Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-02
The list of rescued now foots up forty.
two, leaving sixty-seven missing.
DRY OF THE pIsAsr

STORY OF TIE DISASTER.
NV YORK, November lst-Second Mate
Walker ~ the schooner Cornelius Har-
graves gives the following account of the
collision:
81 had just come on deck few minutes
before o'clock Thursday evening. saw
the Vizcaya five miles off. A green light
shown on the port side. did not feel The
east uneasy. Our lights were burning,
ane must have been plainly visible to those
on board the Spaniard. Wewere sailing at
the rate of eight knots an hour, and nesred
the Spanish ship rapidly. turnsu mare
-, n-nt to show lam sailing vessel was near.
but be held on his way. began to think
we might strike him or he Us II 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 canvas on the Spanish steamship
and then at our sails, all of which were set,
we can clear him, guess he said ord
we held on our way. watch'~ The vessel
drawing nearer, ana Tally ventured, 1
think we Wiii SUI &c them, Captain Yes,
by -, We will Hard a port hard a
pori. oe shouted, but it was too late. Like
!. :. race-horse our vessel darted forward. and
we struck the Vizcaya amidships. The
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| iard's side. Then the vessel swung slowly
about, until almost side by side. Then a
chorus of agonizing cries burst forth. Men
and women dsrted hither and thither on
the steamship, and jumped down on our
decks, but our ship was as sorely wounded
as their own. AS Captain Allen 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 the boats, men, to the boatsP He him
self cut away the fastenings of the long
boat and jumped in. The first mate and
three Of our crew followed.
{ Meantime l was fighting q gang of
Spaniards who were bent on getting TO our
boats Suddenly looked around and saw
Allen shove off with four companions. The
boat would easily have carried eighteen. |
jumped into the rigging and shouted:
Captain, you are not going to desert your
second mate, are you? Come back He
shouted something 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 in dramatic way OF
the struggle for life of the remaining ten
men of the Hargraves crew and the crowd
of Spaniards from the Viscaya. Walker
threw a gang-plank overheard and followed
it. A large number of persons chung to it,
and it was capsized again and again, each
time losing some 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, leav-
ing Walker alone. Again and again he was
washed overheard, but struggled back. He
was fast losing his mind and consciousness
when he saw the Barnegat Light and tried
to paddle toward it, but drifted out to sea.
l l., Iv,@ TOO f,r ta
see his signals. At A. n he fell in with
Spaniard who had a raft of spsrs, aud
joined him. Soon after they were picked
up by the tug.
ANOTHER VERSION.
New YORK, November 1st-First Mate
Perrin, of the schooner Hargraves, arrived
at Philadelphia this evening and told his
story. He says the blame of the collision
rests entirely with the steamer people, as
the schooner's 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 before the schooner could be cleared
the crash came. PERKINS, story differs
from that of Mate Walker.
| Regarding the actions of the Captain, he
says seven of the Hargraves crew, includ-
| ing the Captain and himself and four of
| the Spaniards got into the schooner's long
| boat, and three of the crew and three of the
Spaniards in the small boat. The drifted
until early next morning, when they were
picked up by the schooner Davis and we're
afterwards transferred to a tug. Perrin
adds that when Captain T. Allen saw the
| Spaniard paying no attention to the schoon-
er's fare signals he blew the steam
whistle, when the Spaniard seemed for the
| first time to see them, and then came the
! fatal error in her steering.