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Show FACED DEATH- WHILE ON HONEYMOON TRIP NEW YORK, Dee. 12. Tho hone3'-moon hone3'-moon trip of Captain Hudson, skipper, of the Bath (Maine) schooner Henry Clauson, Jr., and his brido, last month, was thrilling in tho extreme, according accord-ing to details received toda' of their experiences, on board that ill-fated vessel, ves-sel, which, after numerous vissicitudes, finally burned in mid-ocean'. The newly new-ly married touplo and crew, finally rescued res-cued by a passing steamer, wero taken to Messina, and it is from there that-an that-an account of their oxporionccs has reached this cit3'. Tho Clauson, a thrco-mastcr, was bound from Gulf port. Miss., to the Azores, lumber laden. When somo 500 miles from St. Michaels, her destination, destina-tion, on November 1, a hurricane began be-gan to tear away tho rigging above decks, and for three dn3's kept the littlo compau3' of eieht in terror, relieved onl3' by Mrs. Hudson's bravo singing of hvmns and recounting of Biblo stories. Tho schooner sprang a leak and all tho food was nuder wator. Just as it seemed that tho vessel must go to pieces a steamer was sighted. It proved to bo tho Snowdonia. and all wero rescued in lifeboats. Hardb wero they aboard when smoke began to pour from tho Clausen and soon tho wreck was ablazq, |