The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-04
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
mARINE DISASTER.
Fears for the ..vera Cruz"

Fears for the "Vera Cruz"
New York, Sup to 9 O'Clock tc-
night there is 30 dispatch from st.
Augustine, Fla, confirming the story
of the probable loss of the steamer
City of Vera Cruz. The only correct
list of the names of the crew OF the
City Of Vera Cruz was in the posses.
sion OF the purser on board the vessel.
Captain VAnsice's family resides in
Yonkers. The agents do not give up
hope OF the vessels safety; they say
the mail bags and passengers trunks
were in a house On the deck and
heavy sea may have swept them
away. Miss Thubo purchased
ticket and intended to visit Havana,
bus just before the Vera Cruz sailed
she returned her ticket and decided
to wait another steamer. Had the
disaster happened to one Of the steam
ers that sail this month the loss would
have been much greater, since the
return of Cubars and Mexicans to
their homes began September Let,
and steamers passenger lists are
larger than at any other part OF the
year.
10 conversation, to-day, First OH
Ger James Uenckly, OF the steamer
NelO Orleans, which passed through
the gale in which the Vera Cruz is
supposed to have been lost, said: at
was a tremendous cyclone. We left
New Orleans on Wednesday, August
25, and we're cut three days when the
cyclone struck us. 1t was about s
O'Clock pm August 2Stb. The
storm was from the north and passed
to the east. The steamer was struck
On the port side and was htaved on
her beam ends. At IL pm. the wind
was very strong and the waves carried
everything from the deck. Julius
Thompson, who was securing liter
ropes, was carried overheard by a
wave almost sc high as q house and
was not seen again. At 10 am. the
following day the storm sbated
and then we learned that
our entire deck rail had been carried
away, three of our boats stove in and
the fourth one Loaf. Throughout the
cyclone four men remaiRed at the
rudder; It was OF no use, however,
and We we're drilted at the mercy Of
sea and waves. 1t was impossible for |
a man TO stand on deck, unless be |
was lashed fast. The storm first
struck US between Capes Jupiter and |
Carverral, of the coast OF Florida"
Several of the sesmen on board the |
NeU Orleans incidentally remarked
that the Vera Cruz must have been
about sixty miles to the northwnrd of
their steamer. There we're no in
quiries made at the Office OF the
company, to day, on the part Of any
friends OF the passengers, and Mr..
said that all of the pas
sengeTs, so far as be knew. lived in
CuSa and we're returning home after
passing the summer in this country.
a son of Captain Vapsice, visited the
office OF Alexander & Son, this after
noon. He said his father is about IS
years Of age, and had been engaged
u the coasting trade since he was 20
years old.
Savannah, 3.-Tbe beach north
md ssuth of St. Augustine. Fla, is
itrewn with wrecked stuff. The
bodies Of three men, a woman snd a
mild came ashore and we're buried.
No part of the City of Vera Cruz
,sme ashore. AL the wrecksge,
lowever, shows that che either went
shore or foundered just of the Florida
oast. on Monday or Tuesday morn
ng, during the heavy storm. and that I
II on board persisted.