New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-23
A NAZAIRE RELIC IN PORT.
THE STEAMER CREOLE PICKS UP A BOAT
CONTAINING SIN CORPSES

Bt,T IT Is THE CRAFT IN WHICH THE FIRST
FOUR SURVIVORS DRIFrED a WEEK AND
WHICH THE HlrDA SET FREE-Two
BOATS STILL UNfiEARD OF AID no
NEWS FROM THE TANAREvA
One Of the four boats launched from the i'll
fated Vile d. St Nazare was brought into
port yesterday by the Cromwell liner Creole
and for while 1t was believed that three
Of the small craft which cleared the French
steamer before she sank to her grave in
the gray seas fortnight ago had been ac-
counted for. Then, as details Of the Creoe's dis
covery became known this hope faded. and II
became clear that IT not the third of the ST
Nazares boats which had been picked up but
the empty shell from which Captain Berry and
his three exhausted companions were taken by
the schooner Hilda week ago. No more Is
known Of the disaster than had been learned on
Sunday. Four persons from the Nazaire's COM
plement Of eighty-four have certainly been res
cued. Sixteen more It is hoped, and even by
some people believed, are safe on board the
British tramp Tanareva, on her way 10 Glasgow
OF the fate Of the two remaining boatoads OF
passengers and crew the have not told their
tale.
The nfeboat was found by the Creole az 1870
O'Clock on Sunday morning about sixty miles
north Of Cape Hatteras and 2jO miles south Of
Sandy Hook. The boat flooded with sea
water amos. to her gunwae. and when at last
the Creole had been worked alongside the grew
some discovery was made that six bodies were
lying under the thwarts. TWO were those OF
colored men, and by some OF the crew Of the
Creole i, is asserted that a woinan's corpse was
also part Of the CHASTITY freight. but this is now
I'LL IIa1s
the sailors thought the dream of a third Nazaire
lifeboat found might have been true, but the
craft was plainly Inscribed lfeboat No. ) OF
the Compagnie Generate Transatantique. and II
was in that boat, as Captain Berry and his three
comrades repeated positively YESTERDAY In an
swer To a message from Mr.. Forget, that they
passed their seven awful days adrift on the
ocean
The peopla on the Creole knew nothing OF the
wreck of the Nazaire when the boat was espled
a tiny speck in the distance, but it was over
hauled nevertheless. When tho steamer ranged
alongside il was at once seen that the boat would
he too heavy to hoist aboard filed as 1t was with
water so the craft at first partially raised
from the surface Of the sea, and an EFFORT was
made 10 stave ir the bottom with an oar ms
could not he accomplished. and it was then tried
to lift the stern of the boat to such an angle as
would allow the water TO run out But AFTER
the donkey engine had raised the stern three or
four feet the boat made sudden jump. and as
the water poured out. one by one before any
thing could be done 10 prevent 1t, the SIX BODIES
slid into the sea over the SuIlNdl', anu az
resting for a few seconds on the surface, sank
from sight The boat without them was hoisted
upon the forward deck Of the Creole and brought
to this city.
As IL lay on the deck yesterday. surrounded
hy curious spectators. the boat and its contents
..er. indeed a sad relic Of the disaster. StreWn
unon the bottom boards, among sca-s0dden
boots and overalls. lay wdstcoat ana trousers
of tweed CLOTH two patent leather tppcd
woman's shoes which did not pair, ruDber
nio3le from an infants nursing bottle. childs
l.,If 1.,.f1 Ia If "A
road ticket. issued by the Central Railroad OF
v,-Jersev a pair OF eyeglasses. and several
coins. =. go, ,-...
The boat itself is n bulky craft, fully thirty
feet long. and capable Of holding forty or hfty
people but she presented a weak ana rotten ap-
nearance The force of lifting her aboard the
steamer had ripped up her stern and started me
seams in several places In the opinion OF the
Cromwell Liners crew she was FUZZY thirty years
old Plenty of bread was found on board, but
no receptacles for water could be seen when the
boat was found except two claret pottleS IheE
were filed with sea water.
The Creole left this port on the same DAY rs
the Vile de ST. NaZaire. and passed through
the same storm that wrecked the lrench llner'
vet the Creole did not suffer IN the least. ne
fact was universally commented on yesterday.
and bv many Judges IL was thought 30 give sup
mort 10 the opinions that have been Expressed
that the NaZaire disaster was caused either by
I'D eoamanshin or the unseaworthiness Of the
steamer -, .,
Captan Berry and the two members of the 81
Eoza.,a's crew are still confined 10 their rooms,
Int the< were reported yesterday 10 be inpIoN-
inc slowly but surely Both Augustn Forget
and the French Consul said yesterday that they
would refuse 10 allow the men 10 talk Of their