Year: 1875

Terrible Experience OF Newfoundland


Fishermen-Carrsed TO Sea on the


Ice-TaIes OF Hardship and Priva-


tiOn and Death.


BALTIMORE, March 2S.-Cspt. Jaeger, Of
the steamship Nuremberg, which arrived at
this port to-day, reports that on March p
he saw a schooner with ensign at half-mast;
bore down to her, and was asked to take
ten men on board who had been saved. He
sent a boat on board the schooner, which
turned out to be the Geo. 5. FOgg, from St.
Edwards Island. TIE men reported as fol-
lows: ave belong to st. Marys, NewfOund-
land; our trade is fishermen, in shore boats.
On the ID Of March We saw ship ice
bound about two and a half miles from the
coast. We went out to her with party Of
thiTty-four men, all from St. Marys. The
wind was from the westward, a moderate
breeze. Before We reached her we met tie
Captain Of the said ship in charge Of an
other party from ST. Marys, who
took the Captain ashore, as he was
sick; as We could understand
the crew had left the ship the day before.
We reached the ship at 8 p. NJ. As night
came on we made for the land, after search
ing the ship, but did not reach the coast,
as the ice had opened toward the land. We
spent the night on the ice, and had seven
men frozen to death during the night. The
next day we went on board again. We
had TO leave nine more out Of our number
behind us, as these men were too weak TO
walk and the ice would not permit US, on
account of its weak state, to carry them.
Three of these men were picked up by the
schooner George S. Fogg on the 9th of
March, as the only survivors out Of nine.
We found nothing to eat or drink on board
besides mOlasses. The ship drifted out
with the ice, but we were in sight Of the
coast about six or seven days, but not able
to reach it. We stopped till tie 11th Of
March in the ship, when we saw schooner
about four miles to the eastward of us. As
the ice was in some parts too weak to bear
a man, we took a small boat from the ship
and made for the schooner, which we
reached in the afternoon, where we were
received with great kindness"


BALTIMORE, March 29.-The Sun of
this morning publishes an interesting
story from one of the men rescued from
the ice off the coast of Newfoundland, and
brought to this port yesterday by the steam
er NuernbuIg. The party are all Irish
men, OF of Irish descent, and comprised
nearly the entire able-bOdipd male pOpula-
ton Of the little town of st. Mary s, New
fOundland. When returning to the shore
in the evening of the day on which they
boarded the ice-bound brig, they found the
ice had parted about a mile from shore,
leaving a space of half a mile of clear
water. With night, came on a storm of
rain and sleet and finally snow, Incapacitat-
ing several Of the party, and when morn
ing dawned, seven cOrpSes were counted.
A heavy mass of ice twenty feet square
flOated near, upOn which nine Of the party
got, hoping that it would drift tOwads shore,
and that they could thus save themselves.
When it had fOated 500 yards from the ice
upon which were their comrades it ground
ed, and the unfOrtUnates remained upon it
for three days and nights, during which
time six Of them died. all the food they
had in that time was a small white fish
which was frozen on the ice. The eighteen
men remaining after the nine fOated of,
made their way TO the abandoned brig. All
expected to die in her, and some had lost
their senses before reaching her. The ice
moved for a week in sight of the land, and
the fishermen were on her ten days. The
narrator says he has a family of six chill
dren, and some of those who died leave
families as large. The ten men will be
taken in charge by the British Consul to-
day and be sent home.