New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
No Word Received from the
Southern Cross Last
Sighted Tuesday.
NEWFOUNDLAND DEAD
NOW KNOWN TO BE II
Several of 112 Rescued May Sue
cumb TO Exposure - 69
Bodies Recovered.

scaling steamer Southern Cross fear grew
that her crew Of 10 men had been added
TO the toll of Tuesday blizzard IN Nnlch
men of the sealer Newfoundland lost their
lives. The number of tho Newfoundland
dead was placed definitely at =" late To-
day. with the further possibility that sew
eral OF the ll2 who were rescued would
succumb TO the effects OF the forty-eisht
hours exposure Arrangements were
made tonight for the reception Of the
rescue ship BelIaventure, which IS cN-
yected to arrive tomorrow, bringing
most Of the dead and many OF the sur
vlvors
IN an effort TO solve the mystery or the
disappearance OF the Southern cross tho
Newfoundland government asked the
America revenue cutter Seneca 10 leave
the ice patrol and search for the missing
sealer. The coastal steamer Kyle, which
has a wireless equipment. was fitted our
here for a cruise along the southeastern
coast. off which the Southern Cross was
last seen on Tuesday morning. fe"
hours before the three-day blizzard set
in.
. Although the vessels OF the so-called
Wooden Walled Sealing Fleet OF which
the Southern Cross was one. have bucked
ice fields with impugnlty, and are re
garded as very stanch ships, sealers say
that her cargo OF 1900 seal peits Would
be an active danger during storm on
account OF It's instability.
MESSAGE from Betlaventure.
message received here at 3:3o O'Clock
this afternoon from the captain of the
Bellaventure gave the total dead OF the
crew OF the Newfoundland as q. one
hundred and twelve were rescued, and
of these SO are sick.
The captains message follows:
Have Just reached steamer Newfoun1-
land and checked figures by her roster
Find she had 1888 total crew. or these
112 arc safe. but 50 arc on the sick list
Total dead. n Of which 50 bodies recov-
cred. Remaining lost amid foes
Am now leaving to proceed to St
Johu's. Fear slow progress as ice IS
heavy and tight Stephano, which was
also living alongside Newfoundland VIII
report names of dead
There was nothing in the message 10
indicate the hour at which the message
was filed. In an earlier wireless sent
before nc had reached the Ne~tound-
land and received here few minutes
ahead of the quoted dispatch the cap
tain OF the Bellaventure said
"Haye aboard 81 survivors, being Sc
rlous cases Have also aboard IS dead.
The Florize and Stephano report having
aboard Z dead and survivors. We three
ships working toward her tNewfound-
lanc) but ice very heavy and tight. MY
ship was ramming nine hours yesterday
TO reach foes four miles away where the
exhausted men were. Can give nothing
more definite as 10 when ! may be eX-
pected until get her roster Doing best
possible"
Barometer Gave No Sign.
A message from the Stcphano, which
assisted In the rescue, received TINS AFTER
noon. said: barometer Tuesday gave no
sign of storm. Hence one cause OF tras-
edy."
The reference by the captain OF the
Relaventure to working toward the
Newfoundland yesterday indicates that
he probably did not reach the steamer
until to-day Earlier reports reiayed
B from other ships gave the impression
that the Bellaventure was then return 7
ing TO port and had been stopped by the
ice.
Everything is in readiness here for the
care of the bodies and the relief OF the
suffering men on the Bellaventure 1t
was arranged 10 take the survivors TO the
Grenfel Seamen's Institute
There are two distinct sealing grounds
TO which vessels OF the Newfoundland
feet make their annual trips. The steam
or Newfoundland was, with fourteen
others OF the feet, of the east coast. near
the Strait of Belle Isle. The Southern
Cross. with Ave other sealers. had been .
hunting the animals on the opposite side
of the island. In the Gulf of ST. Law /
renee.
Heavily laden with sealskins, the South F
ern Cross started homeward last Satur-
dav She passed safely down the west
coast. through Cabot Strait and along
the southern coast and Tuesday morning
was sighted off Cape Pine, nineteen miles .
west Of Cape Race. This was the last
seen of the steamer.
member Of the firm OF Bowring
Co. agents here for half dozen ships, +
including the F1orizel now on the sealing
grounds off Newfoundland said yester-
day:
"yvben the sealskins are cut from the .
cercasses they are piled up on the ice /
until the end OF the hunt As we under
stand H. the men from the Newfoundland .
wore bringing in the skins when they .
were overtaken by the blizzard AS a +
result of the disaster there IS not .
single skin on board the Newfoundland.
/ Bowring & Co. said they had no word .
~ tho Southern Cross. Tho last they /
hoard OF her was on Tuesday.
Advices received here from St Johns 4
indicate that this has been one OF the
most productive seasons In the history or
the Newfoundland sealing industry The
Terra Nova. which Captain Scott used on
his expedition TO the South Pole, has on .
hoard the skins from $500 seals Two
hundred thousand seals were killed ny /
tho entire feet according TO estimates