The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-29

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y They Met on being Frozen 10 Death.
Finyrnys sIen badly Fro.t.Diiten, bu,
May f,seoyer--seai hunters Separated
Prom, the shlp During n Bllnding snow.
siorm-Sis or Horror on aniee rioe.
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ST. JOHNS, March 2S,-The sealing
hteainer Greenland has sailed Into tho
farbor with a grewsome, cargo. TWEEN
Ity-ayc corpses were piled upon the
deck and ffty-tive men were moaning
With terrible suffering. Iii the holds,
/. from the pain OF frost bitten limbs and
bodice. The little sealing steamer,
which sailed for the hunting grounds
( three weeks. aso, returned as an awful
\ .chafrel house. The dead bodies were
In Tiers on the deck of the steamer. dis
asflgured and almost unrecognlzable
from the effects OF the terrible suffer-
Z Ing which they had endured, present.
4 Ing one OF the most horrible sights hui
+ man eyes ever beheld,
sS The, Greenland set sail from st. Johns,
= n. r. about the first Of March on her.
fateful voyage. She was commanded
y by Captain George Barbour and carried
!. % crew'of nearly three hundred hunters.
4 The steamer proceeded nortnward with
5Sthet rest OF the sealing fleet, but after
sconp!eyof days she 2diverge0 on a sep.
arate track and reached the hunting
e grounds not long after. All went we'll
3Sintil Tuesday last, and seals were
quickly encountered and several good
4 packs were secured. On Tuesday
morning the hunters left the ship about
"a O'clock, as usual, when. the lookout In
the crows nest reported Ice plentiful
s. around them. The men were clad In,
Hight clothing, for the Strengthening OF
" seals lis exhaustlng work. Scattered
over the ice field. they wandered far
Z from the protection of the ship and n
!, gale. and snow storm shut them out
from syiew. The Ice parted and they
= drifted away from the steamer. Long
n ereithe storm subsidized many OF the I'M
fortunate fellows had suCcumbef to the
d terrible cold and exposure. Those. who
4 did not were terribly frostbtter and
suffered excruciating pain. + =
The long night passed, 2 but morning
brought no help, for the. Storm still
Z ragged and the atmosphere was thick
Z with snow. driven before the gale. Snow
continued nearly all day and the even
ling brought no cessation TO the high
wind, Another night. one which seem
( ed to the helpless, driftless sufferers.
who still lived, thousand longer than
: the first, was passed in untold agony.
Some OF the victims had already given
iIp{ hope and lay down and died, and
hour witnessed at least two
8 deaths on that awful night on the ice
( noe. 80
Toward morning the storm subsided
Eand clear weather enabled the surviv-
Grs9 to see that the Greenland was not
1 far away searching for the missing.
The steamer bore down on7the drifting.
4 field of ice. which had by this time sep
began.thc work of picking up The bodies
ofS:he dead and the helpless bodies OF
e, the living. Twenty-Five corpses were
& taken on board that morning, but
;twenty-three are stu missing. and
though the search was continued all
(. day, no more were recovered. Thurs
: day. night the Greenland headed for
shore, reaching Bay de Verde yester-
{ day proceeding thence 10 St. Johns
\ with her CHASTITY cargo. Most Of the
\ men who met this awful fate or the
s.tltdSIleiOus't iCe .lIOeS al uilIdIiltu HILL
4 With Slarge families, who are thus de-
5prlved' Of all visible means of support.
A The names OF the Greenlan1s dead
/: ares: Richard Pynn, James Maher OF
st. Johns; Alfred Muley. OF Carbonear:
: William Casey. OF Quidividi: Edwin,
3 Davis. John Thomas. John Pinsent, of
Z Sale Harbor: Joseph Borns. James
I Howell, Thomas White, William Gala
way of Pottsitard; Charles Ralph, OF
Flat Island; A. Gouraga. William
\ Heath, of Harbor GRANGE; Willie VIII
denridge. Of. Trinity; Edwin Hunt, Jo-
y seph Vincent, of Cape Island: Isaac
4 Green. Kenneth Parsons. George Nor
IRIS. Henry Curtis. of Newton; Fred
K Howse,, OF Gooseberry Island; Jacob
: Pond, OF Greenspond; Walter Morris,
s ofiPond Cove. f9
The missing are: Benjamin Brown. OF
Z Doers Island: Albert Bowler, Theodore
Norris, OF Pond Cove; George BuHsey.
g James C. Hicks. Herbert Norris, OF
(, Newton; Michael Hennessy, of St. Bren-
dams: 3 Heber Ryan, OF Ship Cove: Wat
/ thew Wells, Lorenzo Wells, George
'sPynn.S of Harbor Grace; John Wlcks.
\ Of 5WesleyvlHe; Alexander Andrews.
Cape, Island; William D. Lakewood,
SGreens Pond: Stephen SQu!res, Salvage:
N George W. PynT, OF Hants Harbor;
JAMES Mallard, OF St. Johns: Ambrose
\ Rogers, OF Lower Island Cove; William
Saunders, tof Trinity: Thomas Ricketts,,
of Kings Cove; William Cullen. of Tor
+ Bay: James Conway. Of Turks Cove.
The sfrostbitten men number fifty
/ five. All Will recover.