EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1695, 26 October 1887, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

The captain and B^coud mate of the Cardiff eteamer Treherbero h*v* been , landed at Liverpool by the eteamer lila f de Mindanao, and give particulars of the ; total wreak of their Teuel and their extraordinary treatment at the hands of the ; Spanish people. TheTreherbert, an Iron ■crair Bt earner, of 1620 tona, and m balj iait, was going from Madoria to Bilbao, { On the 7th August, during a dense fog, she a'ruck the rocks at Buitra Point, on the .north of Spain It was half-past one i o'clock In the morning, and soon afterwards several hundred Spaniards came down from the mountains and crowded ronnd the vessel. The Spanish coastguards, who aUo went on board, prevented any plundering for the lime being, bat aa noon as the crew left the mountaineers set abonfc taking whatever they conld lay their handa on. The shipwreoked people landed on the beach. Their boat) were then taken from them by the authorities, and there was no accommodation for the crew. By the payment of £5 the captain obtained a boat, and m this the men Bet out to Oamerlnai. They rowed all day and all night, and at last reached Oamerinai, where the authorities kept them on the beaoh with their effects, and would not allow them to take advantage of the shelter offered to them by the representative of the British Oonsnl. Oamerlnao is a fishing village, and the inhabitants took every opportunity of stealing some of their eff cts. At last the shipwrecked people got leave to go to the ahelter at firat tffared them, but by this time the purloining Spaniards had relieved them of a considerable part of their clothing. After this the shipwrnckad people had to undertake another long jonrney before they reaobed Oorunna. The captain and the seoond mate were brought from there to Liverpool m the lila de Mindanao, where the kind effiaeo of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society were exercised. The Treherbert'ts orew numbered 19 hands.