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Show IN THE BLACK SEA. Extraor.lii.arj- HtiTi-rliiae and Snf- fcrlgs Cjanectcd with a Ship- yrrctV of a Steamer. BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS Dr MISTAKE. A Fearful Tragedy Koactrd: Fire Pri-sons Killed The Mur- dcrer Said Jr s. By TrrrapB totheMWi.t -LOKH OF THE s-WEsirilorRXE." Tlirllllnc- Arlrenliiree bT s, Brlllsb Steamer In the. lll-ifk Sea. 1'iilLADKt.P.llA, Dec 11. There reached this city yesterday through a private channel a thrilling f-tory of tho lorn of the Rriti-h steamer Wttllourne in the Black Sea. It it no ordinary tale of shipwreck, but relates exquisite FUfTrriugs and unusual un-usual and extraordinary misfortunes. misfor-tunes. Of tho vesscl'-i crew of twenty-flvi- four are all that survive that 111-e.tarrcd voyage, and tnese are ml-eraMe wrecks of humanity, lying prostrated by sutTerlng In the Odessa hospital under the care of lh Utltlsh coiiI. The "Wesi'juurne," an oralnari tramu stvatashlji, left Theodosla. whbh Is the ancient came of KstTa, io.ithea;tof Crimea, November Novem-ber 2llh, laden with linseed, bound io Dunkirk nud thence to Philadelphia Philadel-phia with a general cargo. On the evening of ber departure a gale miliar to the BUck Sea aloue aroif, accompanied by a rapidfy falliug thermometer. Tho weathtr grew so Intensely cald that the meu were fro:en to death In life-like osltlotio, at the wheel or wherever their ditty called them. Every sea that swept over the vefttl froze to her, making her sluggish and to heavy that she refuted to ride the wave and became unraanjeable. When the water gilned entrance to the hold the cargo liegan to sv ell and butr-t open the deck-i fore and at as though powder had exploded iu ntr iutefior. About midnight, although only a few liuum out of ort, tlie vessel liegan to go dust n. Already the corpses of a number of tlieseatniu were visible abvut the dt-cl, stanuing up against hand-rail, just as erect as though iu full vigor. Thry ero frozen hard as Iron. Wltn all the crew that still held fa-t to their live", Captain Bennington put out in a -.mall boat and beaded her back to Tbeodo-Ia, distant then some fifty miles. During the early morning men died oil one by one, until ou reaching Theodssia the following night the number was reduced re-duced to eight. Subsequently four moredlnl whileuuden-uiugniedical treatment, leaving only four survivors. sur-vivors. Captain Bennington, commander of the II t$UxAiruc, is well known to Philadelphia shipping men. lie Is completely prortrstnl by bis sufler-ingslu sufler-ingslu toeoiien boat and by the ilt-atli cf his brother, the ship's chief oflU-er, who tierisbed of the awful cold, before his ijef. |
