The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-11-29
Capt Ii0yG'S Statement

The propeller Joseph L. IIurd, e
NesSrs. Leopold & Austrian's line, arrived
here on Saturday morning from Lake
Superior on her last trip of the season. As
this is the steamer that is claimed to have
run down the schooner Magellan, Sentinel
reporter called upon Capt. Thomas Lloyd
for the purpose of ascertGjning what he
knew ct the disaster, in the hope of
bringing to Ii hit facts which might tend to
clear up the mystery. The conversation
was as fellows
RepOrter-Are you ware, Captain, that
you stand charged by some of the Chicago
press and their MaLi;ow0c correspondents
with running down the schooner Magellan
on the night of Thursday, Nov. s ? Capt.
L.-lwa not aware Of the fact until nv
arrival In port tins morning, and you can
say that most emphatlca]ly deny the
charge.
Representations came you to 90 into
Manitowoc? Capt. L-expecting Il nor
wester | headed the steamer for the west
shore, and made Two Rivers light along
toward midnight. 1t was then storming
heavily fro2l northeast, and showing some.
but not sufficiently tc prevent our seeing a
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vessels at anchor in the bay. AS the
steamer was making considerable water at
| times through her rudder casing, she having
| sustained strain aft while lying upon the
( bottom in the SAUL with full cargo aboard,
! on the last trip, while having a loose wheel
| tichtened, concluded TO run into Manit-
owoc and await "A change in the weather
/ In order to get out Of the swell | ran the
! steamer up the river through the bridges,
and would have gone further had there
/ been sufficient depth of water.
( RepOrter-D the Ilur1 have a collision
or run through any vreckage that night ?
! Capt. ll-She did not.
I Rapurter-Yo GU are said TO have inferno
! 5he CompGny's Ggents, upon your arrival,
/ that the llurd had run through wreckage
Am to understand that you deny having
so informed them, and that you also deny
that the steamer passed through the debris
Of a wreck ? Capt. l. No. We left
Manitowoc AT &c o'clock Friday morning,
having suffered a slight detention through
getting upon bottom. Headed the steamer
out into the lake about three miles before
shaping her course for Milwaukee. Soon
after getting her headed southwark, We
began passing the rubbish of "a wreck
pieces Of bulwarks, deck plank, an empty
compass-box, eto.-and told the IN tie tina
it looked as if schooner La gone to pieces
We finally came upon n piece of wreck
which had the name "Ma gellan" painted
upon it in black letters. made cut the
name to be," NJ lqnorlan," or something Xix,
that; but the mate, cook and one Of tht
others made it Magellan" did not ther
know Of the wreck ia the bay. Upon on
way north on this trip / informed Messrs
Truman & Morse of having run through
the wreckage of vessel
Reporter How far from Yanitowoc "
it that you passed the debris, and how di
you have ,he wind ? Capt. Lit wa
between four aad FIVE miles south of
direct line from Mani %: PIERS I'D from
. three to four miles from land. The win
outside the Point was nor.h.
Having O tanned all the information de
, sired, the reporter withdrew, and Capt
LLOYD again resumed his duties about tn
, steamer. If the schooner Magellan ";
run down, rs claimed, the Iiurd was r
tiinly not the boat that did it, rs Can
; Lloyd answered every question put to hir
J., with a freedom and candor that beSpok
the truth. Nothing was concealed
The fact that none Of the debris of th
) wrecked schooner came ashore in the ba,
= but was driven up the lake, surpoI Is III
i; Scntnel's theory that he Magellan q
upon the outer end of Two Rivers Poi
and rolled oyer, or onpsized at her anchor
> probably of tie point --Hlw0utee Stnt
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