New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-11
DISASTERS AT SEA.
DETAILS OF RECENT LOSSES.

OF THOSE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO RE Loei -
ARRIVAL OF MR.. OWEN AND OTHERS - LOSS of
THE ANGLrA-oTHER WRECKS.
Cornell. one of three survivors OF the Cl'y
of Vera Cruz who got safely to New-Smyrna'
arrived at jacksonville, Florida, yesterday
He confirms the report that the passengers IRON
the wrecked vessel are at Ncw-Smyrna. SIX
of the survivors arrived In this city last even
ing by the steamer Charleston. Their accounts
of the disaster do not vary materially from
that already published in The TRIBUNE.
Information received at the office OF +.
Alexansire & Sons, gives hope that some OF
the persons heretofore reported as lost may
have escaped death. The steamship Angina
was run into and sunk by bark OH the
banks OF Newfoundland. No lives were lost.
STUPWRECKED SEAMEN RESCUED.
THE SURVIVORS, OF THE VERA CRUZ SILL IN NEW
SMYRNA.
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
LCKsoNvIIrE. Fla. Sept. 10-Ihe schooner
MAGNOLIA bas lust arrived from Smyrna with
seventeen shipwrecked seamcn. Among them is
John Connel a coal-passer of the City OF Vera
Cruz who is one of the three persons saved whose
names for some reason or other have rot Ueeh al"
ncunced lie informs L. :. Eells the Underwriters
agent here, that two persons are still at New-Shyrna
who we're passengers on the Vera Cruz one OF
them is 4 voung Brazilian. about twenty years OLD.
He was going to Mcxco. and is supposed to be u l.
Silva TIE other IS Cuban about twenty -four years
old, who has light hair and mustache lie lost DIS
wife and - 600 in the disaster. The sailor could
nOl learn his name.
Ten OF the seamen on the Magnolia were part of
the crew of the British bark New Rcpub ic. Captain
ing OF August %, seven miles north OF Musqul'9
Inlet All hands we're saved. The cargo consisted
of 3SS 900 teet of yellow pine lumner. Shlpped III
Brnnswiok Ca, Tor Rio Janeiro. Three of the crew
pf the Ada J. SlmOuton and the captain ana TWO
seam.n of the brig Long Reach were also ON poarn'
Cap;ain Eells will send John Connel on 10 New
NuIk tomorrow.
In the list of those supposed to be lost at
the time Of the disaster THE tribune published the
name Of o. silva. a young man answering the above
descr,ption who had Just been graduated from the
Scientific Department Tufts College and was on MS
way to Mexico as of the acknowledgements OF the
Mexican Central Railroad. 49, -.
There also appeared among lhe lost the naine s oi
Rafael Arruc corresponding wi'h the second descrlp
non. had ID from Baracoa to New, nrk To esGane
arrest suspicion OF compicy II the Cuplh
bat returning CuDa on the assurance o1 The zap
inn-Generai tnat he would not be molesicd
SURVIVORS OF THE CITY OF VERA CRUZ.
ARRIVAL OF SIX on THE CHARLEsTON-THEIR AP-
PEAE,NCE AND WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT TIE
WRECK.
The anxiously awaited steamer Charleston, with
seven of the survivors of the i-fated City of Vera
Cruz aboard arrived at Quarantine, after a rough
passage last evening about $50 O'Clock AS Dr.
Sanborn a health officer, climbed up to the hurr-
cane deck, crowd of the officers and sailors
gathered around him. A TRIBUNE reporter, who ac
companIed the Doctor to the vessel, asked: " Is
Mr. owen. a survivor of the Vera Cruz disaster On
board p
liam Mr. Owen" SAID man of medium size,
with dark moustache and intelligent cast OF
countenance. be stepped out from
the group Mr.. Owen was clad III
dark flannel shirt. such as the
sailors vore-the same in which he was Wrecked
and dark trousers He had on black siouch hat
and was not guilty of wearing collar.
"sten into the cabin" said Mr.. Owen. and /
will tell you all can regarding the disaster"
The story which was then told the reporter was
for the most part merely amplifcation of tel
egrapLic interview which was published III last
Snnday's TRIBUNE. The facts which he gave in
addition to those already published were. i'll sub
.taucc as follows: The real blast
of the cyclone struck us Saturday at
1.35 H. H. and il listed the ship Oh her beams until
the hurricane deck, on the starboard side, kissed
the waves From that time no one walked the deck
without taking firm hold of some support. Every
uave that struck the ship shook her convulsvely.
Tie passengers during the whole of the terrible
sccne which followed, were quiet ana selt-posscsseu
There were no women praying or men screaming
or any of that sort of thing. This was due TO no
merit of the captain. The captain paid no atten-
ticn TO the passengers. although ne onght'
o least 70 have sent the purser down to look after
Them The servants were kind although one OF
them refused to do something for lady, because,
he said the captain hadn't ordered him to do It,
- The captain was last seen by of the sea-
mon fooIjpp with a skid on the staiboard
,,idships. He was getting it overheard, al
t,ongb no one knew for what purpose.
The skid wns carried overheard and the cap
tain with it, The stewardess. Mrs. Jane Whltbee,
cot jammed in between the chairs and tables III the
cab,n and was drowned when the ship went down.
Edward Lane. the second cook, who had his thigh
broken early Tuesday morning and a
Erc,uan (,yhose name unknOwn) VINO had
h. head cut severely the Friday before,
also went down with the ship, The p snip pJoke m
two Sunday morning at O'CLOCK me DOW anu aDu
s.ero went upn the air.whIle the engine Went aoWn
x;th n nlnnge The masts all broke in tour pieces;
Eyerybody went down with the sn,p YhnK AZ,
of these on board the ship, although some some
of them were broken. The waves were
sbont ty feet high, and were very peculiar, com
;ng in peaks and breaking like the surf. we have
once been told that this was because We were near
tLc centre of the cyclone. Dromgooi ana were TO-
grther on large piece OF t s,e .. late a as Sunday
nn w Sd" .mone those we saw were Mr.. Wallen-
noin aud his son. and Miss f. Burns and MISS
CIark. james Kelly saw W. r. ONeill'
the third master as late as as WhiPn P;
n. Sunday, floating In the pilot-honse. men
We struck the breakers the pieces OF the dlnlnpsa
loon to which we clung were turned over SIX tunes
nv three waves in succession. Our raft was broken
70 pieces, but in two minutes wore we were Oh the
1--WE had no idea where We were until we struck mex
tbc shore. We walked along the beach IN Yl the
mcrnIng for six or seven miles. meeting Ohaiies
Sm;th one of tho waters, on the way. until
we We came. to house .,, belonging g;ns, TO onno. a
M si., n ',"no We cot some food there, and then
Went across to Daytona and bought some clothes ,e