Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-05-08
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
GONE TO THR BOTTOM.
The State of Florida Lost
at Sea.
OVER A HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
The Thrilling Tale of a
Survivor.
OUR RIVERS AND HARBORS.
Twelve Millions Asked to
Better Them.
OUR RIVERS AND HARBORs.
LOST IN MTD-OCEAN.

The State of Florida Wrecked-Sunk
At Sea BY A Collision With A
Barque-One hundred and Twenty
Seven Lives Lost.
MONTREAL, May THE steamship Ttania
which arrived off Father Point at $40 this
morning, sent the following statement
ashore s'We have on board thirty-four per-
sons, thirty-two of them from tbs steamer
State of Florida and tive from bark which
the Florida ran down in mid ocean. The
latter are the captain and sailor of the bark
All Others both on the steamship and the
bark, were drowned" No further particulars
can be obtained until tonight, when the
Titania will arrive at Quebec.
Fifty-twO Probably saved-The Total
Number of Lives Lost Placed at One
Hundred and Twenty-seven.
NEW YORK. May TN is now believed
that tifty-two of the passengers and crew of
the State of Florida were saved. Thirty-two
are on the steamer Titania and twenty are
reported to have been picked up by pass
ing ship, probably the one which signalled
the steamer City of Rome. One hundred
and fifteen souls went down with the steamer
and twelve with the bark,-a total of 127.
There were 1877 on board the State Of Flori-
da.
The Third Omcer's story-How The
Ship Went Down-The Survivors
At Sea In Open Boats-A Thrilling
Tale.
QUEBEC, May THE painful suspense
that prevailed here all day with regard to
| the survivors of the disaster of the Inflated
State of Florida was relieved TO-
night by the arrival of the Don
Montreal, with coal and general cargo, which
was teIegraphed this morning on her way
to Quebec with twenty-four of the saved
party. The Titania reached port at s:15
p. m. and proceeded straight
to Montreal in order to land
the party saved which the river police were
prepared to execute by taking them Off in
midstream as she Stacked to ship her Mon.
treal pilot, but her orders had been
countermanded by the owners and
instructions received to carry them through
| to Montreal She was boarded, however, by
press representatives who accompanied her
for some distance up the river and CLEANED
on the way the names of the saved and some
thrilling particulars of the the disaster. The
third officer Of the State of Florida says: The
vessel left New York on the 18th of April
with about 1877 passengers and the crew and
full cargo. All went well until the night
of the 18th at 11:3O, when she collided with
| the bark Ponems of Chatham, N.
B., Captain Helburn. Both ships went
| down almost instantly and of the
steamers passengers and crew only forty
four, including the stewardess, managed to
escape in boats and of the bark's crew OF
fifteen only the captain and two
seamen were saved. The next morning
the bark was observed bottom upwards
The survivors after being thirty-fve hours in
boats without food or water were rescued by
| the Norwegian bark Theresa of Christiana,
from that port for Quebec. On the
22d twenty-feur of them were transferred
on board the ship Louisa, OF
and from Cardiff to Quebec. where they re.
NAMED until May 5, when they we're taker
on board the Titania for Quebec. 1t is be-
Iieved 1876 lives we're lost.