The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
WRECK OF THE GLAMoRGAN.
Most of the Crew Taken Off the Sinking
Vessel Seven Lives Lost.

New York, Feb. 24.-The steamer Repub-
lc, from Liverpool, met, Feb. IS, latitude
80 deg 35 min., longitude 81 deg. 10 min.,
che steamer Glamorgan, Captain Court, from
Liverpool, 7th inst for Boston. The Gla-
morgan was a wreck. The Republic took of
j. A. May, first officer; w. A. Smarbreck,
third officer; William Palmer, boatswain; ].
S5illard, carpenter; j. Whalen, Theo. Ander-
son, c. Anderson, f. Anderson, G. Boyle c.
Horn and John Morgan, seamen; ]. Cantley,
chief engineer; r. Affect, second engineer;
c. Clark, third engineer; William Davey,
fourth engineer; ]. Rhan, watchman; ]. f.
Lee, J. Doyle J. Breen, W. Clark, R. Gill,
NJ. Cunningham, Patrick Riley, j. Houston,
S. Cook, B. Clinton and Thomas Brennan,
firemen; W. Ward chief steward Raulson,
chief cook; Peter Brooks. second cook; ].
Fogg. mess-room boy; J. W. J. Bernheimer,
refrigerator man; H. Cook, ]. Curran. H
Beach, Patrick Mulligan, q. Holbrook. Henry
Malone, Louis Susan, ]. Davenport, G. Pat
terson, F. King and G. McGreal, cattlemen,
qnd Thomas Doss stowaway.
The following were lost: Captain Court.
A. P. Robellard, second officer; d. Williams
and ]. Jerrard, seamen; John Barrett second
steward; Handy Creller, a passenger, and an
unknown stowaway.
Early Wednesday morning following the
ss,partgazc OF tho GlSal.ergzn q Tremendous
sea struck her. carrying away the fore-mast,
all the ventilators the fore and the main
winches, and pipes bridges and rails and
flooding all below decks. Friday. Saturday
and Sunday succeeding the winds and sea
increased in fury, and the vessel hove to-.
Monday the weather moderated, and a few
miles were made Tuesday the storm re-
turned with increased violence, very high
yea and running.
= Thomas Coutley, chief engineer, says the
boatswain store-room, passenger-rooms all
aft of the rails and deck-house abaft the
main mast were stove in, the front wheel
house mashed and steering gear broken, the
forward, main and bunk matches burst. The
ship also opened up fore and
aft through which the water poured,
stopping the engines and leaving the vessel
in the trough of the sea. All hands
were ordered to bail water with buckets but
the sea afterwards filled her again, fore and
aft AT daylight we got sails over the matches
and other openings to keep out the water,
but they gave way. The day was then spent
by the passengers and crew in baling and
working the pumps, but, despite all exer-
rions, the water gained.
On Friday, the weather again moderating,
sll hands were called to the pumps and the
damage to the hatch coverings repaired We
lost our wood and sail. and now our hope.
About noon a steamer hove in sight and bore
down. She proved to be the Republic. Cap
tain Irwin sent us a boat, losing a man in
launching; that boat took off some of our
men. The sea was running too high to con-
tinue the work of rescue, but the weather
moderating about the Sth, the Republic
launched a second boat, and our fifty three
passengers, remaining officers and crew were
saved.
The captain and others mentioned above
as lost were swept away in the awful sea that
wrecked the vessel Wednesday morning, at
the beginning of the gale.
Cullen, it is said, was wanted by the British
government to identify the Phoenix Park as
5assins. The Glamorgan was heavily laden.
The value of her cargo is not known. f.
Forstersis the name of the Republic seaman
lost launching the life-boat.