Show STORY sea and after affo years of suffering newa YOEK may 21 special the ahchoy line sloam ship australia which arrived a few days ago from the mediterranean sea lud almonr its passengers william delacy i ho is the soul survivor of the ship lucy lile which left new york two years ago and was lost at beai three of the crew of the foundered aldip among whom was mate william delacy picked up at sea in an open b oat by a european bound packet two of the rescued crew soon afterwards died from the effects of their long continued exposure and lack of water and food the lucy lile had a crew all told of twelve men commanded by captain harper the wreck occurred shortly after she left the islands on her homeward voyage with a cargo of sugar june 19 according to the story told by mate delacy the lucy lilo was then in the indian ocean and experienced a series of calms during these calms the ship rolled so angely and her sails flapped against her spars and rigging so mysteriously that the ways superstitious predicted some disaster the vessel vas then a few degrees north 0 the line and the weather very hot and op e the captain told his officers to be prepared for a heavy storm or something worse that very afternoon all hands were horridly called upon deck to shorten sail to tha windward the sky was as black as night except where it wag rent by incessant lighting while peals of thunder shook the ship just then a gigantic waterspout was discovered to the windward it bore down directly upon the becalmed ship the captai ordered the signal howitzer brough tto ear upon the mountain of water it was aimed and fired by but the ball missed its owing to the pitching of the ship the howitzer was reloaded and again fired this time the ball went crashing through the great column of water but it failed to shatter it and the next moment the ship was struck and battered into a dismantled wreck she kept afloat however and when delacy who had been knocked senseless regained consciousness he found that only two living comrades remained on board with him three dead bodies were lying on the deck the others habinc been swept into the ocean the ship was sinking and delacy and his two comrades managed to launch the only remaining life boat ten minutes after they pulled away the ship sank for two days the three men were in the life boat without food or water then the dart sighted them and picked them up |