The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-06
A CRASH ON THE OCEAN
lhe Steamer Manhattan Sinks
in Ten Minutes.
her collision with the Bi- Schoonerl
Agnes Manning, from IL ,ItimOre
Fourteen Men Adrift on a Life.


Rait-Threc Lives Lost.
The Old Dominion Line steamer Maubat-
tan, Capt. Jenny, was run into at five o'clock
the other morning Off Fenw:c&'s Island light,
maryland coast, by the four mast ID schooner
Agnes Manning. The schooner proca .dei to
Philadelphia with one man mis- sing, supposed
10 have been drowned. Tho MANN titan soon
oegan to settle, aud sank within ten minutes
after she was struck. Only one boat, No. 8
could be lowered. The Captain and fourteen
,et et-.A"-"r~~ "auugcr 10 save rusIr lives by
getting into the boat. The Manhattan's top
masts were above water.
Quartermaster Olson was ken from ono
OF the masts, and near him was the lifeless
body OF Engineer Hayden. The auartermas-
ter made almost superbunan efforts 10 save
the engineer. VI. p ,ssed him a bow. inc, tel
ing him to put it under his arms, but Hay
den did not have strength. The bowline was
made fast to the engineers wrist but Olson
could not raise him ahov. tho water, and he
drowned, tho boiy Icing taken in boat No ).
The rest OF the crew. eleven in number,
aLd three passengers, two black and ono
waite, got on the nfc-raft, and when the boat
pariei company, all s.,inel safe for q time
at least. After Icing IN the boat three hours.
they sighted the schooner Van Mani, ami
King, of New Haven.
Inc fourteen survivors ard the romans of
tho engine were taken. The revenue cut
ter Dexter, in passing out, responded to tho
signal Of the schooner and landed tho sur
vivors-
First Officer Joseph p. N, Davis. in an IN
verview said: eve left New York with
thirty five persons on hoard, including two
steerage passengers. whose names are uu-
kaQMR dPef Eao tons Of frei snt and
consequently, were nblc 10 make such good
time luat We wcre or Fcnw:ck Island sh3a
light, near tho Delaware c,pc>, by four
\ h..
weather being cool, but clear Lell, the
lookout sighted a sulinz vesssrs lights dead
ahead We kept on our Iurse, steering s.
w. as, and rapidly cime up 10 tho v,ss,l
VIII. eli proved to be u four-mastel coal laden
schooner, sitting low III tn. water. This was
what did us the fatal damage, the scho Jner
heing so low that she punched hole in the
steamer below the water line. Sh, w 8 steer
ing N. h. by NJ. and sS Simmir along the sel
Second Officer All. Nelson was on deck but
paid very little attention to the stranger,
although she was very near, feeling conf.
dent We would pass her. 10 make sure, he
ordered the steamer pass to starboard, and
the helm was put down, when the schooner
did the same. Both vessels swung together,
and before headway cou be lesstned or tao
wheel thrown over, we came together with q
crash SO heavily that the steamers progress
was stopped. AT first we thought we had
escaped injury, while the crash of the
schooner headway made us fearful that she
was going dowr. C.piain Jauuoy shouted
10 ner crew 10 come uDOari, but they said
they were all right, and when the vess els q
swung apart she continued on her way.
A few moments later, Engineer Hayden,
who was investigating, discovered a large
hole iii tho steamer . port Low, peiow tue
water line, aad gave the alarm that the ship
would not float bat Il few moments MORE
Captain Janney ordered all hand to the S0aLSA
There was no time to get anything, either
clothes or provisions. We who{were saved
jumped into toaG, while duz,n or more
got th, Ia fa rnf
termaster Fred. O.son, Eng ieer Hay yden and
two seam-n, who tooX To the rigging. The
remainder took to the other boats. Fifteen
minutes alter the collision the steamers rail
was under wa.er. The ships boat then an.
preached, Rnd we were al taken, one at a
time, off the mast, except Engineer Hayden,
who was so exhausted That, while attempt
ing to pass u lifeline under his arms, he fell
into the sea and was drowned before hs
could be hauled aLold. He was the last to
Lave the s.eamer, only the tops Of whose
maSts remain above the water. All the
others, l hope, will u timateiy he rescued,
although when We got clear OF the wreck tue
raft could not bs seen. The night was still
dark, however. AT sunrise, alter being half
froZ III, we We're picked up lay Captain Cur
tbs, Of New Haven, b uud Tor Providence.
All of us lose all our clothes and consdera-
BILE money. The schooner committed the
fatal error when she swervcd from her orig
inal coarse, when it was our duty to get out
OF the way.
The purser and other Manhattan survivors
who were on the life raft were picked up by
the schooner Charles Ii. Tuttle, Captain Ives,
bound from Baltimore to Prov. .dence, Il. l.