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Show .VNOlIir.K OCEAN WRECK. M rnmKli . p Crushed hy Ico I. Itrge .llllll)lT Ol J'tTMUILS Lost Terrible Niilfcriiig. New York, 10. The steamship S!-t ' (Jcrinanvi, which arrived tins morning, brought live of the seamen ol the Dominion line steamship Vu-k.-ibv, trom Montreal for Liverpool, Liver-pool, winch sunk hy ice on June 1st. The men were pirkul up June 5th, nearly dull hO.n exposure. They t.il a fear lid talo of d, stress. Other boats were lauuchul with a large number of persons, but thu greater number were seen to pm.di without gelling in Ihe boats. The Yi'-kshunj went down iu the midst of the ice, and the boats were surrounded by icebergs and lielJs of ice when picked up. iho oilier boats aro not yet heard from. '1 iie men rescued had their feet and legs very much swoolen, so much so that their lu hal to be cut from their feet. They are still sufler-ing sufler-ing from their great exposure, but arc recovering as fast couid bo expected. ex-pected. JAMES CROV.I.KV'S STATEMENT. We left iu-bec on Thursday morning, morn-ing, May -7th, witit a crew of sixty, men and tNgut pa!em passengers, ! live gen'.iemui and tnrce Indies, ami a I tout twenty in the steerage, of1 whom four wt.re f. males. May we k-d in wilii a held ot ice and wen .-yXvii ourruuude-d. '1 h r'.u p w nUjpp'-d until daylight, when ue proceeded pro-ceeded with i.ut hide ii'e in eight. 'J::J p. in. Mund..y. Ail hands were called lusiiorl-u nail; the snip was stopped wmongst heavy ice. We proce- ded at lull -ped to get ele ir ol the lee. At I- o'ck-ck, at hail' ,-pei d, we struck ihe ice; the ship struck on port quarter, carrying Jiway tin1 t-ns of the prop-.-. lor. and a ho: w knocked tiiroiign the p! it. s n I- ' qnaiter, through un:;h l:.1 inadi a great d. ill ol wvU-r. A J hands were employ. -d in Ir '.. ' cm ri..i overborn!. lno s.-.-.-n-i oJJi and lojsi If Were taken f o.u n ' --HO --HO to chvir away tin; boa!-. lll-J' uaptatn onh red thu J rw..M wells sounded, and bix inelus of water wa-i fun iid. The captain called me on the bridge and told m- not to mind the boats. Then lie called everybody and told them to have no fears, that he could take the ship to St. John. 1 The captain gave oulers to launch the boats with their respective crews, .and told them to mind that the distance dis-tance hum St. Johns was 120 miles northwest. I proceeded to launch No. 1. It was capsized, and in lowering she was full cf water. ' O'Brien and 1 baled her partly out when Grogan, Wilkinson and Williams Willi-ams jumped in. We could not hang on to the ship owing to the sea ami the ice. O'Brien saw tho captain on the bridge beckoning tho boat back, we having drilled 150 yards from Ihe ship. We saw the second ofUeer's boat lowered all clear, with nine hands and himself. Tho ship sunk about 10 o'clock, floating boat No. 2 and about thirty people. O'Brien, after the ship went down, saw the captain and some persons floating on a bale of nay among the wreckage, and tried to pick them up, but owing to tho boat being half full of water was not able to do so. We kept company com-pany with the other boats about two hours and then lost sight of them. Think forty odd people with thu captain cap-tain wont duwii with tho ship. |