Show ATE SHOE UPERS MOST HORRIBLE TALE OF SUFFERING SUFFER-ING AT SEA Two Survivors Out of n Crew of ThirtyOne Suck Each Others Blood in Order to Sustain Lie A Miraculous Resent I Portland Or March 15The following I follow-ing dispatch was received tonight from Marchfield Or II Daniel Clark and Thomas Moore supposed to be the only survivors of a I crew of thirtyone persons from the i i British ship Yeoman arrived here last I night on the schooner Leeds The Yeoman went down on the morn I ing of Feb 23 in latitude 34 north longitude 45 west She was bound from Antwerp to Redondo Clark related re-lated the details of the loss of the ship and crew and his escape as follows I fol-lows I was my watch on deck The weather was perfectly calm but I feared a heavy squall and began to I shorten the sail I had ordered sail I taken in but scarcely had the sailors I started to execute my command when 1 a sudden squall struck us and the I water became very rough A heavy swell like a tidal wave struck us capsizIng cap-sizing the ship I was forward all the time and as the sea swept the deck I was carried with it overboard A lull followed and the ship righted I got on the ship again to find no one on deck The cook was lying in the galley with his head split open and hardly alive I went down into the cabin and found Captain Ferguson and the second mate were drowned I went aloft to try and spread some canvass but the ship was continually sinking I then decided to abandon her and cut loose a lifeboat from the davits got the cook into i and just got clear of the ship far enough to keep from being swamped by the suction as she went down We were fourteen days in the boat before the schooner Leeds sighted us and picked us up during which time we suffered more than language can express We had to fare all the time on sixteen sea biscuits without a drop of fresh water We ate two biscuits apiece each day until they unt were exhausted ex-hausted and would drink salt water and throw i up again This made our tongues swell up and our mouths and throats get as raw as a beef steak When the biscuits were exhausted we became too faint to pull an oar or guide the boat so we drifted to and fro until picked up We could not speak our names and our eyes were swollen shut We were so hungry that we ate the uppers of our shoes and also sucked the blood out of each other Here Mr Clark exhibited his leg which showed great red blotches certifying cer-tifying the truthfulness of his story Continuing he said I have been around the Horn nine times but this was the roughest trip i I1 ever experienced We lost four men overboard in a gale off the Horn and Paul Hessing fell from the topsail yard and was killed We were four teen days making seven miles and drifted to the southward I was nothing but bad luck from start to finish Had not the Leeds been blown five hundred miles out of her course it would have been all day with us |