The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-07
BY TELEGRAPH.
Fatal Accident in Hampton Roads.
VESSEL SUNK BY COLLISION.
TEN PERSONS DROWNED.
rsnecI,l telegram 10 the Disuarchl

Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l w
PORTSMOUTH, July 6.-Last night about II
o'clock fearful accident occurred in Hamp-
ton Reads, by which ten lives were lost,
caused by q collision between the steamer
Isaac Bell, Of the Old Dominion Line, and
the tug Lumberman. The Lumberman,
with private excursion party, was return
ing from Old Point after the fireworks, and
when about mile this side of Vue de Pau
was run into by the Isaac Bell and sunk in.
stantIy. The following were on the Lum-
herman at the time of the collision Captain
Brown, Of the tug, aud wife; Mrs. Sarah
Hudgins, Jesse Freederici and wife, Captain
G. w. Baker and wife, Miss Borum, Harry
Borum, James Borum. Captain Cook, Joseph
T. Wilson, G. d. jenkins, W. W. Green
James Craft, engineer; j. W. Wright, fire.
man; Clara (colored cook at Mrs. Hudgins's
boarding. house). ri. -.-t.@t
From the survivors we learn that up to
moment or so before the collision there was
not the slightest idea that the boats would
collide. The Isaac Bell was seen coming
down the harbor, and her movements were
watched. Whistles were blow1, but, as be-
fore stated, her proximity was not noticed
until moment or so before the accident,
when in an instant the Lumberman was
crushed as an egg-shell. The first cry of
warning was, we believe, from what
we are able to learn, from Mr.. Baker,
who cried out 10 Captain Brown that
the Isaac Bell would be down upon US,
and in a flash the collision occurred.
The steamer Isaac Bell Immediately stopped
aad put out her boats to the rescue, and sue
ceeded in picking up Captain Brown and
wife, G. w. Baker, the engineer, and Jesse
Freederic. These were placed on the
steamer Banks, which bad been signalled by
the Isaac Bell. The boats also picked up
W. W. Green, Esq, j. W. Wright, fireman,
and C. D. jenkins, the steward of the Lum.
herman. These were placed on the United
States tug snowdrop, which had also been
signalled.
The following Is a list Of those supposed to
be lost: Mrs. Elizabeth Hudgins, Mrs. G. w.
Baker, Mrs. Jesse Freederici, Miss Marian
Borum, Mr.. Harry Borum, Mr.. James c..
Borum, Mr.. Joseph T. Wilson, Captain Ed.
Cook, Mr.. James Craft, and Clara, the COL
| ored woman who was cook at Mrs. Hudglns's
clearinghouse. Al the time of the collision
| Captain Browr and wife were seated in the
| pi!ot.house, Mr.. Baker and wife and MIR.
Freederici and wife were seated just in front
of the pilot.house, Miss Borum and Mrs.
Hudgins were seated on some water-tanks,
and Just in their front, seated on the "bits,"
were the cousins Harry and James Borum.
Mr.. Green was standing at the right OF the
pilot.house, close to the door, looking at the
| Wllloughby SPIT light, when his atten-
ton was attracted by the cry of Mr.
Baker, and seeing the danger, he i'm.
mediately started to tine aft of the tug
to lump off. but before be got half way he
was in the water. Mr.. Baker chung to his
wife until be was dragged from her by the
wheels of the Bell. Captain Brown also
clupg to his wife, but was parted in like
manner. When he was picked up the cries
of a woman attracted the at tention of those
who saved him, and the boat started in The
direction of the cry, when woman
was found floating on the waters.
Lifting her into the boat, Captain
Brown Immediately cried out Oh, my God,
my wife," The two young Borums were
cousins, and were known by nearly the entire
community, and respected and esteemed by
all. Their loss, united with that OF Miss
Marian Borum, the sister of }. c. Borum, is
one of the ssddest features of this terrible
catastrophe. A detachment Of the knights
of Pythias and Odd-Fellows, to which asso-
Citations the McsSrs. Borum belonged,
are on the tug E. B. Lane, with
drag-ropes. &C., &C., to search for the bodies,
with howitzer TO fire over the spot where
the collision occurred, for the purpose of
bringing the bodies to the surface. The sad
affair has cast gloom over the two commu-
| mites. Engineer Craft became raving ma
| mac soon after che receipt of the shocking
intelligence. There is report that Borum
saved himself by swimming to Vue de
pEau.
Second Dispatch
MORE BODIES RECOVERED CAPTAIN BROWN, OF
THE LUABERMAN CENsURED.
PORTSMOUTH, VA, July 6.-.-The United
States tug Snowdrop returned from the
scene of disaster about O'Clock, having on
board the bodies of j. T. Wilson and Mrs.
Jessie Freederci, which were found washed
ashore on Vue de PElu beach.
The tug E. B. Lane returned from the
roads tonight, but did not succeed in recoV-
ering more bodies.
Captain Brown, of the Lumberman, is
very much censured by the community.
. ASSOCIATED Press telegram.l
NORFOLK, July 6.-The steam-tug Lum'
herman, while returning last night from Fort
Monroe with pleasure party of eighteen
persons on board, was run into OFT Seweii's
Point by the steamer Isaac Bell, and sunk lm'
mediately in fifty feet Of water. Boats were
lowered from the Bell and several Of the party
picked I'D. The following is list oil. the lost !:
Mrs. Eliz ,beth Hudgins, widow lady, and
her colored servant; George Wilson, Mrs.
Jessie Freederci, Mrs. G. W. Baker, Captain
Edward Cook, James C.. Borum, and Harry
Borum, of Norfolk; Miss NJ. Borum, OF Mat
thews county and the engineer of the Lum'
herman.
Captain Brown, of the Lumberman, was
struck on the head and severely burt BY the
wheel of the Bell, but he had strength
enough left 10 rescue his wife, who had to
crawl through q window Of the plot-house
| IN .vo;j heinp carried down BY the fast