| Show SPIKED FAST ON A JAGGED REEF Wreck of the Bark Ameriaue Off the Colombian Coast NIT LIVES AT STAKE Untold Hardships Snffered by Crew and Passengers Three Days on the Boomed Vessel Passing Boat Signal Rnlue tho Hopes of the Castaways > and Then Vroceeil Serenely on Tholu Way Leaving the Unfortunates to the Mercy or the VVixvca An Almost < Al-most 31Jrnculoii3 Escape San Francisco March 6The Pacific Mail steamer Acapulco which arrived today from Central American ports brings additional details of the wreck of the French bark Ameriaue on Jan uary 20th off the Colombian coast The Amerique was bound from France to Carthegena Colombia with 90 emigrants During a gale she was blown upon the Bocus de Cenizas reef two miles off the coast I She struck with such force that her masts went by the board Luckily ot those on board the bark became bak beQn spiked fast on the rocks and she petted down on the reef so firmly that the seas which swept over her decks did not force her off into deep water wler The crew and passengers however suffered untold hardships For three days they lay helpless on the doomed vessel The ships water supply gave out the first day It wafcnpo5sible to launch any lifeboats owing to the roughness of the sea On the second day the watchers on the wreck sighted the Colombian gunboat gun-boat La Papa and were led to believe that succor was at hand but the gunboat gun-boat after exchanging signals with the wrecked vessel l steamed away on her course The hopes of the unfortunates were again raised the next morning when the Pacific Mal steamer City of Para and the Mexican steamer Ellen came within hailing distance Both vessel passed close to the reef and after asking by signal for the sigal state of affairs af-fairs on the wreck steamed away On the morning of the fourth day the sew se-w down andthe Ameriaues peopla were able to quit the wreck in their small boats Once ashore the emigrants were taken care of by the French consul and the sailors were given passage back to France |
