The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-04-01
ON THE ICE.
8 Party Of Fishermen Caught on an Ice
Floe.
Thirteen of their Number Frozen to
Death.
The Remainder Rescued and Taken TO
Baltimore.
ON THE ICE.

BALTIMORE, March 18.-Capt. James,
OF the stmr Nuremburg, which arrived
an thus port to-day, reports that on
March % he saw schooner with ensign
at half mast, bore down to her, and was
asked to take ten men on board, who
had been saved; sent boat on board
the George S. Fogg, from Prince Ed
wards Island. The ten reported as fol-
lows:
'sWe belong to St. Mary's Newfound-
land. Our trade is fishermen in share
boats. On the Cd of March we saw a
ship ice bound, about two and q half
miles from the coast. We. went out to
her with a party Of fourteen men, all
from st. Marys. The wind was from
the west, q moderate breeze. Before
we reached her we met the captain of
the ship in charge Of another party from
ST. Mary's who took the captain ashore,
as he was sick. AS we could understand,
the crew had left the ship the day be-
fore. We reached the ship at 3 P. NJ.
AS night came on we made for land, af-
ter searching the ship, but did not reach
the coast, as the ice had opened toward
the land. We spent the night On the
ice, and had seven men frozen to death
during the night
Next day we went aboard again. We
had to leave nine more out Of our num-
Der, as these men were too weak to
walk, and the ice would not permit us,
on account of the weak state, to carry
them. Three of these men were picked
up by the schooner Geo. P. Fogg, on
the 9th of March, as the only survivors
out of nine We found nothing to eat
or drink aboard, besides molasses. The
ship drifted out with the ice, but we
were in sight of the coast about six or
seven days, but not able to reach It, We
stopped till the 11th of March in the
ship, when we saw schooner about
four miles to the east Of us. AS the ice
was in some parts too weak to bear a
man, we took small boat from the ship
and made for the schooner, which we
reached in the afternoon, where we were
received with great kindness"
BALTIMORE, March 2O.-The Sun of
this morning publishes an interesting
story from one OF the men rescued from
the ice off the coast of Newfoundland,
and brought to this port yesterday by
the steamer Nuremburg. The party are
all Irishmen, or of Irish descent, and
composed nearly the entire able-bodied
male population of the little town of St.
Marys, Newfoundland When return
ing to the shore, in the evening of the
day on which they boarded the ice bound
brig, they found that the Ice had parted
about one mile from shore, leaving a
space of half a mile Of clear water.
With night came a storm OF rain, sleet,
and finally snow, incapacitating several
of the party, and when morning dawned
seven corpses were counted. A heavy
mass of ice twenty feet square foated
near, upon which nine of the party got,
hoping that it would drift toward the
shore ice, and they could thus save
themselves. When it had hoated three
hundred feet from the ice upon which
were their comrades it grounded, and
the unfortunates remained upon it for
three days and nights, during which
time six of them died. All the food
they had in that time was a small white
fish which was frozen in the ice. The
eighteen men remaining after the nine
foated off, made their way back to the
abandoned brig All expected to die in
her, and some of them had lost their
senses before reaching her. The brig
moved in the ice for week, In sight of
land, and the fishermen were on her ten
days. The narrator says he has family
of six children, and some Of those who
died leave families equally large. The
ten men will be taken in charge by the
British consul to-day, and be sent home.
THE Massachusetts Republican State
Convention nominated Henry Lippitt,
of Providence, for Governor, by just