Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1890 — SWEPT OVERBOARD. [ARTICLE]

SWEPT OVERBOARD.

Rescue of the Crew of the Josephine After a Terrible Experience, Boston (Mass.) dispatch: The British steamer Thanemore, from London, brought Capt. Bugge and six seamen of the Norwegian ship Josephine, whom the Thanemore’s crew rescued from her dismantled wreck Jan. 26. The Josephine sailed from New York for Dantzig Jan. 6, with fourteen men all told. The weather soon became bad. ,Jan. 18 a seaman named Oskar Johannessen fell from the jibboom and was drowned. The 20th the wind had again increased to a gale and blew heavy until the 24th, when a hurricane was encountered. A mountainous sea boarded them, sweeping five men overboard and instantly killing John Patterson, the man at the wheel, whose body was also washed overboard by the next sea. All the boats were carried away at the same time, and the vessel sprung a leak, so that it became necessary to keep the men at the pumps until rescued. The cabin doors were stove and the cabin flooded badly. The leak in the v.assel was increasing all the time. When abandoned the ship had four feet of water in the hold and the water was gaining about five inches per hour. The crew bear the marks of having suffered much from excessive toil and exposure. The names of those washed overboard not mentioned above were: Hoakin Holstod, first officer; Ludwig Hansen. Wilhelm Eklund, and Alfred Stcnmark, seamen.