Terrible Sufferings at Sea.

Hastings Standard, Issue 351, 18 June 1897, Page 4

Terrible Sufferings at Sea.

New York, April 28. —Telegrams received here from St. Pierre (Miquelon) state that the barquentine Victor Eugene has arrived at that place with four of the crow of the brig Voillant, for St. Malo, which while under full sail on the night of the 11th insfc, ran into an iceberg off the Grand Banks, and sank in twenty minutes.

Small boats or dories which she carried proved unequal to the task of bringing away her crew of 73 men, and there was a regular fight to get a place in them. The four men picked up, together with three others, were in the first boat which got off. The survivors state that they do not know how many others were saved, but they fear only a few, as many screams of drowning men were heard. Of the seven men, one named Grenville was the only one who had his clothes on. The seven fishermen in the dorydrifted about for four days, wet and foodless, suffering excruciating agonies from hanger and cold. Three died from exposure and privations, and one of them was eaten by his comrades. During this time they saw the captain's boat, and learned that one man on board was dead.

When the four men were rescued they were lying in the bottom of the boat in six inches of water in a dreadful condition from frost bites, and it will be necessary to perforin amputation, though it is considered that three of the men may recover. The Victor Eugene cruised about for two days after the rescue, and as no other boats were sighted it was feared tbev had all sank.

According to another account, the Victor Euger.e picked up the four men yesterday. Only four boats left the Yoillant. About 30 were on board.