| Show Tales of the Deep San Francisco 29 Steamer South Carolina from Panama brought HP Captain Currie wife and two children < chil-dren and four seaman from the British bark Sara > from Hull Y1 San Francisco burned in the South 11 J Pacific The captain relates a tale 31 of terrible suffering during the voyage voy-age of twenty three days in an open boat under a tropical sun and ° all came near perishing for want of water The remainder of the crew left in two other boats which became be-came separated from the captains 0 andremain unheard from The Meg f < ican gunboat Juarez went from Acapulco E Ac-apulco on the arrival of Captain Currie to look for theother bpatsL The South Carolina also brougfitf a number of destitute seamen from Manzanillo belonging to the British ship Alnweck Castle and the American Am-erican bark T B Bell wrecked during the recent cyclone in Man zanillo harbor She also brought from Mazatlan the crew of thai wrecked bark Antioch and from San Bias the crew of the schooner N Good Templar Captain Weeks of the bark Antioch Anti-och who arrived today on the steamer South Carolina reports that after riding in the hurricane of October 26th at Manzanillo they putout w put-out to sea The ship had been somewhat x some-what strained at Manzanillo and on i the gale arising soon began to leak and shifted her ballast She lay on her beam ends six days and finally went ashore on November 10th at Chalama Bay about eighty miles north of Manzanillo All the hands were saved Captain Weeks describes de-scribes the hurricane at Manzanillo as terrific Every house of more than two stories was razed and many lower ones were blown down fragments of buildings flying through the air like feathers In the surrounding country every tree was torn away and the land swept bare |
