The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-02
VIzCAYA'S VICTIMS.
A Number of Them Land at
LeWes, Delaware.
SECOND NATE WALKERS STORY.
The Steamer Was to Blame, as the Schooner
Had the Right to the Road
Captain Allen Condemned.
Vizcaya Victims Saved.


New YORK, Nov. lit is now certain
that twenty seven lives were saved from
the wrecked steamer Vizcaya. Word is
received from the Delaware breakwater
that eight persons saved are now there,
names not known. A United States tug
was sent this morning to Sandy Hook for
the seven survivors taken off at Marshall
and are now on board thai vessel.
The Ceballo Representatives who went
with the tug after the seven survivors
picked up by the pilot boat, bas returned.
They brought seven of the crew of the
vlzcaya and one of the schooners crew A
| dlspatch received from Lewes, Delaware
say that Second Engineer Arthur GueraIla,
fourth Engineer LeopOde Mediar LA, the
second boatsWain, seco I'D COOK oae fireman
ana Two sailors has arrived there. Also the
body OF the stewardess has come ashore
Second Mate Walker, of the sch, o1er
cornelius Hargreaves, gives the following
account OF the collision:
II had just came on deck few minutes
before O'Clock Thursday evening. saw
the Vizcaya five miles Off green light
shone on the port side and l did not feel
the least uneasy. Ourhghts were burning
ana must have been plainly visible to
tnose ON board the Spaniard. We were
sailing at the rate of eight knots an hour
and neared the Spanish ship rapidly.
turned a flare light to show him a sailing
vessel was near, but ne held on his way l
began thinking we might strike him or ne
US If one OF us did not alter our course.
was in charge Of the deck Finally |
called the captain. When he came on deck
he looked at the cloud Of canvass on the
Spanish steamship, then at our sails, all of
which were set. we can clear him. I
guess ne said, and we held on our way. /
watched the vessel drawing near and
finally ventured: Il think we will strike
uhem.'"
Captain-Yes, by We will, Hard
port, hard port, he shouted but it was
too late. Like race horse our vessel
darted forward. We struck the Viscaya
amidships. The Hargreaves tore great
hole in the Spaniard's side. Then the yes
sells swung slowlysabout until almost side
oy side Then chorus of agoniz
ing cries burst forth. Men and
women darted hither and tnither on
the steamship and jumped down on
our decks. But our ship was as
sorely wounded as their own. AS Captain
Alien heard the panic stricken people drop
ping on our deck he shoutt d to me,
Walker, keep them back, let's save our
own crew first. TO the boats men, to
The boats He himself cut away the
l astenipgs of the long boat and jumped in.
lowed.
I'm the meantime was fighting a gang
OF Spaniards bent on getting to our boats |
Suddenly looked around and saw ALE, |
had showed off with four companions. The |
boat would easily have carried sixteen. |
jumped into the rigging aud !
shouted Captain, you are not going to |
desert your second mate, are yous For
Gods sake, come bach' He shouted some |
thing in reply. and 1 saw him waving mis- |
hands in farewell aud knew the coward had |
made Off, leaving the rest Of his crew to |
perish.' hf
Walker then told in a dramatic wav of
the struggle for life Of the remaining ten
men of the Hargreaves' crew and crowd |
and Spaniards from the Vizcaya. Walker
threw gang plank overheard and followed
and it was capsized again and again, each
time to sink some of its freightage of human
life: Finally the number was reduced
to i've They lost strength gradually and
one by one let go and sank into the depths
having Walker alone. Again and again he
was washed overheard but struggled back
He was fast loosipg his mind and conscious
ness when ne saw the Barnegat light and
tried to paddle toward it. But drifted ont
% sea. Many vessels passed but too far to
see his signals. At a. M, he fell in with
Spanlard who had raft of spars and
oined him. Soon after they were picked
Up by tug.
The list of rescued now foots up to
-orly-two leaving sixty seven missing.
First Mate Perrin of the schooner Har-
graves arrived from Philadelphia this /;
morning and told his story He says the
blame of the collision rests entirely with
he steamer people, as the schooner's lights {
we're burning and she had the right of Wav.
When the steamer was close aboard. instead
II pulling her helm to port she pulled il
lard g. tarboard and before the schooner
ould be cleared the crash came. Mate |.
oerrin's story differs from that of Mate
Walker regarding the actions of the cap
ain. He says seven ofs the Harsraves. ]
rev. including the captain and himself !
md four of the Spaniards, got into the |
chooner's long boat, and three of the crew
nd three OF the Spaniards in small boats ;
hey rode until early next morning when
hey were picked up by the schooner Davis /
nd afterwards transferred to the tup 1
'errin adds that when Captain Allen saw /
be Spaniard paying no attention to the I
chooner's flare -signals he blew the steam : :
Whistle when the Spaniards seemed for the !
rst time to see them and then came the l
atal error in her steering t