Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-06-05
SnaSrille ageskig Chronicle.
Great Destruction Among Fishing Vessels.

Great Destruction Among Fishing Vessels
New YORK, May 2s.-The report of the
subcommittee regarding the Methodist
Book Concern indicates large swindle in
nearly all the departments.
1t is stated that Capt. Hallenbeck, of the
unfortunate steamer Epsilon, remarked
that he had the best boat in the harbor;
That she would carry 100 pounds of steam
without straining bolt or opening u
valve, and that he could not get up steam
enough in the boiler to burst it. Men are
engaged in graphing for the bodies. The
wreck will be raised in a few days.
1t is estimated that 1000 men engaged
in the strike in this city.
Thirty persons were injured 10y the cX-
plosion'of the Epsilon; six fatally. The
bodies of the captain and the fireman have
not been recovered. Low water i'm the
boiler is said to have caused the disaster.
The following are the names of the YES
sells engaged in seal fishing and known to
be lost off the coasts of Labrador and New
foundland, during the spring season, as
ascertained by the New York Times The
Maid of Judah, ninety-seven men; Shark,
one hundred and two men; bloodhound
steamship, one hundred and twenty-five
men; Eclipse, ninety-nine men Rover,
ninety men Retriever, steamship, one
hundred and fifty men; Saver, r. G.. Y,
one hundred men. All hands persisted.
Aurora, seventy-four men; LaDland.
eighty men; Witch of the Waves, ninety
three men; Edgar Doran, one hundred
and two men, Twin Sisters, ninety-eight
men; Swami, ninety-one men; Terra
Move, one hundred and fifteen men
Flash, one hundred and one men; Leo
nora, siXty-two men; First Merit, seventy
five men Lord of the Isles, seventy-fiVe |
men, EsquimauX, one hundred and four
men; Aster, ninety-seven men; Marga- |
rite, forty-five men; Hawk, steamship, J
httr, L
Ann, one hundred and thirteen men; Me- |
teor, seventy men Ironsides, one hun |
dred and fifteen men; William and Mary, |
ninety-one men; Pride of the Sea, one |
hundred and seventeen men, all known to !
be lost. Hector, one hundred men;
brothers, ninety men; Iron-clad steam
ship, one hundred and thirty-two men
Hero, forty-two men Nightingale, sixty
nVe men; men all known to be lost.
sevCnty-nine men: Byzantine |
eighty men Herbert Libby, ninety-eight
men; Queen of the Isles, ninety-siX men:
Hunter, fifty men. Men all known to
have persisted. Mary Jane, forty-three
men; Redman, sixty-five men; Home of
The North, one hundred and thirty-two
men.
The others have not yet been heard
from, but all those recounted above have
been totally wrecked and their crews have
not been accounted for, except in very
saved could not give any definite intelli-
gence of those whom they had left behind |
them. Out of 1900 souls, only l75 have
been accounted for. Most of these vessels
were dashed to pieces ON icebergs and
helds OF Ice during terrific hurricane.
MANY OF them were insured in American
insurance Companies, and merchants in !
this city and Massachusetts were largely |
interested in the fleet. This wholesale
disaster spreads poverty and ruin through
out Newfoundland, where the victims |
nearly all belonged, and where the vessels
generally belonged.
During the night of the loss, the steam
ship Retriever and sixteen sail vessels
were hemmed in by high boulders and
bergs Of ice, over which tremendous seas
dashed high and wild.
While this fleet lay to as last effort to
survive the hurricane, many of the crafts
cut down each other, and one fearful in
stance Is recorded wherein a vessel driven
on an iceberg by a huge sea fell back with
a mighty crash upon the brig Twin Sis
ters, which lay beneath the berg. A large
number of men were instantly crushed to
death and the Twin Sisters was literally
burst in two. Only fifteen out of ninety
eight chung to the spars and were by
chance picked up by the crew of the Re-
.riever. The day after the storm the ice
opened and the steamship Retriever made
and, on reaching which she sunk and
nSSASN oNSiq pub lltE crew SuCceeucu IN |
escaping to the shore. She was the only
vessel that reached the shore out of fleet
Of sixteen in her vicinity during the hur-
ricane. Hundreds of the fleet are still to
be heard from, and their fate may be as |
gloomy as that of the forty-one vessels of
which the above account is given by the
TINES. The disaster occurred on the night
Of the 18th Of April. The ruin of the
seal fishery is complete.
BOSTON, May 2S.-The reported whole
'ale destruction of the Newfoundland
fleet is not credited here.
A letter from st. Johns, newfoundland,
oy last mail, ays that ten or twelve YES
sells in all are lost or missing, but the two
'r three vessels missing have not been out
20 long as TO be given up for lost.
The crews of vessels known to be de-
troyed, were all saved, except forty-five
lut OF sixty men on the brig Huntsman.
Iwenty-nine of these men leave widows
With about one hundred and fifty chill
rem, aud subscriptions were being taken |
obtain means for their support.
The Democratic State Convention o
meets at Reading on the
instant and the chances TO- tha |