The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-03-10
Terrible n1arine oisaster.

a San Francisco telegram of the
2dinst. says:
Advices from Yokohoma, dated
january 3lst, says the most horrible
exhibition of inhumanity ever known
in the east occurred about twenty
miles down the coast at half past six
O'Clock, D. m, January oath. The q.
S. steamer Oneida, homeward bound,
collided with the British iron mail
steamer Bombay, Captain Arthur
Wellsby Eyre, the Bombay striking
the. Oneida on the starboard quarter,
carrying away her poop deck, cutting
off her whole stern, aud rnning one of
her timbers entirely through the bows
of the Bombay at the water line.
Three times the Oneida hailed the
Bombay with .'Ship ahoyi Stand by
I on have cut us down." She also
blew her whistle, and fired her guns,
all of which the officers say they did
not hear, though the guns were dis
tinctly heard at this port, twenty
miles away. The Oneida went down
stern first, in about twenty fathoms of
water, with twenty officers and nine
ty-five men. The captain of the Bom-
bay did not stop to rescue those on
board, nor did he, on his arrival here,
report the accident or inform the au-
thorisies. The first known of it was
by the arrival, on foot, next morning,
of DIR. Stoddard, surgeon, aud fifteen
+ of the crew. But two cutters were
available, and the officers almost to
man refused to take to them while o
man remained aboard. Disciple was
complete to the last, the sick being
put into the boats, and the officers re-
naming at their posts until the ship
went down. The United States Gov
ernment vessel Japan being store
ship, Minister Delong was obliged to
accept from English, French and
Russian men-of-war steam launches,
cutters, sc. In company with Col.
| Shepard, Consul at Yeddo, Mr.. Far
rington, proceeded to the scene of the
disaster, where all in human power
is beingsdone to rescue the sufferers
and recover the hodies of the lost.
Minister Delong, on his own respon-
sibility, chartered gunboat lately
/ sold by the United States government
to private parties, manned her with a
mixed, crew. of the survivors of the
| Oneida, volunteer citizens, and engin-
eers furnished by Russian corvette,
placed her under command of a naval
officer, and sent Consul Shepard to
represent him, while he, with great
energy, was making o thorough inves-
tigation by a naval court of inquiry.
Mr. Delong is entitled to great praise
for his9 prompt and correct action.
The position of the Oneida to-day was
ascertained by the spar, which, at low
tide, rises four or five feet above the
water. No bodies have yet been
boats to the assistance of the Oneida
all or nearly all might have been
saved. The feeling of indignation
toward Captain Eyre is terrible. None
but his company and few of his
countrymen attempt to shield him.
4 8 The following is correct list of the
j officers lost: Commander e. I'll. Will.
| Jams, Lieutenant Commander w. F
4 Stewart, A. w. Muldmar, Paymaster
z T., l.. {Tullock, Jr.. Master; ~ Walter
Sergeant; J. w. Phelan, Ensign; G.
C. Lowry, Charles e. Brown, Mid
shipmep w. Uhler, G. II. Bower, G
A. Capp, j. G.. Hull, G. K. Adams
J Assistant Surgeon rockingham, En-.
sgfneers N. B. Lettig, Barstow G. Sen
4 ter and John Terrence, Carpenter j
u D. Penner, Paymaster's Clerk w. O
4 Thomas and ninety-fiye men.
1 LATER.-The following additiona
facts have been obtainedi Investiga
tion shows that terrible responsible
d ity rests somewhere else than will
the Bombay. The Oneida in o late
typhoon lost all but three small boats
and one of these was cut in two by
the collision, leaving but two boats te
save one hundred and seyenty-nint
men. s
The last words Captain Williaml
; said when Lieutenant Commander
i Muldrum reported the vessel sinking
3 were, 81 know it, but what can do
asked for more boats, but they were
: not allowed me-" Thus, through tht
negligence of somebody and the in
, humanity of the Bombay officers, {
sbattle-soarred ship, with as brave Off
GERS and men as ever stood between
her flag and her enemies, has been los
!, to their friends and to their country
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