The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 13, 1893, Page 2

A WOMAN SHIPWRECKED. Gne Month at Sea in a Little Cockelsheil. Mrs. Pederson Tells ot her Miraculous Escape from Death—Sixteen liun- dred Miles in a Sixteen-Foot Boat. ; The wreck of the Naronic lends additional interest to the story of her escape from the Lady Lampson told by the wife of Captain Peder son of that wrecked bark which struck a cora! reef in the Pacific on the morning of January 16, leaving her crew to make their way 1,600 miles inan open boat to Honolulu. Mrs. Pederson reached San Fran cisco a few days ago, and the Gold en Gate City is agog over her suf ferings. Mrs. Pederson was a comely,dark haired young woman up to the morning of January 16, lacking a few days of her thirty-fourth birth day; now she is 50 in appearance: tanned, wrinkled and prematurely aged. It will take months to restore ker to as much asa ghost of what she was before her month of expos ure in an open cockle-shell of a ship’s boat, wave-tossed and wave-washed, burned and blistered by.a tropical sun, water soaked from waist to feet, on short allowance of water and indifferent food, with the com panionship of an insane man. The Lady Lampson cleared for Australia and had pleasant weather “I was asleep in my birth when the crash came,” said the captain's wife toan Examiner reporter, ‘and at first could hardly realize what had happened. It did not seem much ofashock, but the awful grindisg of the keel and the bottom on the sharp coral and the’ rush of water through the holes torn by the rocks sent me on deck flying. I was bare footed and in my night dress. In- side of an hour, I think, we shoved off. I slid down a rope just as the sailors did, and away we went. “To show you in what haste we left we only took time to get one bag of hard bread and two kegs of water. “We were well clear of the ship by daylight, heading for Palmyra Island, 40 miles away so my husband said. A big sweil was running, but there was not a breath of breeze. Tt could not have helped us much in any case, for we had no sail. I thought we were going along, but day after day my husband and Mr. Muller took their observations at noon and found we were just where we were 24 hours before save for the drifting to the westward. There are tides and currents in the middle of the ocean just the same as there arealong the mainland, and these were against us. “Oh, those weary days! I can hardly tell what occurred. A bite of biscuit and a sup of water seemed to make hunger and thirst more torturing, and at last there was not evenasup of water. Seven days had gone by before the keg was pronounced empty, and at every noon for three of them the verdict had been the same—we had made no progress. As a last rest my hus- band changed the boat’s-course and headed back for the reef, in the hope that the Lady Lampton was still holding together. “Of course the current which pre- vented us from reaching Palmyra helped us in getting back to the reef. We made it in two days, and when we were close by I don't know whether we were most joyful or sad. The dear old bark had set tled considerably deeper than when we had left her, but was otherwise unchanged, as far as could be seen. “We had been out nine days, and during that time I had not been on my feet but once or twice for ‘a brief minute ortwo. Though I left the berk unaided, I was as helpless as a baby about boarding her again. The men had to riga tackle and hoist me to the deck, ani the poor fel- lows were so weak that it took three of them todo it. Everybody wanted to rest, but there was no time. The swell was growing all the time, and the Lady Lampson was grinding and tearing herself to splinters on the rocks, and threaten- ing to go to pieces every minute “First there had to be sails made for the two boats, and there were only two sail makers inthe crew.| “Never. My husband is going|in charge of Secretary Dawson. jiaa week. ptain of the big three-masted | cook was kept! schoouer W. F. Witzemana on Sun- | jisions in his day, but I shall stay here. The Wit- We stayed zemaun is a big, strong vessel and on the, wreck three nights and near looks stea but it’s the! when the waves were | sea all th awful sea, and} breaking on the half|I want nothing more to do with it. » Lady Lampson work | ed and creaked so that there was no doubt of her going to pieces in a} Homestead, Pa. April 6.—A ro short time. }mance of unusually unfortunate and | “We got away finally on the morn | pathetic details was discovered yes-| ing of January 27, with the waves jterday when two detectives from | breaking great combers, all} Toronto, Canada, discovered in Mr. | jaround us till the launching of the/#nd Mrs. Asa Barr the relationship | boats was all but an impossibility. | of brother and sister and the heirs} It was on the afternoon of Monday, toa fortune left by a relative of the 13th of February before we Mrs. Barr's deceased mother by reached the wharf at Honlulu. Sev-|ad6ption. Twenty five years ago| enteen days. Better call it 17 years. | two waifs, brother and sister, were “We had one bit of luck—the| abandoned by German immigrauts at Castle Garden. They were legal- ly adopted, one by a maa named Asa Barr, the other by a Mrs. Evans. The latter soon after moved to Phil adelphia, where she brought up her adopted daughter, giving