Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-26
103 PERISH
" Hen ROCKS
WRECK ship
Steamer Florizel Is Swept
Ashore on Newfoundland
Coast In Storm; Forty
Three Persons Rescued
BY Life Saving Crews.
WOMEN, CHILDREN
IN LIST OF DEAD

WOMEN, CHILDREN
IN LIST OF DEAD
Nsw York, Feb. 2s.-John Shan
non Mann, q director Of the Red
Gross line, and his 3year-old
daushtsr were among those lost
In the wreck OF the FIorizel, ~
Indicated by the following dis
patch received here today by G.
w. Dowrino from his brother In
81 Johns:
"saw Captain Martin, who said
! he saw Jack washed OF the deck
shortly after the ship grounded.
Betty and nurse must have
/, drowned instantly"
st. Johns, N. F., Feb. 25.-Forty.
three persons aboard the Red Cross
liner Florizel, wrecked near Cape Race
IN . storm early yesterday were res
cued today. Three rescue ships
!. brought the first group of survivors to
port and others were on the way In
tho afternoon. Among the survivors
arc five saloon and seven steerage
Jassengers.
Most Of those saved were members
of the crew. Among the survivors are
Major Michael Sullivan, bound for Hal
ifax, Ralph Burnham of the Royal ny-
Ing corps, Alex Ledingham Of St.
johns, Archibald Gardner. and two
women, Miss Minnie Daniel. and Miss
Kittie Cantwell.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE CAPTAIN 4
The coaxfAl steamAP Proepero was
rfoD6ftA6 before noon on her way here
With the survivors. The names OF the
rescued. % TAR known, and the identi-
Ned dead are:
Survivors John Kelly, Major
Michael Sullivan, Ralph Burnham.
Alex Ledingham, st. Johns; Archibald
Gardner. Minnie Daniel, Kittie Cant
well, passengers; Captain w. J. Mar
tin. st. Johns; Chief Omcer James:
wireless Operator Cecil G. Carter.
New York.
Identified dead-Passengers, Mrs.
yred Butler, st. Johns; Edward
Troude. st. Johns; Corporal Fred
Snow, Royal Flying Corps.
.14s ON BOARD
There were 146 in the ships COM
pany. including n passengers. Re
ports mp to noon showed definitely
that ~ persons had been taken from
the wreck and Indicated that 18 others
earlier reported still clinging to the
wTockage also had been saved.
The "a passengers included IL wo-
men ami children. Seven bodies
were washed ashore last night.
Government authorities stated that
II the figures a. sent by the Prospero
were correct the death list stood at
'l03 provided all reported aboard the
Florizel were saved.
The first survivors was taken
on in three life boats and four
dories. but the sea was SO rough that
they were unable to approach the
shore, near which the Florizel struck.
early Sunday morning while on voy.
ago from this port to Halifax and New
York. All had suffered terribly from
cold and exposure. Steamers met the
boats and took the rescued aboard.
14s ON DEATH VOYAGE
A wireless message from the Pros
pero to John Crosbie, minister of ship
ping, early today, was the first word
Of hope that any of the seventy-seVen
passengers and crew of sixty-nine had
been saved. The Prospero reported
that every effort was being made to
transfer them from the battered hulk
Tho Prospero, = staunch coasting !,
vessel, had been dispatched at the
Arst report Of the disaster from Pla-
centia bay, seventy-five miles around
the coast from Broad Cove, but after
her departure government authorities
felt that her task was hopeless. With |
the sealing ships, Terra Nova and
Home, she stood outside the cove |
while reports were sent by observers !!
"a land that the sea had not sufhcient-
y subeided to allow the launching of /
boats before daylight
LIGHTS ONLY SIGN OF LIFE
When the naval gunners had shot a |
lfne from the shore across the bow Of |
the Florizel as she lay submerged
from her funnel aft, and saw no at :
tempt on the ship to make the line !
fast M was believed all those on board |
were dead. About midnight, how.
ever, watchers reported that lights
had been seen in the wireless room !
and the forecastle, showing some per.
sons were still alive. Later came the |
from the Prospero reporting
she was alongside the Forixel and ex.
pected to soon take OF the survivors.
The report added that their names
would be sent ~ soon as possible.
Forcing his ship against blizzard
ln which binding snow was driven by 1
winds often reaching hurricane pro.
portions, the F1orizel's commander, |
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