| Show 111 I i TERRIN ii SUFFEHlNG Got 71 0 I I A 1 j I i il i I Experience of a Company of Three Hundred A 11 i 1 Seal Hunters A I A i l i I j Z MANY DIED IN THE fROST AND WIND i i I a e I I I A TillislyIlls lorr Tw j I 11 the I or lilbilliSt Avb II Sol if IrIbbdCudIIIA of other I i St Johns N 0 r March 29Th ty 11 seating steamer Greenland has Balled I Into this harbor with a grow some N I I cargo Twentyfive corpses were OK l 1 th deck and fiftylive men were moan lug with terrible suffering In tile I i I holds from the pain ot frostbitten Ilmh und bodies The dead bodies I I were In tiers on tho docks ot the I I btealner disfigured and almost unrecognizable J I un-recognizable The effects eif the terrible I t ter-rible suffering which they had endured V411 I en-dured from cold presented one of the I I most horrible nights human eyes ever I 11 I beheld The Greenland set sail from St 1 John N T about the 1st of March ohut tt lart utrlobeStar 11 I un her fateful vojage She wu 2 com tit I I i vt I anded by Capl George larhour and carried a crw of nearly 30J huntem The steamer procedcd I ti4l I orihworel vvlih the rest of the sealing Meet but after a couple of hours she I i I 11 diverged on n sepainle I 1 Jrael and BvOr cIA to I rcnehed the hunllng I grounds 10t long t I After A nt 0 9I I unU Tulay Al 1 I 1 1 I I lafind and X al C r e qulkl noultr1 I 1 and vevra I Rod IIk 1 I We urd I nn Inv mmlm the hunter a u I left the ship about l 7 OCIOCK as uiuiu cieme r AS t I when the lookout In the crows nest lf I I flil i I Ill 7 Ilk I leporlod I ccro plentiful around I them I I clad In clothing light 0 The men were lght I n i at i for the slaughtering of seals Is I ex I I I I Scattered the lee haustIng nork or t a I I hlUnK Rrntrd I Ili 1 i 11 I field the Y wludod tar from the pro 1i A I I i I tUon of the Ship and a Ialo nud I Ilf I it onotorm hut them out from vlw a I A 1 I snowatorin Parted and thy drltd I 1 I e J I l nWny from i tire tamH Long ere > the I I I norm subsided man of th I I a unorll I ullld i I i I v it I file low had succumbed to the ter bit I f t Ibte told I and exposure Those who it t 111 did note wee terribly frostbitten and I I V Suffered excruciating plinTh 1 I plin-Th long I night passed but morning I 9 I brought n help for the storm still 11 I I raged and the atmosphere was thick t I I with snow driven fly the gale Snow I J I continued nearly all day nnd the evenIng J 1 I I I even-Ing brought be cessation to the high It ai wind Another night was passed In I f I I I Untold agony Home of the victims I I had already given up hope nnd In 1 I t I despair laid down and died and every 11 T4 t If I hour lnd at least two death 1 11 + I Toward morning the storm subsided V I and clear weirthelrbenabled the our 11 N4 I VIvors to see that the Greenland want i 1 wa-nt tar away Searching for the miss 31 I I Ing The steamer bore down on the I drifting Held Ice and began the work I 1 I r i V 9 of picking up the bodies of the dead 1 ifil J1 und almost lifeless bodies of the living I Twentylive corpses were taken on I 4 1 It board that morning but Iwentithree I men Were still missing And though the I t 14 4 91 search title conUnued 1 day no more were recovered hight j kw t I Thursday Ight the N I Greenland headed for shore reaching I i I F I J I lay de Verde proceeding thence to R x bt Johns Most of the I I men who per ii It 1v balled are married men with large pe P qf 112 families who are thus deprived of nil I 1 i 11 ifug I moan r of Support 1 I rnTea ulort I jdatin dead nre Itlciiard Plnn James I kkj Mahatr 81 Johns Walter Murnlij I O il s fi AId Muley Clarbonear Wliam Case QuldlVldl Idwln DI John f A I Theme John Ilnznt Se Harbor Iyorne larhor 1 ig i I I Jan Dor James 10w < l Thor o White William Catlaway Parts I land Charles Hal ph Flat Island A Ilal L 1 ijl 1 Couraga William Heath Harbor T d Grace William WoldenrlJge Trinity f iiir Edwin Hunt Joseph Vincent Cape Island Isaac Green Kenneth Par I A sons George Nerrts Henry Curtis I I 111111 I I Newton Fred lnr Curl I 10w Goebrry I I Island Jacob 1 Iold Greens i Pond I 11 n I li Walter I Norris Ponef Cove I 1 til N The missing are Benjamin Brown I J J Doela Island 1rown Ill I i Ilald Albert Bowlen Theodore I 1 V 4 Norris Pond Cove George Hungrily 11 11 4 I I James Hicks Herbert Norrls New 11 tit 41 1 ton Hck lrbrt Nogis I t I h Michael I llennessy Heber Itlnn Il r 1 1 i 1 1 Ship Cove Matthew Wells Lorenzo 11g ii il A I I Wells Noah Mortimer ieorge Pynn g Harbor Grace John Wick Wesley Ii I vllle Alex Andrews Cape Island i William I Iockwood Greens Pond 1 V T i T I L Stephen Squires Salvage George W I I inta n Inmon I Inn Ilnt Ilrho nn l JJW I 1 I Island St Johns Cove Ambrose William 1 Baiinilera Itogeis Jlm Iallald l Trin n 1 tl l I t q ity Thomas lllckells Kings Cove lokett IIJ j If Hilll William Cullen I Tor Hay James Con ay 1 way Turks Cove l The t 1111 If c jJt I 1 J will recover frintbItten mn number 55 Al |
