The Russellville Democrat., 1889-10-10
FouNpEREp AT SEA.


The Fate OF the British steamer Earn.
moor In One OF the Early September
storms - The Vessel Abandoned In
sinking Condition, the Captain and
Eighteen of tho Grew Supposedly Lost
aud the Remainder Suffer for Three
Weeks In an Open Yawl Before Being
Rescued.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct. 4.-Full details Of
the foundering at sea of the British
steamer Earnmoor, briefly telegraphed
yesterday, have been received here. Nine
teen lives were lost. The names OF those
who perished are as follows;
Richard J. Grey, captain.
- Stone, second mate.
- Louder, chief engineer.
VIM. Hlndemel, second steward.
VIM. Wright, cook
Robert Johnson, seaman.
Karl J. Turklesen, seaman.
Ludwig Loder, seaman.
VIM. Robinson, seaman.
Edward Johnson, seaman.
A. Legender, fireman.
Carl Crane. fireman.
Herman Tonges, fireman.
Heinrich Mas, fireman.
A. Roster. fireman.
A. Plaggc, fireman.
James Charlatudo, fireman.
James Sinclair, fireman.
James Durant, mess boy.
Those known to have been saved are
First Mate Painter, Second Engineer
Meldrum and five of the crew. The Earn
moor was o tramp steamer and was o
stanch steel vessel. She sailed from this
port on August 20. bound for Rio Janeiro
with cargo of S6, 200 bushels of wheat
valued at 81, 700.
The steamer was in command of Cap
tain Richard J. Grey, with complement
Of twenty six men, all told. She reached
Hampton Roads August 80, but put to sea
again Immediately. Nothing of special
interest occurred for the first three days
out, as the weather was comparatively
clear. She was rather slow boat, de-
signed for freighting exclusively, and
did not make over 175 miles day.
She encountered high winds on the
night of Septe enber 3, and the sea became
very rough before the next morning.
The storm increased to hurricane DUR
ing that day and the steamer was hove to
for several hours. She was heavily
laden and was so deep in the water that
the soas made O clean sweep over her
decks for hours and inflicted consider
able damage. Tho cyclone became so ter
rible that the vessel could make no head
way against the sea, her triple expansion
engines of 250 Horse power being unable
to keep her head to the storm and she
broached to. Immense quantities of
water were shipped Immediately, the
fire-room was flooded, the fires ex-
tinguished and the vessel was wholly at
the mercy of the terrible gale. During
part of the night the crew worked for
dear life at the pumps in last despair
ing effort to save the ship, but the
frightful pounding which the hull con-
tinued to receive by the mountainous
waves caused the seams to open and the
water poured in from below and above
and gained so rapidly on the wearied
men that it did not take long to realize
tho helplessness of the task. Every
thing was flooded below and tho water
was gaining steadily in the hold.
As near as could be told by dead reck-
oning the Earnmoor was then about $50
miles off the lower coast of Florida, and
not very far east of the Bahama islands.
Captain Grey finally gave up and ordered
the boats lowered on the morning of
September 8. Water and provisions
wore taken aboard and the crew put
off from the sinking vessel in the midst
of the raging storm. The captain with
his chief engineer. second mate and
sixteen Of the crew occupied the
long boat, while the first mate,
second engineer and FIVE of
the crew were in the small boat. The
force of the hurricane and the shifting
winds soon separated the boats aud moth
ing has since been heard of the Captains
boat. There is little doubt that the brave
commander and the eighteen men who
sought safety in the larger boat perished
in the cyclone. For over three weeks the
first mate and his exhausted crew of six
in their little yawl kept up the struggle.
After drifting for twenty two days that
last dread alternative of shipwrecked
men began to force itself into the minds
OF the famished seamen, who should be
the man TO lay down his life to save the
others from starvation. The CHASTITY
alternative, however, was not resorted
to, because on the twenty third day a
vessel hove in sight Only one man
in the boat was strong enough to
hold a signal SO as to attract
the attention of tho life giving
craft. She was the schooner Mosquito
from New York bound for Truxillo. She
bore down on them speedily, and their
detection was turned to delirious JOY
when the famished mariners saw that
their signals were seen and that they
were saved. The famished men were
taken aboard the schooner and landed at
Nassau, New Providence, on September