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Show Fifty Days Out in . Buffeting Gales Schooner Coquelle Has Rough Voyage, Voy-age, Missos Port and Is Threatened Threat-ened With Mutiny. s SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1L Fifty days ago today tho schooner Coquelle, Capt, H. C. Spring, loft thl3 port for Coqulllo, and yesterday she put back without having mado land slnco tho beginning of her long trip. Stress of woather, threatened mutiny and a shortage of wattr and provisions made up hor story. , Sailing from hero on Octobor 23 In ballast bal-last for Coqullle, tho schooner went along for a few days under a fair wind and was then overtaken by a succession of south-cast south-cast gales that hurled her along through the seas far past her port of destination. The gales took tho schooner to a point off Coqullle by November 1, but Capt. Spring decided that It would bo suicidal to try to make tho lauding. Tho crow thought differently and they becamo mutinous muti-nous when ho gavo orders to steer to tno northward The men wore afraid of running run-ning out of water, for only half a barrel remained. Capt, Spring reassured them and the Coquelle was sent ahead of tho gales, always beating to the northward, past the mouth of the Columbia, where tho crew wanted to put In. and as far as the latitude of Gray's harbor. Then the stiff gales gave tho schooner a surcease of trouble. Sho was headed back for Coqullle and on the way spoke tho steamship Whlttler, bound hence for Astoria As-toria At that time tho crew waB living on crackers, boane and cofTeo, with only a small quantity of water left In the dirty barrel. The Whlttler supplied fiour, sugar, potatoes pota-toes and other provisions and the captain decided to mako another effort to reach Coquelle. He appoared off that port on December 2, flying the flag at half mast ao a signal of distress, but no assistance was sont out to him. although he was lying , within 200 or 3C0 yards of the beach. Whon he saw that assistance was withheld he ctoered for this port. |