New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-12
FOUNDERED OFF OAK POINT.
THE RYLToN CASTLE GOES DOWN AT SEA.
THE GREW PUT OFF IN BoATs-NINE MEN LOST OUT
OF TWENTY.

Captan Miller, the Keeper OIL the Lhc-0"'
,,g station at Point Of oods about five miles east VI
the Fire Island Light sent the following message W
Long Island City. at p. IN. yesterday:
Zone boat with ten men from steamer Hyitoh oas'e'
North Shields. England, from New-York to Rouen'
toupdered fifteen miles eastsoutheast from FIRE isanu
I5rht The first mate saved"
Canain Miller brou ght message to the teegraphic
station at Fire Island Lighthouse but dd not give
opv further particulars about the disaster He went
drectIy back TO the eaving Station Point OF WOODS
Ga an Inaccessible place under the best OF circumstances
10 Get there from the land is necessary to cross Great
south Bay This bay Is filed with ice and all
boals have stopped running.
Whetner the steamer foundered is not definitely
rnowu 1t is supposed that she did. p. KeeSan was at
the observatory looking over the ocean for incoming
steamers What he saw he described as follows:
"Iwas on the outlook and away in the distance us
covered q small white speck could not at hrst tei
what it was AS IT came nearer kept 1t focusseu py
the glass and made after while that was Doa
IT was white and counted men in it They were
rolling and pitching heavily in the waves and 1t ap
peared as If they would surely go down. They worked
hard at the oars aud kept her aloat While wachlhs
this white boat another boat pulllnS lo"aru i
and from the outfit judged they were from the Lie
Saving Station The two boats came WITHIN heDg uis
tanco and then they both started for the shore The
Life saving Crew did not help the men in the white boat
Both the boats landed safely. The crew of the white
boa seemed to be exhausted. am that the white
boat strange boat and 1t probably belonged 10 inc
steamer Hyton Castle. No other boats came ashore IN
this vicinity 1t my opinion that the steamer foun-
dered off Fire Island and the and passengers IL sho
had any, pue off In boats for the shore
The mate and the in the white boat went TO
the Life Station at the Point Of Woods From that
pace better view of the east coast can be obtained
The white boat was discovered by Mr.. Keegan about
H. H. and the Life fe-Saving crew, who bad heard
of the wreck OF the steamer, were oct
ind of
patrolmen who travel up and down the beach
meet at point about and half miles from the FIRE
Island light but the heavy storms OF the last rev DAYS
have broken up the beach so much that II Is danger
Gus TO travel and the ratrOmen have TO pick their way
along carefully with the aid OF small lantern. TEey
usually report the of vessel from one patronan
to until the ct is communicated to telegraph
station, but the coast is much broken up
that they have been unable TO do so
in this There was larse
steamer seen from the observatory yesterday
ATTAIN in the direction from which this white boat
came 1t disappeared suddenly from view and II may be
that 1t was the Hylton Castle
One Of the patronen OF the LifeSavlng station mace
the following statement:
1.-THE second boat, in which were ten men, left the
steamer at the same time taat the boat
mat had seven men in it. They
had broken all their but three.
] have heard nothing of their reaching land As a
moderate northwest wind blowing at the tine and
smooth sea was running, they will probably reach the
shore ten miles east here, unless picked up by pass
ing vessel"
This statement corfr,ns the belief that the
sank aud that the put of in the surf boats, In
charge of OF the officers Of the ship Out OF one OF
the boats nine men supposed to have been lost.
The steamer was bound from New-York 10 Rouen with
81 900 bushels Of corn board She sailed from liar-
becks Stores Brooklyn Saturday afternoon. but owing
to the high and heavy anchored in the
Sunday. She was a British tramp" steam
of 1858 burden. was built at sundeHand'
England, in ISL, anu owned bJ Lawes Surtees d
Co., OF North Shields. Sne was three masted vessel
with foreandafi sails and 25l feet long She was
last surveyed Francisco three years ago and was
pronounced IN good condition. She built OF iron
and had six water-tight bulkheads She was COM
manded by Captain Colyin.
AtNo. 35 Broadway last night George Greaves who
was in charge Of tie office of Patton Viekers Co.,
consiguees OF the ship, in the absence OF
Mr Barber, the agent first heard the
peys of the founderng of the vessel from reporter
lie was duinbfounded at the tidngs aud could give no
information relative the lost vessel except that she
was loaael with consigned to various merchants
in France Mr. Greaves did not know whether the ves
sci was insured not would he furnish the names
of the shippers of tho grain.
Prom other sources it learned that the Hylton
Castle reached this city on December 20
with cargo OF coffee consigned to Hard
& Rand from Santos, Brazil Inc NesseI
lett Santos on November 16 She encountered he IVY
weather. which developed into gale on December 20,
in which the steamship labored heavily. Her
decks bulged and sho started leak amdshps, nut
the hard work OF the kept her afoat until she
reached this port where the leak was repaired and as
far as possible the effects OF the vessels strainng
remeded She loaded with corn at Harbecks
Stores in Brooklyn. During the voyage from Brazil
fireman died and buried at sea. While
taking cargo here man was shipped by William
Haveren. shipping agent, of No. 81 Monroe-,L. to
take the place Of the dead fireman Mr. HayerOn said
last night that he did not know the name OF the fireman
be shipped,
captain william Colvln, Of the Hylton Castle. took
dinner with me a few days before he sailed" said Hav
a TRIBUNE reporter. " He was hae seaman Of
about forty. aud experienced navigator 1t was mis-
first visit this port, however. He told me his crew
consisted OF live fremen, one donkeyman.
whose business to run the dODkeyengne; six
sailors, boatswan, carpenter COOK, steward first and
second mate and two engineers-twenty IN all ! re-
member Overhearng Captain Covin ask Captain Pear
son. the commander OF sister ship what he thought
would be the best TO pursue should bad weather
be before he had lett the land Captain Pearson ad
vsed him keep about twenty miles from the land and
not TO veDture too far 10 sea"
"What 40 you think the of the ships found
erDg 2" asked.
81 believe she was too heavily Ioaded I went
board OF the tie daY before she sailed with friend
said my friend would not go across In this ship
for the price OF her. She old trap, that looked
like she had been death. She sunk way down
in the water. Her boilers aft between the mzzen
and the manmast believe she swamped because
of her heavy cargo, She had two large boats ana
small There yards the foremast. Her
CABIN below aft believe that all the board
were Eng,ishncn."
The Hylton Castle was o slow steamer, and
voyages which her sister ships
toned make In twenty days she
took thirty days make Among her sister ships that
Is ships owned by the firm the Alnwiek Cas-
tie, Barnard Castle Chpchase Castle, TursOt, and
William Burkett. These vessels from port port
over the whole surface of the world carrying cargoes
wherever they could get them.
Foreman James Wilson, OF Harbecks Stores supern-