New-York tribune., 1886-08-03
THE VICTI.NS or THE SARAH CRAIG.
CROWDS ABOUT THE HOUSES OF THE DEAD-sAiLoRs
sUPEEsTlTIONS.


CROWDS ABOUT THE HOUSES OF THE DEAD-SAILoRs
sUPrEsTITIONs.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug = (Speciat.-Thc vicin
ty Of the homes OF tho victims OF the yacht Sarah Craig
has been thronged all day with crowd OF mon and
to learn tho fullest particulars OF the ds
aster SO great the demand OF tho large crce OF
friends OF tho dead to look their faces once moro
that all the dead persons have been laid out and
row the public will be permitted to take last view II
hoped tnat tho funerals should all take place
together, but this found to bo impractlcabe. The
funeral OF Mise Rettew will take place Wednesday at
/ o'clock. Mrs. Stevens and her two daughters
will be buried tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
The interment will be ut Monumental Cemetery. Tho
double of the Misses Bessie and Emma Merritt
will take place Wednesday, The funeral of Chester
T. Clark will be hold Wednesday, and the body VIII
be taken to Hepzbah Burymg ground. CoatesviIle,
Penn.
Mrs Merritt recovered from the shock OF the
news and condition is such to cause the almost
constant attendance of tho family physician. Mrs.
Retew Is a similar condition. aud the friends OF Mr.
Stevens about hun. lie cannot be consoled
The two sisters OF Mr. Clark carried from before
his coffin to-day fainting.
schooner experienced sen captain SAID ths mornine
As far as understand from the puDlisheu ac-
the yacht instead OF shortening SAIL aud running
before gale to wndward with forrsall fnrlrd.
mansa close hauled ami jD u When the captain loulu
the squal had struck hun he puts his helm down makes
II fast and runs forward assist In taking the Jo Inat
seems to me 10 have been bad Judgment IL wodid nave
been better 70 have cut the e i91s tnan 20 % nave ,n.
vessel should have been allowed To iun ana thep 'no
1t is tho hardest thing in tho world FOR oor
dous sudden squalls are mighty dangerous
things and often WORK faster than human hands can
work or human eyes There Is ono rule, how
ever which all classes Of boa'. and that
time OF danger, all hands on deck It Is the safest
Said Dock.st oysterman to-day: There is them as
laughs At sailors persttions but amt II strange may
the charter price OF the sarah Crag was ~ day IL
the Craig hai been my vessel I'd had SlJo Tor her
sooner than haye chartered her at the unucHy hgure
CAPTAIN rutland ANSWERS HGs CRITICS.
The weather beaten and water soaked
schooner Sarah Craig which cap.Lei of sandy Hook In
the storm OF Friday aud IN the cabin o! which
seven OF tho Philadelphia pleasure party OF eleven were
drowncd. was object OF much curiosity yesterday as
she lay alongsd de Tebos dock at Twenty-'ourth-st'
south Brooklyn. she had been towed up from sandy
Hook by the tux T. Icbo To all appearances she
is an almost total wreck but her owners assert that she
can be made A. good as new for $500 Captain Edward
C. Rutland who commanded the boat on the nght OF the
accident busted himself the greater part of the day IN
clearing out tho debris IN the caoiu and hold
lie appears he much annoyed by the assertions Ot eA
perrn sailors. that ha he taken the proper recau-
tons hc might have brought the entire pa.y into hsF-
bor safely. ,,,
sufficiently cautious IN the face OF the statements Y the
survivors that Ind every thing IN my power ana thr
verdict OF tho corOuers lury That am hlancIess IL
must be remembered that the storm was without pre-
ccicu and best evidence OF thIs ls the hiiHoe oI
accidents reported along tn coasts Ntbn q u,'Io vi VI
n, A schooner tpszed II led AMI went down while she
va. anchored tn bare poles inside OF III" Hook. ana
even tuen the crew had all they could do to escape.
II.l Tier. been any women the cabin on mat boat
they would doubles. have been drowned Just before
tho storm our was llmp as wet IaS am theie
VA. no -tpcra,- way. When | SAW the clouds besai
To take ia canyas. as always 10 when thlnH hcre i
III fferl lDW
hsavirrt part oi sQua IL preceded by hght wind lor
/. moment or two aud hal that been would have hai
plenty OF time to haul down my Jip ina squ', now
ever burs upon a. It had Issued from the mouth
a cauuOn,'