Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-06
1 HORglBLE CASE or SHIP
WRECK. ia3 .

A Terrible Tale Of the sea--A WHole
ships CreW Freeze aud Perish Upon
an tslatd in Sight Of the Main Land.
The following aeconht Of the loss OF the
brigantiue Qneen, near 6nll Island, New
fonndland, is. given in a letter dated For
tnae HaFbor, Green Bay, April 25, and
published in che St. Johns Courier.
have 20 inform you Of one Of the most
melancholy occurrences on record in the
annals Of Newfoundland. The brigantine
Queen, which was supposed to have been
lost in the heighborhoOd Of Twillineate
about the middle Of December last. was
actually LOST on Cape John, Gull Island ON
December L. The crew and passengers
succeeded in getting on shore. but only to
perish some DAYS alterward. Four Of the
crew returned to the wreck after they got
Ashore 10 eudeavor TO procure some food.
While ON board, the cable, which was al
tached to the cli6, parted, and the vessel
drifted out to sea. Il is'supposed she snhk.
The persons thus lost in the vessel we're
the pifas llle hoatswain, one seaman and a
passenger. q
On the 2lst Of April, vessel cruising
about in the mouth Of Green Bay was be-
Gained near Gull Island, and a boat from
her went toward the island to shoot some
birds. When they got to the island they
only saw one bird, at which the men fred.
The bird few little distance and then fell
apparently dead. One Of the men went to
pick it up, but had not gone far when, to
his great surprise, he saw two skeletons lay
ing side by side He called to his COM
panions who ran up to him. On looking
about they saw piece of canvas a few
yards away from the men, but so frozen to
the rocks that they could not get il up.
They cut it in several pieces, and found nn-
derneath the bodies of nine men and two
women. The men returned to their vessel
and ran her up to Tilt Cove, where they
stated what they had seen. Collins were
Immediately prepared, and next day the
same vessel, with about sixty hands, pro-
eeeded to the island to remove the bodies
to Tilt Cove for interment. .'
In searching the bodies after they we're
landed in Tilt Cove, il was found that the
Captain and Mr.. Dowsley had kept &.iourn-
al up to the 24th of December, twelve days
after they were wrecked. At that time they
were all living. On that day Mr.. DowsIey
wrote in the journal, 81 have this day
walked all around this island and see
nothing before me but death. l expect 10
be one Of the first to die, as now feel very
weak" After that he wrote no more. Mr.
Dowsley says in the journal 81 do not
expect my body will ever be found"
The scene the people witnessed when re-
moving the bodies can be better imagined
than described. They were all SO frozen
together that they had to be separated with
prizes and crowbars.
The Captain stated In the Journal as
follows: "We made the island on the
18th, at O'clock P. NJ. Not caring to run
for Tilt Cove, we hove to sea for the night.
About 12 O'clock hove round and ran in
for the bay, and at 6 o'clock A. NJ. The yes
sci ran ashore in a snow storm" .
Nothing like this had occurred in New
foundland within the memory of the old
est people living here. There was, be-
lieve, man named Gushue lost his vessel
on the Horse Island about sixty years since,
in the month of April, when all those who
got ashore perished from cold and hunger.
The skeletons of the men were found the
following summer, and some papers giving
an account where they were lost and how
they died.
Where the Queen Was lJss is osB about
three miles from the land, and a man from
the shore saw 4 fight several times on the
island and told different persons Of it, bot
they would not believe him. If there had
been any reason to suppose there were par
ties there, there would have been no diff
Guilty in getting them of. The island is
very seldom visited except in the summer
season.