her a good education. Twenty years later the boy, grown to manhood, moved to Philadelphia, where he followed the trade of a painter. Chance drew the brother and sister together. Barr was captivated with the girl and wooed, won and married her. Dur ing the late strike they moved to Homestead, where Barr found em- ployment. The adopted danghter Water cas}: and filled, and the busy fishing for 5 half submerged pantry. pr y and safe, same, the Married His Sister. } in weather was fine for two days and the men an opportunity to! complete rigging the boat for rough | water, something they bad comene ed but had not had time to finish | before leaving the wreck. The work | consisted of decking over the bow a little with canvass and raising the | sides with strips of canvas, so as to| make a ‘washboard,’ the sailors call it; meauing something to stop the} wash of the waves. When the wash | board was rigged it was high enough to shelter me from the worst of the spray, so that I was dry enough} about the upper part of my body, but it seemed as if my limbs were of Mrs. Evans recently became an always afloat. Try as they might) heir to considerable property in Can- they could not'keep the boat entire- /2da. Detectives were sent to trace ly dry. the heiress, and in their investiga- | tion discovered the true relationship of Mr. and Mrs. Bara to be that of brother and sister. The terrible knowledge prostrated Mrs. Barr, and her husband is grief-stricken. No has resulted from their marriage. Legal proceedings will be instituted to sever the marriage | bonds. and the couple will leave for London. Canada, to claim the fer- tune. gave “And there I sat for a!l those long weary days. Ido not think I} was on my feet more than twice dur ing the whole time, and the short reliefs I got during the few hours | of calm and smooth water by sitting onthe thwarts only made in the harder to return to the old position. One of the times I stood up was on the second night out, when I man | aged, under cover of the darkness, | to put on a suit of my husband’s | underclothes, and these never left | my body until in Honolulu. Isc Ue A Danger Discovered Omaha, Neb, April 6.-Great ex- jcitement has been caused here by the report of the burial practices of a party of Russian Jews living in the vicinity of Central Park. It is alleged that these people have been burying their dead ecbildren during | the past winter in cracker boxes less “Some days it was stormy, and we were in terror of being capsized; | other days there was nota breath of air, and we were stewed in our wet clothes, and from stewing and steaming, we passed through stages | Xa of broiling and baking until our! than a foot from the surface of the skins were like leather. I had no ground. Centra! Park is surround- hat only a towel wound around my |ed by several thousand inhabitants head turban fashion. By dampen-|and the stench and di > which ing this frequently I saved myself} will come from these decaying from sunstroke or brain fever. Our! bodies during the approaching sum- thirst was awful, but there was only iiner will be most productive of epi- half pint of water twice a day for | demies and will prove a nuisance to each person. Of course when it! the entire city. These statements rained we fairly gorged ourselves |are made by several witnesses aud with the fluid and filled our two | there seems no doubt of the truth casks again, but it would never do | of to take chances on rain 80 we were! two do ions. There are about families of these Russian | | Jews living in that part of town in “Food was served out on allow-| the most squalid filth and abandon- ance. Two mealsa day we had and | ment. The health officers have been every person was given one ship’s| notified and will proceed at once to | biseuit—lard tack—a soda cracker | make a thorough investigation. and an equal share of one tin of | preserved meat. “Here is the blanket I wore for, Bombay, April 6.—Mir Khudadad ! shelter,’ she added, fishing out a) Khan, ruler of Khelat, having sus-| sodden woolen cloth, “and it was pected five of his numerous wives of the only one in the boat. You! infidelity, caused them to be cruelly would not think it was once white, | put to death. would you?” all on allowance. Worse Than Bluebeard. | In answer to the de- ;mand of the British Indian govern-| Looking at the dingy, streaked | ment that he should liberate his sur-| fabric, stained almost every imagin-| viving prisoners and should give an/| able color, I promptly admitted | explanation of his course, he has that her surmise was correct. jagreed to deliver up the prisoners “But the worst was over for me!