Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-04
Price Four Cents.

ply that he could not make thai mort i,, t,,o storm that was raging and that he WAS obiigaS 10 keep straight on for New York.
 The Newport showed plainly that she bod come through trying ordeal Her rails and sldes and spars were covered with piled u.e frozen snow and the ugly gash in her s;d soid now violently she had been hit. preat niaok timber teeth standing out from her sioe m uncomfortable contrast with the shapely slightly lines and color of inc rest sst0 The overturned range and utensils beIonoino to the R1tchen strewed the deck and 8 deen oark hole yaWned from the interior. On inc upper deck, the staterooms and scattered Deos and furniture demonstrated how vii, iently the schooner had visited there. and now fortunate 1t was that no one had been put 10 sleep In those rooms. Men were nut so , "ork soon after the steamer arrived to set things to rights, and she is to be lowed I'd the dry dock this morning for repairs
 Captain Simmons told a He,.az6 ,a,,o.to. yesterday that the accident was unavoidable so Tar as he was concerned He did ,7ot sae the schooner until she ran against the New port, and he caught no more than a oI;mnse or her as she passed away in the storm The newport nad taken every precaution to guard against collision or accident. She xas bIoyv- ing her whistle and had all her Iiobts Sft The schooner came from the opposite airec- tlon ana struck the New, ort before anyone coula see her. It was impossible to see any distance ahead, and the impression was that the schooner failed to show lights. He thought they had been struck by moderate y 9Eeu coaI schooner. What amount of saA me was carrying he could not tell
 SCENE OF TERROR.
 somewhat different account of the scepe gas gwen by Mir. Frederick Dubois, the man ager of the Comley- Barton Opera eomnanv. m fbkaa afo L three people under my charge, D he said ssal1d assure you never saw anything like it in the whole course of my life II would not go through 1t again for Manhattan Island. It was awful The people became frantic. dld not go to bed at all-I was afraid to. The wind was dreadful One of the ladies of nv company sat up with us all night in the sa- !oon. VI were huddied around the stove. MT John Howson and some other gentlemen were with us That dim. lonely cabin and the ereaking and the grooming and the Fer vous women-I never shall forget 1t Then the tremendous crash and the certainty that we were all lost. I rushed uD stairs to the screaming women and did what I corld to get some order among them. They rushed rom the staterooms as they were shouting, crying, fainting and terrified almost to death They had nothing one but such garments aa they had retired h, and while toms rushed for the life preservers others dropped on their knees and pray ed. With very few exceptions the men were as bad as the women They came pellmeH from their rooms thfnkfa1 af nothing, caring for nothing but to save their own lives. think we struck the schooner. She was tearing along before the wind and we dashed against her. I don't think she he'd any sail up at all don't know about the lights, but saw no sail on her as she glided past us. If she had struck ue she would have gone right through us and hurt the hull instead of giancing off I don't thlnk the Newport was ringing any fog bells or showing any lights before the collision. She blew signals often enough aftarward | heard none previously. shall 20 by rail In future. The Newport was wrecked not long ago and mad big hole stove ln her bow by the rocksH
 '.I was in bed wheH she got that blow. said Mir. J. B. Polk, the actor .sThe whole of the Strategists company was there, and the Big Four combination and the CoTnIev Barton Ohvette company. One of the Big Four came dashing out of his cabin with his stockings in one hand and life preservet in the other. He jumped into a boat, and one of the other four followed him, holding pre- servers and knives to cut the ropess The scene was one of the widest terror I ever witnessed. After the collision a fire broke out. It was lucky that the fire in the range was low. The cook had been late. and he dad not made up his fires That saved the steamer from destruction by fire As it was. the boilers were thrown out of place at least three inches''