Eaten by Sharks

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 81, 17 December 1885, Page 4

Eaten by Sharks

■■ <» ■ . A recent ifsiie'of the Hawaiin Ga:_3tte says:— By the arrival of the _ .steamer W. G. Hall.in Honolulu news > was received of a terrible occurrence <?ff the coast of Hawaii, near the Kuu d Lfri'ctV resulting iv the loss of tlie soiiuoner Hokoiki, owned by M.ark iWbinson, the captain, his wife, his | s.~.n,' and- -tiro of the crew. The circumstances as far as can at present be jil'tained from the natives are that the Schooner was running for a lee; having ; oiicouiftered neavy weather," when a squall struck the Vassell ca|feizing : _er, trater. The captain's .wife, and child /almost' immediately disappeared^ and .' tiJon: afterwards the .; tell-tale fins: of minierous sharks 1 were- seen. A boat Trhicb. had been towing; as.tern.tof 4he "'t-psptazßd vessel. was at, Qncp.secuf^d by two of the ,menj ;^p.got.uito.it.:and pudeavored ,po rescue the ,others— - t\reein : nuinber---wh(). were y;et in me : Av-ater. The sharks in tlie meantime hud attacked, the captain, fulling Km under the water and tearing his;leg • inahorrible manner.' While endea- - ; voring to get him into the /boat^he '„ rescuers: were horrified^to see ariother of ; the voracious monsters; fasten on : the^other leg of the unfortunate man, and multiMing that als6. 3 -"Tlie two sailors in the wuter also ; fare^L b^,dly , ' v one iiaving> pie^e ojE, -J^"4esli faken from the Mi^ side by a bite from one . : of the nian-eaters, t_e other loling the greater-portion' of the 1 left arnii /The captain was hauled- into the :boat, as also the .two sailors,, Tbut tb,e infor--1 wiahtstatetl 1;he ( 'bod^r of fthe captain was again 1 throwiT ? bverboard. A landing was Anally effected' a*fc Kaawaloa, where Di* B. O: BaKeri ! oh being - called, attended to th^" injure^men.