The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-05
SHIP BEARS BODIES
|. OF S|XTY-k|NE DEAD
Also Fifty Crippled Survivors OF
Disaster That Overlook Seal
Hunters Reach St. Johns.
NO NEWS OF SOUTHERN CROSS
Feared That This Steamer, With
Grew OF 10 Men, May
Have Been Lost.

/ ST Johns. y. T., April Amid 81 :
lcncc like funeral hush, the scaling
steamer Bcllavcnturc steamed slowly
UP the harbor at dust, day, bear
ing eixty-nine OF the dead and nrty
/ of the crippled survivors OF tho dis
astcr that overlook hunters from the
steamer Newfoundland on tho ice foes
near Belle Isle Straits In last Tuesdays
blizzard.
Thirteen OF tho living were removed
TO hospital In II critical condition
several others were seriously III. and
ell but ono OF tho remainder bore scars
OF the!v thirty eight hours exposure
in the Arctic gale, in which seventy
seven o! their companions met death.
This uninjurcd survivor was stricken
blind after being picked up; but It is
believed lac Will recover his sight.
Five thousand persons. muuy of
them relatives OF the victims. had lined
every vantage point along tho harbor
front all day waiting for the Bella
ventures arrival aud for some news
of tho missing sealcr Southern Cross.
carrying 10 men. Not n word has
been heard from tho latter vessel since
she was seen driving before the storm
Tuesday morning. Hope aroused by
reports that she had made harbor were
dashed when Investigation proved an
error in identification had been made.
There stu is faith in many quarters
that the Southern Cross. the stout
steamer that Lieutenant Shackleton.
the British explorer. used Oh one Of
his Antarctic expeditions weathcrcd tho
blizzard. No wreckagc has been re-
ported.
IN tho absence of Governor David
son ~ rrcmier Morris, the acting
OF caring Tor the dead and wounded.
Every rhy siCau ara nurse in tho city
volunteered for service They were
aided By sounds from the naval reserve
snip Calypso. ana various military
organizations The now Crcnfcll In
ttltutc was turned into a inoreuc
Disaster InnyoidahIc.
The disaster which overlook tho
Ncwioundland's hunters was unavoid-
abie, according TO Captain Randcll Of
The ifeilaNcnturo. Tuesday dawncd
somewhat overcast, but with no hint
81 bllHEard conditions. he said so that
II was quite permissible 10 put men
on the ice after seals. There were
iour SHIPS within sight OF each other,
inc Newioundland. Stcphano. FIori.el
and BcllaVentuTc These had :, total
or 1000 mon out on the Ice. Ills
own hunters had encountered q small
poay OF seals soon after leaving tile
SNIP ana were out for only an hour.
Tho storm broke with typical Arcuc
suddenncss. The hunters from tho
HellaNcnturc ana the Florizel were for
tunate enough to reach their slips
safely. Tho Stcphano, meanwhile,
steamed towards the spot where her
crew had been seen before the snow
smut IN. This took her away from the
Newtoundland's group, who were far
from their own. AS soon AZ Chc
cr.
wireless OF the safety OF her men, she
headed back into the storm TO pick up
tho NcWfoundlund's hunters.
II was impossible TO see Il ships
lcngth ahead into tho snow curtain
ana when The Stcphano'a captain
thought he WAS Within a mile Of the
stranded hunters. he lay to ana kept
HIS VIM Tie going, In the hope that
thc% might be guided towards him
AS hours passed and not Il man re-
ported, II" concluded all hul reach ed
thcir own ships. I:ut the Ncwlouiid-
land had no wireless. aud all that day
nhh " cdntsdhy, while the blizzard
RACED win undated fury. III" ncct re
HI'ncd IN ignorance Of the fate Of
the Loo men marooncI On tho foes.
ON Thursday the weather cleared.
ana the HcllaVcnturc was maxim.
ready 10 start her mon after seals
AGAIN. when Il lookout reported men ON
IA" ice. Captain Kandcll imnodiatcly
/ ordered "Ncry available man on the
S"' 70 IN" rescue. The main party of
'aStaWa}s We're four miles away. over
u broken t"ld OF ice. The BcIaven-
tur" was driven toward them with uu
possible speed, hut SO bad tcrc ice
conditions that IT required nine hours
10 cover the iour mil"s
Wen Reach t:.stnvn,s
~ ti" meantime. Captain Enndnn' =
IL t,.If. -. !,
( Il Tow of the hardest were conscious
ANA able to help themselves Many
wore ia atupur Som" were r.yi,ir.
others had been STRICKEN wiz, ice
( blindness. Many bodies were found
frozen SO fast In tie leo that pick;tNcs
! were necessary 10 chop them out Two
4 OF the survivors Were nearly nnd from
/ their own "unorinss ana from rrinr
hnch'had watched a brother die in hi.
arms ''''
! ~ good fortune. Thirty Of The sew
! ioundiand's hunters. who had no,
+ str"l"d Tar from the vessel. had boon
4 ;,'hle 1" reach their ship, else tho dealt,
greater.
~ the meantime. The stcphano had
I Mo,kcd within s,rikinp distance. and
'ad rickcd UP tow Of Tic survivor.
+ ana recovered a few bodies.
Niicr tie snow-nlled holiows had
nern searched Tor more bodies ,i,
( h.il" venture turned her Prov home.
""iu' battling severe leo condition,
ana second gale nearly all the wny
Inc scene aa the Ecllavcnture do,h
g" was hcartrcndiup. Tln cries of Ia,
+, "llh which the living woro hailed ,y,.r.
'Hfht" 60 sobs when it was seen tI,n,
h'"I!N all were pitituily crippled iron,
AS tic dead were idcntincd They were
P''''n on i sprciaI train, to be sent ro
h"h3Ni'tn BAY, ~ the vicinity Of which
most OF The victims lived. Alaiv fuini
H'S lave lost their only brcudwinncr.
"''' - tie l'3 persons on the MISSING
Southern cross hayo ,n.t d,,..t