The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-02
ahead," and midshipman gave the order to

steamer, and this leads to the belief that she |
had not observed the Oneida, although her |
lights were burning brightly.
The steamer, which proved to be the Bonn |
bay, of the Peninsular and Oriental line, came |
right on and struck the Oneida on the star |
board, abaft the gangway, about halfway be- |
tween the main and mizzen rigging. A hole |
was cut, through which the whole interior of |
the ship was visible. Tho pinnacle wheel |
and rudder we're carried away, and two men |
standing at the wheel we're instantly killed.
NO HELP oPFERED by THE BOMBAY.
The Bombay did not step after crushing
through the Oneida, though the guns of the
latter, which happened to be loaded, were
almost instantly fred TO attract her attention
and bring her back.
THE LTE-BoAT MANNED.
Orders were given to lower the boats, but
only one life-boat was available, the others
having been crushed. The hfe-boat was
manned by DIR. Suddards, the boatswain, and
fifteen Of the crew.
SINKING OF THE VESSEL.
Five guns were fred, but before the sixth
could be discharged, the Oneida sunk, within
ten minutes after she was struck. None of
those saved saw q man or heard voice on
board the Bombay.
HEROIC CONDUCT OF CAPTAIN WILLIAMS
They report that when it became evident
that there was no hope of saving the ship, the
officers gathered around Captain Williams,
and he was heard to say, eff the ship went
down he would go with her."
SAFETY OF THE LIFE-BoATs CREW.
The life-boat was obliged to leave the sink
ing ship. to avoid being swamped. After
pulling about for awhile the crew of the life
boat, seeing none of the crew floating, not
one of the one hundred and sixty who
went down, unwillingly put their boat heads
landward, about five miles distant. On land
ing, the natives treated them kindly, and OBJ
tanned the assistance of a guide, and they
started to walk to Yokohama, which they
reached at daylight the next morning.
THIRTY-NINE MORE SAVED.
The Bombay was Immediately ordered to
the scene of the wreck and succeeded in
saving thirty-nine men, who had got into the
cutter, which foated when the ship went
| down, and several other vessels, one with
Minister Delong on board, proceeded to the
scene of the disaster during the day, but no
more lives were saved. The Japanese Gov
| ernment sent boats and apparatus to search
| for the wreck and, if necessary, to buoy the
| spot. :.
STATEMENT OF THE BoMBAY's PASSENGERS, 70 =,
The passengers on the Bombay were quite
surprised when they heard of the calamity,
but declare they neither heard any request
| guns fired.
| CoURT-MARTIAL DEMANDED.
A naval court-martial has been demanded
| by the captain of the Bombay.
| THE SURVIVORS.
The officers and men of the Oneida num-
bered 176, only Sc of whom, including
| DIR. Suddards and two junior officers, survived
| the disaster.
The following is a list of the saved:-Isaac
| j. Yates, master; James Suddards, surgeon;
Nicholas Anderson, acting boatswain William
| Crownsheld captains clerk; William Ander-
SOD, Thomas Bigby, William A. Bennett,
| Henry Bennett, Michael Boyle, William Brit
| ney Charles Brown, Patrick Cunningham, +.
j. Connoly, Robert +. Dyer, Henry Gerney,
John Green, James Houston, William Holtz,
William Henry, John Jones, Isaac Johns,
James Jordan, George w. Kaufman, William
| G. King, John Kelly Thomas Tynes, Joseph
P Long, John Long, James Mcdonald Ed
ward Mulvell, Phillip Mcdonald Michael
McCabe, Michael Murray, Peter Norman,
Robert f. Beard, Washington Postley, Charles
Ryan, Edward Reilly, W. H. Roach, John
Rushby, Albert Rugent, John Sweeney,
Porter Smith, Henry Saunders, Thomas
Stevenson, Amb Stolhoff, Patrick Fehan,
Thomas Speers, John Squires, James STAN
ley, William Taylor, William Tinker Edward
Tate, William Tryol, Henry Neill, Christian
4ager and hVe Chinese boys.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
| YOKOHAMA, Jan. 81, via San Francisco,
March 1.-The most terrible accident and
horrible exhibition of inhumanity known in
the East occurred about twenty miles down
the coast, at half-past six o'clock in the eve
ming of January "a. The United States
steamer Oneida, homeward bound, collided
with the British Peninsular and Oriental iron
mail steamer Bombay, Captain Arthur We'll
, | lesly Eyre.
The Bombay struck the Oneida on her star
; board quarter, carrying away her poop-deck,
cutting off her whole stern, and running one
of her timbers entirely through the bows of the
Bombay at the water line. Three times the
Oneida hailed the Bombay with ''Ship ahoy
stand by you've cut us down !" blew her
| whistle, and fred her guns, all of which the
s officers of the Bombay say they did not hear,
though the guns were distinctly heard at this
port, twenty miles away. The Oneida went
d down stern formost in about twenty fathoms
of water, with twenty officers and fifty men.
d The captain of the Bombay did not stop to
relieve those on board, nor did he, on his
a arrival here, report the accident or inform the
authorities. The first known of the affair
:, was the next morning, when DIR. Suddards
I the surgeon, with fifteen of the crew, arrived
O on foot
l. But two cutters were available, and the
officers, almost to a man, refused to take
them while man remained on board.
Discipline was complete to the last. The
sick were all being put in the boats, the off
= GERS remaining at their posts until the shil
j. went down.
SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS,