The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-01
SUFFERING At SEA.

French steamer Wrecked-The Captain
Frozen to Death-Intense Suffering and
Death.
NEW YORK, December GA special from
Halifax gives the following details of the
horrible sufferings of ships crew cast on
Sable Island. The Dominion Government
steamer ''Lansdowne" returned from Sable
Island last night She was out in the great
gales Of Friday and Saturday. and Captain
Guilfom says he never saw worse weather
during his half century's experience Oh this
coast. lie brings intelligence of the
wreck of the Brig "A. S. H." of
st. Malo, France, Captain LeMarchand,
owned by Omegers & Co, of
st. Pierre and bound from that
place to Boston with fish. The vessel left
ST. Pierre December Is. The gales of the
18th, 18th and 10Th drove the ship near
Sable Island. The west end lighthouse Of
the island was lighted at four O'Clock. On
the afternoon of Friday, the 18th, heavy
snow storm prevailed, and the wind was
BLOWING A HURRICANE,
few minutes after land was out of sight.
The vessel was driven on sand bar with
great violence and Immediately began to
break up. She had a crew of seven men.
The thermometer indicated twelve degrees
below zero, and the sufferingS of the men
had been terrible. They were frost bitten,
tut, bruised. dsheartened, and death was a
welcome release. Three Of the crew were
washed over when the ship struck, and al
lough there was plenty of floating debris.
hey made no efforts 10 save themselves and
vere drowned. The steward, preferring
death to any further misery, ran to his
berth, grabbed a razor. cut terrible cash in
his throat reaching from ear to ear, jumped
into the surf and disappeared. His body
was found in the sand the next day by the
coast guard men,. Captain LeAlarchand,
his first mate and sailor managed to get
on a sand bank by 4 floating spar, but only
escaped the terrOrs of the deep to encounter
the more
FRIGHTFUL TEREOES
of the frost king. They could family dis
Germ the glimmer of lighthouse three miles
across the sandbar. and set out in the dark
ness to reach it. The sand was being driven
with binding force by the gale and each
grain dashed against the faces of the eX.
hausted men like hailstones. Finally the
Captain succumbed laid down and, despite
The efforts of his equally exhausted com
rades to rally him, in few minutes was
lTpLeH 10 uedIit. liz CIltl
er and sailor then pressed on,
1t within half an hour the
ailor too lay on the sands frozen corpse.
The chief officer, a powerfully built man,
then pushed on to the lighthouse, the only
survivor After six hours of almost indie
scribable suffering from frost and the dash
ing sands he reached the lighthouse
the last quarter of mile on
hands and knees, and told terrible
tale of the wreck. 1t was then two
O'Clock in the morning. Everything possible
was done to relieve his suileringS. Next
.orning the officials started off for the
scene of the disaster. They found the
bodies of the Captain and sailor. and i'll
tered them in the sand The body of the
steward was also found on the beach near
the wreck The vessel had been smashed
to pieces and the debris covered the surf
eaten shore. The survivor came UP ON
lie "Lansdowne."