NON-FOOTBALL STORIES 1907
While looking through old documents, it is almost inevitable that the
reader's attention will be drawn from the intended target to other articles.
The reports below were found in old newspapers. Although they have no football content, they may be of interest.
DISABLED
LINER’S THRILLING EXPERIENCE – SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA
The overdue Headline steamer, Inishowen, had arrived
today disabled, from Ardrossan, after a voyage which officers say they thought
would end in the loss of the shop with all on board.
Off the mouth of the Bay of Fundy on Sunday
last (17 March 1907), a key in the shafting broke, rendering the engines
useless.
Every bit of canvas - even awnings - were used to make
headway while the engineers worked to repair the damage.
For
two days conditions continued thus and then came the terrific storm of
Wednesday. The
ship was hove-to and was battered about in huge seas and it was feared she would
never come through the experience. She rode out the storm, however, and the
engines having been temporarily repaired, managed to make port unaided.
She will repair here and load for the United
Kingdom.
Lewiston Daily Sun, 23 March 1907
THRILLING STORY OF OCEAN'S PERIL - THE TERRIBLE
SUFFERING OF A PARTY SHIPWRECKED ON WILD COAST
A thrilling story of adventure and privation of the
Glasgow ship Glencairn, who were landed at Liverpool by the Pacific Steam
Navigation Company's steamer Orita.
The ship, which was commanded by Captain John
Nichol of Ardrossan, carried a crew of twenty, and there was also on board
Captain Nichol's wife and the wife of the steward.
The
Glencairn was bound from Rochester to Seattle and Tacoma with a general cargo
and went ashore at Cape San Paulo, off Terra del Feugo, on 22 July during fog.
The Glencairn afterwards sank.
On leaving the sinking ship the misfortunes of
the party were intensified by the capsising of one of the two lifeboats which
were launched. Seaman
Morley was washed away and the dead body of seaman Schmidt was found under the
overturned boat about two hours after it had capsised.
A
Swedish seaman named Edward Gustafson had a perilous struggle for life.
He
scrambled on to the top of the upset boat and, despite the severity of the
weather and a violent snowstorm, clung to his precarious position until rescued.
On reaching the shore the shipwrecked party,
which included the wife of Captain John Nichol and Mrs Parry, wife of the
steward, made wood fires and secured shelter as best they could, erecting
temporary tents. The bitter coldness of the atmosphere, however, and the
scantiness of provisions were keenly felt, more particularly by the ladies.
They came into contact with a tribe of Indians
inhabiting the territory on which they were stranded and, learning that a
British missionary was stationed some miles away, they succeeded in getting into
communication with him.
Horses were found for the two ladies and the
men walked twenty-five miles to the mission settlement.
The
remainder of the overland journey was made by the whole of the company mounted
on horseback. On
reaching Punta Arenas they were hospitably treated, and thanks to the good
offices of the British Consul, through whose agency they were shipped to
Liverpool by the Orita.
Pittsburgh Gazette Times, 29 September 1907