The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-17
IFrom the Louisville Courier JournaI.l
HORRIBLE TALE OF SUFFER.
ING.
Horrors Of the Passage from Eu-
rope I'm an En1fgranf Ship.

We have heard Of many stories
told of the suiferipgs of a trip IN an
ernigrant ship from Europe to Amer
lea, and read details of many very
shocking cases Of barbarity prac-
ticed upon the poor emigrant by bar
barous officers of ships; but We have
been faruished the particulars, by
several Germans who arrived in this
city few days ago from Germany,
of series of barbarities practiced
upon the passengers of the emigrant
ship Holland, of the Liverpool and
New York line, that exceed in infa-
my and outrage anything of the kind
We have heretofore read.
THE HOLLAND
arrived at New York on the 18th of
March, after long and boisterous
trip, with $50 assengers aboard, all
emigrants, being at least 200 more
than she had accommodations for. a
number of these emigrants were for
Louisville, where they arrived the
! latter part of last week, and from
some OF whom we get these psrticu-
lars. The vessel had been at sea but
few days, when it was discovered
that the stock of provisions was not
only of the poorest quality, but it
was also very light. In less than a
week all the -four, potatoes. and 9TH
er vegetables were exhausted, and
the passengers were reduced to diet
of ship biscuit and horse beef. and
this of the poorest quality, and doled
out in the smallest portions.
STARVATION BEGAN
| to stare the wretched emigrants In
the face, although the ships officers
aud crew seemed to have plenty of
good and healthy food. To all ap-
peals for fair division of this food
among the emigrants, the officers and
crew answered only with curses and
blows. Sickness broke ont among
the emigrants, and in their despera-
| ton some of them made an effort to
secure more food, but were knocked
down and kicked and beat BY the
crew. Many of these miserable peo-
pie, men, women and children, were
exposed on deck to the cold and were
badly frozen. Our informants state
that the captain and mate of the ves-
sci were particularly cruel in their
treatment to the poor emigrants. and
as consequence of all their suffer-
ings there was much sickness and
many deaths during the trip.
NO cr-cty A Drrpr-
of starvation were these emigrants
reduced that when their scanty al
iowance of food was issued to them
they had to fight for its possession,
the desperation of the half-starved
passengers. under the impulse of
self-preservation, leading them to
try to take by force from the weakest
their share of the wretched food
The horse beef, our informants state,
was absolutely half rotten. and its
stencil almost sitting; yet the emil
igrants were forced eat it to save
themselves from a horrible death by
starvation The limbs of many wo-
men and children, as we'll as num-
| Der of men, were so severely frozen
that in many cases amputation will
be necessary. A report OF the suffer
ing of these emigrants was made to
the authorities at New York, but our
informants say no attention, so far as
they know.swas paid toit. tits a case
that requires the most rigid investi-
cation, and if the facts are as stated
to us, the captain and other officers