly, in the handkerchief We prayed for
some more showers, for we knew that we could
manage to live II we only had some water to drink.
We were lying In the boat unable to do anything
We were not able to steer her and all
we could do was to let her 90
before the wind. We could often see the fins of
the sharks over the gunwale OF the boat On the
eighth day flying nsh, about four inches long,
flew into the boat. We cut 1T up In five pieces, and
a ar al
Before that our lips were parched and tongues
were fairly sticking to the roofs OF our mouths, SO
that we had to keep wetting them with salt water
During the first three days the suffering from
hunger was far more intense than from
thirst, but after the third day felt very little hun
ger. We kept all the time looking out for sails,
ana whenever we saw high wave coming we
feared that this hour would be our last one.
After We had landed on the island we went to
launch the boat and to cross over to the mainland
but on the way / fell down at least twenty
times = was so weak from hunger.