Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — SHIP AND 187 LOST? [ARTICLE]

SHIP AND 187 LOST?

Whaling Steamer Aurora Is Believed to Have been Sunk. The sealing steamer Boethlc arrived at St Johns and brought news of the loss of the steamer Aurora. —lt is believed, according to the report, at the fishing banks, that all the Aurora’s crdw of 187 men were lost. The crew of the Boethlc tried to obtain definite news ot the disaster, but was unable to do 4 so before sailing time. Those on the Boethlc report that a number of seals killed by the Aurora’s crew and “panned” on the ice had drifted ashore. The vessel was engaged in the sealing Industry and had been missing since April 1. It is feared the steamer went down in collision with an iceberg. The vessels composing the sealing fleet cruised over the North Atlantic and along the Labrador coast, but no trace of the missing ship could be seen. No natives could be found who had heard of any suet} shipwreck along the coast. • The Aurora is owned by- C. T. Bowering & Go., Ltd., of Liverpool. It was a wooden steamer of 580 gross tonnage, and bad been sealing from this port every year since 1877.