Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner
Castor, from San Francisco to Valparaiso, was struck by a tornado
off the coast of Peru. The storm, which rose with frightful
suddenness, was of short duration, but it left the Castor a
helpless wreck. Her masts had snapped off and gone overboard, her
rudder-post had been shattered by falling wreckage, and she was
rolling in the trough of the sea, with her floating masts and spars
thumping and bumping her sides. The Castor was an American
merchant-vessel, commanded by Captain Philip Horn, an experienced
navigator of about thirty-five years of age. Besides a valuable
cargo, she carried three passengers-two ladies and a boy. One of
these, Mrs. William Cliff, a lady past middle age, was going to
Valparaiso to settle some business affairs of her late husband, a
New England merchant. The other lady was Miss Edna Markham, a
school-teacher who had just passed her twenty-fifth year, although
she looked older. She was on her way to Valparaiso to take an
important position in an American seminary. Ralph, a boy of
fifteen, was her brother, and she was taking him with her simply
because she did not want to leave him alone in San Francisco. These
two had no near relations, and the education of the brother
depended upon the exertions of the sister.
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