The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-03
STRUCK BY BLIZZARD
FlOes Break Up and Men Are
Separated-vessel Be-
lieved Safe.
THIRTY-SEvEN SURVIVE
The Bcllaventure Bringing
Them and Most of the
Dead to Port.

ST. JoHN's, y. r.. April Sixty. eou,
men OF the sealing steamship ewfo,ind-
land dead on the ice foes of t., Strait OF
Belle Isle Thirty-seven survivors we-e
rescued
That Is the record 10 date O. the biz
card which swept up from the Atlantic
past Cape Race the Gulf OF 81. Lawrence.
the Strait OF Belle Isle. on up through
Newfoundland and Labrador into the Arc
tic Zone.
\ report was received here late Tonight
from North sydney -. S. saying the
southern Cross. also thought to be lost.
Is safe at Channel. y. +. She carried a
crew of l73
The men OF the Newfoundland persisted
Tuesday night ana early Wednesday a
they chung to the ice foes broken un by
the gale which caugh, them away from
their ship. About one hundred OF them
had started out to gafS the seal herd thsv
had discovered on the ice. The storm
swept upon them and the foe divided
Unprotected. without food. wthou, any
artificial warmth. they were buTeteG
about during the long hours. Thrty-ave
of them on one foe had been sen, T.,
one direction and the balance in another.
The Newfoundland had been unable 70
reach them. and injured perhaps by the
pounding IN The ice Nag compelled TO
Keep of. The first sign Of the few hours
light found them fa- distant from their
ship.
u Is believed from "A wireless dispatch
caught by the FurneSs liner Eagle Point.
which arrived here to-day. mat the
thirty-iive We're sent directly In The Pat.
OF the sealer Stefauo and were rescued. all
alive but suffering terribly from eApos.r-.
The main body Was not rescued for
hours afterward ano tho sealer Bella
venture, Cant. Raudell. came upon them.
or trese scventy-tive or eighty men onl,
thirt! were allv" when tine boats o. tn,
B"laventure reachd the ice. The others
lay dead, frozen. The thirty were in r.
pitlful condition. but they were taken
aboard and everything done to revive
them.
Tne three days blizzard dicl down
early to-day and telegraph COMMUNICATION
has been reestabli~ncd with III ports al,
stations around III. Cane and un re $,
Lawrence. The storm was stro-g enough
to blow down the wireless mast II IT,
cape Race station, which had stooo
through the storms Of years
The Government and private interests
are doing everything possible Tonight 70
end the anxiety OF the families OF the
sealers. many OF whom live IN st Johns
The Beltverture has been ordered TO
proceed At once to this port and sho
should reach hero tomorrow afternoon
As soon IA the Steiano can be picked
up by wireless she will receive slmlla-
orders Every effort is being made I.
get report on the NewfourularG
The city is making arrangements To-
hospital accommodation FOR the survivor.
when they arrive. The l}eilevcnture,
bringing also most OF the coad, IS due he.o
early tomorrow.
Earlier wireless messages led io ;ue
fear that the loss OF life ould bc IN tre
hundreds one from Cape Face r,ao.
"Sealers from s,eninyr Newfour..
land caught in blizzard. Fifty men
found dead on ice this morning Mer
from other ships trying TO reach re
mt'nd,r OF exhausted crew o. zee
men
Another wireless message said:
THE sealer Newfoundland was
caught In n blizzard while sealing
and more than 90 of her crew We're
frozen TO death. The Red Cross steam
ship tlorizel picked UP fifty men dead
and dying after the Newfoundland
sank The total loss of lie on the
Newfoundland is 100"
nmer w0s rnuSuv>S