The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-05
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TEE OCEAN DISASTER.
The Vile Du Esnrve sights The Earn
Before tho Collision.

Later details of the wreck of the Vile
du ilaryc report that the Loeb Earn was
sighted by those on board the steamer
from fifteen to seventeen minutes before
he collision occurred.
TUESDAY Ar THE COMPANY OFFICE.
All day long friends or relatives or ac-
quantanccs dropped into the Office of the
Company, 50 Broadway New York to ask
for further details, to look over the list
and examine he plan of the vessel. Ii
death had come in midoccau, there was a
certain satisfaction in finding Just where
on the steamship the lost friend lay asleep,
and the path by which escape came to an
other more fortunate, whose name was in
the list of saved The number who called
was much smaller than might have been an
ticipatcd, and was due to the fact that the
passengers, rs rule, were of a class whose
relatives cared little to show their grief in
public. Occasionally telegram came
from some friend nj distance, and les
often some one entered to engage a pas
sage or transact business in the Office. The
quiet and sadness were once relieved when
a Frcnchman who came rushing through the
door, and asked instant Information Of the
fate that had met consignment Of picked
tongues on board the Vile du Havre.
"And they were not insured" he declared
in volublc French with a fresh burst of
grief as he learned that no particular tdings
had been received of his share in the freight
of tho lost steamship The despatch re-
ceiy, i by the agent of the Company gave
the place of collision as ''full against the
machinery" ~ it was also on the port
side and the vessels were bound on the
same voyage, it would appear that the Loeb
Earn was on II starhoard tack and the
steamer was turning in the same direction
away from its track when the collision took
place. If it was in the place indicated by
the despatch the blow fell on pantry in the
saloon deck and in the deck below on the
bcrths of the fremen. 1t would also fall
on the berth of Mr. Lamothc, who was
lost, and on the three state-rooms occupied
by Captain Hunter and his family, all but
two OF whom were lost. The shock seems
to have been felt most severely by those on
the other side of the vessel. as the larger
number of escapes were there, bu. even in
tie case of these few reached the deck who
had in the bcwilderment and darkness of
the n ght to pass through the long passage
of the cabin. The sudden stoppage of
the vessel must have started the main rig
ging, and the collision itself if in the
place described, would loosen the shioud.
of the main and mizzen masts, and when
the vessel settled they were the first to fall
across the boats that had been lowered and
were already filled with passengers The
diagram in the Office of the spar deck OF
the steamer failed to give the position of
the boats, and it was therefore impossible
to determine whether any lay where they
could be crushed by the collision. \ rigid
examination will be instituted into the whole
accident by the Company, and the matter
will also come before the French Tribunal
de Commerce, which was said by one OF
the persons in the office to take cogEizancc
of marine disasters under French law.
What seemed a case of real fatality has
come to light. Among the lost Mr.. and
Mrs. JOuanique, who were to sail by one
of the English lines and spend fortnight
in England before going to Paris, where
they intended to spend the winter. The
sudden illness of Mrs Jouanique prevented
their sailing at the time they intended, and
when she was sufficiently recovered 10
travel it was too late to 90 10 England, and
Mr.. ,Jouaniquc took passage direct for
France by the next steamer, which was the
Vile du lIavre.