The Benton weekly record., 1882-12-07
CUT DOWN BY A SOUND
BOAT.
WOmer and Children Sink With
the Barge Saginaw.

T NEW YORK, Nov. 2O.--rhe tug S. J
Lenox drew the canal boat Saginaw at
O'Clock last evening out of her dock a
Havemeyer2s wharf foot of North Fourth
street, Williansburgh, to take her to tlle
foot of Thirty-third street, North River
The Saginaw was laden with 700 barrels
Of sugar. AS she left the dock Mrs. Tav-
lor, the mother OF the Captain of the canal
boat, William Taylor. his wife, his two
children, and his deck hand, Chas Swan
son; went TO the cabin to supper. The
TIDE at the time was strong ebb. AS the
tug pulled into the river a Sound steamer,
the City Of Worcester, bonnd out, turned
the Hook at Grand Street Ferry, and us is
usual with the Sound steamers when the
tide is ebb. made for the Willamsburgh
shore. The tide took the Lenox and her
tow, before she struck midstream, straight
toward the approaching steamer, The
canal boat was held to the tug by a fifty
foot haWser. A the tide swung them they
were in nljdstreem before they hid passed
Grand Street Ferry, Williams burgh side
The City of Worcester was off South Fifth
street dock. ....*
"When she reached South Third street
wharf, an eye witness said, sit looked as
if the tug would hit the steamer. She
missed it though, but the canal boat swung
directly III front of the steamer, and was
struck a little aft Of midship. She began
to sink At once. The tug kept Oh her way,
pulling the sinking boat. When the boats
struck [ saw the man at the wheel Of the
canal boat jump and fasten on the anchor
chains Of the City OF Worcester. | then
ran down to the dock foot on South Fifth
street, where | knew that there were boats
AS reached the dock the steam lighter
Mealius was just putting Oft. They had
noticed the accident.'' ".. ....-
Timothy Foley, a longshoreman, who,
in response 10 the call Of Capt. Cook, went
out on the steam lighter Meaiius, said:
sBefore We got over to the Hook, at
Grand Street Ferry, New York side, the
canal boat sank completely out of sight,
and then we went after the poor fellow
whom we could just discern hanging by
the anchor chains Of the City Of Worcester
ut her bow. He was the captain of the
canal boat. The poor man begged us to
to take him TO his boat; and when we told
him that it had sunk, he cried: For God s
sake, help me save my wife, my children,
TO where the tug was, and pnt him on
board. In company with the tug, we
searched the river. 4 number OF small
boats from jackson street assisted us, but
none OF US could find any traces Of the
bodies, or, II fact, pick up or see any yes
tige of the sunken boat. The family were
undoubtedly all drowned in the cabin
The boat was struck close bv the cabin, |
and the water must have poured in upon
them quickly All the Captain could say
was: 'As we struck found myself on the
chains Of the steamer, and wished | was on
my boat.'n
The City Of Worcester slowed up till the |
Mealius came ont, and then went on her /
way to New London.
About 61a O'Clock last evening Captain
Taylor came to the freight station on the
New York Central Railroad, at Pier T
East River, and informed Watchman
Ahreet that his barge had been sunk, and
that his mother, wife, and etwo daughters,
6 and 8 years old, We're drowned. Mr..
Ahreet directed him to the office Of the
owners of the barge, Hamilton Nick. !
Twombly & Co. of 26 Whitehall street,
whittier he went and reported their loss
and his own. The barge was only recently
bought by Vanderbilt from John Fl. Star
in. Charles Swanson. the deck hand, liYes
at ~ Grand street, Wlliamsburgh. His
brother said last night that he had been
saved, Up to midnight he had not come
home
Late last night the Wheelhouse Of the
canal boat was found off Cob Dock, Navy
Yard, at Wallabout basin,
A piece of Wreckage foated in at the
foot of Montague street, Brooklyn. It was
part Of a cabin. Bedding, clothing, and
cooking utensils were found in it. There
were no bodies. 1t is not certain that the
wreck was from the barge Saginaw
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