Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-04-02

three being those picked up by the schooner
George S. Fogg on the 9th of March.
When it is remembered that seven per-
ished the first night, it is wonderful that
even three Of the nine on the small ice
field escaped, they having endured hunger
as well as the cold. All the food they had
in all that time was a small white fish,
which was frozen in the ice. This they
divided between them. OF the three men
two are OIL the Nurnberg, viz: John Fuer,
in the ships hospital, badly frozen, and
James Peddle.
BACK TO THE ABANDONED BRIG.
The eighteen men remaining after the
nine foated off on the small ice-field made
their way back to the abandoned brig,
which was tightly damned in the ice, and
was carried with it,. All expected to die
in her, and some Of them had lost their
senses before reaching her the second
time There were no stores on the brig :,
and they subsisted Oh ,molasses, a few
oranges and edible scraps that could be
found. The fishermen, who admit they
are unlettered. could not read her name,
but knew she was not English. The crew
had left on the ice for Hollow Road, a vii
age near st. Mary's. the LIST Of March
Tie brig moved with the ice for week in
sight of the land, and the fishermen were
on her ten days.
SCHOONER IN SIGHT.
At length one evening at sunset a
schooner was seen four miles away, which
had been caught in the same field that i'm
prisoned the brig. That night the half
| famished men held a council and deter
mined to reach the schooner next day or
die in the effort. Next morning at day,
| light they embarked in the briggs small
boat. which could scarcely hold them all,
I and after struggling through the ice nearly
all day reached the schooner George 5.
Fogg and were saved. There they met
| the three survivors Of their nine comrades
| who left them nearly two weeks before;
| the three, singularly enough. having been
saved by the same vessel which rescued
| the other eighteen. Captain Spence gave
them plenty of food, and if the prayers Of
| those grateful, honest, poor Irish hsher-
men can avail to make his future life pros
porous, he will never want OF this earth $
stores. The twenty-one fishermen and
crew of seven overcrowdeG the little
schooner. but the captain had food enough
for all, and all the discomfort they expe-
rienced was from their circumscrlbed
quarters. Some of the most robust OF the
party persisted, and some Of the more frall
escaped, among them the boy James Grace.
sUFFERINGs OF BOY.
On that terrible night. March 2, the boy
and other delicate ones were placed in the
middle of the throng as they stood or
moved about, and thus secured some shell
ter To question as to how the news
would be received in st. Mary's Mooney
replied, as he brushed a tear away, there
is now mourning in every household, for
they do not know any of us are saved.
He said he had six children, and that some
of those who died have families equally as
large. The ten men will be taken in
charge by the British consul to-day, who
will probably send them home in the Cas-
plan, which goes to Halifax this week.
To question as 10 how they liked their
treatment on the Nurnberg one Of them
compared that steamship to a floating no.
til, where they had Jared more sump-
tuously than they had eyer done before in
their lives.