St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-01
FOUR SCORE PERISH.
Frightful Result of a Collision
Between Ocean Vessels
OFF Barnegat.
The Steamship Vizeaya and
Schooner AapgreaveS Go
the Bottom.
at Least Eighty-0ne Persons
Find Sepulehre in Davy
Jones' Locker.

Survivors Give Details Of the
Death Struggle With the
Waves.
New YORK, Oct. 31.-Six short miles
off Barnegat, on the Jersey coast, on
Thursday evening. was the steamship
Vizcaya on her way to Havana. Near
by was the schooner Cornelius Har-
greaves. The night was clear, the
moon shining brightly. The hour was
about 7:3O. Seven minutes later both
vessels were at the bottom of the sea.
and with them sank thirty-one of their
passengers and crews. In those seven
minutes a collision and death struggle
with the waves had taken place; a scene
had occurred which even the dozen sur
vivOrS cannot give the details without
stopping to make sure that it is
not all a horrible dream. The
entire lot of passengers of the
ViZcaya were lost. Their names are:
Senior JUAN PEDRO, artner of the firm
of j. VI. Cebalos q Co.. OF New York, and
one OF the owners OF the lost steamship.
NJ. 4. CALNO, wife ahd son.
NJ. PURR and two children,
A. RUIZ.
JOSEPH ACAIBIA.
PANON ALAVAREZ
JUAN F. HEDAM.
OSCAR ISLAM.
IIGUI PELLION and
JOSE NJ. GARCIA.
Twelve of the crew Of seventy-seVen
were saved from the steamship. The
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unknown. The first news received of
the disaster in this city was when the
steamer Humboldt from Brazil arrived
at her dock in Brooklyn. having on
board the twelve Survivors of the
catastrophe, whom she picked up at
daybreak this morning. Capt. Black,
of the Humboldt. said that at daybreak
this morning his ship was off Barnegat
Light. Suddenly. from off their port
bow, came cry for help. Peering in
that direction through the mist OF the
early morning, the officers of the Hum
b0ldt saw three masts sticking out of
the water, and clinging TO the yards
and rigging people were seen. Quickly
a boat was lowered and rowed to the
unfortunate people. There were twelve
OF them. all sailors, clinging to the
spaIS. and their joy was unspeakable
when they were taken into the boat.
They all belonged to the steamship
Flzcaya, and their names are as fol-
lows:
FELIPE HAAS. first officer.
GABRIEL CUSTAS. second officer
FRANCISCO SIERRA, first engineer
DIR. ANDRES RICO, surgeon.
SERENO CARLOS.
F. LOPEZ.
JUAN SEYJAS.
ANGEL LEON.
JOSE MENDINNA CAMMERRO.
RAMON MARTINEZ.
RAMON PEREZ.
p. ARRELANO. seamen.
The men were chilled to the bone
from their exposure To wind and wave,
and cOnid hold out but little longer.
They were taken Oh board the Hum
boldt. brought TO this city and taken at
once to the office of j. NJ. Ceballos d
Co, No. 80 Wall street, the owners of
the NiZcaya. The firm had received no
tice of the loss of their vessel from the
maritime exchange but few minutes
before the survivors walked into the
Office. For the next hour all was eX-
citement In the Office of Ceballos d Co.
None of the survivors could talk En-
2lish. and for some time it was impossi-
bic 10 obtain from any of them a correct
account of the wreck. From DIR. Rico
the best account was obtained. DIR.
Rico SAID: "Everythimg was working
nicely. The weather was fine, the moon
shone brightly and the sea was smooth.
III was about s O'Clock when was on deck
and took few turns back and forth while
smoking all after dinner cigarette. |
Old not Spe any vessel near us. The
ship was in charge of the first officer,
who was on the bridge. | went down
TO the saloon then, and there met Mrs.
CalVO. We sat down and began talk
ing. Suddenly heard the gong in the
engine room ring the stop" signal,
Before | could even wonder what it was
Tor, there came an awful shock,
crashing sound on the deck over our
heads, and the steamer rolled well over
on her port side. Everybody in the
saloon was thrown down. Ali was ex
cltement; men, women and children
Shrieking for Help,
from what they did not know. Mrs.
Calvo seized my hands and begged me
to find and save her boy. | told her /
would. | started up to the deck to find
hlm. When got out nf the companions
way a terrible scene met nv eyes. The
brldse. deck house and forerigging were
all torn away; there was great
cash in the starbOard side lust
ahaft the coal hunkers, and through
this large opening the water was
pouring in. Close by. on our starboard
Dedil. WAS Dl2 IOuf-maSted schooner,
her bowSprlt and fOre-rigging gone and
her bow stove iii. She, too, was filling
rapidly. Men were running here and
there all over our decks, shouting all
kinds of orders, and / can remember
seeing the crew of the schooner doing
the same thing on their vessel. The
next thing L knew the water was max
Ing over our decks. The steamer was
fast sinking. With a wild idea of saw
ing ourselves several of the crew and
myself scrambled up the port fore-rig-
gIug. Down. down went the steamer.
and up we climbed. We reached the
fOretOpgalant yard, and iust then rho %
hull reached the bottom. This left ms
just out of water. but very large swell
would wet our legs. There were twelve
OF us Oh the yard. Some of our crew
had tried to reach the schooner.
but she had sunk almost as
quickly as had the Vizcaya, and.
as far as we could see. not soul
but ourselves was in sight. One of the
men on the yard said that while climb
Ing the rigging he had seen boat low
cred from the schooner and seven men
get in and row away. We looked all
around but could not see ANYTHING.
Then, in the hope of attracting the at
tentloh of some passing vessel or some
one on the shore 1--WE were only six
miles off the COAST. we cut the tarred
ropes OH the yard into pieces foot or
two long and lighting these waved them
In the air as long as they lasted. But
Nc One Came TO Our Aid,
and all through the long night we clung
to that yard. growing colder and sitter
as each hour passed. Toward dav-
break cold fog settled on US and made
matters worse. When one OF the men
on the yard said he thought he heard &
steamer passing by, we all haliooed as