Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-13
THE LOST STEAMER.
Farther Statements Of Oilcers and
Crew Of the Recent Collision
The City of Rome Censurea


QUEREc, ONT, May l2--vhe bark
Theresa, with the remainder Of the
survivors-ef the State of Florida. ba.
arrived. The agent of the steamer
refuses to talk of the accident. On,cer
Thompson is much depressed. The
seamen are less reticent than tbe
officer, but unnble to throw lipht uron
the cause of the disaster, having been
abed when the collision occurred, The
Theresa hau small accommodation aud
short rations. Those saved from
the Poncma are Capt. Hepburn, An
gela Rosa and Thos. Nicholson The
names of the lost OF the Ponema are
not known. The Ponema was In bal
last from Liverpool for McAmich.
The sailors OF the Florida are secured
by the agent and kept away from
newspaper men. They seemed i'm
pressed with the idea that THOMPSON
is to blame for the collision. One
sailor of the bark persisted from expos-
ure In the boat. Capt. Hepburn lost
everything, and Nicholson, who was
on the lookout at the time of the col
lision, ascribes the fault of the dis.
aster to the steamer. All speak favor
ably of Officer Allen, and agree that
the City of Rome refused assistance,
She was near it was impossible not to
have seen aud understood the signals.
All corroborate the bravery OF En-.
glneers Balm and Anderson and testify
to the activity OF the second officer Of
the Florida, who was lost.
Capt. Hepburn of the Ponema
makes the first statement coming from
that vessels crew. He says he can
give no information as to the cause of
the accident. He retired half an hour
before the collision, which knocked
him out of his hunk. Three minutes
afterward he found himself in the sea-
: All hands were washed off while try
ing TO lower the boats.
The other two saved from the Po.
; nema are ThOs. Nicholson of Shetland
and Angela Rosa of Trieste. The
lost are as follows: Williams, mate;
Nudsen, second mate; Fullerton, stew.
: ard; Blan, carpenter; and Norman,
: Shaw. Davidson, Jacobien, Paul, Bus.
3 sick, Lyons, Johnston, and two Ital
: ians. The captain saved no papers.
| Maze Williams was on duty when the
1 disaster occurred. The captain saw
4 none of the officers after the col
: lision. Hepburn said he did moi
g see the Florida, and did moi
l know what struck them. He was in
. the boat thirty-four hours. The
S Theresa picked them up about half al
= hour before it came upon the first o
9 the Florida's boats.
# Capt. Hansen of the Theresa mad,
the following startling charge:
The steamship City of Rome wa'
n sighted on Wednesday, April %. The
II sea was smooth and the weather clear
l. one of the finest days since taking tn
II shipwrecked parties on board.
g Glow near did she pass?"
d $50 near you could heave n biscuit
Is at all events,n said the captain, with
l. in three ship lengths. We hung on
Z, ensign upside down, the usual sigma
o of distress. She hoisted the answerin
lie pennant, but never stopped, and pre-
Y ceeded on her way"
II Capt. Hepburn, Capt. Hansen, Mis-
1t McFarlane, VIM. Hislop and severa
< others agree TO the correctness of th
above. They also deny positively tn
sign not having been seen. Whe
}. told that the City of Rome reported ID
he Theresa with n portion of the shil
10 wrecked crew On board, and insiste
er they were never slbualeu, ahu sai
is the signal showed to that effect froi
n the bark's forecastle, and that the
e. shouted: "Cone back, come back; "
Or have the crew of the Florida!" b'
It, beyond hanging out the answerin
Id pennant the ship took no notice
them.
Thomas Nicholson was on the dec
I'd of the Ponema when the collisio
or occurred. He was not on duty, bl
be merely walking the deck. He So,
ia the bark was on the starboard tac
to showing the port light. There mu
re- have been something fearlully wroI
about the steamer, he said, when 81
could not keep out of the way, an
or added that it was reported among q
re sailors of the Florida that the bark
". light was reported three times tn
iis night by the lookout on board u
of steamer.
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