Show A SEAMANS experience I 1 in eighteen Elgh tren konttis he passed through two shipwrecks and Is nearly starved now york dec 8 daniel son able seaman tailed from new yolk for san francisco in the bath ship arabia a year ago last march today lie landed azain again in this city after having gone through two and spera thirty elx sir days in an open boat in the north pacific before being tossed half starved arved et upon ibe the southern most ot of the islands the arabia in rounding the born horn went to piece on the diego Rami erze reef sixty miles south of the cape Alc mcpherson Pher a with the rest 1 of the crew waa was res cued cudd he experienced various vicissitudes vicie ei until be he turned up in newcastle now castl e in 1 11 april ot of thie this year on the day 0 ot 1 that month he shipped as boatswain with fifteen other mem on the british ship alra P stafford under captain 0 W smith the stafford sailed for manila with a cargo of coal the voyage waa was u uneventful until june 0 when her cargo was discovered to be on fire the stafford wai then some hundreds of miles off Minta maanao Mi anao nau the southern island of ol the for two days the men faught the fire and at last finding this vain abandoned the chip ship to take their chances in three small boats captain smith was in charge of one ot of the tiny craft which was laden will with seven m men en the second mate churchill had charge of the second with three men the boatswain epperson Epp ereon commanded the third in fn there were six men the captains ap talus buat vaa v aa adrift for 18 jaye days before the men inen reached land and was out for SG days before teaching mindanao the men buffered suffered beverly fore for food the tle last tin un days they had only two sticks of macaroni apiece a day on which to after iea chine land the men were cared for and sent on to hone hong kong they sailed from that port to he united beates the mates boat willi with tour four men has never been heard irom since he be was lost eight n of by the others in a squall |