SEVEN DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 13 November 1912, Page 5

SEVEN DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.

SUFFERINGS •■ 03? SHIBMIECEED ' . . SAITOHS. ■-. ; ; .'. Aii' extraordinary narrative qf. their sufferings is told by three'of the sis'/survivors of the Liverpool 'failing Ship- Cric- ■ eieth. Castle, ttbich Was lost in ; |he South .■ Atlantic . ',' "■'■'■.' ' "'.. ',' The ship's gig, in charge of the mate i , and six blind's,'has not been' heard'of | since she left the ship.. The lifeboat con- i tained'the captain, his wife,' and'soh, arid j ' fourteen others. Four' of the number died during the same. night, and were buried at sea. The survivors had 200.ni.iles to row be' ' fore they could reach land, and id keep up their spirits a" sailor .-composed, n stirring refrain, which' all' sang repeatedly'. They had only two kegs.of water', one.bag of bread, and a few tins Of meat. All these were consumed seven days before the. men sighted the Falkland Islands. . f hey were then in the last stages of exhaustion and sUrvatidn, and had to-be carried' ashore.. When th«" three ' survivors left the Jalkla'nds two others'remained. All five wete in .danger..of Ids* ing their lives, find all three landed in Liverpool on September SO '.by the. Pacific liner Oravia have lost inost of their tc<<s, and one may yet have a foot atnputaied. .