The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12
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Ihe United states Revenue Cutter Manhat~
tan, With All Board Reported to
Bave FODndered OF New Haven, Con-
necticut, in Heavy Gale.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. S.-The
United States revenue steamer Manhat-
tan, Lieutenant Commander TozIer in
command. went to the bottom of South
west ledge, two miles outside of this
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 off the Yacht
CLUBS house. The custom-house officials
seem 10 know very little about the yes
sePs mission in these waters, but think
she was on special duty, as tie
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 a small boat, landing at
Long wharf. They remained on shore
about an hour, and after getting the
morning papers went aboard again. I'M
under way and headed down the harbor.
VIM. Kane, an Oysterman Mt Oyste:
Point, says that he noticed the vessel
pass out of the harbor and set a 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 r04S hn 4rvCr ,ff1 tn hf1 off ~
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 be con-
trolled by its wheel. Kane says that he
ran about forty-ive feet across a ware
house floor to call his employer, and that
when he returned, after an absence of
not oyer two minutes, the Manhattan had
disappeared from view. Not a 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 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
he first saw her, the Manhattan was on
her side, shipping sea after sea, and
finally careened over and went down in
very Jew 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
n
ever. When the Manhattan sank, the
tide was setting fu Il 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 aud some
miscellaneous articles fioated 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
hattan's business. She is described as
being of schooner rig, with q length OF
eighty or ninety feet. Her crew is esti.
mated at from fifteen to twenty five men
in all. The east and west shores are be-
ing patroled in search of bodies that may
be washed ashore, but up to midnight
no reports have been received from any
point.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.-The steamer
Manhattan, which is reported to have
foundered off New Haven yesterday
morning, is a revenue cutter. The
chief of the revenue marine says she
was a stanch screw steamer of about I25
tons and carried crew of twenty-fv
men. She was commanded by Leuten-
nn II FHybO 10 I.aH
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 O2din, and assistant
engineer, Willetts Pedrick.