The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-02-10
A GREAT CATASTROPHE.
Continued from I'd page.)

eating officers to get observations,
and they we're not good when they
did get them. Monday evening, Feb
ruary LIST, the vessel was sailing in a
south easterly course along the coast
of Hawaii Land had not been sight.
ed, as the weather was heavy, but all
hands knew it was not far off. Be-
fore he went to bed, Capt. Rowland
cautioned his men to keep sharp
lookout to starboard for land, and the
vessel was put under light canvas.
The caution was repeated by the 3rd
officer Pardee, when the watch was
changed at IL o'clock. In one short
hour the good ship was hopeless
wreck, and half the men we're in
eternity. The story of the wreck
can best be told by one who was
present and saw as much as could be
seen in that awful hour. The follow
ing is the story of seaman George
Cullen:
] went on watch at IL O. clock. 1t
was rainy, dark night. After had
walked the deck awhile till it was al
most time for me to go to the wheel,
stopped and sat down in the blight
OF rope by the fore rigging. After
little while heard the surf and
jumped up to see what it was. just
as got up heard the fourth mate
sing out to the second mate, "We're
on the Shore Then he sang out to
the man at the wheel, "Hard up the
wheel" Then / felt the ship scrape
on the rocks. Then the second mate
called out to back the main yard.
Just then she struck hard and he
sang out, "It's no use; we're on the
shore. Call the watch below" The
second mate called the cabin watch.
All the men came on deck, and all
was confusion till the order came to
clear away the larboard boat. Then
| went aft and we hoisted the boat
and swang her away. Then the boat
header and his boat steerer jumped
in and called out to lower away the
boat. l lowered the aft fall; and
one of the boat steerers lowered the
fore fall. The ship was then on an
even keel, lying broadside on to the
land and rolling hard. In lowering
the boat both falls got foul, and she
bumped hard several times before
we got her clear, which leads me to
think she was badly stove before she
was launched. Then the captain and
the first mate came on deck with
4,
jumped right oyer into the boat.
Then the captain sang out, go
dear, o dear, mister, how did this
happen; how did you get her on
shore?" Then he jumped up on the
rail and said, "Sa,e me, 1 can't
SWIM" One of the men put line
around him, and he jumped for the
boat. He went into the water first
and got two or three duckings. Then
one of the men got hold of him and
pulled him in. Next the carpenter
| jumped into the boat. Then the cook
and Jack Jouvett jumped in. Jerry
Anderson went over the side to get
into the boat but whether he ever
| got in don't know. In the mean
time the boat had been carried as
tern and the larboard bow boat had
been launched, but no one would get
into her.
The first mate sang out, "Bail her
out" A few seconds atterward he
called out, "Get your oars ready"
Jack Jouvett sang out, "They are all
ready, SIR" Then the boat warp
was cut, and / know nothing certain
of the boat from that time on. One
of the men thinks he saw breaker
crush the boat and cast the pieces on
the rocks; but didn't see it. The
ship was then beginning to roll over
to larboard and dip, and l went over
to the starboard side and climbed ON
to the rail. Two or three of us call
ed out to the others to come up and
get clear of her. Some of them came,
but others only chung to the rigging
in frantic way, and their mates
could not make them let go. Then
she took the final dip and rolled in
right square up on her side. Then
heard some one cry out from below,
sob save me, save me" but there
WAS no chance to do it with the ship
lying right up on her side and the
water smashing in as it was. II it
had not been for the third mate $
cool head then l think most of US
would have been lost.
The men got crazy notion of
jumping into the water to get ashore /;
but few men could have made the
shore in such sea. / never saw the
second mate after his boat (the lar
board bow boat) was launched.
While we were lying up there on the
side of the vessel, the third mate
sang out, "There are the boats all
safe" / looked and saw two dark
objects on the water, but l do not
think they were boats. The vessel
was broken up so badly that the
casks were being carried out of her
hold; and | think we saw two casks
on the water, though it does seem q
little strange that they should 60 SC
far to windward.
We lay up there about an hour on
the vessels side. Then she began
to break up 80 badly that it looked