The morning call., 1894-06-26
Passengers Themselves to
Blame.
STORY OF THE CAPTAIN.
How the James D. NiChOl Was
Lost.
ALL CROWDED TO ONE SIDE.
To Escape a Ducking Thirty.Three
Men Found Death in the
Waves.

New YORK, June 25.-Additional de-
tails have been received of the sinking
of the tug James u. Nichol, with sixty
three excursionists, three miles OH tne
Highlands, yesterday afternoon. Inc
boat was on a fishing trip, and besides the
excursi0nists she carried crew OF twelve
men. Fifty-four of those on board have
been accounted for: the rest were prOba-
bly, drowned.
The disaster is rendered more harrow
ing by the fact that most of the men leave
large families. 1t is thought that not less
than thirty-three persons perished. So far,
however, only seven bodies have been re-
covered.
Those ntifed are:
Frank Dunn.
Herman Eyard.
Keyser.
Thomas Massett.
Walter Buckridge.
The two last named lived in Brooklyn.
The others were from New York.
Among the missing are the following:
Frank McAleer, William Moore. Albert
Pabst. Frederick Vohling. Solomon Girls
man. Christian SeahD. Charles Burkhart,
Henry Bishop. Fred Fay. Edward Fay.
John Fisher, Samuel Guttney, j. Higgins,
James Hayes, Jacob Hebrauck, Joseph
Hebrauck, Dell Horan, Louis Hochrin,
Albert Hammond. Joseph and William
Kirschner, William LanedOu, Henry Mil
Ter, Hugh Mulholland, Henry Peining,
John Quinn, William Schultz, Thomas
Sehlessinger, William Truesdell. Frederick
Underheit. Roby Weissler, Charles Wett-
ling and Emil Wolf.
Among the wreckage washed ashore are
two kegs of beer.
Captain John Hyde, commander of the
ill-fated tug. is % years old. II could
count but fifty-eight passengers on the tug
when she left the second stopping place.
pier 3. East River" said Hyde to-day.
There were five men in the crew, making
sixty-three all told. We were lying off
Seabrighs at anchor when the wind began
to freshen up. We rsised anchor, intend
ing to leave. We were about three-auar-
ters of an hour from shore. The passen-
gers, thinking they might get wet. all
crowded to the port side. 1 asked them
to divide and part take the starboard
side. No heed was paid to me. The sea
was somewhat choppy, but not what could
be called heavy. | thought if we ran out
some distance we would make better
weather. We were in no apparent danger
except for the people crowding to the
port side. / suddenly saw heavy swell
bearing down on US, closely followed
by a second. / called again to the people
to take the starboard OF the boat, but it
was not done. When the first wave hit US
l cried, For Gods sake get over to the
other side.' l pulled the whistle rope,
then a signal of distress, and then, seeing
the great danger. tied it down. 1t kept
blowing until the Nichol went down.
After the boat had eareened under the
second swell Al Hammond, a deckhand,
and myself climbed through the starboard
windows of the pilot-houSs and went over
board. A liferaft was near the place
where the tug sank and l made for it.
There were passengers hanging to it and
their struggles capsized 1t, and when L
arose to the surface managed to grasp it
again. The crew OF the boat were all
picked up by the tug Sayre. l am not a
drinking man and had touched no LIQUOR
whatever. Had the passengers acted as
told them we would lave come through all
right"
Forty-fve persons tonight remained un-
accounted for from among the excursion
lists on the tug Nicol which sank yesterday
off the Jersey coast.