TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS ON A RAFT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1537, 8 January 1887, Page 4

TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS ON A RAFT.

The New York Times of the 4th inst. contains the following account of the loss of the barque Tresaurora with seven hands, and the subsequent rescue of the remainder of the crew, six in number, in an exhausted condition, after being five days on a raft without food or shelter : " The schooner Anna Hutcheson arrived here yesterday, having rescued a portion of the crew of the Spanish barque Tresaurora when off the Tortugas on October 14th. The captain of the schooner states that at 2 p.m. on that day a piece of wreckage, to which several persons appeared to. be clinging, was sighted a short distance ahead. The schooner's course was quickly altered, and in a short time they were alongside the wreckage. Six men in the last stages of exhaustion were clinging to the raft upon which they floated ; two of them were dying aud insensible. The clothing had been washed from the lower portion of the limbs of the six men, and their legs, hands, and feet were badly swolleD. With much difficulty they were lifted aboard the vessel, craving for food and water in Spanish and broken English. After some hours they recovered strength and stated that they were they survivors of the Spanish burquo Tresaurora, which had foundered six days previously, and that seven others of the crow went down with her. She was bound from B»rcelona to H'lvaonah, and on October Bth was disabled in a hurricane, and foundered before they could adopt means to leave her. The second mate, cook, and five seamen wont down with the vessel, and never rose. The captain, mute, and four seamen reached the surface after being carried down with the wreckage. They succeeded in reaching the top of the deckhouse, which was washed overboard by the sea befcre the vessel sank. To this they clung for five days and nights without a particle of food or a drop of freßb water. Several limes they were washed off the house, and with difficulty reached it B£;aiu. Siiils were seen, but at n distance, The captain and mate became delirious on the fourth day. When rescued the men vnsio unable to move hands or feet." I