The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-10
TIE PERILS OF TIE SEA.
Cant. iOckWO0d'S Account Of The
Loss of the Champion.
His Efforts to Save the Passengers
How the Collision Occurred
The Rescued and the
Manner in Which
They We're
Saved.

NEW York. Nov. 8. The following Ys the
full statement Of Capt. Lockwood In regard
to the dlsast r to the staanrr Champion:
We had u remarkably quiet voyage up to
the time of tho accident. When we loft Now
York the weather WAS foggy, hut this nleared
away before we were ten hours out. On the
morning of tho COLI ! LETT my room about
1--WE minutes past aud retulntd IN The pilot
hoase for y few seconds. ! had hardly got
back to my rOoin again when ! heard sDtnC
one sing out. 'Ss,il ait al and nnrd by
Jump 1 into thn pilot house. rang the bell
} ~ ~ the St amfr and then 70 back at full
speed. | saw tnat q snip WHs r,ning down
upon ls and that Il 1llt@iau was inevltithIe.
s'nc wps st wing east North, st. We were
going south-sonthwtst, hill west Tho ship
had full sail WI nnd beaded right NJ VA. WA
were going under stenni and hnh illst s"t our
fore-tOpsaiI. She struck ~ right on the bows
on the stnrhoard side and crushed right Into
u.s. stavinG iii our whole bows. sessM
was AFRAID that my vessel would sink In
almost M instant, and nt once order the
first mate to 20 forward hni see what wat n.
II any, tbs Champion was making, but bi
fore ho bad time 10 return found my ship
was fast sinking, | then ordered the second
mat to get the boats In readiness that Is. III
cut them loose from my ship. MS 1t WAS ast
going down. | also ordered h,m 10 have the
ife-r,,,t cut adritt, 50 that i might ," ren-
dered useful In ease tho stt imer went dow Ii
under foot. as was afraid she w1l..d give us
NO waning.
MY next WORK wrs to warn the ladies The
ship Is going down: yom have not Il moment
To spare; M vcr mind your clothing, but como
out at once" / believe there were but three
ladies, but of this am not sure. None Of
them came out. and the only response re-
ceived wfs d load screaming and halloa'ng,
They could have come ont vefv nrsily 4 they
wished, but suppose they became paulc-
stricken. My duties cs'l' | NO away. and |
was still ia hopes that the women had obeycd
my Summons. but unfortunately, founl at
terward they had not. believe they wprn nl
lost. There hps been bit one female saved.
and that was the stnwardess Catherine Cross.
My room, where went Just before the col
lision adioined the pilot no, q. In fact. you
could almost g p from one to the other. Tho
Champion c2rlled about five life-bonts and u
llfe-ralt | undorste ID that four passengers
and two seamen were picked up by bark
that came along some time aft lrthr collision.
L have heard since that she was NOrWegt ian,
but that was all; none of us knew her nar
or anything about her. beyond the fact t :.
she WIS evidently bound north. The Lady
Octavia, the ship that ran into 1'e, snyCd nj Al
lives. We saved the rest on the life-raft, ex-
cept. Of ,ouise those who were picked up by
the unknown bark. The night was u beauti-
ful starlight one with little moonlight.
We were about thirty miles from land,
from Cape Henlopen, which bore fifteen ot
SlS' SIl mites II. N IL. 0l i've IHJlblH J'Huk
light We were In al ,ut fourteen fathoms Of
water at the time The last | saw Of the
Champions wreck, the topmas' were about
two Il IT out Of the wat IL. | would rather
not, just ut present, say anything about who
was to blame for the collision, but think the
ship ould have avodcdit.
MORE SURVIVORS or THE CHAMPION.
NEW York, Nov. The bark Petit Zodiac
au Brau, Capt 81. ves, which arrived here
o.day from Gloncest r. via Delaware break
water, hrs on bc I'd four OF the passengers
and two Of the crew Of the steamer Cham
pion. which sank near the entrance Of Dela-
ware bay Friday morning.
The names Of the rescued passengers from
the steamer Champion, brought to this port
by the bark Petit Cadillac are: Cahin-Joseph
Mitchell known as SFidl Of No. 1aa Washing
ton street N. Y; Martin Broace, Of No. Sol
West street, N. u; Q. II. Garner, OF No. 10
East Twelfth street, n: T.. Steerage Renj.
Foster (coloredl of New York, seamen Chas.
Ehler and John NJ THOMPSON