Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03
SECOND SEALER
REPORTED LOST
IN ARCTIC FLOES
Grave Fears Entertained for
Southern Cross's Safety.
Blizzard Is Still Raging.

ST. JOHNS, n. F., April 3.-Confi-
dence in the safety of the Southern
Cross excited by the report that she
was at Channel. gave way to doubt
as the day progressed and no con-
firmation of the tidings was received.
The only message received here in
dicating that the sealer had found
refuge was the dispatch early today
from North Eydney, n. S. This stated
that wireless messages received at
Sydney last night reported tie South
ern Cross at Channel
The government was slSeptical re-
garding the report and this morning
sent a wireless message to the United
States revenue cutter Seneca asking
her to search for the Southern Cross
a.. =. 4. Seneca Makes search.
The Seneca is patroling for icebergs
700 miles off Cape Race. Practically
all communication by telegraph OF
wireless by the southern coast has
been Interrupted since Tuesday when
the gale tore down telegraph lines
and .aerials. The blizzard continued
today.
The Bellaventure, one of the seal
ing fleet, was nearing this port to-
day in the midst of another storm,
bringing fifty-eight bodies and
thirty-five survivors of the men of
the New Foundland, who We're
overwhelmed by the blizzard while
hunting seals on the ice noes. Sixty
four men are known to have per-
ished. After getting out of range of
the wireless station at Cape Foeo,
on Fogo island, a third of the way
down the East coast from the seal
Ing grounds. the eBllaventure was
unable to send further news of the
disaster.
Relieve Suffering Men.
Everything was in readiness here
for the care of the bodies and the re-
liet of the suffering men who had
escaped death, but had been severely
injured by forty eight hours expos
ure to the bitter wind and driving
snow. 1t was arranged to take the
survivors to the Grenfell Seamen's
Institute.
There are two distinct sealing
grounds to which vessels of the New
Foundland fleet make their annual
trlps The steamer New Foundland
was with fourteen others of the fleet
off the East coast near the Strait OF
Belle Isle. The Southern Cross. with
five other sealers, did its hunting ON
the opposite side of the island, in
the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
When ninety miles from port tho
eBllaventure became blocked In the
ice off Cape Bonavista, and at moor
her captain sent a wireless message
stating that it might be Sunday be-
fore he could dock
Death List VIII Grow.
Many of the rescued sealers are SC
i'll that the death list will probably
be increased.
As the recently equipped wireless
station for the sealing steamers was
partially wrecked in yesterdays gale
communicated with the Bellaventure
was established today through the
Furness line steamer Eagle Point
1t has been many years since this
city has been so stirred over an ocear
disaster. Hundreds Of people roamed
the streets all night, besieging tht
newspaper offices, the telegraph sta
tions, the government chambers anC
the Grenfell Institute, where the sur
vivors will be housed, but news was
meagre, while no list of dead was
available Many on the crowd were
relatives or intimate friends of thost
who sailed a month ago on the New
foundland.