Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-02
ANOTHER OF THE LOST yALLANT-s
BOATS PICKED UP.
TALE OF TERRIBLE HARDSHIP.
SEVENTEEN OF THE BoATLoAD
DIED AFTER DAYS OF AGONY.
Survivors Say They Kept Alive by
Eating II Dog and Plend Not
Guilty of CannibaIism
Some Others May BE
Rescued.

St. Johns, y. F, May 1.-The French
br.gGntine Amade. Captain Forth. from st.
Maio, arrived At St. Pierre tonight, bring
ing four more survivors of the lost brigan-
tine Valiant. which was foundered as the
result of striking an iceberg or the Grand
Banks on the night of April Il These four
we're the only survivors of twenty-one men
who left the sinking Valiant in a ships life
boat, seventeen having perished as result
of exposure and frost bites. The bodies of
the seventeen dead men were thrown over
hoard. The four survivors claim TO have
kept themselves alive by eating the flesh
and drinking the blood of a dog belonging
to the Valiant. This dog, they say, they
took with them when they left the ship.
They Were absolutely without water, pro-
visions oars. sails and proper clothing
when they left the brigantine. They say
that they had only time TO jump from their
berths into the lifeboat, and that no oppor-
tuDity was afforded them to make even
slight provisions against cold and starva-
tion.
The seventeen men who died suffered ex-
cruciating torments. The survivors seem
10 have Jared little better. All four of
them are very weak. Two of them will
lose all of their limbs and the other two
will lose their feet as a result of frost
bites. The men tell story of a fierce
struggle on board the ship for places in
down with the wreck. A somewhat similar
fight occurred on board the lifeboat, the
men quarreling about the division of the
flesh of the dog, which was killed on the
morning of the third day, when four men
had already perished. Three died the next
day, six the next and four the day pre-
vious to their rescue.
The rescue occurred at midnight on the
sixth day. They were so exhausted that
hoy al 1rnn ir1NnO tn che
when they saw the lights of the brig
antine Amade, which came near running
them down in the darkness. The men say
they saw nothing of the missing lifeboats
after leaving the Valiant, but they are of
the opinion that three boatloads escaped
from the wreck besides the one already
saved.
The captain perisned.
The survivors rescued from the lifeboat
by the Amade assert that none of the
bodies were mutilated and that in this
case no cannibalism was attempted
The circumstances surrounding this lat
est rescue are such to induce the friends
of the missing members of the crew TO
believe that other boats may yet be pick
ed up.
The condition of the four men previously
rescued continues unchanged.
The news of the wreck of the Valiant
was p'ouSht " 81 ileITe Sliquelon on
April q by four men, badly frozen, driven
10 cannibalism and finally rescued by the
French barkentine Victor Eugene The
Valiant, it was announced, was on the
Grand Banks. The lookout suddenly saw
a cloud before him, which became a
glistening wall of ice. Then there was a
crash and the men felt the deck settling
beneath their feet. A scramble for the
boats followed. II is known that one of
the boats was swamped. When the four
men were picked up by the barkentine
Victor Eugene, they Were so weak and
exhausted that they could scarcely lift
their heads. From the first the recovery
of the men rescued by the Victor Eugene
has been extremely doubtful, owing TO
their weakened condition.
There were seventy-four persons on the
Valiant when she struck the iceberg