The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-11-24

cabin at the precise moment when they ex-
pected the vessel 10 60 over. The evidence fur
Their establishes the fact that the captain was
the first man out of the cabin, and that the
whole story differs essentially from Capt
Swaine's version given on landing 10 Mr.. j.
ID. Cofnn, one of the owners, and is contra
dicted by the statements of the crew on
landing, and the admissions of William
Greenwood to Stenson. III one of the girls
had been drowned in the cabin, the proba-
bilities are thousand to one that the body
would have remained there as well as the
two pieces of beet, and other articles that
were In IL, but not washed out, being found
undisturbed by the fishermen who boarded
the wreck after IL came on shore. Summing
up the evidence on this important point, IL
would seem likely that then the alarm was
given the crew made
PANIc-sTRIcKEN RUSH PoR THE DECK,
the girls striving to get on deck with them,
and probably seizing one OF the men. To
use Whitfield Greenwood's words, IL was,
EVERY man for himself and God for MS all.
The men, impeded by the girls, threw them
back into the ca bin, and got on deck as best
they could, leaving the girls in the cabin
without making any attempt to save them.
Did one girl drown there like a rat In trap,
and was the other at the same moment
washed over the stern Of the ship and car
ried down by the Icy waves? Clearly SO.
Both of the women were tall, strong, daring
girls, born and bred on the shore of the
sea, aware of its dangers and having full
self-possession in time of peril. Just be-
fore he final catastrophe, the captain cried
to one OF them not to be afraid, and she an
swered lsughingly that they were "as good as
dozen frightened Ones" Such women as
these would make desperate tight for life.
The ship certainly took heavy lurch to
starboard, and scared the man, and some
wRter-not much, because IL Is in evidence
| that there was but little sea running at the
time, the wind was not blowing more than
a whole sail breeze, and the cabin door
was we'll up on the port side-entered the
cabin and completed the panic.
THE GIRLS WE'RE THROWN BACK FROM THE
DOOR
till the cowardly sailors could make their
escape. For ii one girl was drowned in the
cabin and one swept overheard how hap
pens IL that when the fishermen of Barring
ton Bay boarded the wreck they found large
portions of woman's dress and undercloth
ing wrapped around the forestry. Here,
again, a reasonable theory Is readily formed
aud in part borne out by the first story of
the survivors on reaching land at Port Mou-
ton. As soon as the men got on deck they
rushed forward to the boat-at least the
captain and two mon did, and the captain
was the first man in the boat. They
launched it and subsequently, took off the
rest of the crew. The girls struggled out of
the cabin, and the stronger or Drawer
one OF them rushed forward and find-
ing herself in the water caught and
chung to the forestry. The other apparently
| remained by the cabin on the port side,
which was out of water. Sickening it is
TO come TO the conclusion, no other conclu-
sion is left but that the women were there,
one clinging to the cabin, one in the rigging
when the boat pushed of. To the eternal
disgrace of men claiming to be sailors, and
| British sailors, with whom cool courage and
chivalrous devotion to women, especially in
| time OF danger, have always been repre-
scented as traditional, be it said that the wo-
men were, beyond the shadow of doubt
alive when the boat pushed off. Some time
| had elapsed, because the boat was repaired
and stayed by the wreck for some consider
able interval, so that they must have
been seen by the sailors, especially as 1t was
bright
MOONLIGHT AND MODERATE WEATHER.
The boat was a new one and able to hold
fifteen people at the least, so that there wa:
room for six women instead of two, AND
what injuries she received were not mate
rial, since she landed her crew in safety
The only explanation possible is that the
crew considered their own chances for life
| too few to lessen them by taking In two wo-
men, and believing that If they did take the
girls they would OF necessity perish of cold
and exposure, thought IL best the girls
should die on tho vessel. Accordingly they
pushed off and left the women on that Icy
night, in midwinter, to freeze to death, TO
| be washed off by the waves or, finally, ex-
hsusted by terror and cold, W drop into
| the merciless sea. There is yet another
almost inexplicable circumstance TO which
L would allude. When the mate came
ashore and was questioned with regard to
the possibility of the bodies being found In
the vessel, he said: There's no danger that
she'll ever turn mp again. This is accounted
for by William Greenwood's evidence that
there was hole the width OF her plank cut
in the ships port side, so TO sink her and
prevent the wreck from injuring other ves-
sells. Now this point commends Itself
strongly to The Times correspondent
thous "a the commissioner did not dwell on
1t. II the ship had to be abandoned In such
haste, why was there time to cut hole? L
there was sufficient reason for preparing fol
thecontingency OF abandonment in advance
why make such a panic-stricken rush fol-
the boat? Why were not preparations made
for leaving the vessel in an orderly manner
Besides, why cut the hole in the port side
| when
THE PORT SIDE WAS CLEAN OUT OF WATER,
and the vessel having gone on her bean
ends and the cargo shifted, could admit ne
water2 Still again, two anger holes wer,
found on the port side near the bow. These
were explained on the hypothesis that they
were bored to ascertain il the plankipg snc
sheathing were sound. Admitting this, II
is almost impossible that the carpenter who
bored them should forget to treenail them
and IL Is absurd to imagine that the only
| two anger holes bored for such purpose
] should be bored in one plank within three
fiDches of each other, and in mechanically
straight line. Besides, they were bored, as
the splinters show, from the inside. They,
naturally, in conjunction with the ice
formed round the bows, account for the
brigsntine's settling by the head, but why
were they bored? Clearly not TO scuttle
her, because the vessel was only insured
for half her value, and there was
no insurance whatever on her cargo
Here, again, there is a mysterious and un-
satisfactory absence of direct aud reason