The Osceola times., 1886-11-13
FOUNDERED.

The United states Revenue Cutter Man,..
tan. with All on Board, Repor,ss
nave Foundered or New Haven. O..
necticut, In a Heavy Gale.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. s.-Th.
United States revenue steamer Mania,
tan, Lieutenant Commander Touar :
command, went 10 the bottom off Sonn
west ledge, two miles outside of mi.
harbor, at $3.50 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. AT the time the vessel sank thai.
was heavy sea on, with a fierce cal.
blowing. The Manhattan came into ,h,s
harbor some time during Monday ni,b,
and anchored in the channel of the Yach.
CLUBS house. The custom-house officiaI'
seem 10 know very little about the ves
sells mission In these waters, but thinL
she was on special duty, as ,ls
setting OF buoys, examination of liob,-
houses, or looking after coastino
and trading vessels to see that their ma,
pers were correctly made out, and tba,
they were engaged In the trade sane.
toned by them.
Yesterday morning about six o'clock
three of the officers of the Manhat,ar
came ashore in small boat landing a,
Long wharf They remained on shors
about an hour, and after getting ths
morning papers went aboard again. I'm.
mcdiately after this the Manhattan 90,
under way and headed down the harbor
VIM Kane, an oysterman at Oyste,
Point, says that lie noticed the vessel
pass out Of The harbor and set course
toward the sou invest 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 saws her
condition grew more labored. He ran
70 notify the tug otice in this city by
lclephone TO send assistance and
was gone but ten minutes, He was una.
bic to raise the city, however and when
he returned the vessel was still strur.
,ling against wind ani tide. To all an.
uearances, the vessel could not De con-
rolled by its wheel Kane says that be
ran about iorty-flve 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
isappeared from view. Not vestige Of
her was to be seen, either by the naked
eve or with the aid OF glasses.
Kane's story Is cOrroborated by James
Smith, the proprietor OF a hotel at South
End, on the eastern shore, seven or eight
miles from the point where Kane saw the
vessel sink. Mr. Smith says that when
ne first saw her. the Manhattan was on
her side, shipping sea after sea, and
finally careencd over and went down in
vcry 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
chose 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 wa. setting fu u out into the Sound
and whatever wreekage there may have
been would 20 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
vessels cabin, oil cans and some
miscellaneous articles iioated ashore
with the Incoming tide on the east
shore, within 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
halton's business she Is described as
being OF schooner rig with a length Of
eighty or ninety feet. Her crew is esti'
mated NJ from fifteen 10 twenty-five meu
IN all. The cast aud west shores are be-
ing patroled IN search of bodies that mas
be washed ashore, but up to midnight
40 reports have been received from any
point.
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.--Thc steamer
Manhattan, which is reported to hav'
foundered of New Haven YESTERDAY
morning, Is a revenue cutter. Th'
chief OF the revenue marine says sac
was stanch screw steamer OF about q
tons and carried a crew OF twenty-five
men. She was commanded by Lieutcn
ant ID. +. Tozler, who is regarded as on
Of The ablest officers in the service
and II Is the opinion OF the che
of the revenue marine that sh'
could not have foundered unless as ih'
result OF some extraordinary accident
The officers OF the cutter we're: Secon'
Lieutenant, VIM. Holland, executive
officer; Third Lieutenant, j. c. Harris
engineer, James Ogdin, and asslstah
engineer, Wlletts Pcdrick.