Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-02-25
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st. Johns, n. f., Feb. 24,-The crack
ked Cross liner Florizel, from St
Johns for New York by way of Hal
fax with 14O persons aboard. in
,eluding IS passengers, piled up on
the Lodges near Cape Race during
blizzard today and it is believed all
on board were lost.
Naval eunners, sent on a special
train from this city, shot a line across
the bow of the Ilartly submerged
ship tonight but waited in vain for
1t to be hauled aboard. Just before
darkness blotted the wreck from view
five men, driven from the forcastle
by the giant seas, were seen to climb
the forward rigging, signaling feebly
for help. But when they failed to
make fast the line IL was feared they
had sufcumhed to the cold and expos
ure. Those five were the only ones
visible several hours after the ship
struck.
Rescue Steamers on Hand
Somewhere beyond the while mael- |
strom of breakers two staunch rescue
steamers, the Terra Nova and the
Home, manned by Newfoundland |
sailors, lay in waiting for favorable |
moment TO send boat through the |
surf, but though the storm appeared |
to be subsiding, it was feared 1t would |
be daybreak before the sea moderated !
enough to make it possible to ap-
proach the wreck. Included among
the passengers were twelve women
70 l..
cabin passengers were John Shannon
Mum, a managing director of the
flfm of Bowring Brothers, limited,
owners of the liner, and his three
year old daughter, Betty. They were
going to New York to meet Mrs Mum
and Sir Edgar Bowring, one of the
owners of the line, for visit of two
months in Florida.
Cadets Body Washed Ashore.
SIX cadets, OF the Royal Flying
corps on their way home from New
foundland to join their comrads, were
aboard. The body of one member of
the detachment, Fred Snow, was in
cluded among the six washed ashore
tonight. Another Newfoundland Of
ticer, who, 1t is feared, was lost, was
Major Michael Sullivan, commanding
the Newfoundland forestry battalion,
returning to his battalion, which now
is cutting timber in Scotland.
Captain Joseph Kean, one of the
best commanders of the Newfound-
land sealing fleet, also sailed on the
Florzel for Halifax where he was to
take over his ship, the Sable in read
mess for the seal fisheries next
month.
Thomas Mcneil, head of the Nc
Murdo Drug company, one of the
leading pharmaceutical concerns in
the colony, and Fred Smythe, mana
ger of the Newfoundland Wooden
Mills, were others on the passenger
list.
All but three of the passengers were
natives of Newfoundland. Three
commercial travellers, a Mr.. Stevens
OF New York, w w. Dauphinee, of
Montreal and O. p. Belleveau, of
Toronto, were on their wav home.
Commanded by Able skipper.
The ship was In comand of Captain
w. j. Martin, one of the foremost
shippers in the Newfoundland trade.
He took the Florizel out of st. Johns
last night and almost Immediately
ran into terrific blizzard with all
the accompaniments of binding snow
and heavy gale, reaching at times to
hurricane force.
1t is supposed the captain misjudg-
ed his position after driving the ship
through the night against the storm
and that wind and tides had set him
back more than he calculated so that |
when he swung to the westward,
thinking he had cleared Cape Race, /
he brought up hard on the rocks |
His reckoning had been off by ap-
proximately twenty miles, an occur
renee ty no means infrequent during /
blizzards in those waters.
The F'lorizel piled up on a ledge |
two miles from Broadcove, north of |
Cape Race, at point sparsely popu-
lated and with no lifesaving apparat-
us available, even If it had ben pos
sible to use IT..
Vessel a Battered Bulk.
When the darkness shut in tonight