Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-10-10

| ttVeF-Ihe AihTmnhoDr IN the vessel
winch Struck a Hidden Obstruc-
| tion off Edge Moor E4ast january.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 4.-The steamer Cor
| ona, of the Ouaehita Consolidated Llre,
| which left here at 7.80 on Wednesday night
for the ouachita River with full cargo OF
| freight and good list Of passengers, ez-
plcded her boilers Mt False River, nearly
opposite Port Hudson, at Has yesterday
morning, causing the loss of the steamer
and about 40 lives. The Anchor Line
steamer City OF st. Louis, Captain ONeil,
was near by, and with Its crew and boats
| saved many lives. The surviving passan-
gers and crew were taken on board by Cap
tain 0'Neil and very kindly cared for. Fol-
lowing are lists Of the lost and saved as far
as known:
| CREW LOST. ..
]. W. Blanks, captain; j. q. Jordan, frst
clerk Charles @. Ellis, second clerk Swimp
Hanna. third clerk; Fred Dinkle, ,barkeepsr; /;
Fred Vsman, barkeeper; Pat Ryan,
steward Dick Curtis, fireman; Tom Shook,
engineer; Henry Doyle, porter; James
Swipe, porter; Tate, barber; Henry Davis,
deok hand; Tom oook, sailor; Billy Young,
tains OF the deck watch; eight rousters.
PASSENGERS LOST.
DR.. Atwell, corn doctor, and four Negro
musicians; Mr.. Scott, Smithland, La. ; Mr
Davis, Stockman, Tex; Mr.. Koonch, Mrs
HUI OF 0pelousas; Mrs. Kautman's nurs
and oldest child.
CREW SAVED.
Il. Il. Jolle, pilot; L. Rawlins, pilot,
Charles Pierce, steersman; ). W. Bandly,
engineer; Jack Miller, mate; Billy Higgins,
bill clerk; Robert CGrns, carpenter William
Fleming, second steward; Sam Gree watch.
man; Tom Burns, deck hand: Milt Glover
fireman; Dan Slemeck, pantryman; Frank
Reeves, cook; j. Steel, baker; Charity
Lambert, chambermald; Miss Reilly second
maid; Joe Rsyman, greaser, and several
cabin boys.
PASSENGERS SAVED.
Mrs. Henry Blanks and two children, Mrs.
Mann, Mrs. Robert Robertson, Mrs. Kauf-
man and children, Captain b. G. Oornwell,
Mrs. j. r. Brown, Mrs. j. ]. Meredith, Mr.
L. +. Mason, MIR. Baughman, Mr.. Com
stock, Donaldsonville, and MIR. john Carr,
Harrisonburg.
The Corona was on her first trip Of the
season and had but recently come out OF
the dry DOCK, where she received repairs
amounting to nearly $4,000. She was
built at Wheeling, W. Va, seven years ago
and had carrying capacity OF about 2.700
bales OF cotton. At the time o. the acci-
dent she was valued at $40, 900.
Dispatches from Baton Rouge say that
the Corona stopped there yesterday morn
Ing and took on some passengers, among
them Hon. L. F. Mason and Mrs. L. Il. W.
Robertson. The explosion occurred when
the steamer was about 16 miles below
Bayou Sara, opposite False River, and she
sank In a few seconds thereafter.
Mrs. Robertson says she WAS wedged In
the ladies' cabin with some of the debris
lying across her lower limbs but WAS sud-
denly released, and found herself floating
In the river. She sank twice, but luckily
she was picked up, and escaped with only
, few painful bruises on her limbs. She
returned home op the City of st. Louis,
accompanied by Mrs. Mann, OF Trinity La,
who also escaped from the wreck.
l.. O, Rawlins, pilot OF the Corona, was
asleep,a at the time of the explosion. he does
know how the explosion occurred, and was
awakened by the noise 1t made. lie was
painfully burned on both hands.
Hon. L. f. Mason states that he was In
the cabin with Mrs. Robertson when the
explosion occurred. He escaped with life-
preservers and assisted In saving Mrs.
Robertson and another lady. There was
very little time for preparation for escape.
as the boat went down like lead after the
explosion.
THE REsCUINq STEAMER,
As the steamer City of st. Louis came
down she was hailed and took on the
rescued passengers and crew, some OF
to New Orleans. Most of the wounded
were brought on to New Orleans.
THE EARSMooR SUNK.
By a cableglam received Thursday from
Santiago de Cuba the Earn Line Steamship
Company OF Philadelphia was informed
that the luekless steamship Earnmoor had
fouadered on September 9Th, while bound
from Baltimore to Rio Janeiro Brazil, and
that 16 persons were lost. There were
seven survivors from the wreck, who were
landed at Nassau, Bahama Islands, and
were subsequently taken to Santiago de
Cuba.
. The lost vessel was cleared at Baltimore
with cargo OF 10000 bushels OF wheat
, and sailed from Hampton Roads on August
30th for her destination. She had been but
six days at sea when the terrific hurricane
which afterwRrd filed the Delaware bay
with wrecks and which ragged In the West
: indies for several days before reach;ES &
northern latltudes, struck the Earnmocr,
and In one OF her terrific plunges IN d
mountainous sea she went down head tore-
most. Some OF the crew managed To loosen
a boat from the davits and after suffering
great exposure were picked up by a passing
vessel which afterwards transferred them
to the schooner Mosquito, which landed
them at Nassau.
Captain Richard Gray OF South ShieIds,
Eng. commanded the lost vessel. he had
crew OF 40 men with him, and only the
following are known to have been saved
Chief Officer Painter, Second Engineer
Medium aud i've sailors and frensn.
Among the missing are Captain Gray,
Second Oniaer Stone, Chief Engineer
Sander and l6 sailors and tlremen.
The Earnmoor was probably the uu-
luckiest craft that ever visited this port.
She stranded near Cape Charles over year
ago, costing the underwriters $780, 900
Soon afterwGrd the vessel struck on hid.
den rock In Delaware river, and 1t cost
$4,000 more to repair the damage. The
steamer was valued at $l21, GOO, and Is In.
sured. She was built In 1887 by ths Palmer
Shlpbuilding Company, at Newcastle, Eng,
for the Earn Line Steamship Company for
the Cuban ore-carrying trade. and regis
tered 1870 net tons. She was $50 teet long
36 feet beam and 2l feet depth of hold, with
triple expansion engines.
The Earnmoor is the vessel which struck
on Schooner Ledge Just of Riverside on
January 10th, and was run ashore. She
was then loaded with $500 tons OF coal for
the West indies. She was brought to the
Harlan 4 Hollingsworth Company's sblp-
yard in this city and the damage to her was
found TO be go serious tnat II took about
50,000to repair her. Every plate In the
vessel was strained and several large hclee
whether che could be regarded a aea worthy
craft after that accident. 1t was announced
at first that she had been condemned by the
board OF underwriters and would be trans.
formed into coal barge but she finally
, bloomed forth again as an ocean sailing
craft. During her detention in this city,
Captain Gray and his wife lived here and
made quite number OF friends. In fact,
Mrs. Gray only left here about 10 days ago
, and Is now probably on the ocean on her
, way home to England.
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