The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-11-10

COLLlSlON Uf SHlP LADY OGIAtlA WITH
STEAMER CHAMPION; LATTER SUNK
CONSIDERABLE LOSS OF LIFE-LTsT OF
PASSENGERS, OFFICERS. AND CREW
--LATEST PARTICULARS OF THIS SAD oc-
CURRENCE.
LEwEs, DEL, November S.-The ship
Lady Octavia, froH Breakwater for New
York cUllided with the steamer Champion,
from New York for Charleston, striking the
steamer amidship and sinking her in five
minutes. It is rumored that twenty five
persons are saved and thirty-Lwo lost. The
collision occurred thirty-fve miles off the
Capes at O'Clock yesterday morning. The
ship is badly damaged, and Is being towed
TO Philadelphia by tug. 49,.
NEW YORK, November 8.-The following
are the names Of the cabin passengers who
shipped on the Champion: j. l.. Marvin,
&. S. >Steheny. ". ". Clark. William Peeto,
William Siska, Joseph Mitchell, Mrs. An
drews, and Miss Nickel, OF Charleston; H..
Huxtable and wife, Of Boston. ,--.
The steerage passengers were: Z. Patten,
P. Patten, j. y. Foster, DI. Brood, Kate
Thrackey, Rose Barbcry, and j. 3. Koran.
The officers and crew OF the Inflated vessel
are Captain X. w. Lockwood, OF Charles
ton; John r. Mofe;t, purser, Charleston :;
r. H. Leonard. mate; Charles Miller, sec
ond mate; G.. O. Stiles, carpenter; Zemlnjo
Thompson. Frederick Richards, Charles b..
Keller, Frank jacobson, Paul Hahn, John
Nelson, james Anderson, Frederick Nc
Mann, and Richard Owens and John Allan,
both boys; Wesley Reeves, engineer; G..
l.. Bunce, first assistant engineer; casper
Fabcrg, second assistant engineer; A. +.
Potts, oler; Edward Jones, Patrick
Flynn, William Farrell, Frank Patti,
Mike Savage, and Luke Kelly, firemeu !:
August Winters, Frank Gergan, William
Curtain, Luke Kelly. and Alex. Rose, all
stokers Peter Smalls. steward; Charlotte
SmalIs and Catherine Cross, stewardesses;
John Foster, porter; Andrew Middleton,
messman; Isaac Hammond. cook; John
Richardson, second cook; Daniel Glrard-
son, pastry cook; Antonio Micham, pam
trylnan; and George Holland and Moses
Pinckney, both walters. The vessel was
laden with a general cargo, which, it is
said, was insured. She was valued at about
100000.
No dispatches have been received at the
company's Office, Pier q, North river, re-
garding the disaster up to noon to-day. The
company have tele.raphed to Charleston,
Philadelphia, and other points for news
about the vessel.
The following dispatch was sent to Colo
mel WhaIev & Son, who are agents of the
Old Dominion Line at Lewes, DEL, by the
agents here, to-day: "Please see that those
saved have the best accommodations the
ship affords, and tell both the captain and
steward to take particular care OF them
Captain Lockwood has been in the en-
p!oylnent of the company for about twelve
years. He lived in Charleston, and was I'M
married. A good many Of the crew were
colered men-some OF them were residents
OF Charleston.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
PHILADELPHIA, November S.-Tbc ship
Lady Octavia, winch was in collision with
the steamship Champion, has arrived here.
Her captain reports that he left Delaware
Breakwa!er at $50 A. NJ. Thursday. At 4
4, NJ. Friday he was forty miles east by
north, half north, from Cape May, when
he was run into by the steamer Cham
pion from New York. The Champion
struck us Just aft stem. The steamer
was so badly damaged that she sunk in four
minutes. Thirty persons of her crew and
passengers were lost. and twenty-four saved
and placed on other vessels by the Octayia
The first mate OF the Octavia, James Fer
guson, was in charge OF the deck ut the
time OF the collision. The Octaria brought
nine of those rescued to this port.
The following is list OF those OF the
Champions crew and passengers known to
have been saved: r. W. Lockwood. cap
tain; Charles Miller, second mate; John
Thompson, Charles Ehler, Frederick Mae
Kinnon, Frederick Richards. and Frank
Jackson, seamcn; Richard Owens, boy !;
Wesley Reeve, chief engineer; c. E.
Bunco, first assistant engineer; Edward
Jones, William Farrell, Patrick Flynn,
Luke Kelly, firemen; Alexander Rose,
coal-passer; Isaac Hammond, chief clerk !;
John Foster, porter; Catherine Cross.
stewardess George Holland and Moses
Pinckney, walters.
Four Of the passengers and two Of the
crew were placed on board an unknown
bark and sent to New York.
Captain Karnes Johnson, of Greenock,
master of the Lady Octavia, makes the fol-
lowing statement:
The ship arrived at the Delaware Break
water from Rio Janeiro, for orders, on the
23d OF October. and sailed for New York
about 10 O'Clock on Thursday night last.
About a quartcr-pa>t O'Clock yesterday
morning, when we had sailed about thirty
was clear and WARM, and the moon shining
brightly. We were moving at the rate OF
three and half or four knots per hour.
My chief mate reported steamer ahead
ten minutes before the accident happened.
| The steamer continued on her course and I
on mine, and we approached each other,
but Immediately before the crash
the nam on the lookout Of my
vessel reported the steamers star
board light from our port bow, and then
she shifted, and her port light became visi-
BILE, showing that she had turned in her
course. We had man on the lookout con-
stantly, but there could have been no look
out on the Champion. Her captain, Lock
wood, subsequently told ME that he had
altered her course the moment before the
collision, but assigned no reason for doing
so, and that he did not see my ship; which
indicates that my idea in regard to the look.
out was correct. Indeed, I was informed that
the man who should have been on the look.
out was aloft loosening sails. The ship
sank in four minutes after the collision, and
there was q terrible panic. / at once or.
dered i boat 20 be lowered; and, in fact,
they were in the water before tue steamer
went down. Two OF her crew jumped on
board my ship ut the time she struck. In
all tbirtY persons were lost, among them
the first mate aud five women. Twelve oil
those missing were passengers. / mean to
say that the steamer came at US end on end
there was no possible means OF avoiding
her. 1t was impossible TO tell the extent OF
her mi ury, she went down so quickly and
there was so much confusion. Four OF hel
passengers and two Of her crew were sem
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