The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-12-05
TERROR OF THE SEA.
Washed fforn a W7ecksd Stear15r
80 b. Fyczen 70 Death
ON DEsSRT ISLAND.
The Story of Horrors comss
From Sav:n Islands Bay.
No Strvvor Of the
ON A OEsSRT ISLAND.
Disaster found.

\ n1w horror IS reported from Seven
Islands Bsy, on the coast Of Labrador,
where % lives were lost by the wreck
Of tEa IRON ccsatiHs steamship St. Olaf.
1t is 1ow believed that many of the
victims Of the disaster escaped the
sea TO meet lingering death in the
snoa CO desert island. a schooner
with a1eli@f party went from the VII
iase Ct Seven Islands to Isle Bou.e,
seven miles distant, 10 search for sur
vivors They founi no sign OF life on
the is!aud waich is circular IN shape
snG mile IN diameter, containing
many touldeIs, but otherwise covered
wilh stunted trees.
Tie hull Of the sunken steamer is
broken into four pieces, having crash
cd into rocky cliffs in about 30 fa:hons
Of water o. the rocky beach close
by are three boats of the vessel smash
ed to pieces. la addition to the pres
ence of tie boats ashore the searchers
found kes containing provisions at
the edge Of the wooGs some distance
from the water, showing conclusively,
SAYS the leader of the psrty Of search
eIs, that soG.e o:.he victims got ashore.
No sign Of life wss TO be found, and
the island is covered with three feet of
snog, beneath which it is expected,
the missing bodies will be fould. The
search is being continued, bus it will be
slow work removing SO much snow.
There was no shelter but that of the
trees on the island, and it is probable
that the survivors Of the wreck went
sshc1e Wednesday night in the midst
Of the storm. The body Of Miss Marie
Psgc, one Of those recovered, was
clothed in a night dress, Indicating
thss the wreck occurred at night, snd
at the St. Olaf left Sheldrake, Is miles
distant, on Wednesday afternoon, the
wreck doubtless occurred thas night
The lighthouse could not be ssen from
Beulc Island, and there is no fog gun
near. Seven Of the victims were passen.
gers. They were Louis Gaggou, a
trader Of Pe1tcso:t, Labrador, whose
brother IS merchant Of Qu, bee; Jo-
seph Bacon, Clarence Boad, Jeremy
Chiuic and Michael Maher, OF Shell
drake; Napoleon Beadin OF St. Johns
river and Miss Marie Page Of Thunder
River. There were l9 members Of the
crew.
TIE St. Olaf traded between here
AID Eskimo Point, on the Labrador
coast, aud carried the government
mails TO the various points of that ter
rl.ory. She was butt by Murdock &
Murray al Port Glasgow, oo the Clyde,
il 1882, and originally piled to the
Orkney Islands. The steamer passed
Shelorske on Wednesday afternoon,
wnen there was gale, with snow, at
the su!f. 1t was evident that 10 at
tempuog to make the harbor OF Seven
Islands she struck Doule Island, at the
entrance Of the bay, IN the gale: Some
bodies were washed ashore there as
well as mail bag. Further inVestiga-
ton revealed on the rocks the boiler
and part Of the bow Of the wrecked
vessel, Ooe Of the bodies recovered IS
that of Miss Marie Page. The body Of
Miss Page was cast up on the shore In
cased ia life preServer. This goes to
show that the only woman on board
the Ill fated vessel was not forgotten by
the crew. Miss Page, who was young,
was on her way to Montreal to nurse IN
private family.