Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
AMONG THE iCEBERGS.
Graphic Account of the Wrecked
Vicksburg.

rived here this morning, makes the follow
ing statement On June 9Th, in latitude 4Go
So west, had light breezes from northwest
and hazy weather. There were numerous
icebergs, and large quantities of foe ice in
sight at 1880 A. NJ; discovered a ships
boat with sails set ell the port bow. | made
Immediately for her and she proved to be
boat No. |, of the steamer Vicksburg of
Liverpool, belonging to the Dominion line,
and commanded by Capt. Bennett There
were five men in her and in a very exhaust
ed state, their feet and legs very much
swollen, so much so that their boots had to
be cut from their feet at once took them
with their boat on board, and put the men
into the hospital under the surgeons charge.
They are still suffering from their great
exposure to wet and cold, but are recover
ing as fast as could be expected. Their
names are James Crawley, of London,
boatswain's mate, aged % years, Thomas
O'Brien, of Liverpool, seaman, aged 80,
Patrick Grsyon, John Williams and James
Wilkinson. Crawley makes the following
statement:
We left Quebec on May 9th, with a
ships crew of sixty men, all told, and
. eight saloon passeDgers-five gentlemen
and three ladies-and about twenty in the
steerage, of whom four were females. The
weather was fine until 8 o'clock Sunday
evening, May 30th, when we fell in with
q ield of ice, and was soon surrounded by
it. The ship was stopped till daylight, when
we proceeded again with but little ice in
sight. At $50 o'clock =. NJ, Monday all
hands were called to shorten sail, and the
ship was stopped amongst heavy ice, and
headed to the,south, when we proceeded at
full speed TO get clear of the ice. At 1890
half speed, we struck the ice. The en-
gines were Immediately reversed, and the
ship struck heavily att on port quarter,
carrying away the fans Of the propeller,
and the hull was knocked through, which
admitted IA great deal of water. A sail was
got over and stopped the hole up so that
but little water came in. All the hands
were emf Logged in heaving the cargo over
board.
The Second Officer and myself were taken
from the cargo to clear away the boats.
This was about o'clock A. NJ. Tuesday,
June LIST. The. Captain ordered the for
ward wells to be sounded, and six inches OF
water was found. The aft Storage then
being full of water, the main hold we'll:
were then sounded and 8 feet and a half Of
water found The Captain called me on
the bridge and told me not TO mind the
boats, and then called every body aft and
told them to have no fears, rs he could take
the ship to st. Johns, N. F. 1t wasjthen
discovered that the fires in the engine room
were drowned out. The Captain then gave
orders TO launch the boats with their re-
spective crews, and told them TO mind that
the distance from st. Johns was l20 miles
N. w.
l proceeded to launch No. l, which wa,
my boat and it was capsized, losing The
chronometer, watch, charts, rudder anC
part of the provisions She was full o
water. 0'Brien and | bailed her partly out
when Pagan, Wilkinson and Williams
Jumped in. We could not hang on the
ship owing to the high sea and ice about
O'Brien saw the Captain on the bridge
reckoning the boat back. We having drift
ted about $50 yards from the ship. w
saw the second officers boat lowered, al
clear with 9 hands and himself in her. Sht
come round the bow and pulled windwar,
about 60 yards. The ship sunk about II
O'Clock, floating boat No. . from her posi-
ton with the chief officer and about 81
people on her She got clear and pulled t.
windward.
O'Brien, after the shin went down, saw
the Captain and some 9th, person floatin!
on bale of hay amongst come wreckage
We tried all we could t. pici them up, bu
owing to the boat being hale full of water
and the ice that was about we were no
able to do so.
We shipped our mast and kept company
with the other boats about two hours, anC
then lost sight of them to the westward
We decided then to steer clear of the ice
We hove the boat with an oar and buckle
which we used as IA drag until daylight
On Wednesday morning we had in thu
boat about 3 gallons water, 40 pounds o
raw beef, IA pounds of bread (wet will
salt water), and a compass, which did no
fall out when the boat capsizeG. AgaiI
we put sail on the boat, and steered south
the wind blowing from the northward an,
westward all throughout the day it wa
bitterly cold about p. NJ.
At about o'clock p. n. we hauled tn
boats head to the northeast till Thursda
morning, then tackled to the westward til
about p. M.,and again laid to with dra
till 8 O'Clock in the evening, when we tool
in the drag and made sail, and stood to tn
northeast till Friday morning at daylight
then tackled to southwest till Monday
tackled again to the northeast till Saturda.
morning, when, about hslf-past 10 O'Clock
we sighted the State Of Georgia, ali
we pulled away, dead to windward, till sh
plCheu us u p. L lHluh budL lOIIy -ouu pcV
Pile, with the captain, went down with tn
ship. We had blankets in our boat for tn
three ladies and stewardess which were 10;
when the boat capsized. We saw no ladie
in the chiefs, or the second officers, boa
ATLANTA, GA, June l0.-A negr
was arrested to-day for committing rap
on two white girls in DeKalb county, si
ters, named Johnson, 20 and 90. The ne
gro worked upon an adjoining place. an
came to the house early In the night whe
nobody was at home but the two sisters an
their little brother, who tried unsuccessful
ly to kill the negro with an axe The ne
gro locked the doors, threatened the liv,
Of the girls with pistol, committed Il
double crime aud took to the woods. BE
fore morning medical assistance was rel
dered the girls. Jordan James, the negl
arrested, was carried back for identifies
ton.
NEW YORK, June l4.-Dispatches fro
Maine, New Hampshire and other Stat
report considerable damage from frost.
has also been quite severe in New Jerse.
There is water famine in the low
part of the CITY, All the mains are stoppe,