Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-11
FOuNDERED.

fOONDEnE6s
The United states Revenue Cutter Manhat-
tan. with All ON Board, Reported 70
have Foundered on New Haven Con
necticut, in . Heavy Gale.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. st ne
United States revenue steamer Mammal
tan. Lieutenant. Commander Tozier 10
command. went to the bottom OF Soutn-
west ledge, two miles outside OF tn.s
harbor, at $3.50 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. At the time the vessel sank there
was a heavy sea on, with a fierce gale
blowing. The Manhattan came into this
harbor some time during Monday night
and anchored in the channel of the Yacht
CLUBS house. The custom-house officials
seem 10 know very little about the ves-
sells mission in these waters, but think
she was on special duty, as the
setting of buoys, examination OF light
houses, or looking after coasting
and trading vessels to see that their pa
pers were correctly made out, and that
they were engaged in the trade sane
toned by them.
Yesterday morning about six O'Clock
three of the officers of the Manhattan
came ashore in small boat, landing at
Long wharf. They remained on shore
about an hour, and after getting the
morning papers went aboard again. I'm.
mediately after this the Manhattan got
under way and headed down the harbor.
VIM. Kane, an oysterman at Oyste:
Point, says that he noticed the vessel
pass out of the harbor and set course
toward the southwest and that she pitch
ed heavily in the sea. She shipped two
or three seas and apparently struggled
very much. She then turned half around
toward the eastward, 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 una
BILE to raise the city, however, and when
he returned the vessel was still strug-
Cling against wind and tide. To all ap-
pearances, the vessel could not DE con-
trolled by its wheel. Kane says that he
ran about forty-five feet across a ware
house floor to call his employer, and that
when he returned, after an absence OF
not over two minutes, the Manhattan had
disappeared from view. Not vestige OF
her was to be seen, either by the naked
eye or with the aid of glasses.
Kane's story is corroborated by James
Smith, the proprietor of hotel ut South
End, on the eastern shore, seven or eight
miles from the point where Kane saw the
vessel Sluk. MI SlultH says tHdb WnCA
he first saw her, the Manhattan was on
her side, shipping sea after sea. and
finally careened over and went down in
very few minutes from the time he first
noticed the vessel. Two or three other
persons on the eastern shore, all at
different points of observation, 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 eleven o'clock, but on
account of the extremely heavy sea and
wind, could not go outside. She saw
nothing in the way of wreckage, how
ever. When the Manhattan sank, the
tide was setting ia II out into the Sound
and whatever wreckage there may have
been would go 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 some
miscellaneous articles foated ashore
with the incoming tide on the east
shore, within a stretch of two miles from
the lighthouse point at the mouth of the
harbor to the eastward. AS stated above,
there is nothing known here of the Man.
ha;tan's business. She is described as
being of schooner rig, with length of
eighty or ninety feet. Her crew Is esti-
mated at from fifteen to twenty-fiy men
in all. The east and west shores are be-
ing patroled i'm search of bodies that may
be washed ashore, but up to midnight
no reports have been received from any
,oiDt.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.-The steamer
anhattun, which Is reported to have
foundered off New Haven yesterday
morning, is revenue cutter. The
chief of the revenue marine says she
was stanch screw steamer of about l25
tons and carried crew of twenty-five
men. She was commanded by Lieuten-
ant ID. F. Tozier, who Is regarded as one
Of the ablest officers in the service,
and it is the opinion of the chief
Of the revenue marine that she
could not have foundered unless as the
result of some extraordinary accident
The officers of the cutter were: Second
Lieutenant, VIM. Holland, executive
officer; Third Lieutenant, j. c. Harris;
engineer, James Ogdin, and assistant
engineer, Willetts Pedrick.