Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-03-27

no attention to them. The women passen-
gers were first assisted into the boats and
then the male cabin passengers.
SIGNALS ANSWERED..
The signals of the Oregon were answered
by pilotbOats No. IL (the PhantOm), and the
schooner Fanny A. German, Capt. MahOny,
| from jacksonville for Boston. The passel-
gers were transferred by the lifeboats to the
schooner and the pilotbOats within the three
hours from s to IL o'clock this morning.
Capt. Cottier and DIR. Bender were the last
men to leave the Oregon. Not life was lost
| in the transfer. The Fulda came along at
II Is and took the Oregon's passengers and
crew from the SchoOners. She brought them
to Sandy Hook, where she arrived at q :25.
As ii was low tide, she could not cross the
bar. She reached quarantine about O'Clock
| this morning.
The Oregon filled rapidly and went down
| in about twelve fathOms of water at p. m.
The upper part of the main, mizzen and jig
ger masts remain above water.
The schooner that the Oregon crushed
into was seen in the wake of the steamship
| for a moment after the collision, her bow and
all head gear wrecked; then she disap-
| peared. 1t is supposed that she sank, and
that all her people were lost. One of the
| Messengers on the Oregon whose room adj
| joined the mail-roOm, heard all hands or
dered below to get cOffeea few moments be
| fore the collision. When the shock occurred
| the crew was ordered on deck again. He ran
| on deck in his night-clothes. Women and
men were running wildly about. The officers
and the captain behaved splendidly. Nobody
seemed to be injured. The sea at the time OF
the collision was smooth as ballroom fool
and the sky was clear. The wreck of the
Oregon is about five miles from land and
within sixteen miles of the Fire Island
light
LOOKING FOR THB OREGON.
The tugboats Z. l.. Pulver, W. Goodwin
len. MillaId and F. w. Vosburgh started
out at II a. m, with Capt. Watson, Superin
tendent of the Cunard pier. on board tn,
Millard. The Aurania, which left her piel
on Saturday morning, and had been stuck il
the fog off Gravesend Bay, got under head
way and orders were delivered to her com
mander, Capt. Haines, to look out for tn
Oregon, and if the latter needed assistance
to tow her in, for it was not known thel
that she had sunk. Then Capt. watson go
| on the VOsburg. which started on In Searcl
| of the Oregon. while the other tugs stopped
near the Scotland light ship. The arrival o
| Fulda put an end to uncertainty, and IN
| tugs came home.
At 8:l5 D. m, as Superintendent Robert q
Smith went down to board The Fulda in th
little side-wheel steamer William Fletcher
he stopped at quarantine to take on Unite
States Inspector William &. Iway. ID
boarded the Fulda and found all the ORE
| gon's passengers pretty comfortable. The
| said they had been transferred to the Fuld
| by boats and rats. All their personal bas
gage was lost with the cargo and only sixt!
nine bags of mail remained out of the ~
thatthe Oregon had brought over.
THE LOST STEAMER.
Tie Oregon was built for the GuiOn Lin
lby j. Elder & Co., at Glasgow, in 1888. Sh
| Was built for speed, and her trip frol
Queenstown to this city, finished on Augu
q, 1884. was made in 6 days and 10 hour
breaking the best record made up to thi
date. Since then better time has been mad
the Cunader Etruria covering the same di
f tapce in days hours and A minutes. II
=. Eutruria's big record was made on tr
ending August %, 1885, and has never Dee
t lowered. The Oregon was made OF iron ar
n was $50 feet long. 81 beam and 40 feet,
=. inches i'm depth, her gross measurement b
ing about 1900 tons. Her engines were E
IS pabie of developing 13, 600 horse power. 81
IS had four masts. five decks and a berthiI
70 capacity for nearly l 800. The first or prol
4 enade deck extended the whole length al
~ breath Of the vessel, excepting the pal
a forming the turtle decks at the bow Al
's etern. and a stroll around il would not I;
q short of q fifth of mile. The fourth de
70 was used for cargo or steerage passenge
m 600 of which could be accommodate
There were also Accommodations for 4oo
third.class, and $50 men in the crew. 1
ts vessel was lighted throughout With elect