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Show BAILORS' TERRIOLE EXP.ERIENCB Aflomt for Tliren Ilnjrs In Nnmll Ilont Utng Aliiiot, Crairil Wlifn Itcsruml. Almost ;crazedrfrora their sufferings,' frost-bitten and liolpfossYton men in a boat wero picked up by the schooner Manhassot forty-flvo miles off' Highland High-land lghtr,Bttys. a UoBtijn dispatch. Then for (ho first time lt'waii ica'rnod thBt tlio schooners Franlr A. Palmer' and Louiso D, Crnry had been In collision, col-lision, and that thoy had boon sunk, oft' Thatcher's Inland on Wednesday 'evening. Tho survivors woro landed In Boston Monday. Of tho twenty-one men who made up thp twp crows, six,, 'woro carried down when tho vessels sank, four died during tho tgrrlblo 'three days' drift In Mnssnchusctts bay, and nnothor became Insane .and Jumpod overboard. Most of tho small bonis wpro smashed and oorao (it the men wero killed by tho collision, but others of both crows launched tho long bont of tho Palmer, Into which clambered clam-bered tho caplalns of both vcssols and thirteen others. There was not a moment mo-ment for storing fopd and water In the boat and the rowers had propollcd it only a short distance from tho schooners schoon-ers when tho Palmer wont down. Three 'minutes later tho Crary disappeared. dis-appeared. Without food and Wntor, drenched to tho skin, spray froczlng to tholr garments becauoo of tho, bitter cold, tho fifteen survivors undorwent sufferings Indescribable. Four men of tho Crary on Friday Jay down In the bow of the boat and died. Elovon remained re-mained up till Saturday night and Franz Bantn wont tnsano usdor tho delusion de-lusion .that his mother beckoned to him 'and ho walked Into the son. Tho others oth-ers woro powerless to restrain him. Shortly nftor this, tho two captains decided that the bodies of tho four dead men should bo consigned to the deep, and, bending over them, Captain Pottqr of tho prary repeated, aa much of tho burial service as hpo ould, remember: re-member: Then tho strongest of the urvlvors put tho bodies overboard, In tho thrco days and n half that the men woro afloat, their boat drifted tcadlly off shoro, until' nt 8 .o'clock Sunday morning It was forty-flvo mllos 'off Highland light. There the lookout, look-out, on tho fishing schooner Manhassot caught a glimpse of tho, boat,- and with-. In half an hour tho ton men were in the cabin of tho schooner. |