Show Starved Half Starved Seamen on Schooner Find Succor After Stormy Fight NORFOLK Va Nov 11 Associated Asso Asso- cited Press Pross Eight starved half-starved men on the whipped storm schooner Blakley of Mobile six forty days out of on the coast cost of Venezuela Venc- Venc zuela found haven and nd food at Hampton Roads t today day FOr two weeks the eight seamen lived JIved on flour and coffee coerce and faced complete completo exhaustion of or their meaer meager mea mca ger er cr water supply before tho We pilot boat Relief RelIc met the at Cape Cope Henry The craft with a gross tonna tonnage e of ot only fought a against odds from the tin time she lio ho passed pl with her of or fertilizer fertiliser bourn for N New w York Heavy seas smashed Into her bel and high winds ripped her sails aUs The rho crew cres t fought the cle- cle it ments to a n spot oft off the New Jersey Jer sey coast when adverse winds drove them to sea Again the thc seamen fought their way a back and again they were swept far tar out to scat e 1 Ji Finally top weak Veale to continue the battle bitti up UJ the coast they headed tho the storm ridden craft Into Hampton Roads We vo prayed plenty too said saM I Oswell VEU Scott son of or the skipper D. D j M. M r. r Scott II Safe Sare In Captain Scott and hi his three sons Oswell ons Ti D. D M. M I Scott Jr and aha nil all of ot Mo Io- Io bile told tho the atory Itar or of their battle with hi high h winds and aorl seas sens The had been engaged In tho battle with the tho seas for tor neatly nearly I Continued on page vase i G 5 Half Staved Seamen on Schooner Find Succor After Stormy Fight Continued from page 1 a mouth month Provisions for about two weeks weeks the the usual sailing calling lime tinie for the voyage began voyage began running low long ago Captain Scott said A passing steamer was hailed about three three- weeks ago age and amid the bought pounds of spareribs spareribs spare spare- ribs hut but they were soon gone the skipper shipper said Tho gas cosine wept went had bad In a storm Tho eight men working lay day and night hoisted and lowered the sails saud by hand to keep the vessel going and pumped by hand band to keep the schooner from sinking Oil for or the running lights gave out anti and for nearly two t weeks the Blakley arid and lien her starving crew sailed through nights without light praying pray leg ing that no steamer would run them d down own The hand pumps were clogged provisions exhausted and the sails aila were freshly split when the schooner arrived in port Great Britain spends more than a year on motor cars cark There are aro spoken languages In inthe the world |