The sun., 1894-11-29
CUT DOWN IN THE HARBOR.
SIX MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES IN AN
ACCIDENT IN BoSToN
A Coal Steamer Hits Fishing Schooner
The Schooner Pnrdee ono ORR aeid shoals
Fears that Her Crew Have Been washed
Awsy-The steamship E.rrciiGe Wrecked

Awsy-The steamship EsrnciiGe W recked
BosroN, Nov. GA collision occurred carly
this morning at the entrance to Boston harbor,
in which the fishing schooner Oracle II. Benson
was sunk and six OF her crew drowned. The
Benson arrived at this port yesterday with full
fare OF fish, and after disposng of this left here
about midnight last night for Provincetown.
She was going out Of the channel with fair
wind, and when about midway between Boston
Light and Bug Light the Philadelphia and
Reading steamer Reading. with the barge Suf-
folk in tow. from Philadelphia loomed up. and,
in endeavoring to tack across the steamers bow
to avoid collision, the steamer struck her on the
port side just abaft the main rigging and she
filled and sunk In about two minutes.
The Reading Immediately stopped lowered a
boat, which went to the assistance OF the crew
of the sunken vessel. She succeeded in
picking up seven of them who were cling
ing to wreckage from the vessel. The tug
boat Wesley A. Cove, Capt. William Parker.
was following in the wake OF the
Reading with the large four-masted schooner
Katherine ID. Perry In tow. Capt. Parker
anchored the schooner and hurried to the ns-
sstance Of the crew of the sunken vessel. Four
men, who were clinginR to one of the mastheads,
were taken aboard, and they informed Capt.
Parker that ono OF the crew had drifted of on
the BOBBY hatch and another one on trawl
buoy.
The Cove went in search of them. and quite a
distance outside OF Boston Light rescued the man
from the hooby hatch. Soon after the trawl
buoy was found. but the man had become ex-
hausted and sunk.
-Four Of the crew were asleep in their hunks at
the time of the collision and went down with
the vessel. Another member Of the crew was
knocked overheard by the force of the collision
and drowned
The names Of the men who were drowned are :
the Captain; Fred Merritt. "a. a nativs Of
Digby, y. =. single: John Rink, 40, single; Will
.nT. a% Sstus 81 fP@E P9st. anG as
dast name unknown. Portuguese, single. aged
90. all of whom have resided in Provincetown
The names of those saved are: Capt John p.
1Iaryender. Elijah Rogers. William Haryender,
brother OF the Captan; George Forrest, Manuel
.Iacco. and Antoine Alexander. Portuguese; Joe
Meads Lott II small. Harry Donnelly Manuel
Joe Butler. and Charles Foss.
Foss jumped on tho steamers deck and rem
dered great assistance 10 the crew of the
the schooner's men. The man rescued from the
booby hatch, which was floating out to sea, was
Butler.
BALTIMORE. Nov. 2S.-The Joseph X. Foard
Company. agents of the Earn Steamship line,
this morning received a cablegram from the
agents of the company at Havana saying that
the steamship EHrnclitfe had gone ashore on the
lumuri Rocks. near Baracoa. The vessel Is
der are gone. and she will probably be total
loss. All hands were saved.
The Earnclifie was an iron vessel, built in
Newcastle, England, in 1881. and was formerly
the Khalif. Two years ago the Earn Company
bought her and changed her name. She was
bou nd from Havana In ballast for Santiago de
Cuba, TO load iron ore for baltimore, and was
commanded by Capt. Langharne OF Wales.
NEw LONDON, Nov. 2S. The three masted
schooner Annie Pardee. owned BY Benedict &
Co. OF New Haven, loaded with coal. bound from
Philadelphia to Boston Is ashore on Cornneld
Shoal and to-day has had terrible raking. The
Pardee came through He'll Gate yesterday, and
this morning had gone down the Sound to Corn
field at 81 o'clock, when she was driven ashore.
All day long the schooner has been watc he'd
from the shore. and IL has been noticed that the
number Of men on her has lessened hour
by hour. This morning early eight or nine were
seen clinging To the rigging. but as the day wore
on the number decreased, until at sunset only
four were visible Ii Is thought that they per-
ished either by being washed overheard or be-
numbed with the cold, gave up their hold on the
rigging and fell Into the sea-
At Saybrook the thermometer IL reported to
register near zero, and the weather outside is
much colder. Ice was plainly seen covering the
rigging and portions OF the deck visible on the
Pardee at sundown. Old sailors living on the
shore and about Saybrook harbor predict that
the wind will decrease during the night. The
general opinion Is that none OF the men will sur
vive the night even " the wind goes down.