DEVOURED BY SHARKS. Tho Shocking Fate of a Shipwrecked Crew.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 222, 1 October 1887, Page 3

DEVOURED BY SHARKS.

Tho Shocking Fate of a Shipwrecked Crew.

A Nooales special to the " Democrat" says: The sloop Sam, eighteen tons register owned and commanded by Abraham Bak aram, left Mulejo between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of July 25th loaded with twenty tons of tan bark consigned to Seldener and Vandettle. The vessel had on board the Captain, his wife, her children, niece, Entladgo Halle, Superintendent of the Baltimore copper mines at Santa Rosha, and a crew of live men. While between San Pedro and Martinez, in the Gulf of California, the vessel was struck by a heavy surf and capsized. All on board perished excepting the Captain and four sailors, who saved themselves by climbing on the bottom of the capped vessel. On the second day after the accident the dead bodies of the Captain's wifo and children rose to the surface and veie eaten by shirks while the husband and father looked on the awful sight in horror. On July 30th two of the sailors became crazy, and said they were going ashore and immediately plunged o\erboard. They had no sooner struck the water than sharks devoured them. The Captain, one sailor and a small boy remained on the bottom of the\essel for eight days sustaining life by catching turtles that would come near them, and sucking their blood. They were rescued in a most pitiable condition by the fishing sloop Refugio, and afterwards transferred to the Balee and the company's steamer Kerrigan, which was sent in search of the Sara, and arrived at Guaymas last night. The Captain of the Sara is mentally and physically a wreck. Captain Bakaram says there was another small sloop, namo unknown, near his vessel in the same gale. It is supposed that she went down with all on boaul. Mr Halle was a man who stood high in the community. His age was 34 > ears, and he leaves a w ife and four Jchildren in Mulejo.