Show S WITH WT MANIAC He Floated for Days Dys on an Upturned Boat Just this side of deaths death's door BO so 10 feeble and nc emaciated that he could not stand C Capt pt Harry Har Olsen Osen o of Sa San Pedro taken from his capsized capsize schoon schooner J Belle Bele of San Pedro edro and brought here her to the th home of story fishing people tells a 8 strange stange bien Olsen was on one on of ot two sailors who had faced death deth by starvation and ad thirst on the channel The other unfortunate was wasa wasI a sailor salor named Peter Wallace Valace In a b battie battle bat bat- tte t- t tie tle te of strong constitutions a against killing conditions Wallace Walace lived lve for tor fourteen days and Olsen survived after seventeen days of terrible suffering Aturo Valdez a boy employed here by Sebastian Sebatan Larco a fisherman saw a capsized capsized capsized cap cap- sized vessel four miles mies off of shore near nea Goleta Goleta north of here Making to It i he saw saw a a wild eyed skeleton like skeleton man clinging to its is side feebly and motioning for help With ih some difficulty he carried cared Capt Cape Olsen to his boat The Te man map fainted when rescued but revived when water was poured down his hia swollen throat The capsized vessel vessel being in good condition was wa secured secure with wih a small smal anchor achor and Valdez brought Olsen to port On the Friday after Christmas Olsen and Peter Wallace Walace sailed saied from San Pedro Pero for lor the Channel islands in the Belle The Bele Te boat bat is Js thirty seve thirty seven feet long carrying a 8 horsepower 12 gasoline engine The he sea was waa rough but no trouble was expert until they were off f Black Back Point below Hueneme when a fierce norther caught the boat A mountainous sea came UP tip and late In the day while the engine was stopped for a few moments a great wave capsized the craft and threw the men into the water They Tey struggled to the vessels vessel's side aide for she lay oi on her beam ends her masts on ore o the surface of tho water When she went over so Olsen says every particle of food and water was lost But they feared leare nothing worse Wore than a day of privation expecting to be driven ashore or be picked up The sea beat over them continually and both were out when the seas ss subsided the next morning I S T Taken Ir by a strong strong current the boat boat headed r rby for Anacapa island Several sails Mis and Olsen he passed says was seen sen e n but left lef to die Hunger and thirst drove the two men nearly mad They ate seaweed and kelp and drank sea sea water S Wallace Valace at the close cose of the fourth day became insane Inane and Olsen's mind also aHo wandered Yet they clung alse on drifting north When oft off San cung or Miguel Migel Island a current caught them and they made for San Nicholay Wallace Valace grew violent mae but still Ise clung to all the boat a Olsen le leo fed d him on ore seaweed although u almost Im gone o h him him- self sell Finally FInaly the boat drifted drife near port With land in ire sl sight ht Wallace died by Olsen's side He had been unconscious for two days saw him drop off oft the boat and gave himself e up for lost The rescue ut r Te M was made Just In time Olsen from 10 pounds had shrunk to tn less than tha 10 He has been fed sparingly twice since his Santa rescue Barbara Cal Cal Cor St St. Louis Luis Post Dispatch Babara |