Show four of the crew of an american bark 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 ork the story of the wreck of the american barl prussia on bleak staten island terra del fuego the land of fire is a thrilling one six of the crew have been landed heie by the steamer from montevideo four perished and three are in a hospital at puntas arenas the prussia wa owned in san francisco and sailed from norfolk va march 27 with a cargo of coal for san francisco on the night of june 19 which was stormy and bitterly cold while cap tain johnson was trying to make the new ear s inland light the barl went ashore and soon broke up eleven of the thirteen men in the crew sue ceedee in reaching a strip of sand sheltered somewhat by overhanging rocks at dawn it was discovered that sabata the japanese cook and hammond a sailor were miss ing the strip of sand was narrow and bige cliffs barred and escape across the island captain johnson soon died of ex ha astion and was buried in the sand the survivors had a few provisions and subsisted off these meantime a boat was laboriously built from the wreckage but tear that the provis ions would not last led to two of the men S and joseph trying to work across the mo to obtain help crawled back a few days later with his hands and feet badly frozen he re ported had died from the cold the food gave out and the men lived on shell fish eventually after much danger mate john hunter carpenter carl stark and seaman heine reached new york s island in the frail boat a distance of thirty miles lieuten ant del gado in charge of the light house there rescued the suffering men on staten island after much peril and delay they were kindly nursed at the light house and then taken to punta arenas |