The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-03-26

triea to lesve the vessel before The women
wsrs SAvei.
he Srss boas launched wsS lowered BY
. number Of passengers BY cutting the
mrs. There being No ladder At hand,
The caly way Of getting into Il was BY
leapinS o. dropping some sfeeen feet, As
thew wss = terrible rsz<h towards the boat
the scene was q the most distressing con-
fusion, and = man and hoy fell into The
water snd were drowned The officers
did ar thew could 10 fOree the men who
srss ros into The bat 10 leave 1t. that the
wouen might be Ssved. but 10 no purpose.
Even sri0S With blank cartridges III Is
supposed. ST 6rst was unavsihnS, About
thirty persons having got into the eoai,
thew pat or Nos cue Of the crew was
in Il
Another hfe-boSt was then lsunched. a
risn ycs into II snd was ordered TO lesNe.
He refused. and the captain shot him IN
the calf Then Captain Knowles placed
his wife IN the host srd sid 10 the
boatsvxia, who h2d SlreSdy got in;
HERE'S 5 charge for you, b0Atswsin,
take care Of her zad the rsSt. God bless
vpu = wrlnSing his wife'< hand he bsde
her god bye, saving: : / shAh never see
yoa syain-H
1t Is impossible 70 describe the pSnic
thst rsged all this time Heartrending
scenes were witnessed On all sides. One
Of the passengers, seeing the captains
wife IN the boat. threw in his own wife,
tossed the baby to her, and entered the
hos, himself A little girl was thrown
into the boat by her fsther, who tried 70
sSve the rest Of his family, but the msd-
deBej crowd pressing toward the side OF
the vessel prevented It, snd with the wife
and two other children be went down
with the Ilfated vessel The engineer
inside frantic Efforts to SaYe his wife and
children. bat was damned between the
eook-houSe and guuwsle and received
dreadful INJURIES, though sterwsrds he
waS rescued, bat Is IN precariOus state
Only two Of the seven boSts aboard were
launched, owing to the panic. The frst
was seriously injured As the tackle was
cut, snd the boat fell into the sea When
the second boat got Of, it seemed to
becoue 5 question Of moments. The
quarter-deck wSS still crowded BY men,
women, and children, some crying, some
swearing, others praying. The captain
4nd pilot were together, snd the latter
was heard Saying: If you wasn't to save
yourselves m4ke for the topu&St : TO
which many people rushed In quarter
Of an hour 5 tug picked up the second
boat. With thirty occupants, and then
steamed for some time around the spot
where about three quarters Of an hour
sitter being struck the Nortfeet went
down head first. with swfuI suddeuneSS.
aud with three hundred and twenty-seven
souls on board
At that moment the first boat was
hundred yards, and the second only
twenty or thirty yards from the vessel
The crew Of the first boat, after landing
the women, rOwsd Sround the scene OF
the wreck, and saved FIVE men who were
trying 70 swim ashore
A lugger took Of the occupants Of the
second boat-thirty-four paSseugers-and
: pilot cutter rescued pilot and ten men,
who, having gone down with the vessel,
rose to the surface and eluug TO the main-
topmz<t rigging. The vessel lies in eleven
fathoms Of water
The survivors say the captain displayed
the greatest heroism, and maintained his
presence Of mind from first to last, striving
hzrd TO put an end to the panic, doing his
duty bravely to the end He was st the
list moment going across the wreck in
the hope Of enabling some of the crowd
rushing round the boats on that side to
get away from the ship. They say au the
boats got adrift when the ship sunk, aud
they express the belief that If the passen-
gers had allowed them 10 Be lowered
properly, they could have saved st least
one hundred more lives. Unfortunately,
the women could not climb the maSts,
although we did zII IN our power to help
them Consequently, al the women and
children, With the exception Of the cap