The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-28
MANY LOST ON
WRECKED SHIP
POUNDED TO PIECES ON ROCKS
IN RAGING STORM
44 SURVIVORS ARE RESCUED
One Hundred Others Were Aboard the
FlorizeI. Treachery Aboard the
Vessel is Believed to be Re.
sponsibe for Disaster.

Early today forty-four survivors had
been taken from the wrecked steam.
ship Florizel which was rent on the
rocks at Broad Cove near Cape Rare
yesterday.
They included Captain Martin and
the first officers.
The supervisors were placed aboard
a train for st. Johns and are expect
ed to arrive here late today.
One Hundred and Two Dead.
One hundred and two persons have
persisted from among the passengers
and the crew of the ship according to
word reaching here this afternoon.
This places the death lists higher
that the statements made by the own
ers of the vessel who stated one hun.
dred and thirty-siX We're on board the
Ialori2el
Scenes of undesirable heroism in
the face of the odds, which could
hardly seem possible, took place when
the hardened seamen donned their life
belts and bottled with the mountain
+. Gus waves Of the angry Atlantic.
Seven Bodies Washed Ashore
Seven bodies have been washed
vessel or these, some have already
been identified and among them is
Captain Joe Keen, famous seal hunter.
Treachery is Suspected.
Treachery aboard the ship was be-
lieyed to have sent her smashing into
the rocks on Broad Cove.
That Captain Martin. one of the
most famous shippers in the business
took fifteen mile journey out of his
course is regarded as astonishing.
Tampering with the compass is be-
lieved to be responsible. ..
Persons here are somewhat inclined
TO blame the treachery on German
agents.
Heroic Work of Rescue.
Rescue workers began at dawn to-
day. Courageous fishing craft sailors,
men from the life saving stations and
others Joined in the almost impossible
task of taking the survivors off the
wrecked crafts. a
Seventeen had been left on board
the liner after the first work had been
done and twenty-seVen drenched and
shivering persons landed.
There is no apparatus at Broad
Cove for the purpose of rescuing per-
..opc from, ,vranLya d Uncvo.C hI,t naval
gunners were rushed to the scene and
fired line across the bow of the ship
last night. But there was mo- effort
made to fasten it on the ship or use
It. Five men were later seen in rigging
trying to signal for help. But they
were blotted out with darkness soon
afterwards. u..
help at First Was Impossible.
All day yesterday the beach was
packed with people looking on, but
r-nlpless in the sending of aid.
Huge waves arose from the coast
over the vessel and descended with
crash against it. Men could be seen
after these waters had receded. Some
of them appeared to DE flashed against
the mast or the rails.
The stern of the vessel is submerg-
ed. Only the forward parts are Offering
a haven of refuge Tor those on board
the vessel who are struggling tena-
ciously with the waves and the cold
for their lives.
Wrecked Sunday Morning
St Johns, Feb. 25.-The Red Cross
steamer Florizel, bound from this
port for Halifax and New York with
seyenty-seven passengers and crew
of sixty-nine was wrecked near Broad
cove. twenty miles north off Cape
Race Sunday and many on board are
supposed to have persisted.
Six bodies were washed ashore dur
ing the day. ....
Struck Rocks. ......-
The steamer struck early in The
morning while fighting her way
through binding blizzard. Ina few
hours she had pounded to pieces on
the rocks and at dusk her hull had
settled under the battering until she
was almost submerged.
The bodies washed ashore include
those of Joseph Kean and Robert
Snow, passengers, and James Lorg, a
sailor Snow was one Of he six nom
commissioned officers OF the New
foundland regiment went, who were
preceding to'Toronto to poin the Roy
al flying corps.
Movements Secret.
The Florizel was sister OF the
steamer Stephano which was sunk
by the German submarine U-53 of
Nantucket Oct. 8 So.
She had been continued in the SER
vice between st. Johns and New York
but since the United States entered
the war her movements had not been
given publicity.
The Florizel sailed from here at y
o'clock Saturday night with large
number of passengers and a cargo
which ircluded 10000 barrels of dry