Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-18
THREE MORE VIKING
SURVIVORS RESCUED
FROM ICE BY SHIP
Trio Described Merely as
johnson, Kean and Best"
in Meager Report.
20 PERSONS STILL
LISTED AS MISSING
Easterly Gales Shrieking Across
Nova Scotia Hamper Com
munications.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March 18.-One
body from the sealing ship Viking
was found today near the spot in
White Bay, Newfoundland, where
the ship sank Sunday night, Bowring
Bros, Ltd, ship owners, were adj
vised this afternoon from st. Johns,
Newfoundland.
BY the Associated Press
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March
ia storm whipping across Nova
Scotia today plagued world seeking
definite word concerning the fate of the
sealing ship Viking and its company of
IA.
A brief wireless dispatch said three
men had been picked up from an ice
foe by the sealer Boethic, bringing the
list of those known to nave been saved
to 1874 Three others, including Harry
Sargent, Boston explorer, were picked
up last night by the steamer Sagona
after they had all but despaired of
rescue.
Those saved by the Boethic today
were johnson, Kean and Best" &C
cording to the wireless word. They are
believed to be w. johnson, master
watch, of Conception Bay; Alfred Kean,
mate, of Brookfield, Newfoundland, and
a Newfoundlander known only as Best,
who was assisting the three Americans
-Varick Frissen, New York. A. c..
Penrod, New York, and Sargent-in the
making of sound movies among the
Sealers.
20 Are Still Missing.
With these additional rescueS the list
of missing, still numbering 20, includes
Frissell, Penrod, w. j. Reach, chief en-
gineer, and three engineers, six firemen,
seven sealers and one stowaway.
Bowring Bros, Ltd, owners of the
Viking, which exploded and sank off
La Barbe Island Sunday night, an
nounced that ships OF the sealing feet
to which the Viking belonged, had re-
turned through Bell Isle Strait and were
searching today through the waters in
which the Viking went down.
I'VE believe there is some chance Of
finding few more survivors" the COM
pany said.
Hope had not been abandoned for
the Americans, Frissen and Penrod,
but each passing hour without word of
them made the chances of their being
alive more and more remote. It was
believed that the search by the several
ships through the bay today would de-
ternine definitely if there were any
more survivors.
Gales Hit Communications.
Easterly gales shrieking across Nova
Scotia were demoralizing communica-
ton lines and hampering the move
ment of news dispatches from here.
Wireless stations, too, were choked with
messages.
Presumably the temperature in the
vicinity of White Bay where rescue
ships are moving about was normal.
The temperature here this morning was
% above zero, with a normal barometer
reading 3012.
Medical assistance and food supplies
reached La Barbe Island last night
from ST. Johns. affording relief to the
113 known to be there.
There have been no reports OF any
bodies being discovered.
Among the missing was Edward
Cronin, IL years old, of st. Johns,
one of the two stowaways. The other
stowaway, Michael Gardner, reached
Horse Island.
The missing list also includes the
names of the ships doctor, w. j. Roach;
Chief Engineer j. Murphy, Second En-
gineer F. Parnell, Third Engineer H.
Hanniford, six firemen and seven
sealers.
The cause of the blast, which appar-
emily hurled many to their death and
sent scores of others over the side to
escape the flames, has not been deter
mined definitely. One possibility ad-
vanced to explain the explosion was
that the boiler let go under high
steam pressure raised to drive the ship
through the ice. The other was an
explosion of blasting powder used to
clear a channel in the ice.