A VOYAGE WITH DEATH.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4440, 29 March 1883, Page 3

A VOYAGE WITH DEATH.

A despatch from the Delaware breakwater (o night tells of the death of tiie crew /of the. Hay tian brig Goldfinder, Captain Dennis, which sailed from Miragore, December 25th, with logwood for Boston.. The capiain, mate, and five men compoed the crew. Just alter leaving port the men were attacked with a malignant type of fever. A slqwaway, who has discovered about that time, rho took the fever. When two- days out one of the xnen ; died, fid wos thrown overboard. Shortly afterward two others died, and were'also bui.ird rn'the sea. They were all white. Tli«* stowaway ajd t!»e olber sailor, both colored, livd un il fhe 9th icsfc., when -near the Capes. They were thrown overboard on the 10th insfc. - The brig was picked up on Thursday e7ening ten iroiles south-east of Cape Henlope, d'aggng anchor ,at the . ra! 3 of tbvee knots an hour^ The last mnn (o die dropped dead at the pnmp. The Capi; i i sad that when delirious heswipped himself r; non deck,c'.ntch J the pr^np-lvv'te,aida]mo3t instantly fe'ldead. The Capiain said that the malady with which tue men were stricken was so severe that del'vlum set iv itrm diately, r.nd continued until deUii. The Capiain designated the disease Eus-ian fever, but the mate thinks it was the true type of yellow fever in its worst fei \a. The brig is now ly'ng inside the breakwater, and' the Captain left on the steamer for New York. He with the mat ? and mold sailor are the only survivors. The latter had a- slight attack of fie fever, as did also the mate, bat both are now convalescent. The brig sails under fie Hay :r .\ flag, but is onjei irßoston. .