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Show MEN LASHED TO I SINKING VESSEL N'EW YORK. Jan. 16 Without food and water for two days and during that time ltushod to the cabin hatch : of f.helr waterlogged craft to prevent thorn being washed overboard, Cap-, tain V. M. Colo and seven member! of tho crew ol the American steamer James W. Hall arrived Suiiduy on the steamship West Canon, which rescued i them Jf.u miles southeast of Cup. M., N. J. lrtually abandoning hope of being be-ing picked up alive, tno shipwrecked j crew used Its remaining dry mutch Friday night u bet lire to a dislipan1 of gasoline in a bibl desperate utumptj to mako known Its plight The flare! wits soen from tho "'Vest Canon which' Immediately rescued the men. whoi were suffering from cold and hunger.1 The schooner, which left Charleston, i 8. Cm for Boston January 6 with ai cargo of lumber, was ubundoned. Nho' registered 41 tons. When conditions' became no bad on tho endangered shtpl the captain ordered all men a lasnl themselves to the hatch of the cabin ( Except for brief Intervals when a mani would risk the fury of the seas to send up distress signals, thc-y remained that Way for two days and nights without food or drink. |