Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-01-23
THY DEAD, o SEA.
Frightful Marine Disaster off tho
Island Of Martha's Vineyard.
List of the Passengers and Those
Known to BE Saved---The Cap-
tain's Account OF the
Vreck--The Vessel.

2,200 tons burden, and like her sister craft
the Gate City, had the highest rating TO
twenty years. She was steered by steam ant
provided with electric lights for navigating
the Savannah river at night. Her freigh
capacity was upward of 1000 bales Of cotter
and she had accommodation for 114first-clas
passengers and 60 second-class. Her cabi1
1 appointments We're very elaborate, being un-
surpassed by any ocean steamer. She made
/ her first trip from Boston to Savannah OF
September IA, 1882. She was bought by thu
Savannah line two years ago and previously
piled between New York and Boston. The
/ revenue cutter Dexter has landed seventeen
| persons and six dead bodies.
The officers of the steamship City
OF Columbus were: Capt. S. E. Wright, o1
Boston; first mate, Edward Fuller, of Barn
stable; second mate, Allen Eldredge, oi
Chatham; Boatswain Phillip Clarke, Of Bos.
/ ton; Quartermaster --- Mcdonald; En-
gineer Archibal Morrison, of Boston; second
Engineer - Phillips; third engineer, -
Collins; Purser w. c. Spalding,
of Boston; Steward Pitman, of New York;
second steward, - Howe. She had a crew
of thirty-three men.
Following is the passenger list: W. W.
Beach and wife, of Boston; T. K. Hale, pro-
duce dealer, of Boston: Levi Lawrence,
George H. Kellogg, Dr. H. G. Bartlett and
wife, Mrs. Skeane, Mrs. D. R. Small, OF
| Southampton, Mass; Miss Beach,
| Mrs. Gibson, OSCAR Iasiagi, Turk
ish consul general in Boston; N. j.
Morton, editor of The Boston Globe; H.
Brooks, MI. and Mrs. G. Rand and Master
Rand, OF Boston; Mrs. Slade, r. D. Bilyea,
wife and two children, Mrs. J. Atkinson,
Mrs. L. Davis, Mrs. H. B. Kellogg, G. Rich
ardson and wife, E. T. Hutchinson and wife,
G. +. Hammond, S. Vance, Henry L.
Batchelder and wife, of Dorchester, Mass. G.
F. James, j. A. Merrill, Henry l.. Daniels,
ard wife; Mrs. James Beal, Miss Beal, Mrs.
Whitcomb, D. W. Mitchell, J. H. Tibbetts, T.
A. May, j. L. Cook, NJ. Sargent, H. Weld
man, A. Cummings, N. D. Eaton, A. Chase
and wife; FL. Durland, Mrs. L. I. Pinkham
of Lynn; W. Lapham, Thomas Hagen,ssG. R.
Hammond, G. d. Ball, G. F.Frost, Joel
Nourse Of Boston.
Steerage-Annie Kelly, Susie Smith, G. E.
Goddard, E. McCarty, E. McCarty, G. Hins
f. W. Fairbanks, H W. Farnsworth, G.. W.
Farnsworth, G. Griffin, I. E. Geddings, W.
E. Wright, August Pearson, J. r. Hebar, G.
- Brown, - Walker, - Fossett Total As
New BEDFORD, Mass, Jan. 2O-The crew
OF the City of Columbus numbered forty-fiv
and the passenger list eighty. The revenue
cutter Samuel Dexter has arrived here with
seventeen survivors and six are known to be
alive at Gayhead. Capt Wright says he
turned in after passing Woods
southwest -e-s-,.,Ss SS%ss $50. 6.
out OF 1S--y.zrd sorla 4 s1iIes north
OF Gayhead he was sSs,-~l.,,s,4ai 1T 3:4$ o IN,
by the vessel striking on rock. -~ssha. filed
and sank in ten minutes on the shoals and air
her cabin work above deck went overheard
almost Immediately 1t was blowing very
heavily from the west The life
raft and four boats soon put
away for the shore, but their fate
is not known. The fifth boat swamped be-
fore she got clear of the steamer, and those
on board were drowned. Many were washed
overheard and some probably drowned in the
wreck. All saved afterward were those who
succeeded in getting into the rigging. The life
saving service boat came Off in the morning
and also the Humane society boat, manned
by the citizens of Gayhead The latter took
seven persons on shore, one of whom is re-
ported to have died on landing. The Samuel
Dexter brought her captain, s. E. Wright;
steward, A. j. Pitman, of Brooklyn; second
engineer, Fl. A. Phillips, of Boston; porter.
A. f. Briggs, of Boston; waiter, Forbes Han
son, of Boston, and G.. I. Whitcomb, of Hud-
son. Also, j. L. Cook, of Portland;
E. McGarry, Of Somerville, Fl. Weidnaan,
of Lawrence; T, r. Hammond, of
Gouldsborough, Maine-passengers John
Madden, of Boston, and John White, of Bos-
ton-seamen; -Waterhouse, of Bath, Maine
passenger; Thomas Leary, Of Boston, fire
man; S. w. Fairbanks, of Gorham, Maine,
and G. w. and ,H. W. Farnsworth, of Towns
end, Mass, passengers, and four others who
were rescued but died before getting on board
the cutter. Their corpses have been landed
here. The life saving boat remained by and
assisted the cutters boat in transferr-
ing the living to the revenue cutter
The following is a list of those carried
ashore by the Humane society boat: Harry
Collins, of Taunton, third engineer; William
Spalding, of Boston, purser; Michael Ken
nedy, of st. Johns, N. F., waiter; Edward
;O'Brien, of st. Johns, waiter; John Hines,
of Boston, fireman; Thomas Butler, of Prince
Edwards island, fireman, and one passen-
ger.
On the lifeboat were A. Morrison, of Bos
ton, chief engineer; Edward Fuller, of Mar
ston Mills, mate; Augustus Harding, of Chat.
ham, second mate; - Murray, Of Boston,
fourth engineer; - Fitzpatrick, of Phila-
delphia, waiter; - Sullivan, Of Prince
Edwards island, waiter. 1t is not
known who were in the four
boats that got away from the ship. 3ae-
third of the passengers were women and
children, not one of whom was saved A
young man named Sargent, of Merrimac,
was knocked off the rigging by falling snsr
and lost. Maj. Wilson, of New Bedford, took
prompt measures to have the survivors landed
and made comfortable. The steamship had
a moderate cargo of miscellaneous freight
The wreck lies 100 yards inside of Devils
Ridge buoy. The cutter will return to her in
the. morning. The captain says the steamer
drew twelve feet forward and fifteen feet
nine inches aft, and was fifty yards outside of
the buoy when she struck. If this is correct
the buoy must then have been driven in shore
by the violence of the gale. 1t was quite
late in the morning when the boat came off
to the wreck. The sea was'so violent that no
progress could be made against it earlier.
The cutter arrived at the wreck about noon
and the men could not have held on much
longer. Two died while being lowered from
the crosstrees of the wreck to the cutter One
was drowned and two died in the boat
before getting on board the cutter,
Fatal Eire.