Show BRiTISH VESSEL IS IS- IS I WRECKED I IN STORM 1 l' l Iob h 19 British er Cuban Cul which arrived hero here last night from ow Orleans brought ht into port lort nine of thI the crew of the British ship hip Erne Ern wh which lh w wee was t rl in in a 1 hAVY Strom The Tho l Eru ruo W wt WH hound bound from Boston February ry J I for for- Buenos Ay yrea res The Cuban Cub n parsed her hr on OD February FebruaryS S in latitude 10 north noth longitude 30 GO II west irest and re tho those of the tho crew rev W who wiio IO had managed cd to k keep keel ep themselves all alive alle e t Six of the crew were drowned while hila the Hie m master of the Erne Cap thin Fiek- Fiek ctt ett his wife the second male mate and a t pas passenger n are arc re misting missing in Only the cargo na was keeping the tho wreck afloat The Tho survivors orl of r tho Erne tell a terrible ter ter- story of oC a hurricane on l February 3 which carried away tho hc ships ship's dec deck cargo and ri rigging gin tho gale ale ra raged cd antil until uri uri- un an- til February 5 when wilen Captain Fickett ts t's s wife wa was injured by br a heavy a-heavy sea which swept aboard board Later hater in tho the day the crew found that the captain n and his wife the second officer and a passenger passenger pas pas- were missing apparently having ins left the ship in in the only onh lifeboat that had not been carried awn away For three days ilay the crew had neither food nor water Some of the men became became became be be- came bv hr their sufferings s and jumped into the scar sea ea The others huddled hud had died in in the forecastle or lashed themselves them them- selves pelves to the tho rigging The Cuban sighted the wrecked vessel on the thc morning of 1 February S S 84 With much difficulty a boat was run alou alongside c and the thc nine survivors survivor were taken on tho the st steamer teamer earner The officers officer of the G Cuban ban arc are of oC the opinion that it was impossible for or the lifeboat of oC the tho Erne Erneto to remain long afloat in the mountain bi high h seas |