Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-14

| the awful experiences they witnessed. One | of the men said it seemed as if he had been two hours in the water when picked up. It seemed an eternity. All along the trip these survivors told and retold the story of the dis | aster as they saw it to ever eager hearers l who asked them.
 The Shore Line express train, Conductor 1 Hermance, which arrived here at 315 Satur- day afternoon, had about fifty of the surviv- 1 ors on board, among whom were Mrs. Still | son of Augusta, Ga, who was passenger | on board the Narragansett with her two chill 1 dren. going to Rhode Island to spend the summer, both of whom were either suffocat- | ed or burned to death. She was frantic with | grief The mother went overheard. She was saved by coil of rope thrown to her. | She was in her night clothes. At New York a linen suit was secured for her.
 | A Former New Haven Man, Brother of
 Benjamin Moves, Among the Victims. | MT. Frederick H. Waldron, of this city, yesterday received the following dispatch: l NEW LONDON, June 13. | Have just returned from stonington. While there | identified the body of William Moves, brother of | Benjamin Moves
 MT. Waldron, on receipt of the telegram, repaired immediately to the residence of Mir. Benjamin Moves, No 123 Chapel street, and communicated the sad intelligence. The fact that MT. Moves frequently went to Provi- dence via the Stonington line of boats, as was known to the friends here, in the prose cution of his business, and of Clerk Waldron' s being formerly of this city and acquainted with the family, together with the positive statement of identification, left no room to doubt the intelligence. Mir. Moves tele- graphed to his son, Samuel St. John Moves, | of New York city, the sad information, the wife of the deceased being at Staten Island, whither she had gone to spend the summer months. The deceased was gentleman of about 56 or 57 years, and engaged ln the manufacture of Q damper regulator for steam | boilers, of which he was the inventor. His business called him frequently away from home, sometimes to distant parts of the country. He was about thirty years ago in business on Chapel street in this city. One of the men employed at the West Ha- ven horse railroad stables had a brother, a fireman, on the Narragansett. He does not | FORMER DISASTERS.
 | find his name on the list of the lost
 This disaster recalls former terrible acei- 1 dents on. the Sound. They are very few in number The most dreadful was that which | befel the steamboat Lexington on the night of Monday, January 18th, 184O. She was on her way to Providence with freight and pas sengers and took fire when off Eaton's Neck, L. L Three boats were gotten out, but were | swamped The steamboat was headed for the | shore, but when two miles off from land the | engine gave out. The steamer was all ablaze and the passengers had to leap into the icy | cold water and try to save themselves on bits | of wood or anything that they could find. l Ont of b01a bpr n111v succeeded in reaching land, and about 175 | sank to rise no more or perlshed in the flames. | Then there was the Metis disaster August | Sd, 1873. She was on the way to Providence, and was run into by sailing vessel off Watch l Hill in terrible storm. A dreadful panic ensued The boat was headed for the shore and went down five miles from land. Thirty | lives were lost
 November 26th, 1s46, the steamboat Allan tic, from Norwich and New London to New York, was disabled soon after getting into the Sound by the bursting of her steam pipe. She drifted on shore and went to pieces i'm mediately and more than forty lives were lost. On the night of the 2d of July, 1868, the City of Boston, of the Norwich line, was run into off the mouth of the Connecticut river by | a Hartford boat, under circumstances very much like those of the disaster last night. A dense fog prevailed at the time, and the es- cape from great loss of life was regarded as providentiaL The City of Boston was disa- bled, but did not sink or take fire.
 William Moves.
 Mr. William Moves, of New York city, was among the passengers of the fated steamer Narragansett, which left New York Friday afternoon of last week for Stonington.
 MT. Moves will be remembered by some of our citizens He was brother of Samuel Moves and B. Moves, and was partner of the latter in the book publishing business coneected with the college from the year 1912 and onward for many years. He was the son of Dr. Samuel s. Moves, late of New Canaan, and great great grandson of the Rev. Joseph | Moves, who for over forty years preached to the Center church congregation of this city. 1 MT. Moves was a well educated gentleman, and after leaving New Haven engaged in the 1 iobbing of hardware and cutlery in New | York; then removed to the city of New Or leans, from which city he returned to New York about the year 1S5O He then resumed his former business, but very soon changed it to the business which he was now follow ing, and which called him to Fall River and Providence, where he had a large line of pat rons in his patented attachment tossteam en- zines and furnaces.
 His brother Mir. B. Moves, happened to be near the dock when the Narragansett left, well laden with passengers, but he did not know that his brother was passenger, and therefore had no thought of any friend being on board, until MT. F. H. Waldron, of the City Hall, communicated to him the contents of telegram from his brother announcing that he had identified the body of the de- I ceased.
 | William Moves was born at New Canaan, and was about 61 years of age, very good i looking full, tall figure, and promised to at tain the years of his father, Dr. Samuel S. Moves, which were 90; but it is not the privi- lege of health, and constitution robust, to make the longest journeys, nor of frailty to | first drop out.
 1 As Mr. Moves family were residing for the summer at Staten Island, and he was well known himself, MT. Giles F. Ward, superin- tendent of the Stonington line, and Mir. l.. M. Thayer, of Providence, have kindly tele- 1 graphed to MT. B. Moves that they will do all things needful, and forward the remains with out any messenger coming for them.
 Since penning the above, MT. Moves has learned through dispatches between Provi- dence and New York, that there is a doubt about the man supposed to be William Moves l being his brother. A friend who knaws him well went to Stonington last night from Providence and will telegraph the facts to- day.
 Yale Baltimores.
 This afternoon at the Howard avenue grounds the public will be afforded an oppor- tunity of witnessing match game between the Yale University nine and the celebrated Baltimore club, which has armed pitch er close and exciting game may be ex- pected. Map of the Sound.
 Any interested in noting the locality of the late terrible disaster on the Sound can obtain a