The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1899, Page 21

e s mark a chalkline 4 1f T were asked to e crew. who had a g « ed his nefarfous sc FUITING up a8 mu took this stormy night, when and days I bad been countng upon that were all aloft shortening sall, to carry out his purposs. He bad two accomplices. One of the men was on the lookout and the other two hid in the fo'cas’le. The man on the lookout let go the foretopmast staysail, and the mate and the boy, who were on deck, went forward-to haul the sail down before it thrash to pleces. *“It was two bells In the morning. The men who were hidden In the fo'cas’le fol- lowed close upon the mate’s heels. They were armed with heavers. When the mate had the down haul they rushed up behind him and struck him one blow after another upon the head and shoulders. I wes at the wheel. The ship was caught fa & gale of wind and Wwas tumbling around like a frightened squab when the mate rolled off of the fo'cus’le on to the deck and staggersd aft. He man- 1 to mumble out: ‘They've done me there are thres of them,’ then he fell insensible into the pllot-house. *““The night was blackand' the only things that could be re the sheets and the men « ! aloft to bo'swains minutes later of the storx »nd mate and two were on hand five he thunder and fury d my voice into aa In- 4 I\ I sent a boy up+ ot a Nght' I shoutsd. God! gt a n seemed an eternity until the rie ed forward. One bo'swain oar- ried & club and lantern. The second mate bo'swaln carried a pistol. When the men aloft saw the light moving forward they started to come down and I knew then that a mutiny was on, so I grabbed my pistols, took my stand by the maln rig- ging and shouted through the trumpet: ‘Go back and furl the safls. I'll kill every d——d one of you if you come out of that rigging. I'll shoot you as you come down.’ “The sails were flapping around and would soon have been iorn into shreds. It was one of the worst storms I ever encountered off the Cape. I kept my eye on the rieging and walted fearfully for news from the fo'cas'le. “In the meantime the trio found one of the offenders in his berth pretending to be sick and offering that as his excuse for not going aloft. The other two e un- der the berths behind the chests and when the second mate probed them with his sword howls and curses followed. The man in the berth smashed the lantern, @out out the light, and stabbed the bo'- swain with a sheath knife four times, be- sides cutfing the main artery of his left arm. Then followed a struggle In the dark. After a while they came stagger- ing forward, prisoners, bo'swains and sec- ond mate, each lcaving a trail of blood be- hind him. “‘I've got five stabs in ma ‘and am bleeding like a pig.’ cried the bo'swain “1 soon put the prisoners in irons and " T o e ‘8he Was Under Bare Poles™ Jeft a man to guard the orew In the rig- ging. The storm was finereasing in violence and the ship was rolling so that I bad to brace myself in the door of the companion way while I sewed up the wounds of the bo’swain. The group was a sorry sight. Tha three prisoners in irons sullen and bleeding; the first mate un- consctous and the bo'swain gushing wavas of blood at each roll of the ship. The steward held the candle and the carpenter supported the man while I sewed up the wounds. I looked as bloody as & butcher before I had finished. I slipped about on the floor and lost my needle In the blood and had to go to the medicine chest for another. While I was gone the bo'swain sald to Barr, the ringleader of the mutiny: ‘You ought to be killed for this night's work." ““1 wish I had killed you when I had the chance,” Barr replled. “Then I came out again in time to take a hand, 2nd to this day I bear the scars on my hand from the blow 1 gave the fellow. It took me until six bells a. m. to finish my surgical work. I kept the men in § untfl I arrived In port, and the ringlead was ¥ent to San Quentin, but he died be- fore his term expired ““The wworst storm | ever had was off the Loo Choo Istands. It broke In all of its fury on Thanksgiving day in 1866. I had two typhoons in five days: The islands were in my way and 80 I had te go on the starboard tack to avold them, and got right into the vortex of the typhoon. My middle head was twisted off. The spume drift was so.thick that I coudn't see any- thing at all. The sea was as white as snow with foam and the barometer fell to 27.50. I was tled up to the after bitts on deck on that Thanksgiving and also the day following. 1 thought it was not pos- sible for the ship to live. Bhe was un- I der bars and put o phoon came trough of th lay with her “We had I had furlsd every safl e the ty- gaskets befc continued to fall. My or sails, clew up and fur been perforn wher dropped on us violently for twe terval of ha loosed one wear the s get the whiol us from t away. in the typhoon. erated, so w the ship woul calm and I 1 to try to we could m burst on ol the safl “I kept s wheel, ‘K “The hel off.’ e with the rudder f; sea and was gone. We put rail and se ed to the and given t and we were « reached port upon our “I shall never fc of 1868. 1 was c Beminole, and my v the voyage. We wer York, down off N & beautiful day in sight, but abo lland. It was was not & eloud ree-quarters of & Continued on Page Twenty-four, -