Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-13

| the signal, and few moments afterwards
the crash came. The captain of the Stoning
ton Immediately ordered his crew to set to
and save the passengers of the sister boat.
Life boats were hurriedly lowered from both
steamers and filled with the now frantic
passengers. Rats, chairs and other articles
were thrown overheard for the purpose Of
saving life. In the confusion great
MANY JUMPED OVERHEARD,
and we're not seen again. The Narragansett
was soon wrapped in flames, and the Stoning-
ton left her side laden with about two-thirds
of the Narragansett's passengers.
There was no discipline apparent on the
Narragansett after the disaster, while the of
ficers and crew of the Stonington are praised
for their courage and bravery.
The captain of the Stonington soon learned
that his boat was making water forward.
The cargo was thrown overheard to tighten
| the vessel, and sail placed under the bow.
The first two boats to leave the Narragan-
sett contained only men, principally foreign
ers. The third boat contained women and
children.
PERSONAL INCIDENTS.
A child was taken frem the arms of its
mother who died on the Stonington after
being rescued and was saved.
! Mrs. E. M. Saule, of Boston, was heard to
say to her child: "Nellle, if / jump, will you
follow me?" to which the child responded:
81 will, mamma" Both were saved.
Charlie Clureber was placed on raft by
his father and saved, but his father was
drowned.
None of the Narragansett's books or pa
pers were saved, but her captain estimates
the number of passengers leaving New York
at three hundred.
Mrs. Frederick StilIson, of Atlanta, Ga,
awakened by the noise, ran to her brother
in-law's state-room and called to him. When
they went back into the saloon where her two
little children were asleep, the smoke was so
sitting they could not 60 in to save them.
moment afterward the flames prevented
all possibility of saving the children. Mrs.
Stillson lost sight of her brother-in-law in
the struggle for life, but both were saved.
Edward Mulholland and wife lost their
only child, a boy years old.
ONE OF THE sADDEsT EVENTS
connected with the horrible calamity is the
case of Mrs. A. P. Dix, of Brooklyn, wife of
brother of the firm of Dix g. Pheyfe. Mrs.
Dix was on the Narragansett with her three
children and nurse. All are lost but Mrs.
Dix herself. They were all helped into a
life boat. Men tried to lower the boat but
water poured in and capsized it. When the
life boat righted again some of the women
were carried away and the men abandoned
the boat. Mrs. Dix, her nurse, baby, little
boy and girl clung to the boat, but the boat
was turned over in the same way three times
and Mrs. Dix saw her baby, her nurse, her
little boy and girl washed away.
Her diamond rings are imbedded in
the swollen flesh, the skin being
torn off her fingers, hands and wrists, by the
boat sides, and ropes to which she had clung
for life. AS soon as the City of New York
arrived, word was sent to Mr.. Dix. He
rushed to the pier and found his wife. The
meeting of father and mother who had lost
their entire family brought tears to the eyes
of everyone. The other survivors who had
not met with so great losses forgot their own
misery for moment in sympathizing with
the unfortunate man and wife whose chill
dren were drowned.
MISS. PEAKS NARRATIVE.
Miss Lizzie Peak of Philadelphia says the
steward gave her a life preserver. Every
body was running to see''what was the matter.
The most of the ladies had time to slip on
their skirts. Oh, such screaming. Mrs.
Branyan of Boston Heights was with me,
and her little girl, We stood on the main
deck and screamed as loud as we could. Some
men on the upper deck were getting life
boat down. People were jumping down
from that deck into the boats, and some into
the water. All this time there was great con-
fusion and crying. Everybody was out of
their senses-men too. I asked a man, "a
passenger) to save me. He pushed me away
and said he had enough to do to save HIM
self. By that time the boat was sinking and
the water was up to my knees On the main
deck. The whole place was lit up by the
fire on the Narragansett. We could see the
flames distinctly. They were scarcely twen-
ty feet away. knew 1 should be drowned if
stayed where l was. The water was gaining
on me all the time. I went to the rail. The
captain and some other meu-every one who
could help-were getting the last life-boat
down. The Captain said to
the men to hurry up, but they seemed
too much frightened to help. The captain
lifted me up and put me in before they
lowered her. Another lady ran to get in.
She slipped and broke her wrist, but got in.
Then they lowered the boat and as soor as
she touched the water all the men-the cap
tain and all-jnmped in. No other ladies'
got in. A lady and her baby, not more than
eight months old, were left behind on the
deck. She begged Us to let her in, but the
boat had foated away several feet from the
steamer and we had no oars. She kept on
beseeching US to save her. The last saw of
her she had her hands raised crying for
as to come. We had to go then because the
steamer was becoming wrapped in flames.
There was only little spot left where the
fire had not reached, and she was standing
there crying. The gentlemen took their
hats and padded to get the life boat away
from the burning Narragansett. In about
fifteen minutes another life boat, not as full
as ours was, came up with and gave US two
oars. A lady, gentleman and three children
were then in the water near our boat. They
begged to get in, but we told
them no, the boat would capsize. They
hung on to the stern of our boat. I don't
know what became of them after that. We
saw two other children, boy about six years
old and girl little younger, in the water.
They seemed to have no life-preservers.
saw them sink little distance off. We
rowed up to the City of New York and she
took rs in. found on the City of New
York good many rescued persons, some
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