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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 39 Numéro 2071

Date 13 avril 1876
Comté Saint John
Lieu Saint John
Journal Daily News

info Le langage employé dans les textes est tel qu’il a été transcrit par Daniel F. Johnson à partir des entrées dans les journaux originaux.

The American fishing schooner "Henrietta Greenleaf" of Gloucester, Capt. William H. GREENLEAF sailed from that port on 6th inst. with a crew of 15 men, all told, for the Grand Banks. On Saturday morn. at 3 o'clock the vessel was South of LeHave Banks, under full sail, with a light SSE breeze, when a heavy squall struck and hove her down. The vessel capsized and sank almost immediately. So sudde was the accident, that four of the crew who were below had no time to escape and were drowned. The captain and part of the crew, who were also below, managed to reach the deck. They cut the lashings of the dories, the captain and five men getting into one boat, and five men into another. The captain's dory drifted about at the mercy of the waves - the crew having neither food nor water - until 12:30 a.m. on Monday when it was picked up by American schr. "Lizzie K. Clark", Capt. Thomas HODGSON, of and from Gloucester for Grand Banks, which arrived and landed the captain and four men at this port yesterday. The sufferings of the six men were so intense that one of them, Freeman CRAWFORD of Westport, Maine died Sunday night. His body was kept in the dory and is now on board the "Lizzie K. Clark" which is lying in stream, awaiting a coroner's inquest. The dory with the five other men has not yet turned up and it is feared that the men are all lost. The names of the men drowned were Franklin GREENLEAF, brother of the captain, American; James ETTER, Prospect, N.S.; George CONNORS, Canso, N.S., captain's brother-in-law; and Alfred OLSEN, a foreigner. Those in the missing dory were: Joseph GARDNER of Liverpool, N.S.; George ROE, B. JEWETT, Charles PATTIE and another man name unknown. - Halifax 'Chronicle' (see original)

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