Connecticut western news., 1897-03-25
A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA.
Wreck of . French Steamer Causes Grea
 Loss of Life and Suffering.

Wreck of French Steamer Causes Great
 Loss of Life and Suffering.
 NEW YORK, March e0.-The French line steamer Vile de St Nazaire has been lost at sea. She sailed from here March 6 for West Indian ports and was abandoned March 8. There were so people aboard, all but of whom are believed to have perished. Thirty-three are known to have been lost. Captain Berri and three sea- men, picked up from an open boat on Monday last by the schooner Hilda, were landed at Perth Amboy. They told pitiful tales of suffering from cold and hunger.
 No sea novelist, raoking his brain for new aRonies to pile upon the creatures of his imagination. can dream of worse than befell the men and women who sailed on the big French steamer on March 6.
 It would seem that ocean horrors had passed, like great plaques, with the com ing of giant iron steamships and the null duplication of vessels on the sea, but such wholesale tragedies as the wreck of the St. Nazaire tell that the ocean is not yet tanned, and though the craft upon its bos- om cannot be numbered, 1t Is still waste upon which men drift and fight for life against slow torture and starvation until they die and meet no succor.
 Four boats left the St. Nazaire In these were 76 mon, women and children. That was II days ago. After six days four men were rescued from the sea, all that was left of those who had to trust their lives in the largest boat.
 The four survivors, who are now In this city, are Captain Jules Berri. inspector general of the French line; Dr. Alphonse Maire, ship surgeon; Pierre Sauts, fourth engineer; Juan de Dios Tejama, passenger for San Domingo.
 -h- n line steamer Creole. from New Orleans, which has just arrived in this port, brings information regarding one of the four life boats which put out from the sinking French line steamer Vile de St Nazaire on March 8. The Creole picked up a bat tered and seaworn boat in latitude 36. IF, longitude "A. 30, few miles from the North Carolina coast The boat contained the dead bodies of SIX persons, all men, evidently forming part of the crew of the St. Nazaire. The agony of despair was pictured on every face. There was nothing by which the bodies could be identified.
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