New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-06
HOPE DIM FOR rs
ON SOUTHERN CROSS
(soler Almost Certainly
Iost-Captain Bartlett
Fears Worst.
NFWFOUNDLAND DEAD
IDENTIFIED IN TEARS
u,ouan Finds Bodies of Husband
and Son Inextricably En-
laced in Death.

q. robrs y. r. April 5.-AnNie%
,.,orsd tonight for the 17S men ON
-,,rc steamer Southern Cross
ST., has been missing since Tues
.,,,.,rd She was not reportec
'', 10. incoming vessels Of the seal
eeet ar by the steamer hYie sem
w -, tine government 20 search FOR
d., sunset tomorrow. If she IS
s.,r5 from. she will be officially
a. lost with AN ON board. Dis
- ~ her. following so closely upon
,os. If scventy-seven men OF the
- Newfoundland, would bring upon
Sc ool,nv the greatest tragedy in its
,,,s,orv depriying whole settlements Oh
I.,.,. hreadwinners and rendering one
,,,s.ss,d women and CHILDREN depend
On, upon charity.
,s the public learned to-day from
,ho Newfoundland's survivors who
10 landed Yesterday the details OF
80 ,ro days blizzard and the condi-
-. g., which il caught the Southern
r,oss the hrst hopes based on the
..,,,ress of the ship. faded. Captain
D.rie, Martin. Of the sealer Erik, and
,oo,aiD William Bartlett, Of the Ter
.o,ova which arrived with fun catches.
more dubious regarding the safety Or
,be missing ship. Neither had seen ner
within a week.
CAPTAIN Martin said he parted com
many ON her a week ago THURSDAY
,,hen the Southern Cross turned home
ward with 1900 seals. She was so
deeplv laden that all her provisions
and mart of her bunker coal were stored
on deck. so that every available space
telow could be filed with her catch.
seaIer Was Low in Water
,,.ntain Bartlett. of the Terranova,
said that the last he saw Of the South
ern cross was a week ago Friday, when
sho was wanowing slowly down the
coast. other ships Of the fleet sighted
the steamer driving before the gale last
tuesday morning she has not been
renorted since. and the shippers Of ;he
fleet who came through that gale and
,he storm of equal severity later in tae
week say every chance was against a
vessel so deep in the water as the
southern Cross.
In every church to-day the disaster
which overlook the Newfoundland
men on the ice was the theme OF the
sermon. Messages of sympathy from
the King and from the Canadian Pre-
uier were read and were gratefully re-
0eived
Bv noon all but five Of the sixty-nine
bodies OF the Newfoundland's hunters,
brought i'm Yesterday by the Bella
venture. had been identified. These
were shipped on a special train to-
night for BonaWsta, where most Of the
victims lived.
Attendants at the Grenfel Institute.
which was turned into a morgue, said
that the scenes accompanying the iden-
ufcation Of the bodies were almost be-
vond endurance. One woman found
two bodies clasp so tightly In death
that they could not be separated.
They were her husband and SON The
lad was wrapped in his fathers arms.
as n the man had been trying to shield
him from the pitiless cold.
The hand Of another dead man was
missing. one Of the survivors who had
lain helpless near the body for nearly
forty-eight hours said that his com
rade. unable TO stand the agony Of
frost bite, had sliced off the hand with
bis scaman's knife.
Woman Identifies -Four Sons.
A gray haired mother. supported by
her two daughters, passed down the
long rows looking for her sons. Atten-
ton was suddenly drawn 70 them when
the women fell 90 the floor in a faint.
They had found not only the four sons
and hrothc q, but two cousins among
the dead.
~ the thirty survivors in the hos
pt8l none is expected to die. but the
majority Will never be n for active
service again. Three lost both hands
and both feet Five lost both feet.
Eight others lost a foot and eleven
viii lose a hand or fingers. The others
vll bear scars for life.
Some OF the survivors said they
sought shelter from the arctic gale be-
hind the bodies Of dead shipmates. bat
in AN the delirium Of the two days and
nights Of exposure the bodies OF the
dead vere left inviolatc