New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-23
BETWEEN FIRE AND SEA.
THRILLING EXPERIENCE ON A BURNING
FRUIT STEAMER
THE PASSENGERS AND CREW OF THE LORENZO
LOST OUT OF FTwENTY-sEYEN-sAvE

d. BAKER BROUGHT INTO PoRT-Two LIVES
LOST OUT OF TwENTYsEyEN-
BY WHALING SCHOONER.
New-Bedford, July 22-News was received here
yesterday afternoon that the whaling schooner
Franklin, Captain Rose of this port, homcward
bound, had on board the passengers, officers and
crew of the steamer Lorenzo d. Baker, Of Boston,
captain Wiley, bound from jamaica with bananas
consigned to the Boston Fruit Company, and
owned by the Standard Steam Navigation Com
pany, the steamer having been burned at sea.
Inc franklin arrived in port this morning and
was towed up from quarantine. The cargo of the
steamer was valued at $4,000, on which there is
an insurance of $1,000. The vessel is insured
for $4,000. Captain Wiley reports:
We left Port Antonio on July 0, and had six
cabin passengers, Mrs. Elizabeth Sine, of Dundee,
| Scotland; Josiah Dillon, of Iowa; Lorenzo ID.
Baker, ir, of Weheet, Mass. jeremiah OCal-
aghan and jeremiah G. O'Callaghan, of Boston;
and Ernest b. Thyng of Lynn and Lawrence
Jensen and Peter Saxield, sailors, who were work.
ing their Passages and nineteen officers and crew.
We had fair weather and smooth water up TO the
cye1ing of July 15-the day Of the dissster-when
we were in latitude 33 degrees ID minutes north.
longitude 90 degrees 40 minutes. At this time
fresh gale from the northwest set In, causing the
| ship TO roll some, but not severely. At midnight
there was an alarm of fire. / went out on deck
and saw the engine-room in a blaze ordered
the hose on, but the engineer said he could not get
at the pumps. Then l ordered the fire buckets to
be used and alarmed the passengers, and ordered
the boats to be swung out. BY this time the iames
'hai burst through the top of the engine-room and
the starboard boat was on fire. We swung out
| the port boat and lowered her TO the rail-
ordered this one to be manned. Two or three
passengers got into the boat.
The fire was now within three feet OF us, and
the heat to those who stood by the boat was in
tense. Placing the boats painter in the hands OF
a sailor, and telling him to hold it fast ordered
| the first mate TO take the bow, and
sprnging into the stern told the men to
lower away, thinking that as soon as
the boat was ahoat and detached from the tackles
| would return on board and get out the raft
and small boat, as they were then comparatively
safe and away from the fire But in lowering the
boat as it struck the water it Immediately cap
sized and threw us into the water. On coming
| to the surface l found that the man who had
| been holding the painter had let go OF 10 when
| he saw the disaster, so that the beat was near
! us Helping the rassen 7ers to a safe hoid OF thc
| keel in a few minutes the mate ana L rlghueu
the boat Getting our company into, safe posi-
! tions We baed ont the boat, took the passengers
in and looked around for the ship, which had
by this time drfted about half mile away.
| IT, had been twenty minutes from the time oi
lowering the boat until we were in 1t again we
mt away for the steamer, and when ABOUT mar
way to it fell in with the raft wltch hau eigmI ond
persons on it. II hoated with only one emu
above water having been injured III Launching
We took all from the raft into the poap. ..-,s
"The wind had now ncreas,d ana se ts, $40 ~" "Ho
and we were mile away from the i.
wreck when again started Ior iInr Lsr
After rowing some time we plckeR up biE save we
floating on the gangway steps. FROM MN Nun md WI
learncd that he had gone in the small o0at anu anu
that four sailors and two hremen were aeiS S, ~,
board the steamer they having got cu' od o% heen
drowned while trying 10 reach the Siltii ooau, .
We now found To our sorrow, thab the uIs'aiI an
between and the ship was gsrngged UJ to
nc the wind and sea would permit, we struggleu % 10
cet 70 the wreck The forenoon was raPul{ pass pass.
inc away when, to our JOY, we saw Il scL,UoIe i h
bearing down to the ship we saw nqI ta n@ lay We W.
and tnlxe off some men and then come TO US. W.
10 eoon safely on board the vessel winch
nroyed TO he the Franklin, Captain Rose, oi new,
| bedford We found that she had taken NV nNc inul G
| from a spar alongside the steamer Hhotlci m, ~
man had been drowned in trying 10 SWIM .ton .tn
the steamers bOwsprit to the spar. hI t'ss s
the steamer had burned to WITHIN mr. III, hoat NJ
tho ,.ater,s edge We soon found the SnalI I DoaH
and that twenty-five ont of the twentyseVeh S soui1
who had been on board the steamer Were S'n w. ~
and "a ofp on board the FRANKLIN my it hvso -
| crous treatment was accorded US py OaPip. OP;. 80
and the crew Of the schooner, ana Columns TIn I
"ivcn ne all though not one OF us was i IuliiS
9d 9Iocn 10 Tie best the reScuers had was frecly
| arcrod IN ms Said Captain Rose; My NoSaee
win not be no for month"; but VIII carry 9ou
INTO mort, and we started for New-Bedford
TIC ,irempn who lost their lives were, lIuSn
Wylie. of Liverpool, England, and KaIph hoo'nSo"
u Nrs Elizabeth Shines. who had on a black
dross and mans Derby hat when picked up, Wds
n ber rov home from Jamaica where her nus a'lU
receot1v died TO live with friends III Seo'laHu, Si
She was ASLEEP when she was aroused oy tlg ~ s
oT Contain Wylie telling her to get up anu IT. G
and prepare to leave the snip as IL Was or rrav
Sbo hurried into some clothing, secured hei inoGy
md ,vnnt ON deck where she was placed III i l,l'
| Efeboat As the boat was lowered Ih.o i ~ H.
r-ator IL cansized and she was drawn uhuerhtat. =.
il She could not swim, but ilad OH Il IL ane
no.orror and mechanically struck out ana came
=. ,ho ,nrfoce She saw the mate on the kce
- Tho overturned boat and he at the same mo mo
mont saw her lie called out: FOR uou SIM SIM
I've the woman and caught her Dy Uhc urn M
When thc boat was rghtei she was aSsIs'tu ~ ~
=. and coon after they picked up py tn'
Franklin Mrs. Shines was treafd llHr Parr pa,
rcss nv the schooner's crew, who trled Oy evely
doIicofa attention to make her aS comtortapit d
nossihlc She lost all her wedding presents m ~,
riuding n valuable watch and slIver-pmte an, ar
;ovelrT2 and all her clothing except WhaI sn'
lod on She was taken 10 the AHlnsloh hVu''
mI ofte, nrocuring clothing went to Boston ,
T An onnropriate testimonial was drawn up Ny 'n'
rescued PARTY and presented to Captain hose
. FIRE on AN AMERICAN BARK.
,.o nv % a drr, broke out on the America