Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-04-11
lector, E. M. Mcdonald. Capt McKen-

lector, +. M. Mcdonald. Capt McKen-
zie, q ship master, sat as associate with
Mr.. Mcdonald. The Hon. S. l.. Shan
non, @. c., and III. Blanchard, Q. c.,
appeared for the Government, and j.
N. Richie, @. c., for the Captain.
Mr.. Mcdonald, in opening the Court,
said the inquiry was to be held under
the 3Sth chapter Of the Dominion acts
of 1869, and would have the force of an
English Board of Trade inquiry. The
Captain, James A. Williams, was called,
sworn, and read the following statement
CAPT. WILLIAMS TESTIMONY.
On the 2Sth Of March the engineers
report showed the Goals getting very
short, We having experienced three days
of very severe weather; the Goals on
board were $40 tons, we being 1,130
miles from Sandy Hook hoping that
the wind would change favorably kept
on till the 31st, when our Goals were re-
duced to 127 tons, and the ship distant
from Sandy Hook AGO miles, lat. Al SO,
long. 63 ga; as the ship by this time
was making but seven knots per hour,
the wind being at the southwest, the
glass falling, and westerly swell on, /
thought the risk too great to keep on,
accordingly, after receiving the engi-
neer's report, | decided to come to Sam
bro Island, being then distant 10 miles.
This was at one P. NJ. l left my orders
ON the bridge as to iookouts, which word
was passed to the officers relieving at
midnight.
l was on the bridge up to twenty min
utes past twelve. 1t was brilliant star
light, after that occasional sight of the
stars when l left the bridge went in
to the chartroom, thirty feet abaft tae
bridge on the upper deck, within easy
call of the officers on deck; | got up at
two o'clock, looked into the wheel-house,
and then lay down for an alarm in
making calculations l estimated her
speed to be eleven knots she had in
creased gradually from seven and half
to twelve knots; the third officer re-
ported that she had run 122 miles at II
o'clock; that agreed with my calcula-
lation l expected the ship at three o.
clock would be eighteen or twenty miles
south of Sambro, and to lay by till day
light. / had not my clothes off at all.
Had every reason to put con6dencein the
second officer. always found him a
steady, sober man.
| had the latitude by observation and
by chronometer when | bore up for Hal
flax; the charts have all been lost the
ship increased her speed after bore up
for Halifax, because we were not then so
anxious to economic coal the speed at
II o'clock was about II knots; | reck-
oned then we were As miles from Sam
bro, then bearing five east did not
slack the speed; | did not shift the
course considered we would pass five
miles east of Sambro lodges had new
er brought ships into Halifax, OF been
on this coast. did not use the lead at
all in coming into Halifax; | knew
was approaching the shore, the clearness
of the night and the certainty of seeing
Sambro Light were my only reasons for
not sounding; | am now satisfied that
when went into the chart room l was
mistaken in locality of the ship; she
must have been further northward and
westward than | thought; l knew the
coast was an iron bound and dangerous
one, though | had never been on it. |
/ was asleep when the ship struck it was
! five minutes past three by my watch, and
t fifteen minutes past three by the chief
, engineers when she struck.
J MORE BODIES RECOVERED.
HALIFAX, April 6.-Fourteen bodies
were recovered yesterday, all of them
by graphing. To-day, the weather be-
ing favorable, divers worked for the pur-
pose of finding bodies, and q, all APP
parently Storage passengers, were re-
covered.
> The latest statement about the steer
age passengers is as follows: Number
who sailed, 500; number lost, 585; num-
Der saved, 81.
, In Rhode Island, where the death
penalty was abolished some years since,
petitions are being numerously signed for
its restoration.
A woman's right lecturer out West
, wants to know why, since we have Pull
mans palace cars, we can't have Pull
woman's palace cars also.
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