Show SHIPS SHIP'S CREW V KEPT ALIVE BY PRAYERS in Wave Wave- Adrift Eight Days Buffeted Lifeboat New York Troyer Prayer and Bible readings read rend sailors hugs ings c ten shipwrecked through eight tt days das ot of torture In III a It lifeboat It II was revealed rC when a hen the yacht hl reached port lort with survivors urs of the tour four masted masted schooner James I i IX Coburn Eleven Kleven men abandoned the Coburn when It II foundered on tat a 1 voyage ouge from rota to 10 Martinique The They were after the first without food bola or water four days Three of Ihl them were lre white while men I the he rest negroes negros While smash smash- log Ins seas broke against the he sides filde of their twenty foot foot ya yawl yaI I each man mun prayed to hIs bis own conception of ot a deity delty tine Ore of ot the white while men W. W H. H Mil Mil- engineer became temporarily In Insane nod and lute bis hysterical mutterings s added to lu the babel of ut prayers One of the negroes W. W Sargent sixty sixty- year j old ear old cook died Ills holy body was not nul thru thrown overboard because the theother theother theother other ten 1111 men Inen In the boat were too weary for the exertion Involved Capt Jose J J. J Pereira of ot the Coburn Co Co- burn hurn was the only survivor who ho could 11 give 1 a coherent of the terror laden days das before smoke from rota the yacht Amida curled over the horizon and the men In the lifeboats knew rescue was at rat hand Captain McLaughlin of the Amida said he wn was miles off oIT course when liln he III sighted the yawl The sur fur survivors survivors were lre not nol told lint Hint the rescue was made possible only by accident Canned meat went nd nil hardtack wen wen- put Iut Into the yawl 1 I when the schoon schooner er Ir was ns abandoned Snit Salt water soaked the crackers however I pr amid ond despite scanty rations nations the Ihl uncut meat f anon onn was us gone Pour Cour dO days 8 before they were re sawed saved there uis no food or or water aboard |