THEN FROZEN TO DEATH

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11861, 15 February 1907, Page 4

THEN FROZEN TO DEATH

New York, Feb 13 Amid a scene of terror as the steamer Larchmont sank after the collision with the Harry Knowleton, ten female Salvationists, kneeling on the deck, sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers. " survivors were severely frostbitten, the Tsea spray coating them with ice.^g^ Iffr"**^ °; Thirty bodies, encased in ice, were recovered on the beach, and fourteen others were found frozen to death in the drifting beats. '«*^l -aSK*' j_g t ßeceived^Feb~l4, fiO. 34 p.ni *^«fl»l^^s_New York. Feb 14 | r Men and women fought fiercely for places in^the boats that were launched from the sinking steamer Larchmont, and many were drowned. In one of the boats that contained nine .^persons seven were frozen to death. One cut his throat, and one waded ashore.