Show Terrible Suffering at Sea NEW YOIK March INearly every vessel which has come to port the past four months has brOught tales of terrific weather at sea but it is doubtful doubt-ful if any have reported such hardship as was endured by Captain SmIth and seven sailors who came to port a f sw days ago after losing two shipmates and leaving the illfated British bark Metqor at the bottom of the ocean For twenty three days they were in a galo of wind and hove to under heavy canvas Then one of the officers and numbers of the ships crew were swept overboard by high waves and drowned For days they wore surrounded by icebergs and a field of ice over fifty miles long The rudder was carried away and the bows and sides crushed They were rescued by a friendly steamer just as their own vessel vas about to sink from tinder their very feet That is the story of their sufferings Their experience in the ice was particularly thrilling Once after the ship managed to clear the field a sailing vessel was discovered a couple miles distant dis-tant Signals of distress were made but the stranger sailed on leaving the men to their fate The vessel was leaking badly and they had to work constantly at tho pumps Fortunately Fortu-nately for them a few hours later the British Brit-ish steamer Marengo hove in sight and tok them off |