The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-23

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Sinking Of the Tallapoos..
Boston, August 22.-The facts g
the Tallap0nsa are as follows: TIL
Tallapossa, with 14O men and officer
bound to Newport, to lake on boar,
Secretary Chandler, at eleven o'clocl
last night, during a thick TO,
three miles northeast of Oak Bluffs
Martha Vineyard, was struck in tn
bow by the schooner James Lowell
of Bath, Captain Reed, from Balti.
more for Portland, with q cargo o
coal. Hel side was crushed in an(
she sank in five minutes in ter
fathOMs of water. Asshe went down
her whistle was blown as q signal Of
distress and was heard by the steamer
Gate City which car0e up immedi.
ately, and with the schooner Mary
A. Hood, which happened to be in
the vicinity, rescued the crew with
the exception OF the surgeon and one
man which Is said to be missing.
The Gate City blew her whistle and
the steamer Fish Hawk. lying at the
wharf in Woods Hall, sent out her
steam launch. The Gate City lay to
until three o'clock transferring the
crew to the launch. They all landed
at Woods Hall. The TalIapoosa lies
on what is known as "Squash
Meadow Flat" The schooner James
s. Lowell also has on board several
OF the Tallapoosa crew.
The names of the missing from the
Tallapos0a are Assistant Surgeon
Clarence E. Black and George F.
Foster, landsman. Some of Secre-
tary Chandlers's personal effects were
on the vessel when she sunk.
CaptainReed of the schooner james
Lowell states he was passing through
the sound last night with a strong
southwest wind. All sails were set,
and his vessel was going at nine
knots. The night was clear, but
dark. When two miles away the
lookout reported, "a light ahead"
Shortly it was een to be a red light
and I said, speaking to the wheels.
man: RED larboard, keep her
straight" l stood near the wheel
duridg all the time and her course
was not altered until word came that
the green light could be cen To
avoid q collision ard seeing the
steamer was doing nothing to avoid
US, 1 ordered helm down, but before
it could be done, and before my
vessel had altered her course at all
the two vessels struck each other,
their stems seemingly coming
together exactly. Our vessels stem
glanced by the Tallapoosa and peDe-
trated her hull. After the v~esselsstor-
ped the steamer swung around
alongside the Lowell and
her crew might have jumped on
board, but it was not then known
what was the condition Of the other
vessel. After getting my family into
the boat 1 examined my vessel and
found she was leaking quite badly.
although not in immediate danger OF
sinking. The Tallapo0sa drifted
away from us and sank within q few
minutes before many of the officers
and crew had lett her. As she went
down those who could do so took to
the rigging and were taken off later.
The schooner Mary A. Wood came
along aud assisted in saving the
crew, and later the steamer Gate
City signalled and came to our as
sistance. After all the saved had
been transferred to her she steamed
away to Woods Hall. Touching the
collision, Captain Reed says it vas
the most careless piece of work he
ever saw. The night was clear; the
lights of the Lowell were burning all
right and were visible q long distance.
Lieutenant VIM. HI. Everett, ex-
ecutlve officer, Ensign William 3.
Whittlesy and mate, Hugh Kuhl
ana 100 men from the wreck of the
Talapoosa, arrived tonight at the
navy yard where they 60 upon wait
ing orders. Lieutenant Everett says
he believes the Talapoosa did act in
q manner to avoid the line OF water
which the steamer would cover. He
was not on deck at the time of the
collision but from conversations he
has since had, he feels convinced the
steamer was In the right. The two
vessels, he says, were coming IN
Numerically opposite directions,
full head on. The schooner
should have kept straight along
and we should have passed as
one side Of her. but it would Iste to
though the officers In charge Of the
schooner were afraid we would not
alter our course and turned their YES
sells head from the proper course.
Now it is q perfectly easy thing to
avoid q fixed point, but when that
point keeps bObbing around there's
no telling what to do. The very way
the schooner struck US would in
dictate she had changed her
course coming as she did full
head into Us instead OF
grazing alongside. statements OF
others of the Tallapoosa, however,
would tend to show a different set
of movements were followed. The
general opinion among sailors Is the
schooner was run in such q way
as to leave the Tallapoosa tie option
of passing astern or across her bows.
The TaIlapoosa chose the latter
course and endeavoring to glide in
front was run into by the schooner,
says the sailors, who claim to have
been in the pilot house at the time OF
the disaster. The captain and mate
saw the schooner. but disputed as to
whether it was green or red light
and finally the captain exclaimed:
do something, turn her
one way or the other"
and then we struck. One of
the two men at the wheel de-
clares: "They gave the order hard
a-starooard," when it ought to have
been "hard-a-port.' Wherever
fault rested, certain it is the schooner
plunged full head in the Tallapoosa
n her starboard-bow and cut clean