New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-20
UTOPIA'S CAPTAIN ARRESTED.
CHARGED WITH NEGLIGENCE AND MISMAN-
AGEMENT OF HIS VESSEL.
ONLY 31s PERSONS SAVED OUT OF $50 on BOARD
TIE SUNKEN STEAMER-TEREIBLE SIGHTS
REPORTED by TIE DIVERS-GALLAN-
TRY OF THE wARsHIPS' MEN


REPORTED by TIE DIvERs-GALLAN-
TRY OF THE wARsHIPS MEN
BURIAL OF TWO REsCUERs.
Gibraltar, March 19-Captan McKeague Of the i'll
fatcd Anchor Line steamer Utopia. has been arrested
for wrongful acts, improper conduct. negligence aud
mismanaEcment lie has been released bail.
The revised official count Of the lost and saved
passengers and OF the Utopia shows that there
were persons board the steamer when she ran
on the Anson OF this number S-rc were saved go
passengers two saloon passengers. three Ital
ian interpreters and twenty three Of the crew, all the
latter being Englishmcn, or men who had shipped at
English ports.
The accounts given by the divers who are engaged
in the work on the wrecked steamer Of the terrible
sights which they have witnessed the vessel in
crease the appalling character of the catastrophe.
These men. in describing the horrible scenes, say that
they found the matches and the chart-room Of the
Utopia closely packed with the bodies Of the un-
fortunate passengers, who had become wedged into
almost solid mass in their frantic rush to reach the
decks of the steamer after she had crashed into the
sharp ram of the ironclad. The positions in which
the bodies were found show that the people made a
terrible struggle for life.
owing to a lack of accommodations in the naval
hospital here, many of the crew and the emgrahs WHO
were rescued have been compelled to cncamp on thc
glacs. The military closely patrollng the sNore
for the purpose of rcSCung any more ol tlc DocS ''
may he washed i'm by the waves.
The people of this place who from the shore, WI
messed the horrifying of the shlp"reck, are
unstintcd in their praise Of the great giiahuN us
PLAYED by the men of the British squadron anchored
here who boldly hurried to the rescue Oh inc en-
danCered passengers, without stopping 70 cohsiue'
the risk they ran in launching their small boats on
an angry sea in the teeth Of a heavy gale Much
praise is also bestowed on the men OF the yacW
Eesoute who manned boat and succeeded IN SAVING
sixteen persons who but for their brave ana tincS
assistance would soon have given up the struggle
and gone TO the bottom.
The inquiry into the circumstances OF the disaster
was begun to-day.
The funeral of the two mcnof-warSmen' James
Cotton able seaman, and George llaleS stokcr' VINO
,ro drowned from the launch OF the lmmortante
on Tuesday night while engaged in the WORK Oh
rcScuinE the passengers of the Utopia TOOK pia,'
rodav The bands Of all the Warship- iOTn'IS wy
british SQUADRON now at anchor al Gibraltar piaN'u
dead marches in the funeral procession Inc once
of tnc ImmOrtalc. headed by her commando odP
Sir William Wi>eman delegations from the crews ol tic
other British irOncllds and from the Swculsh man oI
var Fr,va and approximation from the garrison Hi
Gibraltar were present at the funeral celcln"eN -
the irOuclads fired SalutcS the bodies were lo"crc
into the graves in the Government cemetery heIc anu
ali The stores in Gibraltar were closed as marx VI
sympathy with the gallant bluelackctS.