The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-05

New York, May 1.-The Phoenix line cargo boat St. Andrew, from Antwerp, came into port to-day with sixty-five unshayed and disreputable-looking Frenchmen cluttering her forward deck and lining the rail, bearded and chat tering. They had been picked up in mid-ocean from the sinking fishing brig Sans Souci, of St. Servan. It was a gruelling boat job in the heaviest sort of weather-just the sort of task Amer ican and English sailors like to tackle. It wasn't the kind of a rescue that ap- peals to owners; the ship delayed, six ty-five idle hands to feed and no sal- wage.
 Six of the crew of the Sans Souci had been washed overheard and drowned before the St. Andrew came up with her. She was in bad way when the Englishman sighted her, for she had been caught in the ice and crushed and later dismantled in a gale.
 The early morning of April 2S, in lat itude 4S:49, longitude 4O:42, was thick and gray, with dirty scudding clouds overhead, a screaming, whipping wind and tremendous sea running. The stewards boy of the St. Andrew was carefully working his way along the plunging, canting decks with the usual morning pot of coffee for the second of ficer, untitled to his eyes on the bridge, when away down on the horizon the watch deserted the brig with the French ensign reversed and flying in the main rigging. This was at 5:30 o'clock. Cap tain Fitzgerald was notified, and when he came out on the bridge the course of the steamer was altered and she bore down on the disabled Frenchman. In an hour she was within hailing dis tance. The Sans Souci was flying sig nals asking for immediate assistance. She was deep in the water and was sog- gily rising and falling as the dirty gray water beat over her. Her people were clustered on the hopse amidships and in the rigging. . x The St. Andrews engines were stop ped and lifeboat sent off in charge of Chief Officer S. Hobbs. The boat made three trips through the heavy running seas and safely transferred the sixty five dripping and thankful Frenchmen. .'r Chief Officer Hobbs reported that he found the brig a complete wreck, the bu1warks were gone, the headgear adrift, the maintopsail yard sprung and the vessel leaking so fast that he hold was nearly full. Before leaving the wreck her crew cut a hole in the bow and several in the deck in order to sink her speedily and not let her become a dangerous derelict.
 When the +shipwrecked crew had been made comfortable Captain. Fitz- gerald learned from Captain Louis Guyomard, of the Sans Souci, that he had sailed from St. Malo, France, on March 2S, and on April "A got caught in a tremendous ice foe, which was in- terspersed with large number of ice bergs.. The brig spent nearly twenty four hours in trying to get clear, with the result that the hull was severely damaged by the grinding ice.
 On April % a severe gale arose, in which the vessel was battered, and, as she was leaking badly, the crew were kept continuously at the pump. On the 2Sth, when the St. Andrew hove in sight, all hands, felt immense relief. as they had despaired of keeping the ves- sel afioat. In the terrible gale of the 25th six of the crew were washed over board, and another died. Among those who were lost were the father and two brothers of the captain. The Sans Souci was engaged in the lobster fishery al Labrador for canning factory and was bound to Labrador when lost.