St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-08
WITH ALL ON BOARD.
The United States Revenue Cutter Man
haitian Goes Down Off New
Haven Harbor.
A Grew of Twenty-Five Men on the
Vessel, All of Whom are
Drowned.
Several Schconers Sink in Lake
Michigan--A Cook Loses Her
Life.
A Terrible Accident in Indiana
Donovan's Jump Into the
Niagara.
The Steamer Manhattan Sinks.

The Steamer Manhattan Sinks.
New HAVEN, Nov. THE United
States revenue steamer Manhattan, Lieut.
the bottom off Southwest ledge, two miles
outside of this harbor. at 9 o'clock this
morning. The Manhattan came into this
harbor some time during last night and an
chored in the channel off the Yacht clubs
house. The custom house officers seem to
know very little about the vessels mission
on these waters but think she was on spe-
cial duty as the setting of buOys. eXamina-
tion Of light houses or looking after coast
ing and trading vessels, to see that their
papers were correctly made out, and
that they were engaged in the
trad sanctioned by them. This
morning about o'clock three of the officers
of the Manhattan came ashore in small
boat. landing at the long wharf. They re-
mained on shore about an hour, and after
getting the morning papers went aboard
again. Immed ateIy after this the Manhat-
tan got under way and headed down the
harbor. William Kane. an oyster dealer at
Oyster point, says tonight that he noticed
the vessel pass
OUT OF THE HARBoR
and set her course toward the southwest,
and that the pitched heavily in the sea.
She shipped two or three seas and appar-
emily struggled very much in the sea. She
then turned half around toward the east
ward. and Kane says her condition grew
more labored. He ran to notify the tug
Office in this city by telephone to send
assistance, and was gone but ten
minutes. He was unable to
rouse the city, however, and when he re-
turned the vessel was still struggling against
both wind and tide. To all appearances
the vessel couldn't be controlled by its
wheel Kane says he then ran about forty
feet across a warehouse floor to call his en-
ployer, and that when he returned, after an
absence of not over two minutes, the Man.
haitian had disappeared from view. Not
vestige of her was to be seen, either by the
naked eye or with aid of the glasses.
Kane's story is cOrrobOrated by James
Smith, the proprietor of a hotel at South
end. on the eastern shore. For eight miles
from the point where Kane saw the vessel,
two or three other persons on the
eastern shore, all at different points of OBJ
servation. tell
STORIES OF THE DISASTER
that fully bear out those told by Smith and
Kane The tug Alert. of this port, went
down the harbor about II o'clock this
morning, but on account of the extremely
heavy sea and wind, could not go outside.
They saw nothing in the way of wreckage,
however. When the Manhattan sank the
tide was setting full out into the sound,
and whatever wreckage there may have
been would move directly out to sea. Late
this afternoon quantities of pilot bread and
biscuit. pieces of board vanished on one
side. that may have been broken from a
vessels cabin. oil cans and other
articles fcated ashore with the
incoming tide on the east shore
within a stretch Of two miles from the light
house point As stated above, there is
nothing known here of the Manhattan'S
business. She is described as being of a
schooner rig, with a length of eighty or
ninety feet. Her crew is estimated at
from fifteen to twenty-five men i'll all. The
east and west shores are being patrOlled
tonight in search of bodies that may be
washed ashore, but up to midnight no re-
ports have been received from any point.
A REVENUE CUTTER.
WASHINGTON, Nov. THE steamer
Manhattan. which is reported to have fOun-
dered off New Haven this morning. is
revenue cutter. The chief of the revenue
marine says she was a staunch screw
steamer OF about hundred and twenty-five
tons, and carried a crew of twenty-five men.
She was commanded by Lieut.. d. F. To
Zier who is regarded as one of the ableSt
officers in the service. and it is the opinion
of the chief Of revenue marine that she
could not have f0undered unless as the re-
suit of some extraordinary accident. The
other officers of the cutter were Second
Lieut. w. S. Holland; executive officer,
j. c, Harris: engineer, James Ogden, and
assistant engineer, Willis Pedrick.
Sank in Deep Water.