The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-10-10
LucKLEss HUMANS.

q Large, Numbsr Lose Their Live. In D,,.
astsrs ON the Water-Forty.Six Killed
~ IN Explosion Of the Boilers Of the
vsassls Collide ON Newfoundland, and
11fteen Persons Are DrowusA-The lsrit-
Il lsh steamship EarnhaO0re and Nineteen
Of Those ON board 10 Down During q
Cyclone ut ses.
New ORLEANS, Oct 4-The steamer Cor
-ona of the Ouachita Consolidated line,
which left heresat 7:3) o'clock Wednesday
evening for the Ouachtta river with full
cargo of freight and good Inst OF passen.
gers, exploded her boilers at False River.
nearly opposite Port Hudson, at
all:45 o'clock Thursday morning, .caus;ng
the loss of the steamer and about forty six
lives Tho Anchor line steamer City Of st.
Louis, Captain James O'Neil, was near and
with her crew and boats saved many lives.
The surviving passengers and crew were
taken on board by Captain o Neil and verv
kindly cared for by him and his crew.
The following is the list of the lost SO far
i Dr.. Atwell. q corn doctor" and four negro
musicians; Mr.. Scott. OF Southland, La; Mr..
Davis, q stockman, Of Texas: Mr. Koench:
Mrs. Hun, OF Opelousas; j. w, Blanks, the cap
tain; J. v, Jordan. first clerk: Charles c. Ellis,
Dinkle, u bar-keeper; Fred Verman. u bar.
keeper; Pat Ryan, the steward: Dick Curtis. a
fireman; Tom Shook, the engineer; Henry
Doyle, a porter: James Swipe, q porter; Mr..
Tate o barber; Henry Davis, O deck-hand;
Tom Cook. o sailor: Billy Young, second mate;
Sam Steel, a boy; Mrs. Tom Hough, OF Ope-
lOusas, sister Of Captain Blanks: Mr. Wilson.
of Red River plantation.
Both captains of the deck-watch, fifteen
rousters and q nurse of Mrs. Kaufman were
also lost, making the total death-list forty
six. Nine persons were wounded but
none fatally. Fifteen passengers were
saved unhurt.
Hon. l. +. Mason, Secretary of State, who
was passenger on tho Corona, says that
no was in the cabin talking to Mrs.
Robertson when the explosion &C.
cured He escaped with life pre-
servers and assisted in saving Mrs Rob-
erts0n and another woman. There was
very little time for preparation for escape,
as the boat went down like lead faw sec
0nds after the explosion. AS the steamer
City of St Louis came down she was hailed
and took on board all the passengers and
crew who were not lost insthe river
No ono seems to ba able to give any ex-
PLANTATION as to the cause of the sudden dis
aster Captain T. c. Sweeney, one of the
owners of the line, who assumed command
on the death of Captain Blanks,
says the explosion was not due to
q too high pressure of steam. He had lust
had occasion TO examine the gauge and is
positive there was not pressure of more
than l35 pounds. The boat had moder-
ate cargo She was in mid-strea,n, Just be-
low the landing at Arbroth, and had Just
whtstled to pass the City of st. Louis fort
unately coming down at the time
The explosion had downward ton
dency and blew out the bottom OF the boat.
lusing her to sink Immediately. The cab
In was torn in two, the rear portion float
Ing downstream and bearing number of
the saved. Captain Sweeney happened to
be forward, and started at once to put out
the flames, which began to burn at several
places He says the boat would undoubt-
eddy have burned had she not gone down.
None OF the books, papers or other valua-
bles We're saved.
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 by Sweeny Bros.
of that city, about seventeen years ago.
and had carrying capacity Of about 2,7OO
bales OF cotton At the time of the acci-
dent abe was valued at $2O,OO0
New YcxK, Oct "A special cable from
St Pierre, N. f., says: The transatlantic
steamer Geographic, of the Rossiere limo.
bound from Montreal to Southampton with
cattle, sheep and a cargo Fl general mer-
chandisc, which left Sydney on Tuesday.
collided with the Nova Scotia sailing YES
sci Minnie Swift forty miles Off st. Pierre
at o'clock Wednesday morning. The Min
ME Swift sunk within two minutes.
drowning, as nearly a. can be ascertained,
two women, three children and ten men.
The others, with part of a crew of Nor-
weg1an vessel who had previously been
picked up, got on board the steamer.
which, despite all efforts, also sunk at
II o'clock q IN. Two boats containing
about thirty-f persons which put of
from the steamer early in the morning are
still missing. The third boat with tho
captain and fifteen others was picked up
by the schooner Sister Bell and brought to
St Pierre.
BALTIMORE, Md, Oct A sad story of
shipwreck was received in this city Thurs
day, which tells of the laundering Of the
new British steamer Earnmoor in the
West Indies and the loss Of ninete men.
Those who have persisted are as follows:
Captain Richard J. Gray, Second Nate
Stone, Chief Engineer Louder and sixteen
men OF the crew. Those known to have
been saved are First Nate Painter, Second
Engineer Meldrum and five of the crew.
The Earnmoor cleared from Baltimore
August -. and sailed next day. August 81
che left Hampton Roads and put to sea
The storm which prevailed early in Sep
tembcr struck her when she was off the
West Indies. She labored several days in
heavy seas, and then began to till
The men gave up hope, and on the 5th OF
September determined to abandon tho
ship. Two boats were launched. In ono
of them we're the First Officer Mr.. Painter.
Second Engineer Meldrom and five seamen.
In the long boat were Captain Gray, the
first officer. second officer and sixteen
others OF the crew of twenty-six men.
The long boat, containing nineteen men,
had not been heard from.
Captain Gray and the others in the long
boat may have been picked up by another
vessel. Among the missing are: Second
Mate Stone and First Engineer Soudar
The storm that wrecked the Earnmoor was
the great cyclone from the West indies
which played such havoc along the New
Jersey coast in the middle Of September
81 far as learned the crew were all En-
glishmen
The EarnmOOr was launched at New
castle. Eng, in January, 1887, whence she
sailed She is screw ste amer of |, 800 tons
net tonnage. Her cargo consisted Of $1,000
bushels of wheat shipped by Tate, Miller
Il Co. to Rio de Janeiro The cargo is
valued ut $4,000. The steamer 10 owned
by the Earnshaw line of England. She had
been plying regularly between Baltimore
and Cuba for year.
A NOTE OF WARNING.