St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-06

reach the island. They took pilot boat and
dory with them. When as near the island
as they could risk, the dory was launched,
and with the assistance of the men on the
island, Chapman got ashore and saw Cap
tain SchoonhoVen and obtainedthe following
particulars of the wreck:
FOGGY WEATHER.
The steamer had fine weather on the pas
sage, with the exception of the last two days,
which were very foggy, it being impossible to
get any reckoning, and he thinks he must
have overrun his time. At 10 p. m. the Sd
inst he saw light ahead, which he first took
for Chebucto light the fog making it appear
about five miles of, but it could not have
been more than one. He discovered, as he
neared the light, twas Sambro, and before he
had time to reverse the engines, he was
among the lodges, northeast of the island.
The steamer struck twice and began filling
fast He then tried to run her ashore, but
she sank in few minutes. As soon as the
ship struck, the captain ordered the passen-
gers all on deck, but they were all swept
overheard and drowned by the heavy seas
which swept over her.
THE SAVED.
Two passengers and five of the crew got
into boat and managed to reach the shore.
The ship went down stern first. The captain,
who was at his post on the bridge when she
went down, threw off his boots and coat and
took to the forward rigging, but she sank
faster than he could climb, so he
was obliged to let himself float and after
considerable trouble caught the top-gallant
yard and chung there with one of the pas
sengers, who also managed to keep himself
afoat until a. m. on Friday, when boat
put off from the island and rescued them. The
captain will remain on the island to look af
ter the wreck, and will not come up to the
city until the first of the week. No bodies
are yet washed ashore.
THE SURVIVORS.
The government steamer Newfield left this
morning for Sambro island, for the purpose
of getting off the crew, and securing all pos
sible information. Running at o'clock
within a few hundred yards of the island she
cast anchor, and proceeded to make the
necessary preparation for gettiug the sur
vivors from the island. A boat was launched,
| and the men pulled for the spot where the
survivors were awaiting relief. Upon land
ing the sailors and passengers were inter
viewed by the rescuing party, and the follow
ing details of the dreadful catastrophe was
elected by the reporter:
The surviving passengers and seamen of
the Inflated steamer are: Henry Schoonhoven,
Antwerp, captain; Eugene Nickola, Milford,
Gutenberg; Locco Nicola, Vincengo Salano,
Italy; John Medermann, Echenhofen; ODER
Bayen, Otto Kranz, Wittchendorf, near
Schwarsburg; Frank Florentne, Disseri,
Antwerp; Charles Won Louis, Antwerp;
Petro Fences, Antwerp; Fritz Wick, STRAIT
sund, Prussia.
A CLEAR STATEMENT.
Alex Clinic, brother of the lighthouse
keeper, who resides upon the island, gave
the annexed statement: 'My brother Alfred
is keeper of the lighthouse. The permanent
residents upon the island are, the keeper, his
wife, three children, myself and another
brother, Stewart A. Bombardier and four
gunners of the royal artillery and Alex
Houseman, engineer, in charge of the fog
whistle. At the time of the disaster, the keeper
and Bombardier were in Halifax ON
duty, engaged in making their annual
returns, etc. Two boiler makers were at the
period ofthe wreck, at work repairing the boil
er of the whistle. / was in charge of the fog
whistle from till $50, having relieved the
engineer at 6, at which time the whistle was
in working order and sounding its notes of
warning. 1 succeeded in keeping the whistle
going till AS, when it cleared sufficiently to
enable me to see distinctly DEVILS island
and Chebucto head l stopped the whistle,
the engineer at this time deeming it unnec-
essary to keep it going.
THE STEAMER SIGHTED.
Just before the engineer relieved me at
$50 the lookout man sighted the steamer
about a mile south by east of the light. He
called me and 1 saw how she was lying to-
heading about east northeast. She laid there
about fifteen minutes, while | looked at
her, after which she ran ahead about a
mile, and then started ahead again, and
went about 500 yards and again stopped.
I think she then struck on Broad
Beaver shoal, for she began to back astern.
1t was very dark and L judged her motions
by her lights. The fog whistle was started
again at As, though it was still clear. This
was done to warn the ship from the rock.
About twenty minutes after she began to
back. This time she struck again, on the
Mid rock on the northeast shoal.
SHE SINKS.
She then let go anchor, but this did not
seem to hold her and she drifted up across
the shoal and sank between 800 and 400
yards from the shore of the island. Ny
brother and then got into boat and at
tempted to put out to the steamer, but the
boat was too small, and we were forced to
turn back We then went up
and turned the lights upon the rocks,
and lit bonfires along the shore to
warn any boats that might be afoat, against
the dangerous coasts. We also waved blue
lights in the direction of the cove, as signal
to such boats to keep within safe distance
from the island, and also as guide to enable
to keep comparatively free from danger, SO
that they could land without risk.
BOAT COMES ASHORE.
In the course of an hour boat came in
sight, which proved to be one of the boats of
the steamer, containing seven men. We
succeeded in guiding them into place where
they might land. We kept lights burning
along the shore all night, but saw nothing
more until daybreak, when we observed two
persons cinging to the forward
rigging. Stewart and three others
then lowered boat, and putting out to the
wreck rescued and safely landed the captain
and one passenger. Throughout the day the
fog continued too thick for US to signal, and
the sea was too boisterous to permit landing
ON the main land We did all in onr mower