Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-23

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ing on him 70 our men took turns at
the pumps until he could get his steam
pumps working. After that he was
all right. The Gate City came up In
few minutes and took all the ITALIA.
p0osa'a crew. Our men were destl.
tute of clothes but our wants were
supplied by the officers and men.
When we were together the roll.call
showed that two men were missing.
DIR. Black. the surgeon In care Of the
men, didn't answer, aud It was owl.
dent both were drowned No one saw
them 20 down. When last seen DIR.
Black was on the rail preparing to
jump. The GOODNESS OF The officers nc.
counts for the small 10 a Of life.
The captain told every boats crew
It's place and the men went 81 the boats
assigned them II was rather amus-
ing, In spite OF our serious situation, TO
zee the negroes go for the life preserv.
ers. When we reached Woods hole
we were transferred to the Fish Hawk
and then to the shore. The Fish Hawk
at once left for the wreck. The sad
dest part Of the accident was the loss
OF the two men. We did not suffer
any, for II was warm night. do
not know of any thing TO cause the col
lisi0n. Commander Morie was OH
deck at the time. The captain of the
schooner didn't offer any explanation
when was talking with him.
LATER.
Later advices from Cottage City re-
port that four persons were drowned
from the Tallapoosa, ~ follows: Dr.
Clarence Il. Black, surgeon; William
O'Donnel, IA seaman, Of Boston; VIM.
Jones, Washington, and Geo. Foster
q colored saloon boy.
WHO WAS TO BLAME.
BosToS, MASS, Aug. 30 Lieut..
VIM II. Everett. the executive officer,
Ensign VIM. B. Whittlesly and Mate
Hugh Hughes, with 100 men from the
wrecked Tallapoosa, arrived tonight
nj the navy yard where they go upon
waiting orders. Lieut.. Everett says
he believes the Tallapoosa
did act In manner To avoid
the line of water Will h the schooner
would cover. He was not on deck mt
time OF the collision but from the con-
versaton he has since had he feels
sure that the steamer was right. The
two vessels, he says, were coming In
Numerically opposite directions; the
head on the schooner should have
kept straight along ard we should
have passed 10 one side of her, but IL
would seem as though the officers In
charge of the schooner were afraid We
would not alter our course and turned
their vessels head from proper course.
Now, IL il n perfectly easy thing to
avoid II field point, but when that
point keeps bobbing around there Is
no telling what 20 do. The very way
the schooner struck us would indicate
that she changed her course, coming
as she did full head into us instead OF
grazing alongs de.
The statement Of Others Of the Tai.
lapoosa would tend to show
that different set of
movements were followed The gem
eral opinion among the sailors IL that
the schooner was wrong in such way
NJ to leave the Tallapoosa the option ol
passing aster IA or across her bow. The
Tallapoosa chose the latter course, and
in endcavoring to glide In front was
run into by the schooner.
Suys sailor who claims to have
been In the pilot-house ut the time of
the disaster: "rbe captaiu. navigator
and mate saw the lights OF the
schooner but disputed whether they
We're green or red lights, and finally
the captain exclaimed, well, do
something Turn her one way or the
other and then we struck "
The man at the wheel declares they
gave the order hard "A stnrboard,
when 10 ought to have been hard "A
port. VIE ever thu fault rested GER
tain 1t Is that the schooner plunged
full head into the Tallapoosa i'm The
starboard b'w and cut clean through
the timber OF the vessel, opening an
immense hole for the water to pour
in. About slAt en- men were
on deck OF the government
boat. The watches were ON deck, but
according to the statement OF one, sev-
eral of the watches and most of the of,
ticers were asleep on the forward deck,
The men az the crew below were rude
ly awakened by the terrific shock
and sprapg from their hammocks.
! Water Hooded the boiler d elk, and in
stantly the sailors rushed on
the deck through the debris. There
they found confusion and noise re-.
sounding so IA to drown all the words
of the officers, caused by the escaping
steam through the whistle. The steam
was quickly cut oil and then the only
order of the hour was heard:
Man the boats, abandon the
ship There was no confusion, only
a great degree of haste. Some twenty
or thirty men look to the water in-
stead of the boats. All this happened
In n little over,iive minutes. The ITALIA
poosa had already commenced to sink
and In few minutes thehull was COM
pletely submerged. Notone of the head
officers had left thecraft. Capt. Merry,
Lieut.. Everett Engineer Town, Mas
ter Mechanic Slower and Walker and
four sailors took To the rigging by
swimming. The depth o. the water
was not sufficient TO submerge the
main t,pmas'. Ensign Whittlesly
and Walter Gallagher chung TO the
rigging.
The schooner In collision had stood
by 10 aid aud the boats mate to her as
well ma to second schooner Mary A..
Hood. which hove to, In response to
the call for help, having placed men
on board boats, returned aud took uI
the sailors floating In the water
and rescued the others In
the rigging, Capt. Merry was
the last man In his vessel and Lieut.
Everett left only just before him. No
attempt to save personal effects was
made. The men reached here this
morning Capt. Merry remaining witt
few seamen Ut Woods Hall. Foul
men are reported lost.
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