, 1880-06-13
MET IN THE FOG.
Fearful Collision Between
Two Long Island Sound
Steamers.
The Narragansett Sunk by
the Stonington in a Few
Moments.
Fire Added to the Perils o1
the Panic-Stricken Pas
sengers,
Many Of Whom Jump Overheard
in Their Frenzy and Are
Drowned.
The Life-Boats UnserViceable and
the Life-PreserVers Of No
Account.
Several Passengers, Wild with
E.;cr1,+ no1inoro+o1v Gorn=
No Defnit knowledge as to the
Actual Loss Of Life;
But the Highest Estimate Places the
Number Of Victims at Fifty.
The Officers Charged with Neglecting to
Sound the Fog Signal.

special UlSpdtth 10 Inc thtc090 1Tt0nnE.
New York, June 12.-The Sound steamep
Stonington came in collision with her sister
ship Narragansett, Of the Stonington Line.
between II 80 and IL O'Clock on Friday nighe
OH Long Island Sound, near by Comtiela.
light, which is about 100 miles distant froH-
this city. The Narragansett began to sink,
but caught fire almost Immediately, and wak
burned to the waters edge. The damage t.
the Stonlngton is not very great. There wer&
about 800 or $50 passengers OH board
the Narragansett- OF these $50 art--
positively known to have been saved,
for. In the way Of damages caused by the
disaster, and without including prospective
damages to be decided in all likelihood in
courts of law, the amount can hardly fall
short Of S5o0,0o0. In explanation Of the u!l-
certainty as to the number OF lives lost it
may be said that no complete list is kept OF
the passengers on board one Of this class OF
vessels. An imperfect list is usually made
out containing the names Of those who have
hired staterooms, and such list was made
out Of
THOSE on BOARD THE ILL-FATED
Narragansett. According to the statement
of the Purser, however, this list went down
with the ship, and there was Il kind of help
less ignorance shown by the Steamship Com
pany's officers yesterday, which forbade and
frustrated inquiry as to the exact data It
seems the collision occurred while a thick
heavy fog oyerhung the Sound, but the testi-
mony seems to be overwhelming that the
Governmental regulations for blowing fog
whistles were violated, and to this violation
the disaster is attributed An official in
Olliry is however. to he made.
The incidents of the calamity, while pain
full, are frightened by the display Of acts Of
individual heroiSm, in which women played
an important part.
The Narragansett sailed from the pier in
this city Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
She was commanded by Capt ". S. Young&
who took 11er out on this occasion for the
first time. It was a pleasant evening, and
everything gave promise of prosperous
voyage to Stonington, where the passengers
we're to be transferred to cars for Providence
and Boston, Upon entering the Sound
gentle swell was encountered, but there were
no signs Of rough weather, aud the passelt
gers thronged the saloon and cllatted to-
gether.
DARKNESS SETTLED UPON THE WATERS.
and most Of the passengers retired to their
state-roons or berths to enjoy good nights
rast about tiftv WIN Ind neithar state
rooms mr. herths. settled themselves to SLEEP
as hest thew could on the sofas and easy
chairs of the saloon. and a very few fingered
on the decks. 4 dense fog had risen at about
10 O'Clock, and there was no moon. The log.
whistle was blown at intervals as the Nara
gansett plunged ON her way through the
water. and this. with the splashlng Of the
wheels and the eroaning of the engine, was
the only noise " hich disturbed the stiffness.
The whistle was mt blown as often as Il
should have been, OF the sudden breaking up
of that pleasantly begun voyage would never
have occurred. Suddenly, just before mid
night, when the steamer was of Comfield
light, opposit Clinton and Madison, Conn.,,
and Greenport, L. T., within seventeen miles,
and two hours sail, OF StonIngton,
THERE WAS A CRASH,
the lights of the saloon suddenly went out,