The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-10-19
THE LOSS OF THE EVENING STAR.
Further Particulars of the Terrible
Disaster-Dispatch from the Purser-
Only Sixteen Lives know to be Saved.
From the New York World, Oct. 10.

YUM lnt New lOIh fOTIt, w. ~.
Yesterday morning, the news of The sink
ing Of the steamer Evening Star, of the
Southern coast, with Il large number Of
lives on board, awakened an intense interest,
and absorbed all other topics. Since then,
additional particulars have been received in
this city. They furnish very meagre details
of the disaster, but prove it to be the most
appalling that has ever occurred to an
American vessel since the lanentcl Ameri-
ca calamity. Only sixteen out Of nearly
three hundred persons are known to have
reached land IN safety. Others may, and
will, probably, be heard from among the
number saved but the inference so far, is
that the larger portion of the passengers
and crew have pcrished The steamer went
down on the Sd inst, it is supposed sudden
ly, IN the midst OF a hurricane gale, which
gave no warning of It's mischief, leaving
men, women and children struggling in the
waves. AS the women and children were
more numerous than the males, their
chances Of safety were slender, their sex and
helplessness being forgotten in the dreadful
crisis, and their terrorS making them easily
succumb to the watery element. OF their
number not one has yet appeared among
those saved. Captain Knapp, who com
manded the Evening Star, is with the mis-
sing and drowned.
DISPATCH FROM PURSER ALLEN.
The purser of this Inflated vessel an
nounced his safety, with that Of his COM
panions, to its owners in the following
despatch:
r. H. Hubbard, Treasurer Nc0 TorZ: -Nu7
Steamship Company, Bo'clinJ Grren :.
The Evening Star went down morning Of
81 inst, in hurricane. No women. Ten
in our party arrived in the sooner yester
day: Robert Finger, w. II. Harris, Ed
ward LarncI, John Long, Frederick Shat
fer, George Smith, John Powers, Dennis
Gammond: Rowland Stephens. All suffer
ing, but wants being relieved. Expect to
leave for New York tomorrow. l have
telegrapEed to New Orleans.
f. 5. ALLEN, Pursur Evening Star
Most of those named in this dispatch
were connected and employed on the vessel.
Those Of the saved whose names are not
mentioned are five of the crew and Franz
Gcrrand passenger.
TIE LOST
Those who embarked on the voyage of
the Evening Star, and have not yet been
heard from, as previously stated, were mos.
~ females, Among their number were a
French opera troupe in charge of Mr. Paul
Alhalza, which numbered sixty singers and
ballet dancers. They arrived in this city
from Europe by the steamer Vile de Paris
two days before starting on their second
unfortunate sea journey, en- route to New
Orleans, where they were to appear at the
Academy of Music there, during the fall
and winter season. They being strangers,
coming here for the amusement Of our peO-
pie, with the anticipations of warm wei
come from the Crescent City, the fate they
have SO unexpectedly met with must be
sadly regretted in the United States, and to
their friends and relatives abroad it will be
mournful Intelligence Besides the troupe
there were thirty male and female circus
performers, belonging to the company of
Spaulding q Bidwell, who were also going
to New Orleans with bright prospects,
They had, it is said, all their paraphernalia
and stage appurtenances with them but
were without horses. 1t is authenticity
understood that another feminine c0te,1e
distinct from the opera and circus troupes,
went on the trip Of the Evening Star, This
third company was composed OF young beau
ties whom mistresses III New Orleans had
engaged to enter their fashionable and fast
houses.
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER.
More than an assumed reason for the
wrecking of the Evening Star, cannot be
deduced in the want Of facts. Several
theories have been brought up, of which
the most reasonable Is that she encountered
a wind storm in the Gulf stream, when
between Hatteras and Charleston, which
centcrcd on her in tarritic force from all
points of the compass, and cnCulphGd her
IN the waves. 1t was claimed that the yes
sci was too staunch to be overp0wercd by an
ordinary tempest, and her engines and
machinery unable to give any serious
trouble.
HER CONSTRUCTION.
The Evening Star was built as the sister
ship of the Morning Star, by Roosevelt,
Joyce 4 Co., for the New York Mail
Steamship Company. Her first voyage to
New Orleans was run by Captain W. r.
Bell in July, 1868, and since then she has
been thought thoroughly seaworthy Her
dimensions were: length at ligh; load line,
26G feet length on deck, o13 feet; over
all, 292 feet bredth of beam, 80 feet 4
inches; depth Of hold % feet; tonnage,
Custom-Housc measurement, . O22, G5 %
tons; carpenters measurement, =, HI
The hull is made Of white oak and her
frames Of live oak and willow i5cust The
engines were CONSTRUCTED 10y the Morgan
Iron Works, and the boilers at the Allaire
foundry. All her accommodations were
first class, and the fittings and decorations
OF the best workmanship. She had been at
different times under the command of three
excellent seamen-Captains Bell, Winpen-
ny and Knapp.
THE LOSSES.
The value of the Evening Star was $500,
900, and she was not insured Her cargo
which was full, is estimated to have been
worth half million dollars, or more; tha.
was insured. The principal shippers, gen
orally by this line are the firms Of Stewart
and Clafin, and they probably have an in.
terest in the cargo: IF the vessel becoms a
total wrec', the amount involved will bc a,
least million dollars
ANXIOUS INoUIRERs.
All the morning of yesterday the ofGcy
of the steamship company in Bowling
Green was visited by ladies and gentlemer
aftes information Of the Evening Star pas
sengers, They were told to have cheerful
hopes by the officers: to patiently wait fo'
more definite and. maybe, more favorable
particulars But they showed great anx
iety despite this comforting sympathy
Many Of the inguirers were friends and ac