Show SAILORS CAST UPON BLEAK ISLE Four of the Crew of an American Bark Perish and Others Endure Horrible Sufferings 4 Boat Built From Wreckage Is Used to Seek Assistance For Suffering Men Marooned on Island In the Land of Fire New Yoik The story of the wreck of the American bark Prussia on bleak Staten Island Terra del Fuego the land of lire Is a turllllng one Six of tho crew have been landed hero by the steamer from Montevideo Four perished and three arc in a hospital at Puntas Arenas The Prussia was owned In San Francisco and sailed from Norfolk Va March 27 with n cargo of coal for San Francisco On the night of June 19 which was stormy and bitterly cold while Captain Cap-tain Johnson was trying to mako the New Years Island light the bark went ashore and soon broke up Eleven ot the thirteen men In the crew succeeded suc-ceeded In reaching a strip of sand sheltered somewhat by overhanging locks At dawn It was discovered that Sabata the Japanese cook and Harry Hammond a sailor were missing miss-ing The strip of sand was narrow and huge cliffs barred and escape across tho island Captain Johnson soon died of exhaustion ex-haustion and was burled In the sand The survivors had a few provisions and subsisted off these Meantime a boat was laboriously built from the wreckage But fear that the provisions provis-ions would not last led to two of the men S Prothlu and Joseph Hosteth trying to work across the mountains to obtain help Prothln crawled back i a few days later with his hands and feet badly frozen Hosteth he reported re-ported had died from the cold The food gave out and the men lived on shell fish Eventually after much danger Mate John Hunter Carpenter Carl Stark and Seaman Heine reached i New Yorks Island In the frail boat a distance of thirty miles Uotiton ant Del Gado In charge of the lighthouse light-house there rescued the suffering men on Staten Island after much peril and delay They were kindly nursed at the light house and then taken to Punta Arenas |