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Show BAILOn'J- TtrmM-C XPr.WENCB Afut rir Thir-li.r' ' '"" 0lM ,llu..,.t I rr.i !,.. li unl. Almost crare, I fnun Ihelr iifT rliiK. fn hi bitten snd helpless, ten men In a boat wern picked up by the, schooner Maiihassnt forty five, miles off lllrh-land lllrh-land Unlit, snys a lloston dispatch. Then fur the first tlma It was learned Hint thn ach'siners Frank A. Palmer and Ixmlsn P. Crnry hnd been in cob llslon. and thul They bn'l been sunk ofT Thatcher s Ihlund on Wednesday evening. The survlvota were landed In lloston Monday. I If the Menly one men who niS'le up the two crews, sli were cnrrled down when the vessels sank, four died during the terrible three dovs' drift In Massa husctts bay, and finntber lie nine insane and Jnniiil overboard. Most of the snuill bonis wern nmsshed nnd some of the men were killed by the collision, but others of both rrews launched the long boat of tba I'nlincr. Inio which clam-bend clam-bend thn captains of to it Ii vessels and thirteen ottiers. Thero was not a moment mo-ment for storing food nnd water In tha boat and the rowers bad propelled It only a short distance front the schooners schoon-ers when the Palmer went down. Throe minutes Inter the Crary ills- ' appeared. Without foot! and water, drenched to the skin, spray freezing to their gnrmenls bcausn of the hitter cold, the fifteen survivors underwent sufferings Indescrllinbln, Knur men of thn Crary on r'rhlsy lay down In the bow of the boat and died. Kleven remained re-mained up (III Hnturdsy night and Krans Hnma went Insane ussier the delusion de-lusion thai bis mother beckoned to bltn and ha walked Into the sea. The others oth-ers were powerless lo restrain him. Shortly after this, the two captains derided Thai the bodies of the four dend men should be consigned t.) the deep, and. bending over them. Captain Potter of the Crary repeated aa much of tha burtnl service as hee ould remember. re-member. Then the strongest of the survivors put the bodies overbonrd. In tho three dsvs and a half that the men were afloat, Ihelr lesit drifted steadily off shore, tint It at II o'clock Holiday morning It was forty five miles off Highland llirht. There the lookout look-out on the fishing scfwioner Msnhnssct ranitht a glimpse or the bout, and within with-in half an hour the ten men were In tha cabin of the schooner. |