People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — SUNK BY AN ICEBERG. [ARTICLE]

SUNK BY AN ICEBERG.

A Schooner Sent to the Hot tom and Twelve of Her Sailors Drowned. St. Johns, N. F., June 20.—The 1 schooner Rose, bound from Labrador for Conception bay, collided with au iceberg Monday find went down almost immediately, carrying twelve persons with her. The disaster occurred when the schooner was about 8 miles oft' Partridge point. At the time of the collision a thick fog made it im- ; possible for the lookout to see a ship's length ahead. The Rose had a crew of fifty-five persons, who were bound for Conception bay. The forty- : three survivors jumped aboard the berg as soon as the collision took place and remained there for several hours, suffering great hardship. After they had almost abandoned hope another fishing craft hove in sight and they were taken off. The government has dispatched a steamer to take them to their destination. The survivors of the ill-fated craft are entirely desti- j tute and an appeal in their behalf for charity has been made. Nearly all the drowned were relatives of one another and in several instances whole families were lost.