Arizona republican., 1918-02-25
ALL ON BOARD ARE THOUGHT LOST WHEN
 LINER HITS LEDGE
Blizzard Sends Floritzel with Crew and Passengers to
 Doom on Rocks of Cape Race-Efforts to Rescue Are Fruitless-Aid Waits Abatement of Storm but Fear Is That One Hundred Forty on Ship Have Pershed
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

crack Red Cross liner Florizel, from St. Johns for New York by way of Halifax, with 40 persons aboard, in cluding IS passengers, piled up on the ledges near Cape Race during a bliz- gard today and it is believed all on board were lost.
 Naval gunners, sent on a special train from this city, shot line across the bow of the partly submerged ship tonight, but waited in vain for it to be hauled aboard. Just before dark ness plotted the wreck from view five men, driven from the forecastle by the giant seas, were seen to climb the forward rigging, signaling feebly for help. But when they failed to make fast the line. it was feared they had succumbed to the cold and exposure. These five were the only ones visible several hours after the ship struck.
 Rescue Waits at Hand
 Somewhere beyond the white mael- strom of breakers two staunch rescue steamers, the Terra Noa and the Home, manned by New Foundland sailors lay in waiting for favor able moment to send a boat through the surf, but though the storm ap- peared to be subsiding, it was feared it would be daybreak before the sea moderated enough to make it possible to approach the wreck. Included among the passengers were F women and f children. Among the first cabin passengers were John Shannon Mum, a managing director of the firm of Bowring Brothers, Ltd, owners of the liner, and his three-year- old daughter, Betty. They were going to New York to meet Mrs. Mum and Sid Edgar Bowring, one of the own CTS of the line, for a visit of two months in Florida.
 Flyers Were On Board
 Six cadets of the Royal Flying corps on their way from New F'oundland to join their commands, were aboard The body of one member of the de- | tachment, Fred Snow, was included among the six washed ashore tonight Another New Foundland officer who it is feared, was Major Michael Sulli- van, commanding the New Foundland forestry battalion, returning to his battalion. which now is cutting tim Der in Scotland Captain Joseph Kean, one of thu | best commanders of the New Found land sealing fleet, also sailed on the F1orizel for Halifax, where he was t( take over his ship, the Sable. il readiness for the seal fisheries neX month.
 Thomas McNeil, head of the Me Murdo Drug company, one of thu leading pharmaceutical concerns il | the colony, and Fred Smythe, mana ger of the New Foundland Wooler Mills, were others on the passenge list.
 | Most From New FoundIand
 All but three of the passengers wer natives of New Foundland. Thre commercial travellers, a Mir. Steven of New York, w. w. Dauphinee O Montreal, and O.. P Belleveau C Toronto, were on their way home.
 ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb. "A. = Tn ship was in command of Captain W J. Martin, one of the foremost skip pers in the New Foundland trade. H took the F1orizel out of St. John last night and almost immediately ra into a terrific blizzard with all ac compartments of binding snow an a heavy gale, reaching at times t hurricane force.
 It is supposed the captain mis judged his position after driving tn
 ship through the night against tn
 storm and that wind and tides ha set him back more than he calcu lated, so that when he swung to tn , westward, thinking he had cleare Cape Race, he brought up hard c the rocks. His reckoning had bee off by approximately twenty miles. a occurrence by no means infrequeI | If& s,a fhAca -nfA
 Ledge Near Broad Cove
 The Florizel piled up on leds
 two miles from Broad Cove, north
 Cape Race, at a point sparsely popu
 lated and with no life saving appal atus available, even if it had bee possible to use it.
 When the darkness shut in tonigl the F1orizel was a battered hulk. Sf
 was submerged from her funnel af
 Heavy combers continually swel
 her decks where her bow was he e up by a jagged rock.
 = Some of those aboard had take r refuge in the forecastle. but this ws . battered in during the afternoon, lea, ,, ing the rigging the only place whel h a human being could sling for h s life So far as could be seen fro . shore, only five men were able : climb the rigging.
 r Bodies Washed Ashore . Up to midnight watchers at Bros gl Cove reported seven bodies washe e ashore.
 = Those identified were:
 Mrs. Fred Butler, first class pa! = senger for New York.
 n Edward Froude, first-class passer = ger for New York.