ADVENTURES OF A CREW.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2192, 29 March 1880, Page 2

ADVENTURES OF A CREW.

[Bv Telegraph.] BLENHEIM, March 27. Information was received here to-day that the schooner Susannah Rose had gone ashore at Flaxbourno last Saturday. The schooner had all her canvas blown away on Friday night, and at 3.30 Saturday morning she struck near the mouth of the river Ure, six miles from Flaxbourne station. The captain and six men jumped off the jibboom into the surf and battled their way to dry laud. Four reached the station on Sunday morning, and the same evening went with the station hands in search of their mates. Two were found on Monday, but the captain was still missing. Further search was made, and

Ins tracks were found on the lire river. The footmarks were followed up for three miles along the bank. When found he was stretched full length in a shallow pool amongst a patch of boulders in the middle of the river. The intervening current being ycry deep and swift, it was only after a hard struggle that the men got to the Captain and conveyed him to the bank. Ho was still: from exposure and could not move a limb. It appears from the Captain’s own account, that on entering the river to cross, the current carried him off his legs and swept him down some distance. He managed to get hold of a large boulder and kick oft’ his heavy sea boots, but on relinquishing his hold, was carried to the shallow spot where he was rescued. He had been 50 hours without food or drink, and had got into such a weak state that when his preservers were within 10 yards he could not answer their calls. Croat praise is given to the station hands for the gallant manner in which they accomplished his rescue in the face of a swollen torrent.