The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-11-13
FOUNDERED.

The United states Revenue Cutter ManhAt@
tan, with All on Hoard, Reported to
have Foundered on New Haven Com
necticut, in "A Heavy Gale.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. s.-The
United States revenue steamer Manhat~
tan, Lieutenant.C Commander Toner in
command, went to the bottom off 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
CluO's house. The custom-house officials
seem 10 know very little about the ves-
sel's mission in hese waters, but think
she was on special duty, as the
setting of buoys, examination of light
houses, or looking after coastng
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 bout, landing at
Long wharf. They remained ON shore
about an hour, and after getting the
morning papers went aboard again. Im-
mediately after this the Manhattan got
under way and headed down the harbor.
VIM. Kane, an FISHERMAN at Oystes
Point, says that he noticed the vessel
pass out of the harbor and set course
10 aCt nd haf ha fNh
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
bic to raise the city, however, and when
he returned the vessel was still strBg-
Cling against wind and tide. To all APP
pearances, the vessel could not be con-
trolled by its wheel. Kane says that he
ran about forty-fve feet across wares
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 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 Oh
her side, shipping sea after sea, and
finally careened over and went down in a
very few minutes from the time he Hrst
noticed the vessel. Two or three other
different points of observation, tel
stories of the disaster that fully bear out
those told by Smith and Kane. Z
The tug Alert OF this port went down
the harbor about eleven O'Clock, but ON
account OF the extremely heavy seq aad
wind, could not go outside. She saw
nothing in the way of WTeckage, h0W-
ever. When the Manhattan sank, the
tide was setting fu II out into the Sound
and whatever wreckage there may have
been would 60 directly out to sea. Late
this afternoon quantities Of pilot bread
and biscuit, pieces of board vanished ca
one side, that may have been broken from
vessels cabin, oil cans and soma
miscellaneous articles floated ashore
with the incoming Llde 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
hattan's business. She is described as
being of schooner rig, with a length Of
eighty or ninety feet. Her crew Is est
mated at from fifteen to twenty-five meH
in all. The east and west shores are be-
ing patroed in search of bodies that may
be washed ashore, but up to midnight
no reports have been received from any
point.
WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-The steamer
Manhattan, which is reported to have
toundered off New Haven yesterday
morning, is revenue cutter. The
CHIEF of the revenue marine says she
was stanch screw steamer of about l35
tons and carried crew of twenty FIVE
men. She was commanded by Lieuten.
ant d. f. Tozier, who is regarded as one
of the ablest Off in the service
and II il the opinion of the chic
of the revenue marine that she
could not have foundered unless as the
result of some extraordinary accident
The officers Of the cutter we're: SeconC
Lieutenant, VIM. Holland, executive
officers Third Lieutenant, ]. c. Harris
engineer, James Ogdin, and asslstan
engineer, Willetts Pedrick.