Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-10-09 | Page 1 | Tossed Four Days on a Stormy Sea

TOSSED fOUR DAYS ON ONA A STORMY SEA NEW YORK YORE Oct 9 After After having havin abandoned their linkin sinking vessel and I passed four days in a small open boat on a storm swept wept ocean Capt Charles I F. F Hines and the crew of soven seven men of tho the Baltimore schooner John A. A Mathesen Mathe- Mathe sen were brou brought ht here today on the I steamer teamer Seminole from San Ean Domingo The Mathesen sailed from Baltimore on Au August st 25 5 for Fortune island On September 20 she ran into a terri terrific c northeast hurricane which continued for three days The schooners schooner's masts were were whipped out of her ber her small boats were smashed and she ehe bC began leaking BO so badly that the pumps availed a nothing Fortunately there was a sixteen foot boat in the ves vessels vessel's els el's car cargo o. o This was equipped with provisions provisions pro pro- visions and water and the eight men mana managed ed to get et away For four days daya and nights th the tho little craft was tossed about Then the Seminole bound south i from New York hove in ei sight night ht took them on board and carried them thom t to Turks Turk's island where they remained until until until un un- uni un- i til the Seminole returned en on route to New York