The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-23
A STEAMER SUNK AT SEA.
ALL ON BOARD SAVED EXCEPT
THE CHEF ENGINEER.

Fourteen Of the Survivors Of the Lost
Vessel Saved From a Life Boat, and
the Other Nineteen Picked Up From
a Life Raft-The Steamer One OF the
Old Dominion Line.
NEW LONDON. CONN.,, Nov. 22.-The rev.
enue steamer Dexter arrived this morning
with Capt. Jenny, with fourteen of the
crew Of the Old Dominion steamer Manhat-
tan, and also the dead body of Chief Engi-
neer Haydn. The captain reports as fol-
lows: The steamer was bound for West
Point, Va, from New York. Wednesday
morning when off Fenwick Island light, on
the coast of Maryland, the steamer was run
into by an unknown four masted schooner,
and the Manhattal sunk afterward. Those
brought here on the Dexter managed to get
into lfe-boat, save Mr.. Hayden, who was
drowned. The rest of the crew and three
passengers, nineteen all told, got on life
raft, and itI is not known whether they have
been saved or not.
At the companys Office the information
received pointed to the fact that in all
probability over twenty persons have been
lost. The vessels crew numbered thirty
two. She also carried three steerage
passengers. The names of only few of
the crew are known by the Old Dominion
people. An agent Of the company said that
the vessels on his line exchange crews at
the end of each trip, and it was impossible
to state which of the employees of the COM
pany were on board the Manhattan.
The Manhattan was valued at $3.50, 900,
and there was no insurance on her. She
carried very small cargo, only 166 tons of
general merchandise, principally groceries
and dry goods. She was wooden vessel,
schooner-rigged, of l, 155 tons burthen, and
was built at Chester, Pa, in 1879.
THE SCHOONER AT PHILADELPHIA.
The fact that the schooner Agnes
Manning, with which the steamer collided
has arrived at Philadelphia compara-
lively safe, and makes no report
of loss of life or the sinking of the
other vessel, suggests the fear that most of
the Manhattan's crew have been drowned.
Besides, the captain of the schooner reports
that the commander of the steamer re-
fused to give the name of his vessel when
signaled to do SO by the captain of the Man
ming.
Fenwick Island, where the collision oc-
CURED, is on the Delaware coast, and on
the dividing line between Delaware and
Maryland 1t is twenty miles south of
Cape Henlopen. This Is the second vessel
lost by collision by the Old Dominion COM
pany in less than a months time. On
Oct. 90 last, their steamer Cleopatra was
sunk off the Delaware capes, by colliding
with the steamer Crystal Wave. Happily,
no lives were lost.
The names of the three passengers, who,
with eleven of the crew, are on the raft,
are William Walker, James G. Tobin, and
William Vaughn, two colored and one
white. They seemed safe when the boat
aud raft parted company. Seafaring men
think those on the raft will be quickly
picked up, as the accident occurred in the
regular track of at least 100 vessels daily.
THE NEWS AT NEW YORK.
New YORK, Nov. 22.-The Old Dominion
steamship Manhattan, which left this city
for Test Point, Va, at o'clock last Tues
day afternoon with thirty-hve passengers,
collided with the schooner Agnes Manning,
from Baltimore for New York, and went
to the bottom. At least fifteen lives are
supposed to have been lost.
WHERE THE WRECK LIES.
LEwEs, DEL, Nov. 22.-The captain of
the tug Hercules reports that the steamer
Manhattan, which collided with the
schooner Agnes Manning and afterwards
sank, lies heading southwest by south,
three miles east by north from Fenwick
shoal lightship. Her topmasts are twenty
feet out Of water, and her smoke-stack
is gone.
STORY OF THE MANNING.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 22.-Capt.
Birdsall of the schooner Agnes Manning,
which is lying below Greenwich pier, says
the schooner was run into early Wednesday
morning by an unknown steamer. He says
the steamer went on her course after the
collision without trying to find out the ex-
tent of the Manning's damage. The morning
was a little haZy, but bright enough to see
some distance ahead, and the collision, Capt.
Birdsall asserts, was due to the negligence
of those on the steamer. Capt. Birdsall
had all the customary lights burning and
showed light forward when he saw the
steamer approaching. She paid no atten-
tion to the shouts Of Capt. Birdsalls men,
but ran into the schooner nearly
at full speed. At first it was
thought that the schooner was
going to sink, but constant use of the
pumps kept her free until the tug Ivanhoe
got her in tow and brought the bark into
fresh water She will have to discharge
her cargo of coal for repairs, as her bow
spirit and jib-boom are smashed, and she is
leaking bally.
SAVED FROM THE LIFE RAFT.
PROVIDENCE, Nov. %, IL P. M.-The
purser and the other Manhattan survivors
who were on the life raft were picked up by
the schooner Charles H. Tuttle, Capt.
Ives, of Baltimore, which arrived in this
port to-day. They were rescued about
noon Wednesday.
POLITICAL FORGERY.