The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-04
STEAMSHIP AND
ENTIRE GRE " OF
17OMAYBELOST
No News From Missing
Vessel Causes An Appre-
hension That the Sealing
Steamer Southern Cross
Went Down With All
Aboard.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

st. Johns. n. F.. April 3-.There was
growing apprehension today that the
sealing steamer Southern Cross Went
down with all on board during the
carried crew of ITO men and was
heavily loaded with 1900 seal skins,
trophies OF a hunt recently conduct
ed In the Gulf of st. awrence.
Hope for the safety OF the veSsei,
based on despatch from Sydney y.
S. which stated that wireless mes
sage had been received there report
ing the arrival of the Southern Cross
was dissipated before noon when the
government, after several hours in
quiry, declared the sydney report UNI
true.
The government has instituted an
extended search for the missing yes
sci and appealed to the United States
for assistance The Reid New Found
land Company's steamer Kyle, which
has good wireless equipment was
chartered for the purpose and will sail
at midnight. The American revenue
cutter Seneca, which Is doing iceberg
patrol duty several hundred miles PIT
the Southern coast, was asked TO 9S-
sist.
The seaIer Bellaventure with her
cargo of dead, IS blocked in the ice.
100 miles north of here and cannot ar
rive before Sunday. She went to the
aid of her sister sealer, the New
Foundland, when 40 hunters from the
LATTER were caught by the storm while
killing seals Tuesday and were I'M
able to regain their ship.
The Beilaventure, the 6tephano and
Fqorizel picked up many bodies and
a number of survivors. 1t is known
that So lives were lost and a number
OF men are not accounted for IT Is
believed that it is scarcely possible
that the latter could have survived
the long exposure on the ice foes.
A message received here at $3.50
O'Clock this afternoon from the cap
tain of the Bellayenture says that the
total dead of the crew of the New
Foundland is n. One hundred and
twelve were rescued and of these SO
are i'll, according to the messages.
| When ninety miles from port, the
Bellaventure became blocked In the
Ice off Cape Bona Vista, and at noon
stating that it might be Sunday be-
fore he could dock. Many of the
rescued sealers are so III that the
death list probably would be in
creased
/ AS the recently equipped wireless
| station for the sealing steamers was
partially wrecken in yesterdays gale.
communication with the Beliaventure
| was established today through the
DfSASTERxSTIRS CITY.
1t has been many years since this
CITY has been so stirred over an ocean
disaster Hundreds.pf persons roam
4 ed the streets a1ltnight. They besieged
the newspaper offices, the government
chambers for news of the survivors
but no list of dead was available.
Many in the crowd were relatives or
/ intimate friends OF those who sailed
1 a month ago on the New Foundland.
i Confidence in the safety of the South
i ern Cross, excited by the report that
she was at Channel, gave way to
doubt as the day proceeded and no
confirmation of the tidings was re-
! ceived. The only message received
here indicating that the sealer had
found refuge was the despatch early
today from North Sydney, N. s. This
stated that wireless messages re-
ceived at sydney last night reported
| the Southern Cross at Channel
The government was skeptical re-
garding the report and this morning
sent q wireless message to the United
i states revenue cutter Seneca asking
her to search for the Southern Cross
The Seneca is patrolling for icebergs
seven hundred miles off Cape Race
IPracticaliy all communication by tel
egraph or wireless with the southern
i coast has been interrupted since last
Tuesday when the gale tore down
telegraph lines and aerials- The bliz-
gard continued today.