The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-03
TO SAVE THE TRAEE.
rzH STEAMSHIP DELIBERATELY
orr TIE TAYLOR IN TWO.

% Down-Only Ten Seconds Said to
usvs Elapsed After the Bark Was
sighted, and There Was a Curtain
of Fog Ahead-An Except Two on
the Bark Rescued by the Trave's
Sailors - Passengers Too Much
Alarmed to Make an Outcry.
From the NeIo York World.
LONDON. June 3O.-The North German
Tlovd steamship Trave ran into and in
stsntly sank the bark Fred b. Taylor,
wednesday June %, at $50 o'clock in the
morning, when 250 miles from New York.
The sailing vessel, although broader than
Craftsmanship, was cut completely in two,
one half of the wreck floating by on the
steamships port side, the other half drifting
mast on her starboard side.
The crew of the wrecked bark chung to
the spars until nearly all were rescued py
boats from the Trave.
TWO WE'RE LOST.
Two out of twenty-five persons on the
Inflated craft were lost
This first mate, Charles Wodeley, an En-
ylishman. was asleep in his berth at the
time and was cut in two by the steamers
iron bow, which struck his cabin on It's way
through.
a
son. was lost by the capsizing OF chest or
drawers on which be foated away after the
collision.
All other persons on board. nineteen men
and one woman (the wife OF the steward),
were saved after two hours work on the
part Of the Trave's officers.
The Trave stove in one plate on her star
board bow, cracked another great plate,
smashed hole in her bow more than four
feet square, had her port anchor broken
sheer off and partly carried away, lost the
shank of her starboard anchor In the same
way and had part of her rail seraped by
the trailing wreckage as the halves or the
wooden ship scraped through.
Some OF the forward rigging was also
carried away.
PASSENGERS TOO SCARED TO SCREAM.
Most of the steamers passengers were
still asleep, but the shock Of the collision,
the crash Of timber cut through and the
shrieks of the wretched men as they drtfted
past the cabin portfolios on pieces Of the
wreck brought nearly everybody out OF his
cabin, pale and not little frightened.
But there was no loud confusion. Women
and men came out In night dress and bare
feet begging some one to tell them just
what was the matter, how badly damaged
their own boat was, whether she, too, was
going down and how soon.
They did all this with a curtously quiet air
OF scared self-suppression. There was no
wild crying. no tainting of women. none OF
the scenes we have always been told 60 with
intense excitement.
Every man and woman of them all was
too genuinely frightened to make a noise.
Mems voices wouldn't talk. They would
only whisper. Women only stared.
PROMPT WORK OF RESCUE.
And through it all the hoarse roar of the
officers voices ordering the lowering of tho
boats, the shrill and continuous call Of the
boatswain's whistle the rattle Of the block
AID tackle letting go the boats, the quick
tramp of heavy-booted sailors on the deck,
the throb of the pumping engines as the
steamer lay to-a new sound to the passen-
gers-and the first booming Of the foghorn,
all made q thrilling scene.
The way it happened that the two boats
could not pass each other with all the broad
Atlantic for room was this:
The sailing vessel Taylor had been tossing
about for two days in much the same spot.
beating against adverse wind and fog. She
was forty days out from Havre, in ballast.
and was returning to New York after carry
ing wheat across.
She was big craft 800 tons, 275 feet
long, 48 feet beam-broader than the Trave
Ms
When fighting her way along, only two
days between her and the harbor, the Trave
flashed upon her and cut her through and
through like some huge cleaver.
Ii is the first time steamer has cut in
two so big a ship.
COLLISIONS IN A FOG.
The morning was fair, with only scat
tered thin banks of fog, and the Trave,
seventeen hours out, was booming along
with q man on the lookout forward in ad-
dition to the usual man In the crow nest
First Officer Meisel was In charge on the
bridge. Here and there was slight cur
tain Of fog; beyond was sunshine and then
little strip of fog again.
The World correspondent looked out of
his portfolio not four minutes before the
collision and saw that the wea her was
clear, but some distance ahead hung q cur
tain Of fug-and right on the edge OF this
lurked the doomed vessel
From sunshine into this bank Of gray the
steamer plunged, and there, not ten seconds
away, doomed up the shadow of big ship.
Down In the engine room every man had
been directed to stand by and the order to
reverse met with instant response. But it
was too late.
The doomed bark tried to sheer off.
WHICH SHALL 90 TO THE BOTTOM.
The first officers, quick to act, saw that
ne must cut her down rather than be cut
down, and, turning bow on, the Traye
caught deliberately the wooden side of the
sailing vessel about three quarters back
from her bow and cut her diagonally
through and through. leaning the bow and
TWO forward masts to float away on the
left side and q smaller section of the stern
10 drift past on the right side with Shrek
Ing men clinging fast to each piece of the
divided wreck. AS soon as the ship was
split In two the ballast rolled out. and so
pieces Of the wreck kept afoat instead of
pumping down to the bottom with the
ballast.
Capt. Reimkasten was on the bridge sec
ond after the COLLISION, having jumped from
MS berth as the engines slowed down.
Third Officer Renter was ordered to clear
away boat
by the time the speed was checked the
wreck was astern more than two miles and
the cries Of the wrecked sailors were stilled.
Inc fog shut down and hid everything.
Into this gray wall the little boat disap-
Il peared, the passengers following it by the
SOUND OF the boatswAin's whistle which
from time to time helped to direct the
steamer as she backed to the scene of the
accident.
CLINGING TO THE WRECK. ~ Esy
In twenty minutes the Traves passenge rs
came In sight OF the larger part of the
wreck and could count some clinging fig
ures, now in sight, now washed over by