New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-29
SUNK By THE WYAEoKE.
THE SCHOONER RUTH DARLING LOST WITH
TWO MEN.
CUT IN TWO BY THE STEAMERS Bow-THE SUR.
y1yoRs CARRIED TO NORFOLK, vAs-s
OTHER ACCIDENTS Ar SEA

OTHER ACCIDENTS AT SEA
Norfolk 'Va March % (speciaI Tho Ola Dominion
steamship Wyanoke from New-Yorx, arrived here 90
night Eve hours ate after having been In collision on
the Delaware Cares with the schooner Ruth Daring %
O'Clock this morning At the time Of the collision
fog prevailed, thick that the In the schoonors
bow says he could not SEQ ahead more than half tho
vessels length The Wysnokes bow cut clear through
the sohhooner, which sank In ten minutes. As the
wyaoke struck the schooner, Arthur Ashton. seaen
Jumped from the rigging ard caught her anchor
chains and thus saved himself Captain Lowell who
was at the schooners wheel at the time Of the dis
aster. and Seaman Charles Harrison wero both lost
Chief Mate Bradford B. Browne insenslble when
rescued from the paddewheei Of the ship, which he had
caught hold OF as 1t passed over him. He had his
nose and right shoulder broken, and there was ter.
rble cash over his forehead. On the arrival Of the
steamer here he at once sent to st. VncenHs Hos
pisa where he lies IN precarfous condi,ion.
Ambrose Harmon, Frank Treptol and another seaman
were saved by means Of ropes thrown nom the
steamer.
After the accident the wyanoke lay TO for two
hours Her starboard wheel was badly damaged ana
the huge iron structure twisted hhe corkscrew.
Il was with great difficulty that the wheel eouio
be repaired and put in such condition as 10 allow
tho steamer 10 proceed. Whom that was done the
engines were started only under one bell According
to the statement Of Arthur Ashton, who was In the
mast Of the schooner on the lookout at ths tiIne
OF the disaster the collision could have been ayete
Il the man at the wheel had obeyed his orders. no
SAYS when no saw the Rhip she was almost on the
schooner He called out to port the holm. but nstead
OF that IL was put to the starboard and consequently
when the vessel was struck IT was analdghipy. The
schooncr was bound from Porto Rico TO Nev-Hayen,
with sugar, and had been twenty-one days as sea-
The wyanoko left at midnight for Richmond.
The schooner Belle Hooper, Captain Gnkey, nom
Eew.York for MatanEas. when fifty miles northeast
hals-north from Cape Hsteras, on March 26 at :1S
u m came into collision with the steamer Beta, from
Matanzas for New-York. The steamer struck tho
schooner on the starboard side the fore-rrZing
and tho schooner filled immediately. Tho steamer
STAYED by the schooner all night Yesterday morning
She took the schooner In tow for Hampton Roads.
whore they arrived this morning The schooner was
taken In tow to-day BY tug for Norfolk Just below
crauey Island she oapsiEsd and sank in tho channel
where she now lies
Charleston. 6. O., MsssA as CspccaD. Inc steamship
Hudson from New-Yora bound for New-orleans, Is
on tho bar in distress Tugs have been sent TO her
asslstanee and she win probably bo tuwed up to the
cfT IA the morning The Hudson lost her ruoder ana
YaIdder-stOck In q gallo March e5.
Beaufort ~ c., March 25.-IThe SCHOONER Ennlty r.
Dyer Captain Weeks before reported, put m here tns
Afternoon. She was twenty-seyen days out ron New
York She crossed the Gulf stream four uklss oyipk
forty wears The schooner parted her iHqyNns on
ire port side and lost ainbo0m foresap and s.andng
10 Both davits gave way and she suStalnea otnsf
damage She is Leaking 100 strokes an hour