TERRIBLE BUFFS KINGS ON A SAFT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1454, 12 January 1887, Page 2

TERRIBLE BUFFS KINGS ON A SAFT.

The New York Times of November 4th contains the following account of the lomb of the barque Tresuurora with Beven han>B, and the subsequent rescue «if the remainda- of the crew, aix m number, >n an exhaisted co rlition, af er being five days ov a raft without food or shelter : — The Bcl'ooner Anna Hutcheson airived hHre yesterday having rescued a portion ot the crew of the £panibh barque Trosmrora, when cff tha Tortugus on Octobei 14th 'Che captain of the schooner stutes tl) >t at 2 p m. on that day a piece of wreckage, to which several persons appeared to be clinging, was sighted a short distance ahead. The schooner's course was quickly altered, and m a short time they were alongside the wreckage, dix men m the last stages of exhaustion were clinging tj tbe raft upon which t;iey floated ; two of them were d\ing and insensible. The clothing had been waahed from the lower portion of the lim' s of the six met, and their legs, hands, and feet were badly swollen " With much difficulty they were lifted aboard the vessel, craving for food and water m panish and broken Eng ish. After sora^ horns they recovered strength, and stated that they were the survivors of the Spanish barque Tresaurora, which had foundered gix days previous! y, and that seven others of the crew went down with her. She was bound from Barcelona to ilavannah, and on October Bth w»s disabled m a hurricane, and foundered Kef ore they could adopf means to leave her. The second mate, cook, and five seamen went down with the vessel and never rose. Che captain, mate, and four seaman reached the surface after be ng carried down with the wreckage. They succeeded m reaching the top of the deckhouse, which was washed overboard by tbe soa before the vessel sank. To this they clung for fiv9 days and nights I without a particle of food or a drop of fresh water. Several times they were waehed off the house, and with difficulty | reached it again. Sails were eeen, but at a distance. Tbe captain and mate became deliriius on the fourth day. When iescu* d, the men were unabie to move hands or feet.