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Show Terrible Tale of a Shipwrecked Crew Halifax, April 7. A dispatch from Louis-burg, Louis-burg, C. B., gives the experiences of those who were in the dory which landed on Guyon Island on Monday. They got adrift from their vesseUJthe American schooner "ELzem Law," while setting trawls on the western banks, and not discovering their vessel they all got in one dory. After four days out one succumbed through thirst, and on the seventh day another who had .become insane died. On the eighth day the survivors sur-vivors landed at Guyon Island, where they were kindly cared for by the keeper o the lighthouse, who sent them here. The body of the man who died t is greatly lacerated. lacer-ated. One of his arms is cut off at the el- l bow. His throat is much torn and pieces are cut out of each thigh. This was done i after the man's death by the other man who died, in order to obtain food and drink. The names of the deceased are James Mo-Donald, Mo-Donald, of, East Point. P. E. L, and August McDonald, of Broom Cove, C. B. The sur- vivors are Colin Chisholm, of Harbor Bouche, and Angus McEachen, of Long Point, Strait of Causa. The following further particulars of the experience of the men in the dory have been received: On Thursday evening Jas. Mc-DonaId,the Mc-DonaId,the weakest and most thinly clad of the four, began to sink and died, after bidding his companions an affectionate and tearful farewell. The body of the dead man had hardly grown cold when Angus McDonald McDon-ald said he must have something to eat and drink or he would die also. Despite the protestations of Chisholm and McEashan he took a knife and cut the right arm off the dead man, sucking the blood and devouring the flesh. He offered some to the others but they refused it though some hours, later Chisholm tasted a piece of the flesh but was unable to swallow it, McDonald having sucked suck-ed all the blood from the severed arm. Angus MoDonald said he was going to cut the throat of the dead man, but was for some time restrained from doing so. . During Friday night, however, while the other two were sleeping, he committed the act and finding no blood, cut a piece of flesh from each thigh, drinking the blood and eating a portion por-tion of the fleBh. On the following day he became delirious and before night he died. They got into a heavy drift of ice, cakes of which they hauled into the boat and eagerly licked with their tongues to -allay their thirst. On. Saturday night they came in sight of Guyon Island, some miles rff the coast of Cape Breton, but their exhaustion was so great that they were unable to reach it. , They tried to sleep through the night, but the piercing cold and heavy sea prevented pre-vented their doing so. In the morning they managed to get to land. |