Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-29

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Fifty-Five Men in the Vessels
Hold, All Terribly Prostitution.
They Had Been Caught on an Ice
Floe During a Storm and Twenty
Three Of the Grew Still Are Mis-
sing.
ST. Johns, March 2S.-The sealing
steamer Greenland has reached this
barbor with a gruesome cargo. Twen-
1y-dve corpses were piled upon the
deck. and So men were moaning with
terrible suffering in the hold, from the
main of frost-bitten limbs and bodies.
THE little sealing steamer which sailed
for the hunting grounds three weeks
ago returned as an awful charnel
house. The dead bodies were in tiers
on the deck of the steamer, disfgured
and almost unrecognizable from the
effects of the terrible suffering which
they endured presenting one OF the
most horrible sights human eyes ever
beheld.
The Greenland set sail from ST.
Johns. n F., about the first of March.
on her fateful voyage. She was COM
manded by Capt George Barbour and
carried a crew of nearly 800 hunters.
The steamer proceeded northward with
the rest of the sealing fleet, but after
couple of days she diverged on a
separate track and reached the hunt
ing grounds not long after All went
we'll until last Tuesday. and seals
we're quickly encountered and several
good packs were secured. On Tues
day morning the hunters left the ship
about Z o'clock, as usual, when the
lookout in the crows nest reported ice
plentiful around them. The men were
clad in light clothing, for the siaugh-
tering of seals is exhaustive work.
Scattered over the ice field, they wan
dered far from the protection of the
ship, and a gale and snowstorm shut
them out from view.
THE ICE FLOE PARTED
and they drifted away from the steam
er. Long ere the storm subsidized many
of the unfortunate fellows had sue
cumbed to the terrible cold and ex-
posure Those who did not were ter
ribly frostbitten ard suffered eXcrucia-
ting pain.
The long night passed, but morn
ing brought no help, for the storm
still ragged and the atmosphere was
thick with snow driven before the
gale. Snow continued nearly all day,
and the evening brought no cessation
of the high wind. Another night was
passed in untold agony. Some of the
victims had already given up hope and
in despair laid down and died, and
every hour witnessed at least two
deaths on that awful night on the ice
foe. Toward morning the storm sub
sided and clear weather enabled the
survivors to see that the Greenland
vas not far away, searching for the
missing The steamer bore down on
che drifting ice field, which had by this
time separated into a number of sec
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up the bodies Of the dead and the help
less forms of the living. twenty-five
corpses were taken on board that
morning, but % men were still missing
and though the search was continued
all day no more were recovered.
Thursday night the Greenland head
I'd for shore, reaching Bay de Verde
Yesterday, proceeding thence to st.
johns with her CHASTITY cargo. Most
OF the men who met this awful fate
on the treacherous ice foe are mar
ried, with large families, who are thus
deprived Of all visible means of sup
port.
The names of
The GREENLAND'S DEAD
are: Richard Pynn, James Maher, of
o. JOINS; Walter Murphy, Alfred Mu-
ley Of Carbonear VIM. Casey, of
QuldIydi; Edwin Davis, John Thorn
as John Pinsent, of Safe Harbor; JOS
eph Borne, James Howell, Thomas
WHITE, William Galloway, of Pottsi-
land; Charles Ralph, of Flat Island;
A. Courage, William Heath, of Har-
Dor Grace; Willie Woldenridge, of
iilhlty; Edwin Hunt, Joseph Vincent,
Oh Cape Island; Isaac Green, Kenneth
PARSONS, George Norris, Henry Curtis,
VI Newton; Fred Howse, of Gooseberry
island; Jacob Pond, of Greenspond
walter Norris, Of Pond Cove.
Inc missing are: Benjamin Brown,
OF Doors Island; Albert Bowler, The
odore Norris, of Pond Cove; George
huhgey James c. Hicks, Herbert Nor
rs OF Newton; Michael Hennessey, of
~ Brendens; Heber Ryan, of Ship
NoFe; Matthew Wells, Lorenzo Wells,
Moan Mortimer, George Pynn, of Har
oor Grace; John Wicks, of Wealey-
Nile; Alexander Andrews, Cape ISL
ana; William L. Lakewood. Greens
rond; Stephen Squires, Salvage; Geo.
Pynn, of Hant's Harbor: James
MaIiard, of ST. Johns; Ambrose Rodg-
tfS' OF Lower Island Cove; William
saunders, of Trinity; Thomas Rick
eas, OF Kings Cove; William Cullen,
VI Tor Bay; James Conway, of Turks
Cove.
Ihe froStbitten men will recover.