Show RED CROSS LINER GOES ON NINETY TWO LIVES LOST WHEN STEAMER STEAMER IS POUNDED TO 0 PIECES OFF CAPE RACE forty ariy F four i our survivors found t ta 1 the stranded hull oi of the ship and I 1 saved save d b by y rescue ships dispatched to the scene st john N F I for forty four t were were yes rescued viled from the wreckage of the red cross liner floizel which was pounded to pieces off the rocks pt pi cape race ilace in tha storm on febra february nry 21 the death alst now sil stance at iii ninety nety two the last hope of saving tile the lives of illo more rd pers persons dils ard the alie ship was given ghen up lip monday night at tile the offices of tho the red cross line The saved include seventeen passengers and twenty dwelli seven members of tile craw the three rescue ships which were to tile the of tile the ft reek eck r in answer to the S 0 S wireless call I 1 returned to tills port late monday day afternoon bringing with wl th them the forty four who were found clinging to the stranded hull bull of the ship unavailing efforts had been made all alie th e previous night by the lifesaving crews along the shore but the storm bould not permit a small craft to reach the wreck wrack naval gunners shot 7 a line from the shore across the bow of alie ship lp 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 tile scene they found the few who were saved clinging t to the wreckage in a 0 grim determined battle with death amid a foaming sea and the bitter elements of the storm which had bad not yet subsided many of them were unconscious and were still unable to talk when they were brought here the coastal ste steamer niner prospero the sealer se aler terra nova and a government ship home met the lifeboats which had first farsi readied reached the wreck krecic but were unable to land the survivors were taken aboard the larger vessels the captain of the prospero ie reported ported that the florizel Florl zel was at the mercy of the waves her wireless had been destroyed by a fire which started in ill the forecastle several persons attempted to reach the shore in small boats boat s before kielp reached then them and were swallowed up lip within sight of those who hall had remained remained on board many were swept overboard during the storm ten tell bodies have been washed ashore one a woman |