Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
loss OF r4zsoN

O SufW0 rom OoAcessA
seas Faded I'm D,t
arfI in Sight NO. Dec r.
The Brit;as fson. Cap' McMillin.
rom Calcutt ,o,", t.recl-
night, ns thai only sr--;.o-
tells ,I.a Wing story Of the voyage
SURVIVORS, STORY.
w. ed from Calcutta last Feb
ruar,, fh a cargo of jute butts for
BosT Two days after leaving port
we IRE nearly dismasted in storm,
an fad to put into Mauritius for re-
MS During the gale our mate was
,zshed overheard and lost. After leav-
hg Mauritius we had fair weather up
10 the equator. Since November Is
we have encountered easterIy gales,
with frequent snow squalls. We came
IN through South channel last Monday
I'VE SHAPED OUR COURSE FOR BOSTON
Tuesday morning the wind pulled
out to east southeast, and at n. m. it
began to snow. We had no obserya-
ton for two days, but Capt. McMillin
thought we were wide off Cape Cod,
and we kept our course. Towards
noon, the weather getting thicker, we
look In all our upper sails and laid tho
snip along under three lower topsails
and fore -s:aysails. At $3.50 in the after
noon we made breakers right under our
lee and a few moments later saw the
land We shook out our upper top
sails and tried to drive by the cane,
BUT WE HAD 20 SEA ROOM.
and at 7:15. finding that we must soon
strike, the slip was headed for the
beach. The captain had been below
examining his charts. On reaching
the deck he cried: I'VE are lost" The
vessel struck with fearful force and
we all sprang for the life boats. Be-
fore we could cut the lashings the
spars began to fall and the vessel to
go to pieces. This was too much for
the boys, and they all rushed for the
lee mizzen rigging. Only half of them
succeeded in gaining 4 footing. Some
OF them
WERE THROWN OVERHEARD
and were seen no more. chung des-
perarely to the rigging for few mo-
ments, when Il great wave broke my
grip and l went into the bowling sea.
thought it was my end, but the water
threw me here and there FOR awhile,
when suddenly found myself on the
sand. Some men came and took ne to
the lifc-saving station. l am thankful
that l am saved, but my poor ship
mates are all gone.
THEY HAD LIFE PREsEHvERs.
''All of them had l;fe-rreservcrs on,
and don't see why some OF them could
not reach the shore as well as l.
OF those lost the following partial
list was obtained:
Capt Mcmillan, of Greenoc!l.
First Mate Walker, of FallSirk.
Second Mate Galbraith.
Boatswain Black.
The crew was OF several nationali-
ties There were John Callahan. OF
Cork; Mike Mulligan, William Co:ter,
Queenstown: Jerry OLeary, OF PIym-
outh: Z. Nelson, Nj. Carse. of Portland,
Ore, - Murphy. of st. Johns; John
son and Hcnrigsen, of Sweden.
LIFE-sAvERs COULDN'T HELP THEN.
Capt Cole of the Cahooas Hollow
Efe-saving station says everything that
could be done was done to save the un.
fortunate men on board the ship.
Glow do you account for the fact
SsAot III oOuiCS lldNS COtlc
cit is very strange, but / think they
must have been carried in the very
strong tide toward the south. and some
of them may be dashed to the spars
which are now alongside of the ship or
tangled with the rigging"
Bundle of Letters.
BOsToN. Dec. IA big bundle Of |
letters, with many and curious post |
lies in the safe of Charles Hunt |
& Co., at 81 State street. The letters |
have come from different parts of the |
earth. but the chances are they will
never be delivered. The people to
whom they belong went down with
the ship Jason, off Cape Cod, Tuesday
night.
Hunt & Co. are the American repre-
They are A. &. S. Carmichael, Of
GreenOck. Scotland. They had hopes
that few of the crew might still live
TO get on shore, but the chances, by
their latest reports, they say. are
doubtful. The ship hassgone to pieces,
and the only hope now of learning
about her is through the
Unsy survivor of the ship. Evans. the
~caSntndn. VINO was washed ashore
night.
The English consul was among the
many inGuirers for particulars, who
iocked 90 the office of Hunt & Co. yes
terday.
As far as can be ascertained at pres
ent the following Is a list of those on
board the ship:
Capt Mcmillan.
First Mate John b. Walker.
Second Mate A. Galbraith.
Boatswain Fred Smythe.
Seaman John Callahan.
, SailmaEer William Young.
Seaman Andrew Michaelson.
Seaman Carl P. Olsen.
Seaman =. Hale.
Seaman Patrick, Noonan.
Seaman c. A. F.. Johnson.
Seaman Mike Mulligan.
Seaman Walter Cotter.
Seaman Jerry O'Leary.
Seaman f. Nelson.
Apprentice Arthur Danes.
The Bridge Gave Way,
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. "A serious
wreck occurred on the Louisville &
Nashville, / mile north of Bowling
Green. at S:45 o'clock Tuesday night.
re ,riH entail great loss and Interfere |