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Show ROUGH EXPERIENCE OF STRANDED PROSPECTORS . VALDEZ,Alaaka, Aug. . Attracted by sigasls of distress from Bardwell island, a barren rock soar the eatraaee to Resurrection bar, tha steamship Bertha, oa Angnst Z, sent not a smsll boat and took off two ragged and starving starv-ing man, Ckarles Alexander and Alvia Aadereoa, who had boon oa tho ialaad for two month and who moat haro perished per-ished but for tho coming of the Bertha. Tho mea aailod from Kodiah, May 11. ia a dory oa a prospecting voysg. About Juae 1 a atorm upset their eraft of Bardwell ialaad aad all their provi-aionu provi-aionu aad outfit were loet ia tho sea. They managed to- Ret aakoro bat with prnetieallT nothing but their elotheo. Tho mea. who aad a few matches, lived for a month on muaaele. elama, roting gulls, aeaweed and wild herbo which they rooked. After their ma to hoe rave out, about July 1. they ate their food raw. Their wretehednea waa ia-rreaaed ia-rreaaed br the faet -that two veaaela paaaed without noticing thair signals of dietreea. |