, 1890-11-06
COLLISION OF VESSELS
Seven Minutes Later Both
Go to the Bottom.
TOLD BY THE YICCAYA SURGEON
Graphic Account of the Sinking
OF the Spanish Steam
ship.

NEW ONk, oCt' OIL Hc cIh''ob
steamship Viccaya was run into oil
Barnegat by an unknown schooner
yesterday. Both vessels were sunk.
The captain and sixty-one of the pas
sengers of the steamer were lost. Ihe
fate of the crew OF the schooner is I'M
known. Seventeen men were later
picked up by the Sarah l.. Davis.
So tar as known these are the only
persons out of the crew and passenger
list of eighty-siN of the Nicchya ana
the crew of the unknown schooner that
have been saved. Ii is feared all the
others are lost, and that the list will
number up to eighty. II not more. De-
tails are meager The Viccaya left New
York Yesterday afternoon for Havana
with nine regular passengers, and a
crew of seventy seven. 1t is thought
there were some others on board not ON
the list
AT $50 Thursday evening q large four
masted schooner hove in sight and I'M
medatcly bore down on the steamer,
striking on the starboard bunkers, carry
ing away the bridge and cabin. The
captain was instantly killed. Seven
minutes later both vessels had sunk
and the passengers and crews were
struggling in the water.
The steamer was a staunch vessel and
Captain Cunill was one of the most
trusted mployes of the line. One of the
passengers. not on the regular list, was
Juan Pedro. q Gu ban millionaire, and q
director Of the steamship line.
The other passengers on board SO far
as learned were:
NJ. A. CALvo, wife, son and maid.
Mr.. PuRR and three children.
A. Rfz.
JOSE ACADIA.
RAMON ALVAREZ
JUAN +. HEDMAS.
OSCAR TsLAUR.
LUIGI PELLEoS.
JOSH GARCIA.
Surgeon Rice says: "At the time of
the collision. was In the cabin talking
to Mrs, Calvo. Suddenly there came an
awful shock and the steamer rolled well
over on the port side. Everybody in the
cabin was thrown down and Immediate
ly a scene Of the widest confusion en-
sued. Mrs. Calvo begged me to save her
son. and went up on deck to find him.
There a terrible scene met my
eyes. The bridge, deckhouse and
fore rigging were all torn away. There
was great cash in the starboard side,
just above the coal bunkers, and close
by on the starboard beam was big four
masted schooner. with her bowsprit and
fore rigging gone and her beams stove
in. Men we're running wildly ON our
decks, shouting all kinds of orders, and
i can remember seeing the crew Of the
schooner doing the same thing on their
vessel. The next thing knew the water
was washing over our decks. With a
wild idea OF saving ourselves, several of
us clam bereo up the rigging. Down
went the steamer and up we climbed.
We reached the foretop gallant yard,
and just then the hull reached the bot
tom. This left us ust above the surface
OF the water, but each swell dashed over
our limbs. Twelve survivors were there.
Some of our crew tried to reach the
schooner, but she went to the bottom
most as quick as our vessel, and as far
as we could see there was not a sailor in
sight. One of the men on the yard.
while climbing, said he had seen boat
lowered from the schooner and seven
men get In and row away, but we could
not see anything of it, although it was a
bright moonlight night.
Then in the hope of attracting atten-
tion we cut the tarred ropes on the yard
and Lighting them, swung them in the
air, but in vain. All through the long
night we chung to yard, growing
colder and sitter each hour. Toward
daybreak one of the men thought he
heard steamer passing and we all
shouted as loud as we could. Then q
boat made its appearance and we were
taken on board the Humboldt. We
could not have lasted much longer"
The collision is inexplicable, in view of
the statement of DIR. Rice that the night
was bright moonlight one, and the sea
smooth.
CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-A dispatch from
Lewes, Del, tonight says the tug Her
cules arrived this evening and reports
that the schooner was the Cornelius
Hargraves. Ten men from the Har-
graves, and seven from the Viccaya were
picked up by the schooner Sarah l..
Davis, and transferred to the Hercules.
She later proceeded to the wreck to
render assistance, but at midnight met
the tug Butler. which had been to the
scene and found that both vessels had
sunk and all hands were gone. They
picked up the body of woman. Sur
viyors report that nearly 100 people
were clinging to the wreck at one time
The schooner Hargraves cleared from
Lewes, October y, with coal for Fall
River, Mass.
DESERTED HIS CREW.
H.l