Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-01
IN PLACE OF THE WRECKS.
The Richmond, Alert, and Adams Or
dered to Go to Samoa.


dered to Go to Samoa.
NONE OF THEN CAN GET THERE IN LESS THAN
MoNTH-sIMPATHr FROM ENGLISH NAVAL orr
cERs-MRs. cALLAN's CONDITION CRITICAL
THE SURVIVORS TO COME TO SAN FRANCISCO
The Navy department is making every effort
to secure an adequate representation at Samoa
Orders were sent out to-day to have the Rich
mond, Alert, and Adams sent to Apia at the
earliest practicable moment. The Alert is at
Honolulu, all ready to sail when she Goals and
provisions, and can reach Samoa in a month or
forty days.
The Richmond is not in such a favorable
place, being at present in the River Rio del la
Plata, on the east coast of South America, and
must go around Cape Horn.
The Adams is under repair at the Mare ISL
and navy-yard. Ten days or two weeks will
serve to complete the repairs, and after a few
days additional consumed in taking in stores
and coal she may sail on her voyage, whice will
take about month.
The Yantic, now at Brooklyn, will be ready
to sail on the 10th inst, probably to relieve the
Richmond.
NOT EQUAL TO THE WRECKED VESSELS.
While the vessels ordered to Samoa to-day
are fair vessels of their kind, yet they are BY
no means equal to the three vessels
which were wrecked, and are of antique
type compared with the vessels of the
been ordered to Apia. The old Richmond
is by far the largest of the vessels that will go
down. She was built in Norfolk in 1858, and is
of Zoo tons burden, 225 feet long, 421S feet
broad, and ia draft. Her speed is set down
at 915 knots when in trim, but she is doubtless
foul, and consequently much reduced in speed,
by her stay in South Atlantic waters. She is
commanded by Capt. Q. V: Reed. with
Lieut. Commander Louis Lingsley. Lieuts. W
H. Everett, s. II. c. Cafin, F. H. Crosby, j. NJ.
Robinson, and j. o. Nicholson. Her compli-
ment is 20 officers and 321 men. The battery
is headed by II 9-inch smooth bores, s-inch
muzzle-loading rifle, 1 60-pound breech-load-
ing rifle, 20-pound breech leaders, and some
smaller secondary guns.
The Alert is l 200 ton vessel, built by John
Roach in 1875. She carries q officers and 127
men. She is rated at 10 knots, is IT'S long by
80 feet beam, draws 1924 feet of water, and car
ries battery made up Of Xxi in. and Pix in.
smooth bores, 160 pound rifle, and small
guns in the secondary battery. Her officers
are Commander Jas. ID. Graham and Lieuts.
Jno. Garoin, +. E. Greene. c. T. Moore, j. p.
Parker. c. D. Bastick and VIM. G. Hannum.
The Adams is rated at 1,375 tons. She was
built in 1876 at Boston by Donald Mckay. Her
length is I1S5 feet, by IS feet beam and 14.3
draft. She is set down as a 9.S knot ship, with
with battery Of 40 in. smooth bores, Is in.
loading rifle, and guns in the
second battery. Her detail of officers
is not yet made up, but she was lost under COM
mand Of Capt. Mullan, who has already achieved
fame by his firm stand in exciting times at Sa-
moa. She carries twenty officers and one hun
dred men.
SYMPATHY FROM ENGLISH NAVAL OFFICERS.
A graceful tribute from the English naval
officers was contained in the following cable
rpcpiyad nv WI ia ra-
turned to Washington this morning:
GIBRALTAR, March 81.
"Io the Secretary of tie Macy, Washington:
THE officers of the English channel feet
sympathize with the American navy on the
terrible loss of life from wrecks at Samoa
To this message the following reply was
made:
''WAsHINGToN, April 1.
admiral Commanding Her Mojesty's Channel
Fleet, Gibraltar:
accept for yourself and the officers of your
command my grateful acknowledgment on be-
half of the o. S. navy for your message of
sympathy and good WILL occasioned by the re-
cent disaster at Samoa. TRACY,
Secretary of the Navy"
THE SURVIVORS TO COME HOME THROUGH SAN
FRANCISCO.
The Secretary of the Navy has cabled to
Auckland that the men of the wrecked vessels
sent home are to come to San Francisco.
NEVER IN COMMAND OF THE AsHUELoT.
An erroneous statement has found its way
into some papers that Commander D. W. Null
Ian, of the Nipsic, was in command of the
Ashuelot when that Inflated vessel was lost
This officer was never on the Ashuelot. nor has
he been off duty for any length of time since
1861. His last command before being ordered
to the Nipsic was that of the iron-clad feet in
the James river, Virginia.
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Naval officers unite in saying that the Apia
disaster would not have been as great if there
had been plentiful supply of coal at Pago-
Pago. There appears to have been ample time
in which to prepare to meet the storm. but the
scarcity of fuel made speedy movement sea-
ward an impossibility. One of the results of
the catastrophe will be the erection of suitable
buildings at Pago-Pago where a superabund-
ance of coal may be stored and the naval
authorities will see that the supply is kept up.
AN UNHAPPY MOTHER.
The condition of Mrs. James N. Callan, the
mother of George W. Callan, the sailor of the
Nipsic who was lost in the Apia disaster, still
remains critical, and serious results are feared.
Yesterday morning her condition slightly i'm
proved and she sank away into a quiet sleep
which lasted until about $50 o'clock, when she
awoke and came down stairs. She asked for
the Sunday papers, but it was thought best she
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which ended in a delirium. All last night she
remained in a comatose state, perfectly obliv-
ious to everything. Last night Mrs. Capt.
Mccoy, Mrs. Callan's sister, was with her, but
nothing could be done to allay the mothers
agony. All last night she lay as still as death,
save for an occasional moan or a stifed sob.
Mrs. Capt. Mccoy told a STAR reporter this
morning that while her condition was about the
same, they thought she would recover. Geo. CAL
an, the lost son. served his apprenticeship as a
seaman aboard the Saratoga. His father, Jas,
n Callan, was a well-known lawyer in this city,
and died about year age.
PENSIONS TO RELATIVES OF THE LOST.
The pensions which will be paid to dependent
relatives of those American seamen who were
drowned at Samoa in the great hurricane are
not very munifcent. The monthly pension for
the widow of a captain is $50, and that for a
paymaster's relict is S28, while the widow of
the paymasters' clerk gets only S12 If Lieut..
Sutton had any surviving dependednt relatives
they would get monthly stipend of S17. The
widows Of seamen will be paid S12 Wherever
there are children left fatherless the sum of 81
per month additional will be allowed for each
child. Congress will probably pass a special
act appropriating a sufficient sum to pay for
the baggage which was lost, and this compen-
sation with the residue of the paw owing to
each Of the lost ones will be paid to the nearest
surviving relative.
The Spring Races.
THE WEIGHTS FOR THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE
NATIONAL JOCKEY CLUB.
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