The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-07
MCTINY IN NEW YORK BAY.
Sailors who Refused to 60 20 Work subdued
and Put I'm Irons-A Rigger stabbed by a
Mutineer and Dangerously Wounded-A
Hnnd-to.IIand Fight.


f-pecia d. patch TO the Philadelphia TlmesI
NEW YORK. April 5.-When the ship Au.
rora was ready to sail yesterday morning the
sailors refused to beaye the anchor, saving
that the ship leaked. This was not true.
The captain bad paid the crew advance mo.
ney, and he said they must go 10 Valparaiso
with him. They refused. Shipping. Com
missioner Duncan advised him to get gan
OF riggers, weigh anchor, and start for sea.
/ Then The riggers could come back in tug
and the sailors could work her, and II they
didn't he'd have TO make them. So the
/ captain got gang Of six riggers from Will
liam Cochran, 254 South street, and Martin
Herln. a ship chandler OF South street, got
eight other men, riggers and 'longshoremen.
and at O'Clock this morning they started.
awe were all put aboard the Aurora of
Bedloe's Island" said Mr.. Hefin. "Our
men h0isted the anchor and we started off.
! The men all this time were in the forecastle.
| When the tug had pulled us through the
! Narrows at about 10 O'Clock the captain and
Chief Officer Otis went to the forecastle
gangway and the captain ordered the sailors
TO turn out. They shouted back tnat they
wouldn't, and that they wouldn't 20 TO sea
In that ship. Then the captain told the
chief officer to 90 into the forecastle and
bring the men. AS soon as Otis went down
every sailor Uhete We're eighteen on the
ship, all tOld) drew his sbeath-knife. Then
the captain and James Welsh. q rigger, fol-
lowed by the other shore hands, went down
into the fOreclstlc and drove the sailors out.
We bad pistols, but we did not fire them.
"We got the sailors out on deck and took
the sheath-knives from them. There was a
good deal OF fighting at this time. A stout,
dark k-compleyiOued ChlliaD, seeing the cap.
tain on the pOop-deck, ran toward him with
his sbellh-knile in the air. The captain
got ont OF bis way and the Gillian ran
upon a rggcr named james l.. Forrest,
who was at work colIiDg a rope. The
fact that he was at work, l suppose,
maddened the mntineer. At all events
be attacked him with knife and drove the
blade three inches into his back. | ran up
TO the Chililn and. holding nv revolver to
his head, made bin give me his knife. This
ended the trouble, for he and man named
Kelly were the rIng gleaders of the mutineers.
and Kelly had already been dI-armed." Mr.
Herin here unrolled piece OF paper and
showed the reporter sailors sh0rt, stout
sbeath.knife, with blood on the blade, show
in9 that the wound was about three inches
deep.
"Tbe captain" Mr.. Hern continued,
"put the Chilan in irons. and then five
others were put IN irons. Mr.. Otis dressed
Forests wound in the cabin. All OF the
sailors except the Chilian aud Kelly prom
ised to 90 to work. SO after their bunEs
had been searched for weapons the captain
resolved 10 let the shoremen 90 home. We
all came back in the tug Starbuck with the
wounded man, Forrest"
Forrest, who lives with his wife at 200
west Fifth street, Williamsburg, is forty
one years old. At the Chambers.Street Hos
pital, where he was taken, it was found that
the thick, broad blade Of the sheath.knife
had made 4 compound fracture OF the right
sloulder-blade. lie suffered greatly from
shock, and the wound is considered very
dangerous.
One Of the 'longsbOremen who returned
on the Starbuck told a story on South street
this afternoon that the Chlian sailor was
very badly wounded in the melee and might
not live 10 the end OF the yoyare. He also
siid that the sailors were driven out Of the
forecastle bv removing the skylight and
firing pistols down into the fOrecastle.
When the men were thus driven up the
forecastle gangway they were snbdued one
by one with iron belaying.pins. He said
there was a good deal OF blood shed, but
that no one was shot.