Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-01-24
A TERRIBLE sHIPWRIOK.
Over 100 Persons Find Watery Graves.

The steamer City of Columbus which left
Boston the other afternoon for Savannah, Ga,
with 90 trst-class and 22 Storage passengers
one-third OF whom were ladies, and crew of As,
when near Gay Head light, at the southwest
end Of Martha's Viney ard, Mass, struck
on the outside Of Devi Is Bridge buoy, and i'm
mcdiately fl led, beeing over, the water break
ing In and flooding the port side Of tie saloon.
When she struck the rocks the passengers,
wi Ia the exception of a few women and
children, grasped life preservers and rushed
to the deck maj rity of them we're
immediately washed overheard by the
waves which broke over the disabled
vessel. The boats we're promptly cleared away,
but at once swainptd In the heav, sea. Seven
pa feugers left the vessel on a life raft. Some
40 more clirued to. the rigging A lifcboat
T ON Gay Head put of and took S, vtn prisons
rom Tie wreck. IL was iolloAed by anntnt 7
oue u few hou's later. AT 1880 the revenue
cutter Dexter came rear and sent Two boats u
Inc rescue twenty living and one dead person
W. re Transferred 10 the Dexter To be taken u,
New Bedford, but three Of the living al. d TN
route A Iotai al % living ant Il, All bouits
we're saved, e v.Dg 80 persons unaccouutt
| LOT AZ soon as possible many Of the sur, ivors
were 'akth To Boston, hut marry IA are IN tUu
"azed aconditlnn 10 give an inIel igenJ state
ment. +. W. Fairbanks If Coz ham, Maine,
| gives the Following dcscIipti IA oil tue wreck:
| Wien The steam was jdmmed upon the
rocks, the alter rushed mt the storage aud
he SCI anihled out, taking the greater p,rt III
bis clUthing. AS th vessel dit d sue Ike led
| Nv r, ahd he got iuto the rigging, where IA.
clu Jor hours, wlh the eea break nv over
| MA atirrqut NJ Intervals. B rats Couldn't ap
| proach he wreck. When his turn came IA,
| Jumped inio the raging water. and was swepI
| Within aeh If the r, scuers. He saw two wi
| made the perilous leap uv, rbOard washed ava,
! 10 death, anu o"liev' many met the salnc lat.
hie in The rigging the pilot told him b,
| nxed the urse OF the vessel and fastened fh'
wheel, and rs he vas very cold, went 10 tn,
smok,"stack To warm himself, remained ther,
~ minutes, aud he returned u his pust founC
the ship had vecred AROUND. When he ascer
tanned that the vessel was among the rocks
ard IL was probably impossible Ia save her, Ia
| put her right ON the shore aud ran her AS higl
as he could, with the result, although sh
| drew IL fcet Uf water, her forefoot was in
| fert.
Fairbanks is of the opinion that many pas
ssngers did not leave Che cabins till their boz tie
were washed out by the waves, which soUl
| tore OIL the after part of the deck aud carried
out bodies, furniture and baggage before the
| eyes OF the Mortified survivors. Not woman
or child was seen by him alive after the yesse
went ashore.
Captain Wright of the wrecked steamer l
| at Woods ball, Mass, and appears 10 de daZei
| by the calamity which has befallen him ana hi
| YES ell. He says he passed Nobska light at l ia
and 10 minutes latter lie gave orders TO lay tn
course west southwest, and went TO his room
sitting down on the floor with his back agains
the steam heater He thinks he may have beef
there % minutes, QuarteTmaster Mcdonald be
ng at the wheel, wnen he heard SOME one say
sport" He Immediately rushed into the pilo
house saying: "hard a-port," before seein
where he was or what the cause for changing
the course was. The steamer struck, and Il
about 20 minutes sank, it being 4 O'clock.
comparison of the above times will show tina
| II correct, he must have slept at least two hour
instead of q minutes. His order, "Hard a
port" woulo be very natural to mau sudden
| ly disturbed from a sound sleep. A later dis
patch says that Capt. Wright has become vic
| emily insane.