The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-06-12


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Icy make. the following statements
/ We lplt Quebec May 27th, with
. slips crow UfsiEty men, 40 told, nnI
[ eight ulUpn passengers, ilycg cpllpmpi
aud three ludics, aud about twcnt,
sloCrngc passengers, Of whom four wcrl
females, Tho weather was fine unit
. Sunday evening, May 3Oth, when w
| fell IN with u Held Of lee aud were soon
surrounded 10y II, 'Ih'shlpwns stopped
until daylight, when we proceeded
with but little Ice ~ slght. AT half
past . T., Ne, Monday, all hands were
called to shorten sail. The ship
was stopped amongst the ice and
headed To the south, when
we mu,,,ded at full speed to
gt, Gear Of the ice. At twelve O'Clock,
ut half speed, we struck the ice. The
engines were Immediately reversed
and the ship struck heavily aft on the
port quarter carrying away the irons
of the propeller and hole was knock
cd through the plates of that quarter
through which came great deal OF
water, We got II sail over and stop
ped the hole up so that but little water
come In. All hands were then en-
plOycd IN hcaving the cargo overLoard.
The second officer and myself were
taken from the cargo to clear away the
bows. This was about six A. VI. Tues
day, Jtne LIST. The captain ordered
the forward wells to he sounded and
six inches of water was found, the
after steerage then being full. The
quartcr-main hold wells were then
sounded and five feet and n half of
water was found. The captain called
me on bridge and told me to mind the
boats, and then called everybody aft
and told them to have no fears, ms he
could take the ship to st. Johns, n. +.
1t was then discovered that the fires in
the engine room were drowned out.
The captain then gave orders to launch
the boats with the crew and told us
that the distance from st. Johns was
one hundred and twenty-one miles
northwest. | proceeded to launch num-
berOne, which was my boat, and it was
rapsized in lowering, losing the chro-
nomctcr watch, charts, ruIder and II
part of the provisions. She was full of
water. O'ljrien and | bailed her part
ly out, whe" Grogan, Wilkinson and
Williams jumped in. We could not
hang on to the ship owing to the sea
and ice about us. O'Bricn saw the
captain on the bridge beclSuGing to the
boat, but we had drifted about one
hundred and fifty yards from the ship.
We saw the second officers boat low
cred, all clear, with nine hands and
himself in her. She came round the
vessel and pulled to .windward about
sixty yards. The ship sunk about ten
o'clock, floating boat plumber two from
her checks with the chief officer and
about thirty people in her. We got
clear and pulled to Sindwurd. O'Brien,
after the ship went down, saw the cap
tain and some person floating on
bale of hay among the wreck. We
tried all we could to pick them up, but
owing to the boat being half full of
water and the ice about US, We're not
able to do so. We shipped our mast
and 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,
and heave the boat to with an oar and
Il bucket as II drag till daylight. On
"Wednesday morning we had in the
boat three gallons of water, forty
pounds ofraw beet, forty pounds ofbread
wet with salt water and compass
which did not fall out when the boat
capSized. Again we sailed south, with
the wind from the north and west, all
throughout severe and bitterly cold.
About i p. NJ. we hauled the boats
head to the northeast till Thursday
morning, aud tackled to the
westward til! about p. NJ. and
again laid to with II drag
until r. NJ, when we took in our drag
and made sail and stood to the north
east until Friday morning. At day
light we tackled to the southwest until
noon, and then tackled again to the
northeast until Saturday morning,
when about halfpast 10 A. NJ. we
sighted the City of Georgia, and got out
our ours aud pulled away until picked
up. think fOrty-odd people with the
captain went down with the ship. We
had blankets in our boat for three Ia.
dies and the stewardess, which were
lost when the boat capsized. We saw
no ladies' IN the chiefs or second otli-
GERS boats.
BALTIMORE, June lO.-The demo-
cratic state convention, to nominate
candidates for governor comptroller
and treasurer, has been called to meet
in Baltimore on Wednesday, July DIST.
ELMIRA, n. Y, June l0.-The state
press association to-day received forty
of the Alabama press usSOci-
aticn, who were welcomed to the city
by Mayor Smith. After visiting the
public institutions, IA collation. was
served at Eldridge park.
LONDON, June l0.-A dispatch to the
Standard says arrangements have been
made between the Carlists and Alton
soists for an exchange of one thousand |
prisoner mt NiaIa.
PARIS, June l0.-The French ultra
journals publish telegram
from Carlist sources that General Cor.
nandi has captured Carinera, and |
aiken one thousand prisoners.
LONDON, July lO.-The daily News
'eports that several Russian men-of- |
var, which were at Odessa, have been
ordered to Greece. Three others were
to arrive at Greek ports from
Baltic ports.
SAN FRANCISCO, June l0.-The steam
hip City of Toxic, from Hong Kong,
brings the following news: An attack
vas made, May LIST, on the American
in Kin Kiang in conse-
luence of the superstitious belief
Imong the natives that native children
we're maltreated by the missionaries.
PARIS, June 10.-A violent storm
,assed over the city yesterday. Much
window glass was broken and thou
ands of chimneys blown over. There
we're many accidents. Traffic was
Wholly suspended in the streets. The
torn extended south from France,
nd from the Pyrenees comes Il report
hat house was Frustrated and eleven
ersons killed. The damage in Paris
} estimated ut eleven million francs.
BUFFALO, June 10. The tug Hem ,
red exploded her boiler to day, killing
'aptain Hand, engineer Day and an
Unknown boy. The fireman was fatal s
Y hurt. The boat was blown to atoms.
he body of The captain was blown
yer four-story building four hundred .
1et across the street.
MADRID, June l0.-General Jovellar, /
captain general of Cuba, has |
cen appointed to the command of the ;
rmy of the center. 5
Rumors of a coming marriage of |
ling Alfonso, " it'll q German princess, !
nd Countess Gergenti with Bava-
an prince, are uufounded. S
LEAVENwoRTH, Kan, June l0.-The n
Try in the libel suit of L. b. Castle
yaiust Colorel +. w. Houston, for
lerly editor and rSoprietOr of the a
commercial, of this city, brought in a
srdict this morning for the plaintiff,
him damages to the amount c