The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-16
SUNK In MID-OCEAN.
The Steamer State of Florida Col
Iides With the Bark Ponema
and Both are Sunk.
But Forty-four Persons Saved of the 1s2
on Board the Vessel = Full
List of the Passengers
Saved.
FULL PARTICULARS.

regard to the survivors of the ill-fated
steamer State of Florida was relieved to-
night by the arrival of the Donaldson
steamer Titania, from Glasgow to Montreal
with coal and general merchandise,
which was telegraphed this morn
ing as on her way to Quebec with
twenty-f0ur of the saved party. The
Titania reached this port at S:15 ard pro-
ceeded straight to Montreal, the order to
land the party saved here, which the river
police were prepared to execute by taking
them off in mid-stream as she Stacked to
ship her Montreal pilot, having been coun-
terRlanded by the vessel owners, and in
structi0ns received to carry them through to
Montreal.
The Titania was boarded however, by
press representatives, who accompanied
her for some distance up the river and
cleaned the names from the saved, and
some of the thrilling particulars of the dis
aSter. The names of those picked up by
The steamer Titania constitute the follow
ing:
LIST OF THE SAVED:
James Allen, third officer.
Andrew N. Steele surgeon.
William Armstrong, able seaman.
Francis Graham, able seaman.
David Walker, passage worker.
David Clune, Storekeeper.
Alexander Mitchell, donkey man.
James Thomas fireman.
William II. Smith, passage worker.
George Forester, second steward.
Neil McKillar, assistant steward.
James Mckenzie, assistant steward.
Robert Young, assistant steward.
John Mcdonald, able seaman.
John Sanstram, able seaman.
John McGaw, assistant cook.
Adam Macfarlane, assistant cook.
William Miller, bakers mate.
James Bennett, London, Ont, frst-class
passenger.
Andrew Fairbairn, second-class passen-
ger.
David Struthers, secoEd-class passenger.
James Patience, storage passenger.
Jonah Hale, steerage passenger.
Eliza Churchouse, steerage passenger.
T0tal-24.
The following are the names of the re-
mainder saved and now on their way to
Quebec on board the Norwegian bark
Theresa, of Christiana:
James Thompson, chief officer.
Theodore Bair, b0atswain.
John Smith, boatswain's mate.
Peter Patterson, carpenter.
Henry Anderson, lamp trimmer.
John Silverblade, quartermaSter.
John Miller, quartermaster.
John Smith, able seaman.
Charles Love, able seaman.
George Armour, able seaman.
John Beard, boatsWain's yeoman.
William Lawson, able seaman.
William Hyslop, second engineer.
Edward Boyle, fireman.
John Mcdowell, fireman.
Jane Mcfarland, stewardess.
Hugh Morgan, steeTage passenger.
Peter j. Renning, steerage passenger.
Martin Patterson, steerage passenger.
Francis Watson, steerage passenger.
Total-20.
THE STORY OF THE WRECK.
The following is the official report of the
third officer of the State of Florida 1--WE
left New York on the 18th Of April, with
about 1877 passengers and crew and full gem
eral cargo. All went well until the night of
the 18th, when at II 80 we came in collision
with the bark Ponema, of Chatham, N. B.,
Captain Hetburn. Both ships went down
almost instantly, and out of the steamers
passengers and crew only forty-four includ-
ing the stewardess, managed to escape in
the boats, and out of the ba rk's crew of fif-
teen only the captain and two seamen were
saved.
Next morning the bark was observed
bottom up. The survivors, after being
thirty-five hours in the boats without food
or water, were rescued by the Norwegian
bark Theresa of Christian, from that port
bound for Quebec. On the 22d twenty-four
Of them wsre transferred on board the ship
Louisa, of and from Cardiff for Quebec,
where they remained until the 5th of May,
when they were taken on board the Titania
for Quebec. 1t is believed 135 lives were
lostn
OFFICER ALIENS STATEMENT.
This third officer, James Allen, being in
terviewed, added that the night on which
the disaster occurred was clear, though
moonless, and the sea was as smooth as
glass. He retired to his bunk at eight
o'clock, leaving Chief Officer Thompson in
charge of the deck. About 10 he heard
Signal suddenly given to stop the
steamers engines, followed by fearful
crash. He rushed Immediately on deck
and the first thing he noticed was red
light pretty close on the Starboard bow. At
the same moment he heard the chief officers
voice cry Collision" and saw the bark
which had run into them go down. This
bark, he afterward learned from its captain
and two of its crew who were picked up
and saved, was the Ponema. of Chatham,
n. B., bound from Liverpool to Mirimichi.
Running to the side of his own vessel he
endeayored to ascertain the damage done,
and perceiving the immense gaping hole
into which the sea was fast pouring, and
feeling, as he said to himself, that the
steamer was a 'goner," he at once
hurried to the captain, who Immediately
gave orders to get out the boats, four
of which were down in fifteen
minutss, when the State of Florida just
keeled over TO port and went down stern
foremost AS far as he could calculate the
disaster occurred in latitude forty-nine de-
grces north, longitude thirty-six degrees and
thirty minutes west, or about 10 miles off
the Irish coast, as when their last bearings
were taken that day that day they were
about forty seven degrees and fifty minutes
north, and thirty-eight degrees and thirty