Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-06-24

Hrw YcRx June ~
The steamship State OF Gernania, which
syyive.i this morning. brought i've seamen
az ske Dominion Line steamship sicks-
hurr from Montreal for Liverpool, which
WAS sank by ice on Tuesday, June l. Inc
men were picked up June B nearly deao
froYr, exposure, but since then have peen
rapidly improving They tell fearIui
,aie III distress. Other boats were
launched with q large number OF persons,
b,,t the greater number we're seem 70 per-
ish without getting In the boSis Inc
yiclshurv went down Ia the midst OF Ice,
md the boat was surrounded BY icebergs
and a field of ice when picked up; Inc
other boats have not yet been heard iroin:
The FIVE men rescued had their feet ana
legs very much swollen, so much so has
tl,eir boots had TO be cut from their iect.
THEY are still suffering from their great
ernozIre 10 the wet and cohi, bat are re-
covering a. fast RS could I've expected.
The statement Of James Crowley, one
M the survivors. Is to the effect that there
,.ere an hoard a crew Of sixty men, eight
saloon psssenesrs--gss men ana ihree
ladies--aud about twenty steeragc pas
eenecrs of whom four were females on
Sunday evening, May 80, they encounters
large fields of ice. but succeeded IN avoid
inc any serious accident until about noon
on the next day, when the ship struck
heavily aft on the port quarer' CARRYING
away the fans Of the propeller, anu
hole was knocked through the piae1
on that quarter, through which me ship
made great deal OF water. The ho's was
stopped up with sails, so that Du' ht1Ie
water came in, and then all hands were
employed In throwing the cargo over
board. On the morning OF June an eA-
animation showed the aitersieerage 10 pe
| flied with water, and six feet and NAH
| of water In the main hold wells. Inc
fires In the engine-room were soon
drowned out, and the Captain gave orders
| 10 launch the boats with theT re.
spective crews and told them TO mlno
| dat the distance from 81. Johns was 10
miles northwest. Crowley says: l pro-
| ccedcd To launch No. 1, and II was cap
sized In lowering. She was full OF water.
| O'Brien and baled her partly out, when
| Grogan, wilkinson and Williams Jumped
| in. We could not hang on TO the ship
| owing 70 the sea on and the ice about.
| O'Brien saw the Captain on the bridge
| reckoning the boat back, we having
drifted about $50 yards from the ship.
| The ship sunk about ten O'Clock, floating
| boat No. Q from her checks with the
chief officer and about thirty people
| In her. She got clear and pulled TO
the windward O'Brien, after the ship
went down, saw the Captain and some
persons floating or bale Of hay among
the wreckage. We tried all we could TO
| pick them up, but, owing 20 the boat being
| half full of water and the ice about, were
not able to do So We slipped our mast,
| kent company with the other boat for
| about two hours, and then lost sight OF
| them 20 westward. We decided then 10
| steer south TO get clear Of the ice. We
| hove the boatto with an oar and bucket
as a drag, till daylight on "Wednesday
morning. We had in the boat about three
gallons of water, forty pounds Of raw beef,
fourteen pounds Of bread wet with salt
water, and a compass, which did not fall
out when the boat capsizcd. Again we
put sail on the boat and steered south, the
| wind blowing from the northward
! and westward all throughout the
scene, and bitterly cold. About four o'clock
| In the afternoon we hauled the boats
| head 10 the northeast till Thursday morn
| ing, then tackled 10 the westward till about
three o'clock in the afternoon, and again
lay 10 with the drag till nine O'Clock in
the evening, when we took in the drag
and made sail, and stood 10 the northeast
till Friday morning at daylight. We then
tackled TO the southwest till midday;
tackled again 10 northeast till morning,
when about half.past ten O'Clock we
sighted your ship We got out the oars
and pulled away dead to windward till
you picked us up. think that forty-odd
people, with the Captain, went down with
| the ship. We had blankets on our boat
for the three ladies and stewardess, which
were lost when the boat capsized. We
saw no ladies in the chief or second of.
| flcer's boat