The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-05-03
HORRIBLE TALE OF SUFFERING.
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Passengers.

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From the Louisville Ledger1
We have heard many stories tol
OF the sufferings of tip in an en-
grant ship from Europe to Americ;
and read details OF many very sbocs
ing cases of barbarity practicad upo
:be poor emigrants by barbarous off
GERS of ships; but we have been fun
!. nisbed the particulars by sewers
Germans, who arrived in this city
few days ago from Germany, of
series of barbarities practiced upol
the passengers OF the emigrant shi
Holland, of the Liverpool and New
York liHe, that exceed in infamy az,
outrage anything OF the kind we hav,
heretofore heard or road.
The Holland arrived at New Yorl
on the Oath of March, after q Ion,
and boisterous trip, with FIVE hundred
and fifty passengers aboard, al emf
grants, being ~ least two hundre;
more than she had accommodation
for. A number of these emigrant
we're for Louisville, where they ar
rived the latter part Of las. week
and from some of whom we get thest
particulars. The vessel had been q
sea but few days when it was dis
covered that the stock Of provisions
was not only of the poorest quality
but was also very light. In less thar
q week all the flour, potatoes and
other vegetables were exhausted, and
the passengers were reduced to q
diet of ship buscuit 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, al
though the ships officers and crew
seemed to have plenty of good and
healthy food. To all appeals for a
fair division of this food among the
emigrants the officers ard crew ans
wered only with curses and blows
Sickness broke out among the emf
grants, and in their desperation some
of them made an effort to secure
more food, but were knocked down
and kicked and beaten by the crew.
Many Of these miserable people, men,
women, and children, were exposed
on deck to the cold, and were badly
frozen. Our informant states that
the captain and mate of the vessel
we're particularly cruel in their treat
ment of the poor emigrants, and as q
consequence Of all their sufTeripgs
there was much sickness and many
deaths during the trip.
To such degree OF starvation
were these emigrants reduced that
when their scanty allowance of food
was issued to them they had TO fight
for its possession, the desperation OF
the hali-staryed passengers, under
the impulse of self-preservation lead
ing 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 emigrants were forced to eat
it to save themselve, from a horrible
death by starvation. The limbs of
many women and children, as well as
a number OF men, were so severely
frozen that in many cases amputation
will be necessary. A report of the
sufferings of these emigran's was
made to the authorities at New York,
but our informants say no attention,
so far as they know, was paid to it.
1t is a case that requires the mos.
rigid investigation, and, if the facts
are as stated to us, the captain and
other officers of the ship should be
brought TO the speediest and severest
punishment.