The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-09
A SUNDAY STORY.
How a Government C9tter
Was Not Wrecked.
A 4RGRTRENDISG >ENsATIoN
spoiISd by the CGtter Turning Up
All Right - The Wrerkags
That Came Ashore.
The Foundered Manhattan.

IT is said the Uuited STATES steamer
Manhattan founde.ed Aabout $50 this
morning, two and half miles off this
barber, and sank Immediately, carry
ing with her all on board. The cause
of the accidents not yet Known. The
supposed crew of the steamer Man
haitian nufhbe- twenty-five.
New HAVEN, November THE MdH-
haitian came int this port yesterday
afternoon for shelter, and started out
presumably for &ew York. About 8
this morning the wind was blowing q
gale and 4 tremendous sea was running.
Just after passing the breakwater, and
getting into the fell force of the gale
blowing up the SQUAD, she,was seen by
VIM. King, an oyster desser living at
Oyster Point. He watched her through
glass, and IS she appeared 90 be labor
ing heavily. and was evidently in dis
tress, he rEa TO the telephone and tried
70 notify some of the tugs in the port.
When he returned the vessel was
still TO be seen and in trouble.
A few inmates later mot over threel
she had disappeared. and nothing could
be seen. He Is of the opinion that sue
went down, with sil on board. he
stated that Ender the most favorable
circumstances she could not have
steamed out of sight inside Of twenty
minutes. The tug Abert went down to
the breakwater, this afternoon, but was
compelled TO return without going out
side, on account of the high seas. There
is mo vay of positivelg Confirming the
idendity of the .yesse, tonight, or TO
obtain full particulars, as nothing in
the harbor co2ld leave for the search
outside. Branttord, eight miles to the
east, reports that q LANCE quantity Of
Ereckage Is coming ashore. and is
strewn along the beach for two miles.
1t consists OF woodwork, apparently in
side cabin work, breadstuffs, biscuit,
ell cans, etc.
WASHINGTON, November T. The
steamer Hdnhd1tGa. which is reported
TO have foundered of New Haven this
morning, is q revenue cutter. The chief
Of the revenue maine says she was q
sfaunch screw steamer shout Us tons,
and carried q crew of Is man. She was
commanded by Lieutenant II. +. Foster,
who is regarded as one q the ablest
officers in the service, and 4 is believed
by the chief OF the revenue 1Larine that
she could not have founde=ec unless as
q result Of some accident. The other
ofhcers Of the Manhattan were Second
Lieutenant. W. S. Holland. executive |
officer; Third Lieutenant, J c Harris; |
engineer. James Ogden; assistant en-
gineer. Willet S. Pedrick.
Another account: The United States |
revenue steamer Manhattan, Lieutenant |
Tosier in command, went TO the bot |
tom of the southwest ledge, two miles |
outside of this, al $50 o clock this morn |
ing. At the time the vessel sank there |
was q heavy sea on, with furious gale |
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this harbor some time during last night, |
and anchored in the channel OF the /
yacht clubs house. The custom house |
officials seem 10 know very little Of the 1
vessels mission in these waters, but |
think she was on special duty at the /
setting of buoys, examination of light /
houses, or looking after coastiDg and /
trading vessels to see that their papers /
were correctly made out, and that thew |
were engaged in the trade sanctioned /
by them. This morning, about 8
o clock, three of the officers Of
the Manhattan came ashore in q
small boat, landing at the long
wharf. They remained on shore
about an hour, and after, getting
papers went aboard again.
Immediately after this the Manhattan
got under way, and headed down the
harbor. William Kane, an FISHERMAN
at Oyster Point, says tonight, that he
noticed a vessel pass out of the haroor
and set her course toward the south
west, and that she pitched heavily in
the sea. She shipped two or three seas,
and apparently struggled very much
in the sea. She then turned half around
toward the eastward and Kane says her
condition grew more labored. He ran
70 notify the tug office in this city by
telephone to send assistance, and was
gone but ten minutes he was unable
TO raise the city, however, and
when he returned the vessel was
and tide. To all appearances
the vessel could not be controlled by
its wheel. Kane says that he then ran
about forty feet across the warehouse
floor to call his employer, and that
when he returned after an absence of
not ever three minutes, the Manhattan
had disappeared from view. Not q
vestige was to be seen either by the
naked eye or with the aid of glass.
Kane's story is corroborated by Jas.
Smith, proprietor Of . hotel at South
End on the eastern shore, seven or
eight miles from the point where Kane
saw the vessel sink. Smith says 4
when he first saw her Nan
AuttQH was On neT slOe sQlppl0g
sea after sea and finally careened over /
ana went down in 3 very few minutes |
from the time he FIRST noticed the YES
sci. Two or three other persons on the |
eastern shore, all at different points of /
tell stories of disaster that i
fully bear out those told by Smith and 1
Kane. The tug Alert. Of this port, went /
down the hsrbor about IL O'Clock this
morning, but on account of the tx
tremely heavy sea and wind could not 4
60 outside. She saw nothing in the way
of wrecksge, however. When the Man
haitian sank, the tide vas setting fully \
out into the sound, and whatever wreck
age there may have been would 60 out /
10 sea.
LATER.-This afternoon quantities Of pi-
lot bread and biscuit, pieces of board var
nished on one side. that may have been i
broken from the officers cabin oil cans,
and some miscellaneous articles, fioated /
ashore with the incoming tide on the /
eastern shore within a stretch OF two |
miles from the light house at the mouth |
OF the harbOr 10 the eastward.
As stated above, there is nothing 1
known OF the AGnhGftaH's business. ]
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