A TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2447, 17 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA.

Two Swedish sailors have been landed at Plymouth, the sole survivors of the American ship Alfred Watts, of New York, which was wrccked with the loss of 2f> lives olf the Bahamas. The survivors passed a dreadful time. The ship broke up, and they remained on a part of the wreck, from the main portion of which nearly all tho other hands were washed away. There was then only one chance for those on the raft, and that was to get back to the wreck. This some of them did, but the owner's son, in liis dolinun, walked into the water. Another was drowned who jumped into tho water with the intention of swimming. A Russian who leaped into the sea in despair was seized by a shark, and a fourth was too exausted to prevent himself from being washed away. The two Swedes finally reached the water-logged Alfred Watts. There they sank down, exhausted and unconscious. On recovering they found plenty of food and water, and thus managed to live on tho floating wreck until the Lizzie Perry took them olf. The Lizzie L'erry was herself subsequently wrecked during a great gale at Barbadoes, but all hands, including the rescued Swedes, were saved by taking to the boats. They were, however, stripped of everything by the natives on shore.