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Show RED GROSS LINER GOESJ ROCKS NINETY-TWO LIVES LOST WHEN STEAMER IS POUNDED TO PIECES OFF CAPE RACE. Forty-four Survivors Found Clinging to the Stranded Hull of the Ship and Saved by Rescue Ships DIs-patched DIs-patched to the Scene. St. John, N. F. Forty- four persons wore rescued from the wreckage of the Red Cross liner Florlzel, which was pounded to pieces oft the rocks of Cape Race In the storm on February 21. The death list now stands at ninety-two. The last hope of saving the lives of more persons aboard the fehlp was given up Monday night at the offices of the Red Cross line. The saved Include seventeen passengers passen-gers and twenty-seven members of the crew. The three rescue ships, which were dispatched to the scene of the wreck In answer to the S. O. S. wireless call, returned to this port late Monday afternoon, aft-ernoon, bringing with them the forty-four forty-four survivors, who were found clinging cling-ing to the stranded hull of the ship. Unavailing efforts had been made all the previous night by the lifesaving crews along the shore, but the storm would not permit a small craft to roach the wreck. Naval gunners shot a line from the shore across the bow of the ship, but there was no apparent effort to make the line fast, and It was believed that all aboard were dead. , When the rescue ships finally reached the seen they found the few who were eaved clinging to the wreckage in a grim, determined battle with death, I amid a foaming sea and the bitter elements ele-ments of the storm, which had not yet subsided. Many of them were unconscious uncon-scious and were still unable to talk when they were brought here. The coastal steamer Prospero, the ealer Terra Nova and a government hjp, Home, met the lifeboats, which bad first reached the wreck, but were unable to land. The survivors were taken aboard the larger vessels. The captain of the Prospero reported that the Florizel was at the mercy of the waves. Her wireless had been destroyed de-stroyed by a fire which started In the forecastle. Several persons attempted to reach - the Bhore In small boats before help reached them, and were swallowed up within sight of those who had remained re-mained on board. Many were swept overboard during the storm. Ten bodies have been washed ashore, one a woman. |