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Show als CAST UPON jLEAK ISLE Four of the Crew of an American Bark Perish and Others Endure Horrible Sufferings. Boat Built From Wreckage Is Used to Seek Assistance For Suffering Men Marooned on Island In "the Land of Fire." New York. The story of tho wreck of the American bark Prussia, on bleak Stiiteu Island, Term del Fucgo, 'the laud of lire," Is a thrilling one. Six of the crew have been landed hero by tho steamer from Montevideo. Four perished and three are in n hospital at PuntuB Arenas. The Prussia wns owned In San Francisco and snlled from Norfolk, Va March 27, with n cargo of coal for San Francisco. On the night of Juno 19, which was storm' and bltteily cold, while Captain Cap-tain Johnson wns trying to make the New Year's Island light, tho bark went ushore nnd soon broko up. Kluven of the thirteen men in the crew succeeded suc-ceeded In reaching a strip of sand, sheltered somewhnt by overhanging rocks. At dawn It wns discovered that Snbatu, tho Japanese cook, nnd Harry Hammond, a sailor, wero missing. miss-ing. Thu strip of sand wnn narrow nnd huge cllfTa barred and escape across tho Island. Cnptaln Johnson soon died of exhaustion ex-haustion nnd was burled in tho snud. The survivors had a few provisions and subsisted off these. Meantime a Imnt wns laboriously built from the wreckage. Hut fear that tho provisions provis-ions would not Inst led to two of thu men, S. Prothlu and Joseph Hostcth, trying to work nrross tho mountains to obtain help. Prothln crawled back n few days later with his hands and feet bndly frozen. Hostcth, ho reported, re-ported, hnd died from tho cold. Tho fond gave out nnd tho men lived ou shell fish. Eventually, nfter much danger, Mnto John Hunter, Carpenter Carl Stark ami Seaman Heine reached New York's Island, In tho frnll boat, a distance of thirty miles. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Del dado, In chnrgo of tho light house there, rescued thu suffering men on Stnteu Inland nfter much peril and delay. They wero kindly nursed nt the light house nnd then taken to Punta Arenas. |
