Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-07

were saved. No sails had been seen
for two DAYS previous to the fire.
On that day the Missouri was IN
company with ship from 9:l5 a. m.
till 3 p. m, when she was lost sight
of for forty minutes. After the res.
cued left the Missouri they saw the
passengers and crew who remained
on board
CROWDED on THE AFTER PART OF THE
VESSEL.
1t is said the fire was first dis.
covered on the floor Of the locker in
the pantry, and the cry of fire was
Immediately given. Wet carpets
were put on the fire by the pantry
men and Others, and the steward re.
ported to the passengers that the
fire was out. The alarm was given
while the passengers were at break
fast. but on receiving the stewards
report that the fire had been extin.
guished, breakfast was resumed and
the fears Of the passengers quieted.
Within ten minutes, however, several
voices screamed fire from the stoke
hole. All was then confusion.
Within twenty minutes three boats
were launched In the rescued boat,
with the exception of a few pieces
Of sugar cane there was neither food
nor water, aud only two small oars
and large one. Neither were there
any sails or anything to make them
Of. 1t was from 9 o'clock in the
morning of the 22d until = o'clock
in the afternoon Of the 23d before
assistance was obtained. At that
time the schooner Spy was sighted,
and the rescued party pulled vigor.
ously to her The Spy took the
Survivors to Hopetown or Elbow
Key, where they arrived about 7
p. m. on the 23d or the 24th.
a SCHOONER WAS SENT TOWARD THE
BURNING SUR,
with charts and full directions where
to find her, and with instructions 10
look for the ships boats and skirt
the coast. The schooner returned
about midnight on the 2lth and re.
ported having seen nothing of the
boats or passengers. The sea was
then breaking heavily on the reefs.
The party left Hopetown on the 18th
and arrived at Nassau on the 18th.
1t is said that the donkey pumps
of the steamer were never started,
one Of the passengers asserting that
he had hold of the hose at the same
time, and that no water was forced
through 1t on the flames from the
donkey. Two deck pumps were
worked few minutes only, within
fifteen minutes after the alarm was
given The twelve survivors were in
the boat, and the flames We're coming
from the stoke.hole in volume.
The ships course was never altered,
and consequently the flames were
carried athwart ships, burning up
one lifo0oat on the lee side, and
making it too hot to get others off,
Only three boats We're launched,
two Of which were swamped. 1t is
said that seven females and seven
children were aboard the Missouri,
none of whom got into the boats.
TIM SOME
presented was heartrendiug. The
Missouri,s engines were stopped, but
her sails being left spread, speed
of four knots an hour was maintain
ed. When last seen Captain Greene
was working with the purser Hemp
stead and some of the crew trying to
get off a lee boat, surrounded by
smoke aud flame. Eleven Of the sur
yivors say that boat was never
launched, but the twelfth, Captain
Culmer, says it was launched full of
people, but was immediately swamp
ed.
The only expense incurred in this
port by the little English steamer
Anna, belonging to the Atlantic
Mail Steamship Company, which
brought the survivors Of the Inflated
steamship Missouri from Nassau, was
forced upon her 10y the United States
Customs officers, who even charged