Show SAILORS experience afloat for three day days la in sin sm tit boat being almost crazed wl e i rescue I 1 almost crazed from their sufferings rost frost bitten and helpless ten men in a boat weri were picked up ty by the schooner Man manhasset hasset forty five miles off high land light says a boston dispatch then for the first time it was learned that the schooners frank A palmer and louise 13 crary jr ary had been in col dision and that they had been sunk off thatcher That chea s aslan 4 wednesday evening the survivors were landed in boston monday of the twenty one men who made up the two crews six were carried down when the vessels sank four died during the terrible three days drift in massachusetts bay and another became insane and lumped jumped overboard most of the small boats were smashed and some of the men were killed by the collision but others of both crews launched the long boat of the palmer into which clam bared the captains of both vessels and thirteen others there was not a moment for storing food and water in the boat and the rowers had propelled it only a short distance from the schoon ers when the palmer went down thre ahr e minutes later the crary dis appeared without food and water drenched to the sl in spray freezing to their garments because of the bitter cold the fifteen survivors underwent sufferings indescribable four men of the crary on friday lay down in n the bow of the boat and died eleven re up till saturday night and franz banta went insane uder the de lusion that bis his mother beckoned to him and he walked into the sea the oth ers were powerless to restrain him shortly after this the two captains decided that the bodies of the four dead men should be consigned to the deep and bending over them captain potter of the crary repeated as much of the burial service as hec hee remember then the strongest of the survivors put the bodies overboard in the three days and a halt half that the men were afloat their boat drifted steadily off shore until at 8 0 clock sunday morning it was forty five miles off highland light there the look out on the fishing schooner manhasset Man hasset caught a glimpse of the boat and with in half an hour the ten men were in the cabin of the schooner I 1 |