Show 1 I I r i I NEWS I Twel e Lost Lives Off Coast of D Gl War are But Butto Ea V V ported Late New York Jan L men who were lo lot lost t on Thanksgiving o day last year when tue e schooner Johanna wen clown miles from the tho Delaware Del aTc breakwater were wore not oven known ija 60 bo be missing until the th su f rs wee w e brought to port lort today toda jj in St Thomas Danish West In Inies lilies ies by tIme the steamer Korono Korona The Tho hanna Johanna B for the breakwater breaker from the i I s for said Captain l on to today toJ toda day da When hen she cho became J I Jb wc put off in a boat boal with with thirteen men l en aboard and the other othe boat with twelve men In a howling wind and blanket of driving snow wo we put out Ins WV saw paw the other boat heave up against agai tho the skyline on tho the crest or a wave and then we saw her hor no more I had hud hoped on reaching this port to get sonic some word of her We Va were sere picked up UJ ourselves by the tho Nova Noa See tian schooner E A Sabean and car ear earned I ned lied to the West Indies I hoped the tho I i others might be 10 equally fortunate but hut since you toll tell tl me nothing has hns hn been heard of thorn them in all nil this thib time timo tin they must have undoubtedly been lost It lt wan 5 in the morning of Thanksgiving day that the ships carpenter reported the port seams were open The men worked fiercely t tile the pumps pump but no water waler came caine For the captain was puzzled Th c remembered his cargo the Johanna Johann was waR laden with sugar It wa ear enough what was hap happening pening J in the ships hold the sugar bags haSH to the burst hurst lug point with 8 L water and amid as they thoy burst hUlst thoy they filled th old with a thick treacle that e pumps I With the pumps dl Cd the tho fate of the tho schooner was foregone one We WeI ho d some other vessel r soe us before betom It became necessary uptake to toChe I tIme the small boats but hut after aCter a ay of killing work the tho Johanna to list more and more heavily to pc poi Twelve Tole men continued tho the c J thin tain Including the mate put out OIt first firs Wo We were not long In following for the Johanna was waR staggering under I lour our feet foot Not ten minutes s after r wo WI loft left I rt her the Johanna Tohanna began boan to roll rolland rolland I and with a sudden plunge she he dove doc under forever forer |