The Portland daily press., 1896-01-17

Whispered Of His Wife And Boy as He
Died.
ESPECIAL TO THE PRESs.J
Halifax, N. S., January 16.-The eight
survivors of the crew of "a of the steamer
Ealing wrecked on the Nova Scotia
coast, eight miles east of Halifax, arrived
today and went to the hospital. All were
more or less frost bitten. Two of the
eight will probably die, being so
badly frozen, and third mar will lose
his feet and hands. Henry Noble gave
an account of the terrible disaster. He
has the tips of his fingers and feet frost
bitten and his wrist is swollen from row.
ing.
The fact Of the Ealing going ashore
and the crew leaving the ship in two
boats has been told before. The smaller
of the two boats was given up as lost
with all hands. The large boat reached
Canso, N. S., where one Of the nine sur
vivors died. Mobiles account is as fol-
lows:
Shortly after leaving the ship the boat
was headed for Green Island Light It
came on to blow, and the men being
unable to pull against the heavy wind,
the boat began to drift away from the
light. The sea anchor was thrown out
and the boat allowed to drift. It drifted
all day. During the night they lay to.
At O'Clock in the morning two oars
we're made into jury mast and a sail
lashed to it. Soon the boat and it's in
mates were covered with ice and great
suffering was endured All the men had
to subsist upon was few hard biscuits
for four days and nights. While lying
to in gale on Tuesday morning, two of
the fremen, Henning and Hans, died.
Henning died at II O'Clock. He was frog
en- to the heart He tried to utter some
thing, but fell dead in the bottom Of the
boat. Syenson picked his body up and
cast it over the side of the boat into the
water. While the body was being con-
signed to the deep, the captain said
.God have mercy on his soul" This
was the only ceremony. Hans died at
1 o'clock on the same day. He, too,
was frozen to death. Henning's and
Hanss clothing consisted of socks, trous-
els and shirts, the clothing they had
worn in the engine room. Hans hung
his head down, nodded several times and
then expired. His body was thrown over
board with the same ceremony as per-
formed over his comrade
On Wednesday morning at O'Clock,
fireman Olsen died. He was warmly
dressed and had on mittens. He was
weighed about 1870 pounds. Before death
ensued he said:
81 AM DYING"
Shortly after, he fell over dead in the
boat. The captain at this time was too
near death to perform the usual cere.
mony. Soon after the captain succumb bed.
Ten minutes before death he said, 81
am dying. am sorry for my poor wife
and my boy" He was soon after frozen
stiff. His body and that of Olsen's were
thrown over together. During the inter-
ment the Lords prayer was said by Noah
Gudger. The chief engineer died Thurs
day evening at O'Clock. The third en-
gineer was not long behind him, and a
few minutes after a fireman named
Christian was added to the dead The
bodies were kept for Esome time in the
boat, the survivors thinking that land
would soon be made. All three were
finally given to the sea. Gilroy, aged 16,
the cabin boy, was the next and
LAST TO DIE.
His body was thrown overheard just a
few minutes before land was sighted.
Two buckets were kept going contin-
uously hailing out the boat to keep it
afloaU. On Thursday evening at about
3 o'olock,a ship was sighted The haze
had suddenly lifted and short distance
from the boat the sails of barkentine
were seen. The survivors vainly en-
deavored to get to the ship. They chased
her until the two rowers, ..Ssenson and
Noble, became exhausted. No one else
was able to use the oars. The poor fell
lows shouted as loud as their condition
would permit them. The ship was COM
ing on the starboard tack at the time and
must have seen the boat. Suddenly she
wore ship and stood away again and
turned about and left the boat far be-
hind.
Frank E. Stevenson and Henry Noble,
who suffered the least, are medium sized
men. Stevenson belonged in Sweden and
Noble in Portland, Me.