The New York herald., 1869-01-21
THE DISASTER IN THE BAY OF SMYRNA.
Additional Particulars Of ths Collision Be-
tween the Greek Steamers.
[From the Levant Herald.l

Additional Particulars Of the Collision Be-
tween the Greek Steamers.
[From the Levant Hefad.l
We have been favored with the following detailed
narrative OF this disaster compiled from the report
OF one OF the survivors,
The Gaioub though not one OF the largest, was
one Of the finest OF the Azizieh Company's vessels
plying between Alexandra and Constantinoplo.
SnS M tos the q S sr
with crew OF eighty hands, eghty-hye passen-
gers. valuable general cargo and large amount
The weather being fine she made rapid run round
the coast OF Syria and shortly after midnight OF the
reached the Ichesme channel. between Sclo and the
mainland, which Is taken by vessels bound in to
smyrna. The night was quite clear, with o very
A. NJ the Galioub had cleared the pas
sage, and was rounding Cape Kara-bournc Into
was seen ahead well or on the port bow The
Galioub's own lights were both burning brightly ut
the time, and her red lamp must also have been seen
away the Galioub Kept and the two ships rapidly
neared, when the stranger-whlch by this time was
suddenly starboarded her helm aud ran stem
on into the Galioub before the iatter could
wara q a' mSsp Sou o s dos o
bunker and into the foremost boiler. Her short
bowsprt also knocked over the funnel and the fore
mast OF the Gaiioub was so shaken with the shock
that IL afterwards went The at this mo-
ment may pc better imagined than described. The
gers aud several OF these must have been killed tie
spot while the screams OF the survivors rose high
above the noise OF escaping steam aud the conflicting
shouts OF the officers and crews OF the two vessels.
AS II was evident that the Gaoub must 90 down
her captain imporcd the commander OF the Sharkic
not to back out but either lie did not hear or was
afraid OF being dragged down too, Tor In couple OF
minutes after the blow he reversed hts engines and
after short halt apparently to ascertain his own
damage, steamed on leaving The Galoub to her fate.
The captain espcclally)IaQd most OF the officers
OF the latter vessel behaved admirably, but the
crew seem TO have shared In tho gen ern panic, and
much time was thus lost In getting the bouts into the
ship were at length lowered; but here again the
rush TO get into them was such as TO imperil the
whole, and there Ii reason to believe mat several
lives were sacrificed In the scramble. Now 4
was that the damaged f0remast fell, striking
and smashing boat filed with q mixed
were the first, second and third (Enplish) engf-
neers. While these were struggling In the
water nearly thrcequarters OF hour after the col
lsion, the steamer iurched over and went down,
sucking with her the fragments OF the boat and most
OF those had contained. Another boat, which had
them, including the first and second engineers, who
came to the surface, but Of the unhappy re-
mainder VINO went down with the ship
n IL believed that none were saved. The
fifty or more thus lost included the captain
and second ogloer. The conduct Of the former was.
last boat which left the ship, ana went down with .
Lcroism that contrasted noby with the cowardce Of
the commander OF the Sharkc, who, II he had re-
mained by the sinking vessel, might have saved
every soul on board. As IL was, the four boats
landed near karab0urns about daylight with tho
and smyrna destitute OF everything and B best
hey could.