The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-20
no. 0O5 Main Street.
found sorrog Ia this city 30 Savanna
people were On board,

found sorfoW Ia this city. 80 sayAnnal
people were on board,
| THRILLING tOENEs.
BcgroN Jan 10 some OF ho other sur
ylyurs m their statements say ~ Yves yery
dark when the steamer struck and the YES
/ tti remained upright. drifting bacE ward
while the uas. enrrfs crowded on deck A.
/ tef driving several leHrths Hstrrn tht vessel
/ lufCued ald tIc f,ssWtpt everything The
I Farussoru lly6 climbed into the rigging
I aud were saved through the energy ~ John
White, q seaman. Tue suryu urs saw one
/ boat clutainlus seven WON upatt Tic
sea sl0a demolished The boat. II was irur'
/ nI the way the women wore sweet away,
/ * ma rushed oa deck with their hus1 iud',
and az the iull force Of tho storm broke
I upon them, realizing that AI was llsi, ih-J
threw tht.r arms around thalr husbands
uecks and hndt them goodbye. A few uO-
mtuts lAttr thay were swept overheard.
mother with D calii Boo nor arms Ees
borne Ashy BY the waves almost 1t ore
roach. q tl0 deck. Not ono woman reached
/ the rigging tn, mJouy were washed
overheard by On. waves 4 uhWn'r H.|5
probably -mOtlerci IN their buuhe.
At,g thf vessel struck. the Quafil'n1''
'er came aud said the steamer was utsiug
wa Cr. Tie then gli All the boh'f ready
+ thtsaIp listed and Hll Who could get on
The str1'ard side DID go. Some we're
Washed from the por. aide into the sel. ln
five minutes the ship was riphted ana
tuuk. From the time she struck uuii Ma.
listed Il was only Gncen minutes.
On the sfrya. Ia Boston Of the SPECIAL
New Bedford tram $40 people woro az the
dpp1t god Immediately surrounded tuo q.
teen survivors All bore markl oi the
struggle. Hardly one bad complete SUIT
Of c.o hing. The most cheerful ol an 20
appearance were the Framework boys, VINO
appenrsi not to have suffered from iheif
eIpo,urs aud who were neatly clad tu
clothing furnish hy the pppple OF We"
Bedford. Tnc survivors, were placed 10
cnrfilp,s and driven % The Office OF tho
teau.lip company. Here men ana
women hastily scanned tLt'r ihc'si Oui
friends were not among he rescued. y
/ i1us relatives 4 d friends soon came ~;
/ U lly few met husbands. iatheig ana
D.yi's Bridge ia formed like Shepherds
crook. H. begins rear the shore, Just
uorih NJ the light. and runs westerly about
nalfn mile aud then extends On Il uurIheHy
/ direction ttw hundred yards farther
buoy marking the outside OF the reel II
distant about quarter OF mile from thr
/ west end OF tho reel not over
three.qusrters OF mile from the sno'S
. L. Is not usual for steamers bound iroLl
! Boston for points as lar N'h AZ
Savannah 10 take the course purhued ny
/ the columbus rhey geuerauy sui eouih
/ OF Nantucket, giving the dangerous shna ,
erteudiug Inv miles south OF that J., lana, II
| wide berth II seems PROBABLE that captain
Wight ,ulaid his course too soon, scoring
I relatively nnrthwest, a course which
brought MIN inside the buoy marking the
OUTSIDE OF Devils bridge, aud Consequently
nli upon the reef
Edward Sprague Rand, who, with his
/ wife, was among the lost was one 1T the
oldest aud best known onveNaucers i.
Suffolk county Rand was nearly ~ eniy-
/ five wears oi age. He was graduate Of
/ Harvard In 70
O.c.rl.aig,, Consul General for Turkey
! for the las. seven years aud also l-rH urer
/ oftA. Vu1mhorro Wooden mills was thirt =
rht year. OF age.
Mr aud Mrs. Wright Of Lynn were
among III. lost Wright was II brother 4
/ Colonel Carol h. Wright, chiei OF the
bureau OF statistics and labor, and ole ct
the hest known men OF Lynn. DE-. Horace
! @. Bartlett, Lyndon, Vermont, and wiie
were going TO FloTiia On account OF Mrs.
Rartlett's health DR.. Bar lett WAS son
of Elk Congressman Thomas Bartlett and
ABOUT fifty yearsot age
Mrs. Dwight b. Rich, OF Boston, whose
nsms does not appear in the passenger list
because she was making the voyage a. 4
guest OF tre captain, was among the los''
She was about sixty years OF age and ayes
i've children.
FeoN OTHER POINTS
New BEDFORD, Jan. l9.-Ann'hsr OF the
bodies brought hero by the Dexter was
identified as +. IL. Hsl, produce dealer OF
Boston. Not one womaR on the steamer
vas saved aud only one OF their bodies has
| thus far been discovered. The direction OF
the wind was off shore and the vessel
must have been s'esred close to the ledscs
10 overcome the force OF the gale and so
reached the place II the wreck.
WooDs HoLr, Jan, l9.-rhe body OF a
lady, about IS years OF age, was found at
Cedar Tree Neck Vineyard Haven, from
the wreck of the City OF Columbus.
THE CAPTAINS sTArEMENT.
BosTos, Jan. 10 Japan Weight wa
shown the statement Of II. W. FaubanRs
that the pilot OF the City OF Columbus u d
him he lashed the wheel and went n
warm himself by the smoke stack, bang o.
sent fifteen or twenty mipu'es Tue captain
said. "At the time Of the disaster the go
ond officer was in charg- of the snip. h'
was In the piot-hOuse and experimenting
the steering Of the steamer, which Fa~ dn"'
by the auartermaster. The piloi-huu, wa
heated by steam aud WAS verv wan
and there was no necessity TO ,eAv' ~ "a
get warm. No person but the officer II
charge could change the course oi th'
steamer, and there was no attemp' m4d'
after she struck to drive her further on th'
rocks"
Heavy Liabilities
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