Horrible Catastrophe

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 8, 1875

Horrible Catastrophe.

THE report has been confirmed that the Cospatrick, an emigrant ship, en route from London to New Zealand, was burned at sea, off the Cape of Good Hope. By this horrible affair, four hundred and sixty human beings perished, but three having yet been heard from of the entire list. These three were picked up in an open boat, nearly famished, having eaten nothing except (horrible to relate) flesh and blood of others who had died in the boat. The hundreds of poor creatures who were roasted alive, or jumping into the sea made food for ravenous sharks, endured untold agony which will never be known to the readers of newspapers.