Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-21

hold. There was no time to awaken usssen. gers individually but nearly all of them came from their staterooms on hearing the general
 tumuIt. As soon as it was apparent that the
 vessel was hopelessly aground, Capt. Wright
 came into the saloon, begged the passengers
 to keep cool and directed them to put
 on their life preservers. Every one did this
 but within few minutes the water. breakinc,
 over the vessel. filled the rooms and cabins
 and all were driven on deck They wsra
 able to keep a foothold there for 8 short
 time. but within twenty minutes every vo-
 man and child was washed overheard. About
 forty men. remained and they took to the
 position on the house until daylight Then
 that broke loose and they were
 driven to the rigging. At seven
 o'clock a steamer was sighted three or four
 miles away, but the only signal made the
 waiving of arms) was not seen. The first res.
 culng party to arrive at about half past 10
 was party of Gay Head Indians in whale
 boat. They hung around for some time
 shouting and gesticulating before approach ing the wreck, and the poor fellows in the rigging began to fear they were looking for plunder only, as their shouts could not be understood. Finally it was comprehended that 1t was impossible for them to come alongside, and seven men, one after another. jumped from the rigging into the sea and were successfully fshed out. They were all the boat could carry and she started for tne snore The wet, freezing men in the rigging were fast losing strength and before the Dexter arrived dozen of them dropped. one after another, into the raging waters. When the cutters boats did arrive the hero ism of the men, especially of their gallant commander, Lieutenant Rhodes, was mag nlhcen5 The strange feature of it is that SO many were saved under the circumstances. The steward and captain were the last to come off,
 Captain T. R. Hammond of Goldsboro, Me, who has been seafaring man all his life, was one of the passengers saved from the wreck. He cannot account for the ships position at the time she struck. The wind was blowing, but not strongly, from the southwest. Not long after passing Nobsque the captain went below, leaving the ship in charge of an officer, with dire otions to keep her on the course then pursuing have insured her entire safety. Why these directions were not followed will, per- haEs, never be certainly known, but no prevailing gale or anything of that kind necessitated 8 change of course. When the ship struck, the captain | says he could distinctly trace the different | colorings of the grounds of Gay Head, so | light and clear was the night. After daylight | he noted the position of the buoy near by | and saw that there were breakers outside of | It, although the ship was lying inside, and he | concluded that the buoy was out of position. | Between and o'clock in the morning the | steamer Glaucus passed to the westward, but | ook not the slightest notice of the terrible | tragedy which was enacting so neav | He says that from his outlook in | he rigging of the City of Columbus he 'ould have distinctly seen man standing | gainst the house of the passing steamer, and | snnot conceive how the crowd of human 'eings in the rigging of the wrecked vessel hould have been overlooked Of discipline uch as is usually observed on American ves- els of high class there was little to be seen 5oat after boat was cut away, taken in charge y officers or crew, or both, and manipulated l y them without the slightest reference to he passengers. The first boat was cast of t one end and left hanging at the other to ound to atoms against the ship Another 7as launched and went to sea empty An ther was manned by few officers and men 7Ithout passenger or half @ complement nd disappeared. Still another was cut pose, veered off alongside and drifted out yard, secured only by her painter, where he foated all day among the debris.
 NEW BEDFORD, Jan. 20-A number of gen. Iemen now here searching for tidirgs of lost nes combined with the reporters to day and hartered the tug Nellie to carry them off to he scene of the wreck All along the shore n Gay Head and in Menarsha bight, a cove djeining Gay Head, the coast is one line of Every little way lies a body with ands clenehed, face up and with one or two xceptions no covering save underclothine. 'hese bodies have lain on the shore two avs. Despite the cold the sand flies have egun to gnaw the flesh from the bones. our of the bodies found were identified and wo of the four survivors found at Gay Head 7ere brought here
 A Denial From the GIaucus Officers.
 BOSTON, Jan. 20-The officers of the teamer Glaucus, which passed the wreck arly Friday morning. deny the charge that 1ey could not have failed to see the men in le rigging and assert that they thought it as an old wreck.
 Tine Rescue of Captain Vance.
 WooDs HOLE, Jan. 2O-At a distance of 'veral miles from the place where the City Columbus sunk the crew of the Speedwell aturday came across one of the life boats of 1e City of Columbus full of water and sank early to the waters edge In the boat, ashlng around in the water as the waves Iised and lowered the boat, was found the ap- arently lifeless body of Capt. s. Vance When