Butte semi-weekly miner., 1889-02-09
TALES OF SUFFERING AT SEA.
Steamer Goes Down with all Of
Board-Wrecks or Hatteras.

Board-Wrecks or Hatteras.
LONDON, February THE British bari
Largo Bay, bound for Auckland, wal
towed to Spithsad, yesterday, in q sinking
condition. She reports that, Monday
might, she was in collision with an un
known four-masted steamer off Beaehy
head, and that the steamer was sunk, with
all on board. The seamen Of the Largo
Bay say that the lost steamer carried
passengers, and they estimate that the
crew and passengers together numbered
at least loo persons.
D GLASGOW, February 7.-Owners OF the
Guion line OF steamers state that they be.
lieve the steamer sunk by the British bark
Largo Bay" off Beachy Head, Monday
night, to be the Glencoe OF that line. The
Glencoe carried crew OF fifty-four men,
but no passengers. It was bound from
Liverpool for London, and last reported as
having passed Prawle point Monday. 1t
is ascertained beyond q doubt that she
was the vessel sunk. She was q three
master, iron screw steamer OF 1000 tons.
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.
LONDON, February THE crew Of the
Glencoe numbered SO men, including %
Cinnamon. A tempest was raging at the
time OF the accident, and snow was falling
so thickly that it was impossible for the
lookout on either vessel to see each other
until the collision was inevitable. The
Glencoe forged ahead, trying to cross the
Largo Bays bow, but failed, and ran at
full speed into the bark, demolishing ten
feet Of her bow. The Largo Bay would
also have sunk had she not been provided
with water tight sections.
The crew OF the bark saw nothing further
Of the steamer but could make out her
crew struggling in the water. It was i'm
possible, however, to render them any
assistance.
All of the Largo Bays boats were smash
ed. The wind blew with such force that
the sails of the bark were torn to shreds
and boy was carried overheard. The
bark weathered the storm until rescued and
towed into Bowes.
MEN RESCUED FROM A MAST OFF CAPE
HATTERAs.
New YORK, February THE scoooner
James e. Kelsey, Captain j. Wbelton, Jr.,
arrived at this port from Wilmington, N.
G., having on board the second mate,
John Christmas, and two seamen, the
sole survivors of the crew OF the schooner
Allie r. Chester, hailing from New York,
which had become disabled during the
gale encountered on her trip from Charles
Ton to Barren Island with phosphates,
and which struck on the outer edge of Dia-
nond Reef, eleven miles 8. 8. e. OF Cape
Hatteras, January 80. Captain Ipgersoll
of the Chester, first mate Wells and two
,eamen were drowned.
The survivors were forty-seven hours
ashed on the stump Of the mizzen mast
before discovery by Capt. WhittoD. Their
'escue was accomplished with great diff.
;ulty.
Twenty-four hours before they were res
;ued they sighted life.boat pulling out
rom the shore towards them, but it re-
;urned without coming near. Capt.
Daily, of the Hesitation, claims that he
,ut out towards the wreck, but seeing no
igns of life, returned, not caring to risk his
,oat and crew for nothing. Daily has since
esigned, however.
A coincidence in connection with this
tory is that at the very time when Capt.
ngersoll was spending his last hour lashed
o the rigging of his vessel, his wife was
Iying of consumption at Woodmunkville,
I. J.
FOUND FREEZING In THE SOUND.
NEW YORK, February THE Fall river
teamer Old Colony, yesterday brought in
sailor named Leander Kaldoon, badly
rozen, and the corpse OF another man whom
Ialdoon only knew as "Bill." Kaldoon
ays he sailed from New York the morning
( the 4th, OH the schooner J. F. Bearns,
apt. Mcdonald, for South Africa. Before
ailing and after the voyage was begun, the |
rev were treated most atrociously by the
aptain and nate, and they resolved to
1ake raft from some planking and logs
n the deck, and desert at night.
Finding they could not make the raft |
srge enough to hold all OF the sailors, they
rev lots to see which two should escape. !
laldoon and "Bill' won the prize, and |
sunched the raft at IL O'Clock Tuesday |
light. They expected to make shore, but |
he wind shifted and carried them out in |
he middle OF the Sound. A heavy sleet |
torn prevailed, and they were washed |
verboard.
At $50 o'clock Wednesday morning the |
Id Colony picked them up. Restoratives |
ere used and the half frozen men we're |
oiled in blankets and rubbed. "Bill was |
eyond human aid. He gasped few times, |
nd then died. Ksldoon is getting along |
ell.
Captain Hammond says the men were
ncased in ice when rescued, and he had no |
lea of saving the lives of either "f them.