Show I BY DEATH Thrilling Experience of Fishermen Fishermen Fishermen Fisher Fisher- men Isolated Off the Maine Coast Bangor Me Mc March Burch 28 One 28 One of tho the most mo t remarkable ahle tales talc of hardship and over ever endured ed by human beIngs beIns beings be be- ings Ins comes from one of the lower lowe Islands islands IsI- IsI ands of Casco bay bar Two families tf Jf t f fourteen persons living ll on an Isolated Island thou their t nearest nel neighbor several miles away cut oft off from all means moans of obtaining food and communication with the m main ln land neall nearly starved to death before help was obtained Th families were those of oC William II Sea Sea- vey and Albert Markum who for several sev sev- several eral cral years have ha n a nameless miles from island about twenty five o fi Port I One boat carried away by 11 the tide I and smashed shed by b the time rough tough I waves walS on the time rocks were re responsible J for the time loss of oC th h means of live lIre No fishing could bo be done and amid lobsters could not nut he be secured without boats As soon as the time scanty supply of oC food hail had been consumed both families families fam fam- faced starvation and when help arrived a child of or three years year was Wl in such lUch state that tho time services of oC a l physician physician physician phy phy- were required Two weeks weel R ago 10 a a. dory clory belonging to toS S c a went out with time the tide at night ant Want of foresight prevented buildIng build build- either cither himself or nt his son from flom Ing a anew new new boat and the they depended on the for fir support Matters flatters came to a 1 climax when a storm smashed Markum's boat hoat on the rocks rocles near th the island when he lie and one of tho time S e a. boys bos were Ie returning homo home after aCler n s fishing trip Threatened With Suu Starvation atlon It Tl wa with lly that they saved themselves from drowning Wet Vet and exhausted the two men dla dragged ed them themselves to Seaveys Seavey's house e. which was wal nearest and told tole of their loss and ancl Markum quarrel 1 quarrel and Instead pf taking Immediate steps to build a new nett boat the men remained home and sulked A week passed without any exchange of greetings In n both families the supply of food was diminishing and every evely mOIse morsel was utilized Finally ally when the outlook was the gloomiest the heads of the thc two famines families families fam fam- ines compromised Seaveys Seavey's married daughter pleaded with both men and Impressed upon them the thc necessity of or ortal tal taking action They Thoy set to work to build a boat Wood could not be obtained ob ob- and It was necessary to 10 teat tear downa shed to obtain the material Th The youngest oun est of the Markum children children children chil chil- dren was wa's taken sick Nothing nourIshinG nourIshing nourishing nour nour- could be obtained and a again aln bitter words pa passed ed between Sea cy and a 1 Markum kum The latter blamed Sea Sea- e for the thc sickness of his child but hut the they finally settled matters realizing that el e every delay made macJe matters worse nC Desperate to Effort to Escape pc When hen the thc boat hoat was built buill Seavey was loo too weak to start on the trip Each member of the family was suffering and fish was the time only food left To 10 Tomake make matters worse the supply of oC matches ran out and no lire could bo be made macJe to cook cool anything Full of oC dc desperation des des- Markum his son and ancl the eldest Seavey ho boy entered the do dOl dory IT and ancI started for fOl tho the nearest point Malaga stand island Time The boat hoat leaked and it was at al Irs I- I thought thou ht they must n abandon the trip lip They put back to land and ob- ob b- b dippers MO vo that the boat boal could be bo iI hi bailed ll while the trip was being ma nude made e Starting at 6 Ii o'clock in lu the tho evening they a again aln headed for Malaga Island A hard hoard wind faced raced the three men Inthe in inthe inthe the boat and It was only their desperate desper desper- ate atc efforts that kept them Malaga Island was reached after aftel a pull of six Ix hours This island Is inhabited b by negroes Intermarried with whites and from them a supply of Hour flour vegetables and other necessities was ivas obtained Then in spite of a storm three c omen men started back bAcle In a new dOl dory loaned them then them h by the re residents of or the thc island arriving at their home earl early in the time morning It was ti 1 two u ii days b before thoy were In hi condition to start again for fUl Malaga island to return the boat It lent nt them by hy the natives When they did the they took with them the tho sick child chilli |