The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-17
DEATH ON THE DEEP.

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steamer Crushed by Icebergs-Fifty Lives
Lost.
News is received of the wreck of the
steamship Vicksburg, with the. loss of
fifty lives. Capt. Cooper, of the steamer
Germania, which arrived at New York
recently, makes the following statement:
stJune 5, latitude 46 "a north, longitude
47:58 west, we discovered ships boat,
with sails set, on the port bow. / made
Immediately for her, and she. proved to
be boat No. of the Inflated steamer
Vicksbrrg, of Liverpool, belonging to
the Dominion line, and commanded by
Capt. Bennett. There were five men. in
her, in a very exhausted state. Their
feet and legs we're very much swollen, SO
much SO that their boots had to be cut
from their feet
James Crowley, one of the rescued men,
says: g The Vicksburg left Quebec on
Thursday morning, May 81, with ships
crew.of 60 men, all told, and eight saloon
passengers. AT 9:30p. M. on Monday,
all hands we're called to shorten sail.
The ship was stopped among heavy ice,
and headed to the south, when we pro-
ceeded at full specific get clear of the ice.
At IL o'clock, at full speed, we struck the
ice. The engines were immediately re-
versed. The ship struck heavily aft on
the port quarter, carrying away the fans
of the propeller, and hole was Knocked
through the plates on that quarter,
through which the ship made a great
deal Of water. The Captain gave orders
to launch the boats, with their respective
crews, and told them to mind that the
distance from ST. Johns was 100 miles
northwest. The ship sank about 10
o'clock, floating boat No. from her
davits with the chief officer and about
thirty people in her. She got clear and
pulled to the windward. After the ship
went down, we saw the Captain and some
other person floating on bale of hay,
among the wreckage. We tried all we
could to pick them up, but owing to the
boat being half full of water and the ice
about, were not able to do So"
Other interviews with survivors are
published, and from these it seems that
those of the crew and passengers who
escaped In the boats abandoned the YES
sci and those on board to their fate in
manner which is somewhat discreditable,
to say the least. It is also quite clearly
shown that nearly fifty lives were lost
The steamer was used only for the trans
portation of freight; otherwise the loss
of life would have been much heavier.
Old-Time Manners.
There is tendency, which is noticed
by many, to restore some ancient usages,
and cultivate strictness of form and de-
gree of ceremony to which, in this coun-
try, the masses have not been accustom-
ed. There is an inclination to pay due
respect to Office, to stop the vulgar sub
stitution of slang terms for real names,
to extend certain marks of Difference to
those in authority, and even to show
courtesy to one another. For example,
gentlemen now not unfrequently raise
tlieir hats to each other in the street.
Formerly this was only done to ladies.
It is beginning to be understood that
officials must rise on Judge entering
a court room, and remain standing I'M
til he has taken his seat. The exactions
in regard to the dress of gentlemen in
force twenty-five or thirty years ago,
but lost sight of in a great measure
more recently, are to be revived. Even
ing dress will be restored; indeed, this
has been accomplished already. 1t is
no longer permitted to a man to be a
gentleman, and sit down to dinner with
his wife, his mother, or even his mother
in-law, in business coat, and a society
is about being established, the members
of which are required to meet and dine
in evening dress strictly gloves includ
ed, which, however, may be removed. -
NeO York Letter from Jennie June.