Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-12-06 | Page 2 | Attacked by Cannibals

ATTACKED RY CANNIBALS Shipwrecked Crew Has Narrow Escape Es-cape With Lives. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 6. Among the paastngers who arrived here yesterday from Australia on the liner Sonoma were Capt. Watts and Chief Officii Felix Stln-son Stln-son of the American phlp Susquehanna, which foundered shortly after she left Nehone, In New Caledonia, on August 2! last, with a cargo of chrome Iron for Delaware breakwater The crew left the ship In three boats which were headed for the Solomon Islands. Only one ho.-it landed there, the other two having been picked up at sea by a I trading schooner There the men were kindly treated for a time, but finally had to fly for their lives from a set of cannibals canni-bals who threatened their existence. They were subsequently picked up by a trading trad-ing vessel and Joined the rest of the crew at Sydney