Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-07-08 | Page 39 | Wreck Survivor Tells Tale of Hardships

WRECK SURVIVOR TEllS I I TAlE Of HARDSHIPS I I I IBy By International News Service PENSACOLA Fla July 7 An An Unusual unusual unusual un un- usual story of danger and hardship at t tea sea ea was wa-s told here by Angelo Dover one of ot the three survivors of ot the American I scho mer Marcus which was recently lost in a storm miles east of ot Bermuda Dover and two companIons companions compan compan- ions lashed themselves to a piece of ot timber and drifted about four days and nights before they were picked up by a Spanish steamer r and taken to Fayal Azores The sailed from St. St Andrews an and l twenty-seven twenty days out ran Into a torm storm She ra ran rari before the wind for twenty-four twenty hours but her masts were finally broken out and her deck load of ot lumber went overboard Captain James McLeod and wife were washed overboard overboard over over- board hoard and lost Second Mate Howard Shupe and Seaman McNeill l soon lost their holds and went overboard to their deaths Some of ot the other members of the crew jumped into the water In Inthe Inthe inthe the belief bellet that the vessel was sinking Dover was among the latter but before he dived into the tossed storm seas he secured five fathoms of ot small rope With this he lashed himself Daly Dusette Dusette Dusette Du- Du sette a Frenchman and a boy bor to a apiece apiece apiece piece of timber After they had been in the water about twelve hours they became unconscious Eight days later Dover and his bis two companions awoke in the hospital ward of the Spanish liner and learned that they had been un unconscious in the water four days and still unconscious on board ship for four more days