TWO SURVIVORS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 1 February 1909, Page 1

TWO SURVIVORS.

■ yysJGE^^i^M&Jmy „., Fewtmen fiate. fceeif-JSai'er death than WaiiaiaPhalripß.Ya. '-■jpmW'&. 19* : third officer olTtlie £eith:7fit|ainiiiip . Dnncai*, which' witE - 51-61 "fier 'trefir di 63 ' - *#bblost in. a tyghodn in -thitOtiina- SeaVPhiJ-' lips arrived at his hoitufat" South' Shields recently, Th^only othiraujfvivor^ the" wrtclc is Jofih London. the"4tK engineer.---v. TIIS,-*??-* '&'&* .■Mpteti as '*&&:&■ byj Phillips, t &an Oflecr24-* Dnpfcar.. *^7ioiMyKffiu»JKara^ieVto * Sirigapo:-*-*. -fm'MfkMffrAekmirpM. day fhe *stp|p .was ?4fw|^t' its heigtor *nc al»^a.*l6tiC|fieiSHiihoon a., fear' ful iv^v^'f^e^^nUidafd, sweeping a-firaygtltoxbgd^.^eliatnotise'. ariliife' ■bos ts.^' y. „...„-rY YY: x v v 'Y '7 ■•-' .; '. 'he'captaii*Kan<J sesnnd T «iato were 7t>n -the bridge' at"tE6"tT)*B7 ahd- went 6V&" hot rd-with the W)Mc)^6jjEhillips mad^iis vras*;to t_he.;port : Bjfe^''ay) wher^.,7^7 •rtugbexCof -ih"&et«W ,vfi£fi sheltering, "aiid ',. tol:(^^'lto'^^£i3w^eeling:oVerii.^i&'?'' a fow^m6n&ts!iKw7fl^.coiapell(sa>t6 r scrJ-mbleTiip the prevent thSnsely.es beuii Hvitlid beheath it as the ship gradually W(Sit:Q^er. 7. '4 hey reached, the 'sitfe of the ship ac she lay over, but. one. After .another was washed away. -.Th^ntunbered 20 altogether, ont of the iotal s of 53, 16 beiAg Lascars', while the tfthers.were' the -2na and 4th engineers (who had rushed : on t of ithe enginerboi when' the crash was heard), the .'qnattermJttter, and Plumps. • 4 large qufc&tity of wreckage Was floating about; and niany ofg the hapless crew, after goiiig. overboard, nninaged, to keep themselves afloat by this means. But one by' one they sank. ' Phillips snflporfed "himself ' by means of two t plapks,: one .under each arm. . * • - At the other . end'a Lascar seaman hurig on to the same planks in the same way. Phillips ; saw the 4th engineer and another Lascar holding themselves afloat by itwo othtt. .deals. . ' , * fin, for some time, the forir last survivors kept together under the lee of the ship, which was now keel upwards and slowly sinking.- .Certain death appeared to await them all. There was imminent risk of being sucked down by the foundering vessel' They were constantly larhed, too, by the heavy Seas, which broke over the sinking ship and hnrled Ihe broken water over; them. For more than an hour they faced the double danger, and then tha wind beat; them from eff the ship., arid the}-. . drifted atfay and ap-trt. • . '.---.. "'.'.'. .',' i The two' white-men Ware in sight ot each other until sunset,"" 6 *-* 1 *, having a I.sncar as companion on the planks : wliich hr.vi them up. By .this, time the typhoon had passed oVefihem; but the farly morning- brought7fiesh terrors and tortures in a blaring hot |un.', The/heat, raid Phillip*' ■•drdve-jthe. LaEcar; insaneand ho ■Bive*r-ma&'rUfir : #Aler and, wag droWned.: '^he.agdhi^. of Phillips were prolonged tjll ,mtd:da.y7.when i - more dead than alive,: W^B^picked;up by the Japanese steamer Saikio Jflteifu. He had been 22 hours in tho watef. ri An hour afterwards ..the same ship Sfeicied no the 4tU engineer fully 10 miles away .from: the •*■ was•fpuhd. 'He; too, wa&,ajone,Yihe rf L*afcar having ' stayed witE^nraiihtil near daybre&k, when his strength: {(aye xnlt.-and he ■slippeji.from-the-plaiiks.an-I disappeared. * "'"..■ "Ehe. tvt*) .rescued snen, • rallied under medical/treatment"*. iena:yrere landed at -Moji, whence" they were sent* on to Eng- ' lAnd. .'.; '....*- ■:. - ' -.j