, 1890-11-02
GREAT OCEAN WRECK
New Stories Told of How it
Happened.
Fearful Scenes on Board of
Both Boats.
Thrilling Escapes Made by
the Few Survivors.
The wrecked Steamers.

NEW York, Nov. 1.-The CeballO rep
resentatives who went with a tug after the
seven survivors picked up by the pilot
boat have returned. They brought seven
of the crew of the Vizcaya and one Of the
~schooner's crew. A dispatch received
from Lewes, DEL, says that the second
engineer Arthur Gueralla, the fourth en-
Rineer Leopolde Mediaralla, the second
boatswain. seaond cook. one fireman and
two sailors have arrived there, The body
OF the stewardess Of the Vlzcaya has also
come ashore.
Second Mate Walker OF the schooner
Cornelius Hargraves gives the following
account OF the collision; Il had Just
come on deck a few minutes before 7
Thursday evening. l saw the ViEcaya five
miles of. A green light shone on the po:t
side. l did not feel the least uneasy. Our
lights were burning and must have been
plainly seen by those on board the Span
lard. We were sailing at the rate of eight
knots an hour and reared the Spanish
ship rapidly. L returned the fare light
TO show him that a sailing vessel was near,
but it held on its way. | began to think
We might strike him or be US if one of us
did not alter our course. L was in
charge of the deck. Finally 1 called
the captain. When he came on
deck he looked at the cloud OF the canvass
on the Spanish steamship then at our sails
all Of which were set.
I'VE can clear hun, [ guess he said
and we held on our way. | watched the
vessels drawing nearer and finally ven
tured. II think we will strike them
captain
Yes, by-we will. hard aportl Hard
aportl" he shouted but twas too late.
Like a race horse our vessel darted for
ward. We struck the Vlzcsya smidships.
The Hargraves tore a great hole in the
Spanisrd's side. Then the vessel swung
slowly about until we were almost side by
side. Then a chorus of agonizin0 cries
burst forth. Men and women darted
hither and thither on the steamship and
Jumped down on our decks. But our
ship was as sorely wounded as their own.
As Captain Allan heard the panic stricken
people dropping ON our deck he shouted
to me. Walker. keep them back. Let's
save our own crew first. To boats men, to
boatsl"
lie, himself, cut away the f~astenings OF
the long boat and jumped in. The first
mate and three of our crew followed.
Meantime | was fighting a gang OF Span
iards bent on getting to our boats. Sud
denly l looked around. | saw Allen had
showed off with four companions. The
boat would easily have carried sixteeD. i
jumped into the rigging and shouted,
Captain, you are not going to desert
Dur second mate, are you2 For Gods
sake, come back" He shouted some
thing in reply. l saw him waving his
hand in farewell. and knew the coward
had made of, leaving the rest of his crew
to perish.
Walker then told 10 a dramatic way the
struggles for life OF the remaining ten
men of the Hargrave's crew and the
crowd of Splniards from the Vizcaya.
Walker threw a plank overheard and fol
lowed it. A large number of persons
chung to it and it was capsized again and
again. each time losing some OF Its
freiRhtaRe of human life Finally the
number was reduced to five. They lost
strength gradually and one by one let go
and sunk into the depths leaving Walker
alone. Again and again he was washed
overheard bat struggled back. He was
fast losing his mind and consciousness
when he saw Barnegat light and tried to
paddle toward it. but dritted out tn sea.
Many vessels passed but too far away to
see us slRuhlo ut u. u. nc icu III
with a Spaniard who had a raft of spars
aud Joined him. Soon eiter they we're
picked up by a tug.
The list of rescued now foots up forty
Two, leaving sixty-seven missing.
First Mate Perrin OF the schooner
Hargraves arrived Gin Philadelphia this
evening and told his story. He says the
blame of the collision rests entirely with
the steamer people as the schooner
lights were burning and she had the right
of way. When the steamer was close
aboard instead OF putting her helm to
port she put it hard a starboard and be-
fore the schooner could be cleared the
crash came. Mate PerrIns' story differs
from that of Mate Walker regarding the
actions of the captain.
He says seven of the Ilargrave's crew,
including the captain and himself and
four of the Spaniards, got into the
schooner's long boat and three of the
Spanlards got into a small boat. They
rode until early next morning when they
were picked up by the schooner Davis
and afterwards transferred TO a tug. Per-
rim adds that when Capt. Allen saw the
Spaniard paying no attention to the
schooner's fare signals he blew the
steam whistle when the SpaDiard seemed
for the frat time to see them and then
pamn fha f,fol arrnr in h ~ CLEARING