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Show FDR ASSISTANCE Crew Members Bring Plea for Aid for Shipmates Marooned on Island. XO.MK, Alaska. Sept. 23. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Tress. ) Six members of the wrecked schooner Cuseo, a San Francisco treasure-seeking boat, arrived here today in a native skin boat from Kins island, about sixty miles north of Nome, where the Casco grounded during a gale September Septem-ber S. All the other members of the orv are living with King island natives, wafting waft-ing for help, thf six said. No lives were lost when the vessel grounded. , When the Casco grounded she was heading head-ing south from the Arctic ocean and had almost reached Nome. The crew remained aboard until the gale subsided, and then rigged up a cable and hauled the supplies ashore. For several days they looked in vain for a sail, and when none appeared the six num volunteered to try to row to Nome for help. . The Casco, which once was the property of Uobert Ixjuis Stevenson, can he floated if help arrives before the coming wiiue-r ice freezes her in, the men s:iid. The United States revenue cuuer L'ear left here, for Kintr island. Many experiences were encountered by the Casco alter she left -Nome, .Tidy 1-1. bound for the gold country in the Kolyma river section of northern Siberia. W. I.. McGirk,- a mining engineer of Hamilton. Texas, whs in charge, and nearly ail the members of the little boat's company wre miners financially interested in the venture. ven-ture. McGirk did not remain with the boat long. When he went ashore to hunt in Siberia a storm came up and forced the Caseo to take to sea. 1-ater McGirk made his way ha ck to San Francisco. Unusually heavy ice hindered the (.'usee's passage northward, yet she proceeded as far as North Cape on ihe Siberian Arctic coast before she was forced to stop. At Nort h Cape, which was reached August 24, the crew landed suplies for a second attempt next year, and then turned the boat's prow for Nome. His lit t imes the Casco was forced ashore before she left North Cape and sta r ted back. Several times the crew was obliged to get out and drag the boat through the thickening ice. Often the boat would plow into blind "leads" in. the ice, and then spend several days getting out. Finally Fast Cape and the Hering straits were readied. Encountering a storm, the Casco decided to run for King island and Nome. She rounded the north end of the island safely, but was caught by the wind on the south and driven ashore, stern first. Caotain C. E. Oliver, her master, was knocked overboard when she struck. He contracted pneumonia and is senou.-iv ill on tiie island. |