/ to the British agent. After seven or eight ; The cruelties of which the Khan days I did not seem to be alive. I) has been guilty appearing indefensi- was almost insensible to suffering | ble, tne British agent has imposed and simply sat and waited death to| upon him a fine of 40,000 rupes, the relieve me. | money to be devoted to the benefit “Of course I roused up a little| of the families of those who haye when we saw land, and for the first | been unjustly executed. This will time in a year felt some kind of fear; mean a reduction of the annual sub- The sailors danced about so that I| sidy paid to the Khan by the Brit- thought they would upset the boat, | ish government from 100,000 rupees which would have been too bad af-| to 60,000 rupees for the current ter they had gone so far and endur-|year. The conduct of the Khan is ed so much. all the more surprising for the rea. “Well that's all. Everybody! son that he is 64 years old and his was very kind to us in Honolulu and | peen on the throne since 1857, and I can never forget the ladies in the| has been generally well behaved. Eagle Hotel. They washed me and 'sion commi | the south Pacific. THE P' D. M FE Hiren ¢ By the Judge Loe ta Honored Washingtor ership has be tied at last. tin the way ‘of the correspondents had predicts a| but, it is agreed by nearly every one} in a way which will insur e that bee} reau against four y: more of the} methods in vogue under Mr. Raum. | The president sent to the sevate | to day the nomination of Judge Wm. | Lochren of Minn.,to be com ioner | of pe Mr. Cleveland bad de-! voted weeks to the study of the qual-| ifications of the for the position and finally decided that the judge possessed the requi-! site business capacity, legal knowl-j edge and physical strength to fulfill the arduous duties expected of him and his nomination follewed. | Judge Lochren’s reputation as a jurist is of the first order and his military record 1s particularly bril- liant. Heis 57 years of age ard was born in Vermont, where he was educated in the public schools and was admitted to the bar. He went to Minnesota in 1857 and practiced his profession, but when the war broke out he was one of the first men in the state to abandon his civil sions. men recommended pursuits and enlist in the first Min-|_ nesota regiment. His services dur- ing the war was severe, culminating at Gettysbirg, where his regiment made the famous charge that check ed Picket’s onslaught. Of the 300 men who made that charge only 40 came out whole and young Locbren, who started on the rush as a first lieutenant of company E. came off in command of the regiment, every officer above his grade having been killed or wounded. When the war was over Judge Lochren returned to Minnesota and resumed the practice of law. He was very popular and was twice the democratic caucus nominee for a seat in the United States senate. In 1882 he was appointed by a republican governor to 2 judgeship onthe cir- cuit bench and at the expiration of his appointment was twice re-elected to the same place without opposi- tion. He has never sought office and his popularity is best attested by the fact, that although he is a democrat, his candidacy for the place was endorsed by the unanimous vote of the republican legislature of Min- nesota War Inthe South Pacific. Honolulu, March 29.—The mis- ;Sionary steamer Morning Star arriv- ed here March 27, after a cruise of 15,000 miles along the Marshal Gil bert, Carolina aud other islands of When the Morn- ing Star left Ponape, of the Carolina group, the Ponapeans were still at war with the Spanish and several murders had been committed. One night three Spanish deserters, who j had been eugaged by a native fami |ly to work for them for three months, foully murdered the whole family and went back to the Spanish settle- ment. In revenge for this massacre | three Spaniards were cut to pieces by the natives. The Spanish ship San Juan was the only war ship at Ponape. The Germans opposed the cruise of the Morning Star through the Triumph and Marshal Islands. The natives of the Marshal Islands} were very hostile to the Germaus| and have sworn deadly enmity. The! German warship Olga bad been at | Ialuit, but bad * proceeded on her cruise before the Morning Star ar-| rived. ; The provisional government has recalled J. M. Smith, minister to the United States at Washington, and consul general Pratt at Sau Francis-) = co. Texas railroad men have raised money {to be sent to the sisters in Sedalia to finish the chapel in the} * M., K. & T. hospital. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-/| dressed me and cared for me like a baby, crying over my sufferings all the time. “No. that’s not quite all. One of the worst things we jhad to endure was the insanity of Mate Brown, who lost his mind through privation and raved ot sharks and cannibals. We feared for our lives from him.” “Will you ever go to sea again?” ward for any case ot Catarrh that can- not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. The Missouri World's fair exhibit pepe cured Ey Halle-< nt Z . + fo eney & Co. Ee jiedo,O will be ready for inspection on open- LS raniicenseriectt les Moole. ing day. Two car loads of cases for | J. Cheney fur the last 15 years, and be- the agricultural and bird exhibit will | USS him perfectly honorable in his § business transactions and financially be shipped on Friday. Two car] able tocarry out any obligations made 5 by that firm. jloads of forestry products will be West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, forwarded soon, which will complete | Toledo, Ohio. a Kinnan & Mar- oe = . Vin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, ©. that exhibit. On ay as S| Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internal- sioner Gwyn will move his office toj1y, acting directly upon the blood and Chicago, leaving the St. Louis office | Mucous surtaces of the system. Price 75¢ per bottle. Scld by {all druggists. 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