New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-27
SAILORS BADLY FROZEN.
TWO SHIPS CREWS RENDERED HELPLESS BY COLD
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| TWO SHIPS CREWS RENDERED HELPLESS BY COLD
| DEATH OR AMPUTATIoN.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
| NEw-HAvEN, Dec. 26.-The English bark
Mohawk came eastward through Hell Gate Saturday in
1 company with the tug william p Thompson.
Aboad her were Captain Grassland, Sound pilot John
OBren OF New-YOrk; three mates, O crew OF thirteen
persons Of the owners Captain Claude James OF New
York and a cargo Of OIL She was bound for Calcutta.
Captain Grassland took the Long Island Sound
reach open water so that his could get the cleared
up for the voyage while inshore. Tne wind and cold in
creased every hour after the tug returned NewYOr
The water spashed the decks and to the sails and
was frozen Immediately. The work OF the sailors soon
became extremely arduous. The chiefly
Japanese and natives or the South of Europe They could
bear the cold It found necessary to change the
| man at the wheel every ten minutes to
| save him from freezing TO death. Pilot
OBrien says that In his thirty years experience the
water he has passed such night as that was. 1t
| was inky black and the pilot was compelled to
| use bis own Judgment in keeping the ship In
deep The brisk north west wind had sent the bark
bowling through the Sound with the light spread Of
| canvas that the able to shake out
Sunday morning, not only the cold did not decrease,
| but ID steamy, yellow fog encompassed the ship,
| and prevented the pilot from making out his
whereabouts He thought that he must be in the neigh
borhood of Confed light boat and Faukners Island.
The wind veered to the north, and with an almost I'M
paraeled nercenesS threatened 70 DO mScne1 10 tne
ship II land not deserted soon or the crew did
not from the effects OF the cold and
become able to attend to their duties. The
changing wind shut him off from NewLondon harbor,
so he resolved to try to reach New-Hayen.
| The ship was covered with ice and snow None among
the had escaped from frost bites and some OF them
were badly frozen that their limbs refused 10
respond to duty About eight o'clock IL was resolved
TO shake out and set the Oesa In order TO make harDr
| as possible. As many Of the were able
climbed the glazed fOrerggng and with their teeth and
half-frOzen hands, OOsened the stitfened gaskets.
One man, named ODeyta OKeeche was heard to gr0an,
and OOsening his hold on the rigging fell with an ago
nzed cry 10 the deck distance Of % feet His frozen
limbs broken, aud under the combined influence OF
the frost and the pain he died in intense pain In few
| hours.
At eight O'Clock Sunday night the bark anchor
five miles outside the New-Haven lighthouse The WIND
died out entirely The st sails not taken in The snow
storm OF Monday morning prevented Pilot OBnen from
bodied enough the ship TO handle the lOngboat.
Signals Of distress flying all day from the
MOhawk's masthead but they attracted no attention
Early Christmas morning Mr. OBrten rOwed into New
Haven and notice OF the MOhawks distressed cOndi
ton boat put off for the bark and brought Captain
James ashore At midnight tug brought the whole crew
TO the city They now being cared for at the state
Hospital IN this city, The majority Of the crew VIII lose
| toes and fingers.
BOSTON, Dec 26.-The schooner Telumah, Of Winter
| port, Nc, Captain Lowe, from Bangor for New-YOrk
arrived at Boston this afternoon with her FROST
bitten One Of them, John Walsh, Of Philadelphia had
his feet badly frozen that he brought ashore and
| taken to the Marine Hospital at Chelsea. The poor
fellows wce out In the recent hard weather. and with all
their suffering, unable to save the vessels sails
| Sic put Ia here Tor a harbOr.