New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-04
NINETEEN SAILORS MISSING.
SEVEN OF THE EARNMOOR'S CREW REACH
NASSAU, n. P.
eTRUCK BY THE CYCLONE OFF THE WEST
INDIEs-THE SHIPS COMPANY OF TWENTY.
SIX MEN TAKE TO THE BOATS on
SEPTEMBER 5JTHE s
BOAT STILL MISSING.
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tsY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBUSE.J
Baltimore, Oct 3.-COnsderable excitement was
created in shipping circles here this afternoon by the
announcement Of the loss Of the steamship Easnmoor
Her Baltimore agents the Joseph R. Foard Transporta
tlon Company, had been anxiously awaiting news
from the vessel as she ten days overdue at her
destination. The Earnmoor has been plying regularly
between Baltimore and iron ore shipping pOln6 for
year, her cargoes Of being all consigned to
the Pennsylvania Steel Company's works at spar
rows Point this city. The steamer on her last
voyage cleared from Baltimore for Rio Janeiro on
August %, with $4,000 bushels of wheat the first
whole cargo of that grain ever shipped from Balu-
more for that port. From private adviceS by cable
from Santiago de Cuba received by the agents this
afternoon, It appears that the cyclone the effects Of
which began 10 be felt on the NewJersey coast about
September 10, struck her when she was off the West
Indies. She labOred several days in the heavy seas,
and then began TO ill. The men gave up hope, and
on September determined TO abandon the ship.
Two boats launched In one OF them were
the first officer the second engineer and five scamen.
In the ongboat were Captain Richard j. Gray, the
first engineer the second officer, and sixteen others OF
the ships company of twenty-six men. The longboat
containing these nineteen men has not been heard
FROM and It IS feared that all pershed in the gale
later cable dispatch states that First Officer Painter
Second Engineer Mcldrum and the five men who were
in the boat with them have arrived at Nassau y. p
This IS the second time that Medrum has narrowly
escaped death at sea, as he was Oh the steamer
Domingo when she fouueered last winter All the
survivors are IN an exhausted condition. and II Is
feared some Of them will die The captain and the
other missing scamen may have been picked up Dy
another sci. Among tbs missing are second ohcei
stone and First Engineer soudar All the officers ana
crew We're Engi.hmen. J.,
The Earnmoor only two yeas od, an su0lsI!
built vessel She was launched az Newcastle, Ems,
land, In January. 1851 She was screw steamer. Oi
32O net tonnage. The cargo was valued al StOVUO,
insured in the United States LlOyds for SIO5 olO, ne
insurance covering the prepaid freight ON the cSIso'
The steamer belonged 10 the Earnshaw line OF EnS S
land and is said have been insured iof 9i-o,oVo
The baltimore agents have no list oil the names u
the crew.
Wilmington, Del. oct (SpeciaD.-The Eanmo3t
extensively repaired here early ths year Hno
ran on ledge rocks in the Delaware, opposite inso &
moor, on January 10, and sank Will Ooeiu lU,i gal
Philadelphia for St. Thomas. with coal. enc was
raised and brought TO this city, where she was te
paired by the Harlan & Holllngsw0rth company a., ao
cost Of $4,000 She left this city In the latter pdf'
OF March.