Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1893-08-26

ing men threw ladder out to me and ]
1 was pulled In.
81 was removed to the house Of DR..
ID. g. Thomas, where l was splendidly
treated. The doctor informed my wife
that / was safe. and later allowed me to
| 60 down to the beach. The bodies of
Mate Newlove, Fireman Wilhalie and
Coal Passer William Plotomey had In the
meantime washed ashore. / identified
them. | left Southampton at o'clock
last night and got here at o'clock this
morning. Victor England and Edwin
Cummings who were saved along with
me, were unconscious when / left. ! do
not know whether they will pull through
or not. b"
| During the engineers statement his
wife was standing nearby, an eager
listener, and his two little children were
| playing about his knee. The older
seemed to understand what had
happened, and lifting her blue eyes up
to her father, she said; Papa, rs tame
near never seein' u adam, didn't II"
Quite large number of the lost crew
ere married.
Captain Persons First Charge,
Captain George w. Pierson leaves a
wife and an only child, sen aged 10
years. Mrs. Pierson and her son are tenn
porarily at the residence Of her mother,
Mrs. Mary A. Rudolph, at 92s South Third
street. She was in ignorance of the
terrible news Of the Panther's loss, until
Informed of the fact late yesterday
afternoon by Press reporter The
Panther, she said, was her husbands
first command as a captain. He had
been employed on the Reading colliers
for six years, and for faithful work had
been successfully promoted until he was
made captain of the Panther short time
ago. He left home on Monday, aud his
last words were to the effect that he
would soon return home
MIR. Newlove Lived In New Castle.
Mate John B. Newlove was widower.
about As years Of age He leaves one
son, George, WHO is attending the
University of Pennsylvania and has q
high standing in his class. He is well
known in New Castle where he married
his last wife. He was Mason.
Mate Newlove and Fireman Cummings
Fireman Edwin Cummings told q
thrilling story of his experience when
he arrived in New York last night.
He said:
I'VE made for the rigging. Th'
spray was sweeping through the rig
ging, but it wasn't so heavy or so baS
as the solid banks of water that hit nj
where we were on deck and tossed III
about. Wed all made start when
? piece Of wrecBage came on big SCI
and caught one Of the boys alongsid
= the head. It crushed his head out fat
don't know his name, but he had
|, wife and three children in Philadelphia
/ know. 1 saw him struck and
started to get him so 1 could lash hi
body to the rigging, when Mate New
love, who had gone up ahead Of me
yelled;
g Look out a sea Is comingw
B Il made the mast Just in time AM
K climbed up with the rest. The mate an,
/ were on the main mast. He was Z
leeward and ! to windward. The other
y Of the crew and the captain and officer
I we're on other parts of the rigging w
T. hadn't been there but a few minute
s when a sea broke over our heads AM
came down on us. One man was swep
away with IL. We began to bi
each other good by then. Another Sc
Q came right on top Of the first, and whe
{ It had gone we missed another. The
L there was rest for moment before
\, third one swept over us. 1t tore loose tn
: hold Of the chief engineer, two sailors
Z and the lamp trimmer. They went fiyin
s from us. Before another came we sa'
s their heads bobbing up and down on th
g water 100 feet away. The next one too
}, the captain and all but the mate an
:. me.
. Newlove Said eve Must Take It Calmly.
: "'Take it cool, Cummings. says th
mate to me, take it cool, and if we e
h ashore all well and good, but If we don
e we must take it all calmly
# He'd hardly said it when another sc
Z came, and when looked for him he Wa
2 gone. was alone. had hold Of I'll
, rigging with only one hand. Anoths
h sea came and took me. Il seemed to dra
d at me till my hold was broken, and fnall
p my wrist was overstrained and 1 va
& pulled away. came across the mate
q the water and spoke to him. He WI
N twenty fathoms astern of me, and
= shouted to me, as near as ! could NAL
h out:
N "'we'n Make the Land All Right
Gas rode atop wave l could ju
see the foremRst Of the Panther abo'
s water. She had gone down. On top
g, another wave saw Billy DAILY, the st
re ward, and the mess boy They we
ar lying on two planks with their arr
to clssped about the board to keep the
BIZ from being washed away. In minute
J., got hold Of the top of the pilot hous
and / climbed aboard of that I'd be-
ne there about twenty minutes when
st wave picked it up and tumbled me
lg and then threw it down on me. Tha
ct the last that remember until woke
re saved"
About Barrett's Death.