Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-01
News BI IELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
EIGHTY ONE DROWNED.
Terrible Collision of Two
Ocean Vessels.
GRAPHIC STORY OF A SURVIVOR.
Brazil Reduces the Export
Duty on Coffee.
the POPULATION OF THE COUNTRY.
How We Have Grown
During Two Decades.
COLLISION OF VESSELS.

Formulated SchOOner-BOth Yes.
sells Sunk-One Hundred Lives Lost
How the Accident Occurred-Lying
In Forty Feet OF Water.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-The steamer
viszcaya, New York to Havana, was run
into by large schooner last evening
about six miles off Barnegat, on the Jersey
coast. Within seven minutes after the
collision both vessels sank, carrying down
at last eighty-one persons of their pas
sengers and crew: The night was clear,
the moon shining brightly and the sea
smooth, and yet none of the twelve sur
vivors of the Viszcaya's crew, who reached
this city this morning, could give the
disaster or tell how the accident hap
pened None of the survivors could
talk English, and for some time it was inn
possible to obtain from any of them q cor
rect account of the wreck 1t was learned,
however, that all the passengers of the
steamer were lost. DR.. Rico, of the survi-
vors, gives this account of the disaster:
"Everything was working nicely The
weather was fine, the moon shone brightly
and the sea was smooth. 1t was about
back and forth while smoking an after
dinner cigarette. I did not see YES
sci near us. The ship was in charge
of the first officer, who was on the bridge.
1 went down to the saloon then and there
met Mrs. Calvo. We sat down and began
talking Suddenly heard the gong in the
engine room ring the signal to stop. Before
1 could even wonder what it was for there
came an awful shock, crashing, scraping
o,,l %1a
steamer rolled well over on our port side.
Everybody in the saloon was thrown
down All was excitement, men, women
and children shrieking for help-from
what they did not know. Mrs. Calvo
seized my hands and begged me to save
her boy. I started up to the deck to
find him. When I got out of the
companion way terrible scene met my
eyes. The bridge, deckhouse and fore
rigging were all torn away, there was
great crash in the starbosrd side just
sbaft of the coal bunkers, and through this
opening the water was pouring in. Close
by on our starboard beam was q big four
masted schooner, her bowsprit and fore
rigging gone and her bows stove in. She,
too, was filling rapidly. Men were run
ming here and there all over our decks
shouting all kinds of orders, and can re-
member seeing the crew of the schooner do
ing the same thing on their vessel. The
next thing knew the water was making
over our decks. The steamer was fast
sinking. With wild idea of saving our
selves several of the crew and myself
scrambled up the port fore rigging. Down,
down, went the steamer, and up we
climbed. We reached the fore gallant
bottom. This left us just out of the wa
ter, but very large swell would wet our
legs. There were twelve of us on the
yard. Some of the crew had tried to
reach the schooner, but she had sunk al
most as quickly as had the Viszcaya, and as
far as we could see not a soul but our
selves was in sight.
zone of the men on the yard said that
while climbing the rigging he had seen a
boat lowered from the schooner and seven
men get in and low away. We looked all
around, but could not see anything. Then,
in hope of attracting the attention of
passing vessel or someone on shore, We cut
the tarred ropes on the yard into pieces a
foot or two long, and lighting these waved
them in the air as long as they lasted But
no one came to our aid, and all through
the long night we chung to that yard,
growing colder and sitter as each hour
passed Toward daylight o cold fog set
tied on US and made matters worse. When
he heard a steamer passing by we all hal
loed as loud as our numb condition would
permit US. Then boat made it's appear
ance and we were taken on board the
Humboldt. We could not have held out
much longer"
LEwEs, Del, Oct 31-The tug Her
cules arrived this evening and reports
that the schooner Cornelius Hargraves and
the Spanish steamer Viszcaya collided at
o'clock the evening of the 3Oth, fifteen
miles off Barnegat. Both vessels sank in
fifteen fathoms of water.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.-A special to
the Times from Beach Haven, N. J., says:
The crew of the ife-saving station have
patrolled the beach all day, but neither
| wreckage nor bodies have come ashore.
The wrecks lie off shore in about forty feet
| of water, and are directly in the track of
ocean steamers and coasters.
New York, Oct. 31.-Captain Cunll.
who commanded the Viszcaya, was ma
and had been in the employ of the COM
pany for twenty years. He leaves a widow
| in Havana. Juan Pedro was a special
partner in the Spanish transatlantic.
| He was worth several millions and had
two beautiful plantations near Matanza.
When last seen he was rushing fran
tically from one side of the steamer
| to the other, looking In vain for some
means of safety. Mrs. Calvo, one of
the women passengers, when the crash of
the collision came, rushed and came on
deck again bearing in her arms her baby
boy. The chief engineer tried to assist
her to the mast, but the rush of waters as
the ship went down tore her from his
grasp and she sank. This is not the
first time that the Viszcayq has met
disaster. About three years Ago one of
her boilers burst and killed nearly the
whole of the night watch. 1t was after
this accident that the vessel was over.
| hau1ed and raftted