Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-28
TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
Experience Of a Company Of Three Hundred
Seal Hunters,
MANY DIED IN THE FROST AND WIND.


st. Johns. N. r., March 2s.-Tht
sealing steamer Greenland has sailed
into this harbor with grewsome
cargo. Twenty-Five corpses were on
the deck and fifty-flve men were moan
Ing with terrible suffering In the
holds, from the pain of frostbitten
limbs and bodies. The dead bodies
were In tiers on the decks of the
steamer. disngured and almost UNI
recognizable. The effects of the ter
rible suffering which they had en-
dured from cold presented one of the
most horrible sights human eyes ever
beheld The Greenland set sail from st.
John, n. F.. about the LIST of March
on her fateful voyage She was com
manded by Capt. George Barbour.
and carried crew of nearly 300
hunters. The steamer proceeded
northward with the rest of the sealing
fleet, but after couple of hours she
diyerged on separate track ana
reached the hunting grounds not long
after All went well until Tuesday
last and seals We're quickly encountered
and several good packs were secured
on Tuesday morning the hunters
left the ship about O'Clock as usual.
when the lookout in the crows nest
The men were clad In light clothing,
for the Strengthening of seals Is ex-
hausting work. Scattered over the Ice
field they wandered far from the pro-
lection of the ship and gale and
snowstorm shut them out from view.
The Ice foe parted and they drifted
away from the steamer. Long ere the
storm subsidized many of the unfortun-
ate fellows had succumbed to the ter
rible cold and exposure. Those who
did not were terribly frostbitten and
suffered excruciating pain.
The long night passed, but morning
brought no help. for the storm stlll
ragged and the atmosphere was thick
with snow driven by the gale. Snow
continued nearly all day and the even
Ing brought so cessation to 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. |
Toward morning the storm subsidized |
and clear weather enabled the sur
vlvors to see that the Greenland was |
not far away, searching for the miss |
Ing. The steamer bore down on the |
drifting field ice. and began the work |
of picking up the bodies of the dead |
and almost llfeless bodies OF the living |
Twenty-Five corpses We're taken on
board that morning. but twenty three
men were still missing and though the
search was continued all day no more
were recovered. Thursday night the
Greenland headed for shore. reaching
bay de Verde, proceeding thence to
st. Johns Most OF the men who per-
ished are married men with large
families, who are thus deprived of all
means of support.
The dead are: Richard Plnn, James
Maharr St Johns; Walter Murphy,
Alfred Muley. Carbonear William
Case, Quidividl; Edwin Davis. John
Thomas, John Pinzent. Safe Harbor;
JOS Borne, james Howell Thomas
White. William Galloway, Potts Is
land; Charles Ralph. Flat Island. A.
Courage. William Heath. Harbor
Grace; William Woldenridge, Trinity;
Edwin Hunt, Joseph Vincent, Cape
Island; Isaac Green, Kenneth Par
sons. George Nerris. Henry Curtis.
Newton: Fred Howse, Gooseberry
island; Jacob Pold, Greens Pond;
Walter Norris, Pond Cove.
the missing are: Benjamin Brown.
Doels Island; Albert Bowlen. Theodore
Norris, Pond Cove; George Bungoy,
lanes Hicks, Herbert Norris, New
ton; Michael Hennessy. Heber RYAN.
snip Cove Matthew Wells. Lorenzo
Wells, Noah Mortimer, George Pynn.
harbor Grace; John Wicks, Wesley
VILE: Alex Andrews, Cape Island:
Wiiliam D. Lockwood, Greens Pond:
5tephen Squires, Salvage; George w.
lynn Hants Harbor; James Mallard
y. Johns; Ambrose Rogers. Lower
STAND. Cove, William Saunders. Trim.
~; Thomas Ricketts,. Kings Cove.
william cullen, Tor Bay James Con-
way, Turks Cove.
The frostbitten men number az An
viii recover w. N'