Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-01-24
A HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
oOIN9 DOWN TO DEATH NEAR
SHORE AND SAFETY.

SHORE AND SAFETI.
rne Capta,D's story OF the Disaster
-Itsts of the saved and Lost
Bonts swamped as Soon az
,.aupched-The Lost steamer.
BosroN, Jan. 1S.-The steamer City OF
columbus, Captain Wright, of the
Savannah line, VIII oh left Boston for
savannah yesterday afternoon at
o'clock, has been lost off Gay Head, with
100 lives.
Captain Wright's statement of the dis
sster is ss follows: The City Of Columbus
lsft Boston at p. M, on Thursday,
carrying 80 passengers aud crew OF 40.
Al 3.45 a. m, on Friday, Gay Head
Light. bearing south, half east, the
vessel struck on the outside of DEVILS
Bridge buoy. The wind was blowing a
gale west by north. The vessel imme-
diately filed and keeled over, the water
breaking in and flooding the port side OF
the saloon. All of the passengers, ex;
oepting few women and children,
came on deck, nearly all wearing
life preservers. ALI of the boats
we're cleared away but were Immediately
swamped. majority of the passengers
gers left the vessel on q life raft, and
about 40 more took 70 the rigging. AT
1870 a. NJ. the Gay Head life boat put
off and took seven persous. Another life
boat put of between IL and l clock !;
the revenue cutter Dexter came along and
sent OIL two boats. Twenty one persons,
one of whom was desd, were placed on
board the Dexter, and alter all the per-
sons we're taken from the vessel, the
Dexter proceeded to New Bedford. Three
persons died after being taken on board
the Dexter.
Another account says The lodges
on which the City OF Columbus
struck, are considered by mariners
to be- one of the most dangerous
points on the coast. The ledges consist
Of formation of submerged rocks,
constituting double ledgs, the outer
strata of which ia called the DEVILS Back,
both Lodges being called the Devils
Bridge. The lodges are abreast Of Gay
Head Light on the main land and extend
little to the southward Of it. The outer
ledge of DEVILS Back, is about an sightL
OF a mile from the main land. OA either
side OF the outer ledge is very deep water.
The upper part of the ledge Is formed
like the gable of a house, 30 that vessel
striking 1t diag0nally would naturally
keel over on to her beam ends. The
course OF the vessel is around Gay Head,
to pass by the outer ledge on the south.
The City OF Columbus had so first class
and % steerage passengers, about one
third Of whom were ladies and children,
and a crew of 45. About 40 men took
refuge in the rigging, where they re-
NAMED until TO- 30 a. NJ, when life
boat put off from Gay Head and took away
seven passengers, one of whom died soon
afterwards.
THE LOST.
The following is partial list of those
lost William Wright and wife Of 637
East Fourth street, Boston; Il. S. Rand
and wife, lawyer, SO Fort avenue, Rox-
bury; T. NJ. Hale, produce dealer, Boston;
Levi Lawrence, residence unknown /;
George Kellogg, residence unknown /;
DR., ii, c. Bartlett and wife, residence un.
known; Mrs. s. Keane, residence un.
known Mrs. d. K. Small, Southampton,
Mass Miss Beach, residence unknown /;
Mrs. Chan, residence unknown; Oscar
lasigi, Turkish consul general,
l29 Marlboro street, Boston A. J.
Morton, Boston Globe; Helen Brooks,
nr,hbcro, Mass; Mr.. and Irs. G. A
Rand and son of BOst1D Mrs Henry
Slsde, Chelsea, Mass; X. b. Beiyes, wife
and two children, rrsldeDos unknown ;
Mrs. :. Atkinson, residences unknown !;
Mrs l. Davis, residences unknown Mrs.
II, j. kellogg, residence unknown G
Richardson and wife, residence unknown;
u r. Hutchinson and wife, residence uu-
knOwn s Vance. lesiience unknown ;
HenTy l., Bachelor AID wife, is Everett
svsl ue, Dorchester & Il James, resi-
trLce upkuown James A. Merrill,
Boe,on Henry l. Danie!s AID wife, resi-
lius unknown
BUsroN, Jan. 80 The passenger list Of
theGitY OF Columbus, as corrected, fools
up 81 passengers, cabin and steeragu, and
there were 45 iiicsrs, sesmen aud alters.
Ufthis number ~ passengers aud II OF
III, crew were saved. The total death
list, therefore, 10 81. There is lo posi-
h',ity that these figures will be altered
by the discovery OF additional survivors.
The list Of saved from the wreck in
cIndes those at Gay Head whose names
have been ssosrtained, and the additional
names of Captain S. Vance OF North
Truro, N. S. The steamer Speedwell, on
Friday, while searching for bodies at a
distance of several miles from the place
where the steamer sunk, came across one
Of the lifeboats of the City OF Columbia
iull OF water and sunk nearly to the
water's edge.
10 the boat tossing about in the water
as the waves raised or lowered, was found
the apparently lifeless body OF Captain
Vance. When taken on board the
steamer 1t was found that life WAS moi
extinct, and he was 80 far resuscitsted as
to bs able to walk with assistsDos when
landed at Vineyard Haven. He is being
cared for at that place, and although very
weak and suffering severely from his pro
tracIed soaking in the 10y water, he Ii
doing as we'll as can bs expected, and
strong hopes Of his ultimate recovery ar,
entertained
CORRECTED LIST OF THE SURVIVORS.
The corrected list OF the survivors is,ai
follows:
Passengers-Horacs Watsrhouse o.
Bath, Me-; James Browne, Lawrence
Mass; f. w. Fairbanks, Gorham, Me
Captain S. Vance, North Truro, N. s.
George w. Farnsworth, Townsend
Herbert Farnsworth, Townsend +. Weld
man, Lawrence; John l.. Cook, Portland
Me- Captain Il. R. Hammond, Goulds
Doro, Me-; Eugene MCCARTHY (stserage)
somervili-; IL Tibbptts, souerville
II. 7. Whitcomb (steerage), Hudson
Oihcers and crews. X. Wright, cap
tain A. A. Pitman, steward Heur,
COLLINS, second assistant engineer w
Ii. Paulding, purse!; Il A. Phillips, fire
assistant engineer; K. T. Briggs, porter
Thomas O'Leary, fireman Furber Han
SOD, waiter; John Madden, seaman
Michael Kennedy, waiter; Edward
o'Brien, waiter; John White. seaman
John Hines, fireman; Robert Gallant O
Cape Breton, seaman Bdward Leary
seaman; Thomas Butler of Prime
Edward Island, fireman Quartermaste
Macdonald.
BAD sEAMANsHIP AND LACK OF DISCIPLINE
Captain 4. R. Hammond of GoldsborC
Me-, was among the saved. Captain Han
mond has been life long aeafaring mar
lie eaupot account for the ships positio
al the time she struck. The wind Wa
blowing, but not strongly, from til
southwest. Not long after passin
Nobsque the captain went below, leavin
the ship in charge of an officer, wit
directions to keep her on the course the
pursuing, which was the usual one out
ward, and would have insured her entir
safety. Why these directions We're nj
followed will, perhaps, never be certainl
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