The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-01
Marine Disasters and
Great LOSS of Life.
FoRTY-oNE VESSELS KNOWN TO BE Io5T AND
- FOUR THOUSAND HUMAN BEINGS SUP
POSED TO HAVE PERISHED.

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| NEw YoRK, May 27.-The following are
| the names of the vessels engaged 10 seal
| fishing known to be lost off the coasts of Sal
vador and New Foundlsnd during the spring
season, as asceTtained by the New York
! Times
Maid of Judah. 81 men, Spark. 1O2
| Bloodhound (steamship). 1926 Eclipse. 90
| Rover, go; Retriver (steamship), $50 ; meE
saved r. G. Y. 100 men. all persisted =
| Laplauder, 80; Witch Of the Waves, 90 /;
! Edgar Doran. lO2 Twin Sisters. 90; Swan.
81 Terra Move. ll5: Flash, 101; Leonora.
! 62; First Fruit. rs; Lord of the Lies. 75
E: qimaux. lO4; Auster 97 Margarite. lis ;
! Hawk steamship. 1l5; Emily Ann. ll3 /;
Meteor, 20: Ironsldes. IS; Lucknow, 50 f;
/ William and Mary. 9l; Pride of the Sea,
| III. all known to be lost; Hector, 100 =
/ Brothers, co. Iceland (steamShiP). 1872 (;
| Hero, 43; Nightingale, 50 men. all known
to be lost : BalakIava, 70; Eglaptine, 80 /;
! Her bert Laby. %; Queen Of the Isles. 96 ;
| Hunter, SO men. all known to have perish
! Ell Mary Jane. 43; Redmau, 65; Home
of the North, 1872.
/ Others have not yet been heard from, but
! all those recounted above have been totally
wrecked. and their crews have lot been ac-
counted for except in very rare instances.
and the few who were saved could not give
! any &c 6Eite Intelligence Of those they had
| left behind them.
Out of 4 900 souls only I75 have been ac-
| counted for Most of these vessels were
dashed to pieces on icebergs aud fields of ice
during a terrific hurricane. Many of them
/ were insured in American com panies, ard
! merchants i1 this city and Massachusetts,
/ were largely interested in the feet.
This wholesale disaster spreads poverty
and ruin throughout New Fouudland, where
| the victims nearly all belonged, and the YES
sells generally belonged During the night
OF the loss Of the steamship r ,triever sixteen
SAIL OF vessels were hemmed in by high boul-
ders and bergs of ice. over which tremendous
seas dashed high and wild. While this feet
| lay to as last effort to survive the hurri-
cane, many tossing crafts cut down each
| other, and one fearful instance is recorded
wherein a vessel driven on an iceberg by
high sea, fell back with a mighty crash upol
the Twin Sisters, which lay beneath th
brig. large number Of men were instant
ly crushed TO death, aud thu Twin Sister.
was literally burst in two. OF the rest, only
fifteen out of ninety-eight cluug to broker
spars and were by chance picked up by th
crew Of the Retriever
The day after the storm the ice opene,
and the steamship Retriever made land. ol
reaching which she sunk and keeled over
but her crew succeeded in escaping to tn
shore. She was the only vessel that reaches
shore out of the feet of sixteen in her yicin
ity during the hurricane.
Hundreds of the feet are still to be hear,
from. AMI their fate may be even as gloom,
as that of the forty>one vessels Of which th
above account is given by the Times Tn
disaster occurred on the night of the iIta q
April. The ruin of the seal fishery is com
plete