Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-25
STEAMER FLOR|zEL WRECKED; PASSENGERS AND CREW LOST Red Cross Liner Ran Aground on the Coast of New
 foundIand During Binding Blizzard CARRIED 78 PASSENGERS AND HAD A CREW OF 6s The Florzel Was Bound From St. Johns N F. For Halifax
 and New ork-She Had Pounded to Pieces the Rocks
 Within Few Hours After She Had Grounded Six Bod
 ies Have Been Washed Ashore Steamer Carried Cargo
 of 105Oo Barrels of Dry Codsh for New York and 200 Barrels for Halifax.
RIED 78 PASSENGERS AND HAD A CREW0 69

St. Johns, N. F., Feb. 24.-The crack Red Cross liner F1orizel, from St. Johns for New York, by way of Hali- fax, with 140 persons aboard, includ- ing IS passengers, piled up on the ledges near Cape Race during a bliz- gard today, and it is believed that all on board were lost.
 Five Men Were Visible.
 Naval gunners sent on a special train from this city shot a line across the bow of the partly submerged ship tonight but waited in vain for it to be hauled aboard Just before darkness plotted the wreck from view, five men, driven from the forecastle by the giant seas, were seen to climb the forward sigging, signalling feebly for help. But when they failed to make fast the line it was feared that they had succumb- ed to the cold and exposure Those five were the only ones visible on board several hours after the ship struck.
 Somewhere beyond the white mael- strom of breakers two staunch rescue TSteamers, the Terra Nova and the Home, manned by Newfoundland sail ors lay in waiting for a favorable | surf. but though the storm appeared to be subsiding, it was feared that it 1 would tbe daybreak before the sea moderated enough to make it possible 1 to approach the wreck.
 Twelve Women, Four Children Aboard Included among the passengers were ] twelve women and four children | Among the first cabin passengers were 5l John Shannon Mum, a managing di- trector of the firm of BoEEripg Brothers
 Limited, owners of the liner, and hi three year old daughter Betty. The. were going to New York to meet Mrs
 Mum and Sir Edgar Bowring, one O
 the owners of the line, for a stay O I two months in Florida. Six cadets o
 the Royal Flying corps, on their wa,
 from Newfoundland to join their com mand, were aboard. The body of on,
 member of the detachment, Fret
 Snow, was included among the sil
 washed ashore tonight Another NeV fpundland officer who it is feared wa . lost was Major Michael Sullivan, com
 manding the Newfoundland forestr.
 battalion, returning to his battalion !, which is now cutting timber in Scot land.
 Captain Joseph Kean, one of tn l foundiand sealing fleet, also sailed ol the Florizel for Halifax. where he wa to take over his ship. the Sable, i ! readiness for the seal fisheries mex month.
 | Thomas McNeil, head of the Nc
 Murdo Drug company, one of the lead ing pharmacical concerns in the col , pny, and Fred Smythe, manager C the Newfoundland Woolen mills, wer others on the passenger list.
 All but three of the passengers wer natives of Newfoundland. Three com mercial travellers, a MT. Stevens + New York, w. w. Dauphinee of Mon treal and o. P. Belleveau of Toronto Hwere on their way home. .-
 The steamer struck early this morn |, irg while fighting her way throug ! blinding blizzard. In q few hour ! she had pounded to pieces on tn = rocks and at dusk her hull had set tied under the battering until she wa
 almost submerged.
 The bodies washed ashore includ those of Joseph Kean and Robel c Snow, passengers, and James Long, n lsaiior Snow was one of six non-com = lmissioned officers of the NeWfoundlan e regiment who were proceeding to Tc . ronto to join the royal flying corps.
 Of the passengers fifty were saloo
 land twenty-seven steerage. Anon = the saloon passengers were Joh Ii ShannoA Mum, managing director { l, Bowring Brothers Company. Limite a of Liverpool and New York, owner d of the steamer; Major Michael Sull
 van, commander of the Newfoundlan
 Forestry Battalion; Thomas McNei
 principal of the McMurdo Drug con s pany of this city; Fred Smythe. mar s lager of the Newfoundland Woole S Mills; William Butler, an architec - and his wife. who were on their wa
 to Florida; William Earle. a fish me-
 chant, bound for Canada on a busine:
 trip; Edward Bertreau. Robert Sno7
 Norman SRellars, John Parson 5. Ralph Burnham and Alex Rockingham
 The last six named were cadets of u }. Newfoundland regiment who werS,
 have joined the royal flying corps {
 Toronto.
 u Others on the passenger list we ,f buyers, commercial travellers and VI number of women.
 # Major Sullivan had been here ( - official business and was returning I'd Scotland to rejoin his, battalion whit ,o Ffs engaged in lumber cutting.
 Joseph Kean. a master mariner, al .s iother of the passengers. was boul s1 for Halifax to take command of u
 steamer Sable in>the seal fishery ne < month.
 The Florizel was a sister of u { steamer Stephano which was sunk $ the German submarine U-53 off Nal
 Itucket on Sunda ynight, October -I1s16.
 She had been continued in the SC
 vice between St. Johns and New Yo :, hut since the United States enter 'v the war. her movements had not be- ,s given publicity.
 la Cargo of Dry Fish. > The Florizel sailed from here at e- o'clock last night with a large nur a her of passengers and a cargo whi IT included 10,5O0 barrels of dry codfi
 and herring for New York and 1,2
 barrels for Halifax. her only port te call between St. Johns and New ,Yol ad A blizzard was brewing when S es left and it grew worse toward mi St iyI< h,,t. o11a ;,, kn rk~,