The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-13
FROZEN AT SEA.

The Neptune ARain-The Black Record of this
ship Made StIil Biacker-Seamen Frozen,
Furnished, and UncRred For.
The Neptune owned by Marshall & Co., left
Liverpool on Christmas Day, in charge of Cap
tain Peabody, and, to keep the record of the
ship consistent, 1t is said he treated the crew
in q most rascally manner during the entire
voyage. Three weeks ago yesterday six of the
sailors, while working on deck got frozen,
some of them on the hands and others on hands
and feet.
The Neptune arrived at New York on Satur-
day afternoon about o'clock, but the condition
of the unfortunate sailors prevented them from
coming on shore. By an extraordinary effort
one of them yesterday afternoon contrved to
make his way to the Beekman Street Station
House, where he informed sergeant Babcock Of
the sufferings Of his companions. The Sergeant,
with officers, at once went on board the ship and
they saw
MOST FRIGHTFUL SCENE.
In q small room, unventilated and reeking
with foul air, were the six sailors moaning and
crying with the intense pains they were suffer
ing. The stencil from the den was unbearable,
and everything around had most filthy aspect.
The sergeant communicated with Drs. r. Anna
bile and Vandewater, of the Centre Street Hos
pital, requesting them, for hdmanitys sake Gas
they were not obliged to receive sucn patients),
to do what they could. The DOCTORS learning
the wretched state of the poor men. lost no time
in hurrying to the ship, and in less than half
an hour had three of the sufferers in an ambu-
lance and on their way to the hospital, return
The scene in the hospital. room on the arrival of
the patients was most pitiabe. Having never
been supplied with a siEge means of relief or
assistance of any kind to allay their pain-the
wounds being allowed to remain aud un-
dressed, and shiver of indescribable sickness
being evident in the limbs of each suferer-the
six men afforded shocking evidence of how
great may become
MANS INHUMANITY TO MAN.
The captain of the ship, who, it is asserted
was not only reckless of the lives of his crew,
but positively inhuman in the malignancy of
his treatment of them after they had got frost
bitten, left the ship on Saturday evening with
out making any provision for the helpless men,
The police powerless in making any
charge against him, as the cruelty was done
while at sea- The medical men of the hospital,
however, deem 1t to be their duty to
HAVE THE CASE THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED,
and the proper punishment meted out TO Captain
Peabody. This is the Captains second offense
in his treatment of sailors, and on the previous
occasion, though arrested for the offense, he
contrived to escape the law.
The ship Neptune has record for inhumani-
mites that have startled the public into some
dealof what lite is the sailors when his officers
are brutes Some time since case of almost
INCoNCEIvABLE HEARTLEssNEss
came to light about this same ship Neptune.
During the voyage woman gave birth to a
child, and when the ship arrived in port she
and her child were both found dead in her berth,
the child having frozen. Investigation showed
that the unfortunate woman died from want of
proper attendance. Such atrocious neglect as
this could scarcely be imagined to exist even on
the high seas.