Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-04-14
COLLISION AT SEA.
Additional PArtic ulars OF the Loss OF
the Steamship Normandy-SRd Loss
Of I,tfs.

VI AOhb VI
the Steamship Normandy-Sad Loss
OF Life.
On March II the London and South
western company's steamer Normandy,
Capt, Harvey, left southampton for the
Channel islands about u o'clock at night.
AT a. M, about thirty miles from the
Needles, the screw steamer Mary, bound
from the Danube for London, rau stern on
into the Normandy during very thick fog.
She struck the Normandy abatt the mid
ship section, cutting her down to the wa
ter's edge, and the after cabins and hold
| filled Immediately. The number of lives
lost was reported MS follows: Capt. Harvey,
chief mate, chief and second engineers,
| three sailors, seven firemen and carpenter,
! three tirst-class gentlemen passengers, four
second-class lady passengers, and ten deck
passengers. The most graphic account
/ of the disaster is to be found in
the Daily News of March 10, as follows;
"1he Normandy left the Southampton
! docks about a quarter of an hour before
midnight on Wednesday, for Gurnsey and
Jersey, under the command OF Captain
Henry Beckfori Harvey, with about So
passengers, the total number of souls on
board being estimated at 60 The night
was hazy, and the fog gradually thickened,
and became very dense as the English
coast was left behind. At 81 o'clock the
steamer came into collision with n large
screw-steamer, which struck her about the
starboard sponsoa. II was at once appa-
rent that the Normandy was sinking, and
| Capt Harvey, who was on deck at the time
of the accident, Immediately gave orders
| to lower the boats, but of these two only,
slung on the port side, were available. the
! large hfe-boat which was on the star.
board sings having been smashed in the
collision.
Ladies' first, was the next order given
by the gallant old captain, who, with the
rest of his crew, appear to have acted with
remarkable GOODNESS and n regard for the
safety OF the passengers intrusted to their
charge Consequently the female passen-
gers, who were aft, were budding into the
boats, most OF them attired in nothing else
but the clothes in which they had been
sleeping, aud as many Of the other pas
sengers Ms could be taken; all were put ON
board the other vessel, which proved to be
the Mary, of Gnmsby; but, before the
boats could return to their own ship, she
suddenly sank, about ten minutes after the
collision. Captain Harvey was last seen
on the paddle-box bridge, and went down
in the ship, as did also his chief mate, Mr..
Ockletord, several Of the crew, and pas
sengers, Mr.. Cox, the chief engineer,
and other engineers and firemen---
one only of the latter, indeed,
being all of the engine room staff
saved. Capt. Strannocl the commander
OF the Mary, thought lis ,wn vessel was
sinking, and had ordered out the life-boats,
and all was done, SO far rs we can hear, to
save life, but of course so brief space of
time elapsed between the collision and the
sinking of the Normandy that but little
means beyond those taken on board that
vessel could be adopted with any successful
result. The Mary, whose cut-water is bad'y
damaged with both her bows stove in, re-
NAMED about the spot for two or three
hours, and then steamed slowly to South
ampton, the nearest port where any sub
stantal assistance could be afforded her in
her crippled condition, and reached here
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, III charge
of Pilot E!dridge She brought up in the
river to await tide service, but the rescued
passengers, who included " little child
were at once landed in the docks and
conveyed to hotel, where every at
tention paid to them by direction OF Mr.
! +. X Corke, the Southwestern compauy's
energetic superintendent here. The ladies
were Il pitiiul plight indeed; most of
them were without Shoes some without
stockings and three or four were wrapped
in blankets supplied by the crew of the
Mary The fireman who was saved owes
his life TO Mr.. Goodwin, who was standing
on the deck with him, and exclaimed,
'Jump into the boat and take that oar, !"
and on the man demurring, he pushed him
in, saying, "Mind you come back for me,
but before the boat returned the Normandy
had gone to the bottom. One OF the ladies'
saved brought back flvorite dog, which
was thrown to her, we are told, by her
brother, who, poor fellow, was lost
Another lady is saved whose mother
has persisted in the Inflated YES
sci, and third whose husband
and two children persisted. The actual
number of passengers lost cannot yet be
accurately ascertained, for it seems they
had not taken their tickets, and if they had
1t would be hardly possible to tell, Mr.. Oc-
kleford, whose duty it was to have granted
them, being lost; but it said there were
about IS or ga small number as COM
pared with ordinary passages for on Mon
day night, for instance, there were about
As. The Mary is lorg screw steamer of
about 800 tons register, and WAS from the
Black Sea and Mediterranean, bound to
| London with maize. Her home port is
Grimsby. The Normandy was a fine pad.
die steamer of 252 tons register, and 425
full tonnage, fitted with engines of 23S
horse power. She bore the reputation of
being one of the fastest vessels on the line
Paper Making and Clothing.