St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-23
The Ocean Steamer Manhat-
tan Sunk in q Collision
With a Schooner.
Part Of the Crew Rescued,
and the Rest Given UP
for Lost.
A Desperate Woman Murders
Her Betrayer on a Crowded
Thoroughfare.
Terrible Crime Of a New York
Letter Carrier Sick Unto
Death.

NEW LONDON. Conn.,, Nov. 22.-The
revenue steamer Dexter arrived this
morning with Capt. Jennings and four
line steamer Manhattan. also the dead
body of Chief Engineer Hayden. The
captain reports as follows: The steamer
was bound from New York to West
Point, Va, Wednesday morning, when
OFT Fenwick Island light, coast of
Maryland, was run into by an unknown
four-maSted schooner, and the Man
haitian sunk soon after. Those brought
here on the Dexter managed to get into
the life boat. save MIR. Hayden, who was
drowned. The rest Of the crew and
three passengers, nineteen all told, got
on a life raft, and it is not known
whether they have been saved or not.
STORIES OF THE SURVIVORS.
New LONDON, Conn.,, Nov. 2!.-Capt.
Jenny, of the steamer Manhattan, which
was sunk by collision with the Ag!.eS
Manning Off Fenwick island, says that
the survivors, who have been landed
here. succeeded after the collision in
getting into the life boat. Three pas
engers, two of whom were negroes, got
on the life raft, and when the boat part
ed company all seemed safe, for time,
at least. After being i'm the boat
three hours they sighted the schooner
Van Namen and King, Of New
Haven. The fourteen survivors ana the
remains of the engineer were taken on
board and brought to this port, arriving
Off the mouth of the harbOr this MORN
lug. The revenue cutter Dexter re-
spOnded 10 the signal of tile schooner
and landed the survivors. The remains
nf fhaa rNrnr nrl.lr rfAd flr
burial and forwarded to New York.
Capt. Jenny left on the afternoon train.
and the balance of the crew will leave
tonight on the steamer City of WOr-
ceSter. Seamen about here are OF the
opinion that those on the raft will be
picked up by passing vessels. as the
fatality occurred in the track of at least
1O0 vessels dallv..
SEVEN sEAMEN ESCAPED.
PROVIDENCE. X. L., Nov. 22.-The
purser and other Manhattan survivors
who were on the life raft, were picked
. up by the schooner Charles II. Tuttle.
Capt. Ives, from Baltimore, which ar
rived in this port to-day. They were
rescued about noon Wednesday. The
names of the rescued are: Charles w.
Vose, purser; l.. Perkins, quartermas-
ter: c.. E. Charleston, first assistant en-
SliictIs :. W. OlbCutus oSSOiu uoo'oV'hb
engineer; E. Charleston. Oiler; Charles
Peterson, sailor; Henry 5. Eaton, por-
ter: Edward O'Ree, mess boy.
SMASHED AND LEAKING BADLY.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. %. The
schooner Agnes Manning. which was in
collision with vessel supposed to have
been the lost steamship Manhattan. is
lying below Greenwich piers with her
bOwSprit and Jib boom smashed, her
stem started. and leaking badly. Her
captain reports that she was run into
early on "Wednesday morning off Fen
wick island by an unknown fore and
aft steamship bound South.
One of the sailors known as Hand is
missing; whether he was knocked
overheard, or sprang on board the un-
known steamship is not known. Capt.
Birdsall, of the Manning, claims that
the collision was due To the negligence
of those on board of the steamship,
which went on without stopping to as
certain the damage she had inflicted.
The schooner, which was bound from
Baltimore for New York, was kept
atiOat only by the constant use of her
DumDS.