St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-31
Misfortunes of the Sealing Fleet.
over Forty Vessels Known to br Wrecked


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go men Margarine. - men: Hawk.
steamship. II" men: Emli\ Ann. ll;I
men Meteor, - men: lr"u>ldc>. Ito
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Retriever, TIN, retriever L,r,l, r.,,.h-
ed the land i'm the morning. when She
SINK in shallow wafer her crew .S,.,n-
inc in the boats.
The consequence of this vh,I,soIe
ruin TO the seal huutiur fleet nf \nv-
foundland will involve that rountry
which it has but recently risen. Um-
dredS of the fleet are still To- toe heard
from. and THEN fate may I've even ,s
gloomy as that of the II vessels of
which this account is prcSeutrd.
In the light of that drrarl dawn. the
scene which presented itSeIft to those. ON
board the only survivor of the fleet of
sixteen. the Retriever. cannot POSSIBLY
he described. The ice had wrdurd in
the space Intervening brtwecn th, M
sitionS of the ,,S..I. and tI. sbn,.,
Don rudrl\ Shaprd handlers and flakes
of ice were >tr,.Nu m.Sts. mnods rio
ring. cIuthin" and broken huIIs in III,
ilde>t disorder. Worse still were the
bl"od->mcarcd colp>es. crushed To death
by plains of ice rln>iuro,, them. some
were actually cut in two by the lam
ming of the foes. and others half
drowned and exhausted. died rrnu tb,
intense rrnst. The stit,rnrd hnJi.s Inv
strcwn around in the most "h,stly otti-
tudrs. The tcrrors which surrounded
their death were nrtmrnd nnnn the
blanched face of eyrr, rn,ns,. whiin
many of them couId L,,III Inc rrrnw-
mized. they had been so mnmrled.