Survivors of Wrecked Schooner Lived Off Flying Fish—Three Others Lost.
By the Associated Press.
EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., September 1.—Six survivors of the four-masted auxiliary schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, wrecked at sea last Tuesday in a hurricane that swept the Atlantic seaboard, were picked up early today by the steamship Southern Cross, bound from Buenos Aires for New York.
The rescued sailormen were found floating atop of the schooner’s skylight, where they had existed for four days, eating such flying fish that they snared and drinking water that they caught in their hats.
The rescued men were suffering severely from their experiences and were taken to the hospital of the Southern Cross, which reported the rescue to the Independent Wireless Co. station here. The Southern Cross is due in New York today.
The Hathaway‘s sailors reported that the schooner’s engineer and one sailor were drowned in the blow and Capt. Elliott of the Hathaway was last seen Tuesday night clinging to a raft. The rescue was made at 4:30 o’clock this morning.
The Hathaway was bound from Charleston, S. C., loaded with fertilizer for San Juan, P. R., and foundered in the hurricane at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. The schooner was owned by Crowell & Thurlow of Boston. Among the rescued was a steward named Melvin and a boatswain, Ollason.
The Evening Star, Washington, DC, September 1, 1924