The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02
a Terrible Story of Suffering.
THIRTEEN FISHERMEN FROZEN TO DEATH
FULL PARTICULARS BY y SURVIVOR.
BALTIaoRE, March eS, 1915.

BALTII0RE, March cS, 1915.
Capt. Jaeger of tho Steamship Nurm-
berg, which arrived at this port to day.
reports that March 23d lie saw a schooner
with the ensign at halfmast. He bore
down to her, and was asked to take men
on board which had been saved. | sent a
boat on board the schooner, which turned
ont to be the George 5. Fogg, for st. Ed
wards Island. The men reported rs fol
lows: We belongto St. Mary's, Newfound-
land. Our trade is fishermen in shore boats.
On the 2d of March VIC saw ship. ice
bound, about two and onc-half miles from
the coast. We went out to her with par
ty of thirty four men. all from St. Mary S.
The wind was from the westward, Il mod
crate breeze. Before we reached her we
met the captain uf said ship in charge of
another party from St. AIaGys. Who took
the captain ashore, as he waSs sick. AS we
could understand, the crew had left the
ship the day .fore. We reached the ship
at three 7. NJ. As night came oil we made
for the land after searching the ship, but
did not reach the coast. as the ice had
opened towards the land. We spent the
night on the ice, and had seven men frozen
to death during the night. Tie next day
we went on board again. We had to leave
nine men out of our number behind us. as
these men were too weak 10 walk, and the
ice would not permit Us on account OF its
veal, state, to carry them. Three Of those
men were picked mp by the schOCuer George
). Fogg on the 9th OF March as tie only
survivors out Of the nine. We found moth
ing to eat or drink on board be sides Tlo-
laSscs. The slip driited out with he ice,
out we were in sight of nc coast about six
or scTcn days, but net able to ieacl. it
We stepped till the 11lh of March III ;!le
ship, when we saw Il schooner about fnHr
miles to the eastward Of us. As The ice
was in some laTtS too weak to bear a man,
we took small beat from lie ship aud
made for the schooner, which we reached
in the afternoon, where wc were received
with great kindness.
BALTIMoRE, March 90, 1915
The Sun Of this morning publishes an
interesting story from one Of the men res
caod from the ice off the coast of New found
land and brought to this port yesterday by
the steamer Nu,mSng. The Iarty aIe
all Iris!I,nen or of Irish dcscy;.t. ani com
pT;Std nearly ;hc en.iTc able bodied male
population of thc little town Cf st. Mary's,
Newfoundland. When returning To shore
III tl:e evening Of The day on which tiisy
boarded the ;cC bound brig. they found Inc
ice had parted about mile from >hoie,
leaving the SPACE cf half mile of clear
water, with ni: Ia e, ni.ig on tiie storm of
lain, s!ect, ard finally slo,. incaPacita,cd
several of the PARTY, and when morning
heavy mass OF ice, twenty feet square,
ii1atsd near, upon which nine uf lie party
got, hoping il Honi,i dr.ft towards the
shore ice, and they could thus save them
se.Vcs. When it hsd i!oItea thr. c hun
drcd yards from the ice upon which were
their comrades, it grounded, aud the uIi-
fortunates remained upon il three days
and nights, during which time six Of them
died. Al llc food they had i'll Nat time
was n small white fish, which WAS frozen
in the ice. The eighteen men remaining
made their way back TO the abandoned
Mig. All exp. ctcd ;n die in bef, AID sO'ae
OF ilein had lost their seusCs before reach
;g her. The brig renamed in the ice for
week IL. ..;:,h Int uf l.;:d, aa.l the tishern.en
we're on EcI tc! days. lie narrator says
he has a family of siX children, and some
Of those who died have families equally
large. The two men viii be taken in
charge of by the BRUSH col.sul 10 day, and
DC sent home.