Daily evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville [Ky.]) 1883-1887, 1884-04-07
AS TOLD BY SURVIVORS
The Tale of the Last Terrible 81. 4.
wreck.
The Statements Made BY the Captain
and ny the LoOkOut-What
the Keeper OF the
Light Saw.


in Sis statement as to the wreck, says;
"The nrst shock was light, the second
heavy, carrying away the steering gear,
and we could no longer get the engines IL
work. Next we drifted over the rocks and
anchored. 1t was pretty quiet and little
sea- / ordered to lower the boats and get
the childrel and female passengers in first.
Having all \ iy one boat iu the water saw
the ship coming nearer the breakers
again. l ran forward to see if the
chain was broken Before getting
there monstrous sea broke over
the hoop, washing every passenger on deck
overheard. This was followed by an awful
crash, and the ship went down as quick as
lightning, stern first, carrying every one
down. got my last observation OH the
morning of the I'd. There was storm
from the east when we struck, with thick
fog and rain. 1t was impossible to save
any papers,
Alexander Gilkie, whose brother Is the
keeper of the light, tells the following
story: 'At the time of the disaster the
keeper and the bombarder were i'll Halifax
making their returns. | was in charge of
the fog whistle, having relieved the engin-
eer 1t was thick all day | kept the
whistle going till S:45, when it cleared off
L
Head, and l stopped the whistle. just be-
fore the engineer relived me- at 1:3J. the
lookout man sighted the ship about a mile
south OF the light. She was lying-to, and
lay there about ten minutes. Then she
She then stopped. She started
ahead again, and went only about 800
yards and again stopped. L think she
struck there, for she began to back.
judged her motions 10y her lights The
whistle was started again to warn the ship
from the rock. Twenty minutes after she
began backing she struck again; she then
let go anchor. This did not seem to hold
her. and she drifted across the shoals and
sunk"
riurentine Van Gessel, the look out, says:
al went to the lookout at nine O'clock 1t
was foggy and there was rain and wind.
The Captain had been aloft To look at the
light. He would not trust any one else.
We were going slow. / reported light,
but the Captain thought it was revolving
light threw lead and found twenty-six
fathoms. Immediately afterward We
struck. With some OF the men l got boat
out. We rowed through II struggling mass
of humanity"
HALIFAX, April THE Steinmann
struck on Mad Rock, backed of, and again
struck on Garner Shoal, staving hole in
her bottom. She quickly filled and went
down. Only one lifeboat is known to have
been launched. 1t reached Sambro Island
at midnight with five Of the crew and two
passengers. At daylight two people were
seen clinging to the ships rigging, and Il
boat put out from the lighthouse and res
cued them. They were Captain Sch0on-
hover and a boy. At A. NJ. Pilot Martin
touched at Sambro in boat and brought
back to the main land message to the
Halifax agents of the line from Captain
Schoonhover, saying that ninety passen-
gers and thirty-four OF the crew We're
drowned, and that five of the crew, three
passengers and the captain We're saved.
After this the sea became SO rough that it
was impossible to reach the island, and tho
fog is so dense that signalling is inpossi-
Lle. No women are among the survivors
HALIFAX, April THE Dominion Cow
eminent steamer has returned to port un-
able to get beyond Chebucto Head owing
to the storm. A number of people have
gone to Sambro village, but the island can
only b. reached in calm weather by boats,
and, from present Appearances, it will be
two days before a boat will be able to land
there. Fishermen say that the Mad House
Shoals are three hundred yards west
If the lighthouse, and believe that
the steamer struck there. 1t is renorted
that some of the crew were clinginS
to the rigging, part of which was above
water. During the night the weather con-
tinued too rough to permit any one to go
to tho assistance of the men on the wreck.
fisherman launched a fiat boat and
brought off the Captain and boy who
had been secured in the rigging by the
Captain The schooner Thistle will leave
the city tomorrow morning with well
equipped diving crew, who will essay All
attempt 10 raise the remains Of victims
and whatever portion of the cargo that cant
he saved.
Tho steamer was reported at 81. Cathe-
rines Point, near Antwerp, TWO days after
leaving. The next thing heard of her was
when the light keeper on Sanbro Island
heard her whistle she was going down.