The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-18
St,.,sck by an iceberg.
WRECK oFTHE STEAMSHIP VICKsBuHe AND
Ees GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

Five seamen drifting in boat we're
picked up lately by the State OF Georgia
and brought to New York. They were IN
a very exhausted condition ana iepors
as a remnant of the crew OF
the yfcKsturg of the Dominion; the story
of it's loss they tell in the following log:
We left Quebec on May 81, with ships
crew of sixty men all told, and elght sa-
loon passengers-five gentlemen and three
ladies and about twenty in the steerage,
of whom four were females. he weather
was fue until 9 o'clock on Sunday evening"
when we fell in with a field of ice and WEI
soon surrounded by it. The ship was
stopped till daylight, when we proceeded
again with but little ice in sight. -.
At9:3O a. m. all hands were called to
shorten sail, the ship was stopped among
heavy ice and headed TO the south, when
we proceeded at full speed to get clear OF
the ice At 12 O'clock, at half speed, we
struck the ice. e . -..
The engine was Immediately reversed.
The ship struck headed aft on port quarter,
CARRYING away the fans of the propeller,
and a hole was knocked throngh the plates
on that quarter, through which came a
great deal of water. We got sail over and
stopped the hole up SO that but little water
canle i'll. -.'. -., %
An hands were employed in heaving the
cargo overheard. The second officer and
myself were taken from the cargo to clear
away the boats. This was about clock,
A. M, Tuesday, June L. The captain or
dered the forward wells to be sounded and
six inches of water We're found, the after
steerage then being full of water. The
main hold wells were then sounded and
five feet and half of water found. s-t.'i
The captain called me on the bridge AID
told me not to mind the boats, and then
e.. - n col I.axr
no fears as he could take the ship to St.
Johns. n. F. 1t was then discovered that
the fires in the engine-room were drowned
out The captain then gave orders to
laur ch the boats with their respective crews,
and told them to mind that the distance
from ST. Johns was 100 miles n. w. |
proceeded to launch No. /, which was my
boat and it was capsiZed IN lowering, los
ing chronometer, watch, charts, rudder,
aud part of the provisions. She was full of
water. O'Brien and | partly bailed her
out, when Grogau, Williamson and Viii
liams jumped in.
We could not hang on to the ship owing
to the sea on and the ice about. O'Brien
saw the captain on the bridge, beckoning
The boat back, we having drifeed about 100
yards from the ship. We saw the second
officers boat lowered, all clear, with nine
hands and himself in her. She came round
Tie DOW. dllu puiltu " tbC NiittN oi u dpouI
sixty yards.
The ship sunk about 10 o'clock, float
ing boat No. 2 from her checks, with the
chief officer and about thirty people in her.
She got clear and pulled to the windward
O Bren, after the ship went down, saw the
captain and some person floating on bale
Of hay amongst the wieckage. We tried
all we could to pick thom up, but owing to
the boat being half full of water, and the
Inc al.. NOT obi 10 70 al
We shipped our mast, kept company
with the other boats about two hours and
then lost sight of them to the westward
We decided then to steer clear of the ice,
heave the boat to with an oar and backed
as "a drag till daylight on Wednesday morn
ing. We had in the boat about three gal
Ions Of water, forty pounds of raw beef,
fourteen pounds of bread wet with salt
water and Il compass which did not fall out
when the boat capsized. again we put
sail on the boat and steered south, the
wind blowing from the northward and
westward all throughout the scene and
was bitterly cold. About A p. m, we
hauled the boats mead to the northeast till
Thursday morning. then tackled to the
westward till about 3 ,. M, again laid to,
with drag, till 8 O'clock in the evening,
when we took in the drag and made sail,
and stood to northeast till Friday morning
At daylight we tackled TO the southwest till
midnight, tackled again to northeast ill
Saturday morning. when, about half past
ten, we sighted the State of Georgia, and
we got ont the oars and pulled away dead
to wiudward till she picked usup. think
that forty odd people, with the captain,
weEt down with the ship. -.
We had blankets in our boats for the
three ladies and stewardness, which were
lost when the boat capsized. We saw no
ladies in the chiefs on second officer 5
| boat. ....
ST. JOHNS, June Il, 1S15.-The survi-
| vors of the ' Nicksburg disaster who reached
here on Saturday report that six boats were
lowered from the Vicksburg. Two were
capsized alongside one or two hours after
leaving the vessel, and their own was pick ed
up. One of the two boats unaccounted for
was doubtless that containing the five men
who arrived at New York The Captain
and officers are said tO have behave ed WELL
but the seamen acted badly. The Captain
and women went down with the vessel
Another vessel has sailed to search for the
missing boat.
ANOTHER DAsTkRDLY ASSAULT ON A
! \ DUNG GIRL.-A Baltimore morninp paper
of Tuesday says that on the day previous
consider able interest was excited in one of
the leading hotels by the rumnr which was
being hoated about to the effect that a Sc
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