Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-14

The following are the names of the re-
mainder of the saved, numbering twenty,
now on the way to Quebec on board the
Norwegian bark Therese, of Christiana.
James Thompson, chief officer.
Thomas Bair, boatswain.
John Smith, boatswain's mate.
Peter Peterson. captain.
Henry Anderson, lamp-trimmer.
John Silverblade, quartermastsr.
John Miller, quartermaster.
John Smith, able seaman. -.-.- r
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. &c.
Jane Mcfarland, stewardess.
Hugh Morgan, stcerage passenger.
Peter j. Renning, steersge passenger.
Martin Paterson, steerage passenger.
Francis Watson, steerage passenger.
The following is the official report o.
the third officer of the State of Florida:
We left New York, April IL, with about le7
passengers and crew and q full general cargo
All went we'll until the night of the 18th. Al
ma, Of Chatham, N. B., Capt. Hatburn. Both
ships went down almost instantly, and out m
the steamers passengers and crew only forty.
four, including the stewardess, managed to es,
cape in boats, and out of the balk's crew of fl:
teen only the captain and two seamen were
saved, The next morning the bar6 was OBJ
served bottom up. The survivors, after beina
water, were rescued by the Norwegian bari
Theresa, of Christiana, from that port bound
to Quebec. On the 22d twenty-four Of then
were transferred on board the ship Louisa, Of
and from Cardiff to Quebec, where they re.
manned until the 5th day Of May. when they
were taken on board the Titania for Quebec
It is believed 1856 lives were lost.
In an interview Mr.. Allen gave the
following additional particulars:
The night on which the disaster occurred
Vas clear, though moonlsss, and the sea was
ymooth as glass. He retired to his bunk at q
o'clock, leaving the chief officer, Thompson, in
signal suddenly given to stop the steamers en-
g1ne, followed by fearful crash. He rus y
Immediately on deck, and the first thing he n
ticed was red light pretty close on their ct
board bow. At the same moment he beard IT,
chief officers voice and the cry "colhsion
He perceived the bark which had run into
learned from its captain and two OF its crew, who
were picked up and saved, was the Ponema, OF
% pool to No Mi1i,micSi. ri, biuDu Runnins u n'Sb: tc
the side Of his own vessel he en-
deavored to ascertain the damage done, and,
psrceiving an immense gaping hole into which
the sea was fast pouring, and feeling-as he
said himself-that the steamer was a goner,
he at once hurried to the captain, who i'm
mediately gave orders to get out the boats,
four Of which were down in fifteen minutes,
when the State Of Florida just keeled over To
port and went down stern foremost. As far as
be could calculate the disaster occurred in
latitude 49 degrees north, longitude 36h de-
grees " est, or about 120 miles off the Irish
coast. as when their last bearings were taken
that day they were about 1880 north, 49, 80
west. As the vessel went down all on deck,
including the captain, were washed off by the
sea. All on board further stated, that the
captain was exceedingly cool-too cool, in
ger as serious or pressing, and this, together
with the fact that he appeared in no hurry to
save himself, was possibly the cause why more
OF the passengers were not saved. They
would not take to the boats, and they supposed.
when they saw him SO cool, the danger was not
great. and, moreover, the sea was 90 calm. OF
the eight boais carried four were safely launched
and two smashed by the collision. OF the
other two he knew nothing, but believed they
were washed away when the steamer went
down. He did not believe anyone had escaped
In them. However, il they had, he did not
Want 10 raise any raise hOpeS, DIS opinion being
that they never would be heard from again.
When No. boat was being lowered the tackle
was cut too quickly, and its occupants, all
passengers, upset into the sea. A number, in
Guiding MIR. Bennett, Of London, Ont, clune
to the boats bottom during the remainder Of
the night and were picked up in the morning
by other boats. Sunday, after drifting thirty
five hours, they we're picked up by the Theresa,
and the following Tuesday the party now on
board the Ttania were transferred to the bark
Louise, Of Cardiff, while OF Bird rocks, Tut,
the latter being overcrowded, the party waa
again transferred to the Ttania.
Members of the present party on
board the Titania presented q pitiable
appearance. So sudden was the calami.
y that many of them, in the hunks at
the time, had to hurry on deck and in
to the boats in their night clothes. Most
Of them had but q confused idea of what
really took place. All could distinctly
remember, however, the crash and the
rnah fnp tho Inok