The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-07-01
The Mystery OF the Wreck Of the
Ship Fred b. Taylor Cleared
Up.
The Traye Arrives at Southampton
with All the Crew ON Board
Except Two.
The Taylor Cut In Two by the Trave
When Only One Day Out-Two
of the Crew Perish.

man Lloyd steamship Trave, which left
New York, June 81, arrived at South
ampton at 4:20 a. m. The Trave had on
board 227 cabin passengers and several
hundred passengers in the steerage, and
also Captain P. F. Hurlbert and twenty
men, the shipwrecked crew of the Nova
Scotia full rugged ship, the Fred B.
Taylor. wrecked in q collision with the
Trave ON the on the morning of June
%. Captain Hurlburt's first inquiry
when the Trave came into port was
about his wife in Brooklyn, and when
he heard that she had baby and that
she and the baby were well, he seemed
to forget his troubles and exclaimed
ioyfully: THANK God"
The Fred B. Taylor was bound for
New York from Havre, France, and
started ON May 10. She had been char
tered for voyage to Buenos Ayres from
New York and left Havre in ballast.
The voyage was without incident until
early in the morning of the 22d, when
captain and crew were looking forward
to an early arrival in port. The captain
was anxious to see his wife and the little
one whose arrival he had expected.
The vessel was about two hundred miles
east of New York. a dense fog pre-
vailed and it was impossible to see even
a foot beyonarthe bows.
Suddenly nard the throb of the
engine Of i 60 Gamer and the swish
of the wate. ,le steamship Glove its
way swiftly lArough the sea. Almost
at the same instant the great vessel
looned up in the fog and just as the
lookout shouted warning at that moment
the steamer crashed into the Fred B.
Taylor.
Captain Hurlburt at the time was on
the bridge. This is always his custom
in fog or when near land at night and
his personal anxiety was added TO hi
vigilance for the safety Of the vessel In
keeping him from below. The Fred B.
Taylor was cut very nearly In half. The
water rushed In like a torrent and Che
broken halves of the vessel sank out oi
sight. Those of, the crew who had
escaped immediate death or injury were
struggling in the water. The chiei
mate had been crushed to death in hi:
cabin. Captain Hurlbert had his legs
badly hurt in the collision, but he for
got his own injury in his anxiety
to save his men, who were now
struggling for their lives in thu
/ water, some holding to pieces Of wreck
age, and others making an effort to keep
themselves up by swimming until rescue
should come. -
Captain Reimkasten and the othel
officers Of the Trave acted with nobl,
humanity and admirable prornptitude
The collision came to them as unexpect
edly as TO the Fred B. Taylor. The,
were making good headway through tn,
fog, and taking the usual precautionl
when the steamer crashed into the shiI
at the same instant that the ships out
line became visible in the fog. Tn,
Trave was brought rs soon as possible :,
full stop, and even while she was being
stopped, officers and crew were busy
preparing the boats which were loweret
within few minutes after the COLI
sion. The German seamen leaped intt
the boats, and with few strokes they
were among the struggling crew Of th'
wrecked ship, pulling them in as fast a
they could be reached.
All were taken aboard the Trave il
safety except the dead man and tn
drowned Russian seaman, who had ais
acted as carpenter on the Fred B
Taylor. Captain Hprlbert was for som
time suffering much, pain, but he /
greatly improved now and insisted o.
word being sent to America that he wa
all right. It appears. however, by th
later statement Of the surgeon of tn
Trave that Captain Hurlbert will re
quire careful attention for some time