New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-15
THE STEAMER OREGON SUNK.
IN COLLISION WITH / SCHOONER.
THE PASSENGERS AND THE CREW ALL
RESCUED.
AN EARLY MORNING ACCIDENr-THE OREGON
GOING DOWN IN ABOUT EIGHT HOURS
RELIEF OBTAINED JUST IN
TIME-BRoUGnT TO PORT
BY The FULDA.

city from Fire Island yesterday AFTERNOON '""'
the Cunard steamship Oregon had been suhA ny I"
collision with schooner. Later large Steamship
which proved TO be the Fulda, came 10
anchor outside the bar and slgnailed 10
.ho Asoociatcd Press lookout at Sandy
Hook that she had the Oregon's passengers aboard
A fleet of tugs was Immediately seat down by inc
Cunard Compauy's agents to meet the Fulda
II was learned that the accident by which
the magnificent steamer was lost look
nloce at 400 o'clock in the morning
about halfway between shnnecock ana
Fire Island The Oregon was inward ponhu
and was expected to arrive at her pier on the Nor'h
River at noon to-day As she coIsted along 'he
Long Island shore yesterday morning the first 1aih'
suggestion of dawn was appearing in the east Inc
morning was clear and the sea and wind caim' Inc
first officer on the bridge.
Suddenly a schooner was seen coming up from
the southwest and holding her course as II to run
across the Oregon's bows Then the collision came
the unknown schooner striking the huge steamer on
the port side and crashing through her iron plates
The shocl, of the collision Immediately awoke the
who were having their watch below.
The passengers at first thrown into great
confusion but the camness of the officers and the
fact that the day was just beginning to break over
a TRANQUIL sea reassurcd them. At the time the
COLLISION took place PilOt-boat No IL was
about to put pilot on board and
the schooner Fannie A. Gorham, of
Boston, was passing near The pilOt-boat and the
passing schooner, Oh witnessing the accident imme-
diately bore down to the and lay by ready to
offer assistance. An examination of the Oregon
showed that she had two holes in her port side
below the water line as if the schooner
had rebounded from the first blow
and then struck the steamer a second time.
All efforts to stop the leaks were unavalIing and
the great steamer began to settle in the water.
The boats had been lowered when the accident first
occurred. 1t was evident that the Oregon would
keep afoat for some hours but that it would
be impossible to bring her into port. The
work Of ferrying It's passengers to the waiting
schooner and pilot boat was begun at once The
women and children went first, the captain leaving
the ship last 1t was eight hours from the time of
the collision to the time when the captain of the
Oregon reached the deck of the pilot-bOat
The Oregon had settled low IN the water, and
soon after tine captain had gained the plot-boat
he saw his magnificent ship go down before his
ewes Then q large fouT-ma.tol steamer was seen
coming in from sea- 1t was the North Ger
man Lloyd steamship Fu'da, bound from
Hamburg for New-York, and as soon as she was
near enough she was slnaled to stop and take the
Oregons passengers on board. This she did, and in
the evening anchored outside the bar to wait for
the tide
The Oregon had on board 1SG first cabin,
6G second cabin and $50 steera2o nassee.-ers. Hor
cre~ numbered 2O5 men all told.
One of the passengers said last night that the
hole made by the schooner in the Oregon's port
side was large enough to drive team
through lie said also that the sound
Of the collision was like the re-
port of cannon and that the
struck, and the noise at once awakened every 5ody
on board. Tue ssat that the passengers as soon as
they rushed on deck saw in the dim light that a
piot-boat and a schooner were bearing down for
the Oregon reassured those who at first
We're IN panic. The officers and crew of
the Oregon worked hard, and maintained an
admirable GOODNESS and good discipline. The trans
fernng of the large number of passengers from the
sinking steamer to the schooner and pilot boat
accomplished without confusion. None of the pas
eengers were able to save their luggage and only
portion of the mail rescued.
The passengers and crew who were crowded on the
decks of the little schooner and the pilot-boat
could scarcely realize that the great ship on which
they had expected to sail up the harbor was going
down before their eyes Some of the emigrants be-
mosned their rate IN losing Their baggage for TO
some of them the goods which went down on the
Oregon were all they owned
The unknown schooner which struck the Oregon
was large thrce-masted one. She was so heavily
laden that she was deep in the water and she hit
the steamer full square blow. At the time of the
collision Captain Cottier who commanded the
Oregon, was below, the ship being in charge
Of the First Officer. There was some
difficulty at first in lowering the boats, but it
was soon overcome The schooner Fannie A. Cor
ham, which helped rescue the passengers and crew,
o. the Oregon was from jacksonville, Fla, and
was bound for Boston. Captain Mahony. who
commanded her, when he the collision, imme-
dlately bore down on the Oregon and offered as
slstance.
The Fulda passed Sandy Hook at l O'clock this
morning coming in.
Among the passengers on board well known
In Ncw-YOrk society were Mr.. and Mrs. +. ID.
Morgan. Thomas Hitchcock aud Stanley Mortimer.
who had been spending the winter at Pau, in