Show REO GROSS CROSS LINER GOES ON ROCKS TWO NINETY-TWO LIVES LOST WHEN STEAMER IS POUNDED TO TOPI PI PIECES OFF CAPE RACE Forty Forty- four Forty our Survivors Found Clinging to the Stra Stranded ded Hull of the Ship and Saved by Rescue Ships Dispatched Dispatched Dis Dis- patched to the Scene i St. St John N N. N F. F four Forty Forty Forty- four persons were rescued from the wreckage of the Red Cross liner Uner Florizel which was pounded to pieces oft off the rocks of Cape Race in the storm on February 24 The death list now stands at ninety The last hope of saving the lives of more persons aboard tho the ship was given up Monday night at atthe atthe atthe the offices of the Red lIed Cross line Tine The he s sayed in include lude seventeen passengers engelS engel'S en- en gem gelS and twenty-seven twenty members rs of the tile crew The three rescue ships which were dispatched to the scene of the wreck In answer to the S. S O. O S. S wireless call call callI I returned to this port late Monday at afternoon aft aft- t. t bringing with them the forty forty- four fou survivors who were found lound clinging clings cling Ing to the strand stranded d' d hull of f the ship Unavailing been made all nIl the tile previous night by the lifesaving crews along the shore but the storm would not permit a small craft to reach the wreck Naval gunners shot shota a line ine from the tile shore across the bow of the ship but there was no apparent effort to make the line Une fast and it was believed that all aboard were dead When the rescue ships finally reached the scene they found the few who were saved clinging to the wreckage ina grim determined battle with death amid a foaming sea and the bitter elements elements ele ele- ments of the storm which hind had not yet subsided Many of them were unconscious unconscious scions and were still unable to talk when they were brought here The coastal steamer Prospero the the- sealer Terra Nova and a no government ship Home met the lifeboats which h had first reached the wreck but were vere unable to land The Tue survivors sur were taken aboard th the larger ves vessels is The c captain of the Prosper Prospero reported that the Florizel was at the mercy of the waves Her wireless had been destroyed destroyed de de- de- de stroye by a fire e which started in the forecastle Several persons attempted to reach the shore in small boats before help reached them and were s swallowed up within sight of those who had remained remained re re- re- re on b board ard Many 1 were swept overboard during the storm Ten bodies ha have ye been washed ashore one a woman |