The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-07-22
DROWNED VHILE ASLEEP
Fearful Collision Between Two
Italian Passenger Steamers.
HUNDRED AND FIFTY-B1GHT LOST.


The Steamer Ortigia Crashes Into the Ma
ria p. and the Latter Vessel sank in Three
Minutes 49, Only Twenty-eight Persons
Survived the Disaster.
GENOA, July 22.-The italian steamers
Ortigia and Maria p. collided Of 1sla del
Pinto, at the entrance of the Gulf of Ge-
noa. The latter sank and 145 passengers
were drowned.
The Maria p. was bound from Naples to
La Plata. There was a crew of seventeen
and the passengers numbered 173. She
was calling here en- route to her destina-
ton. She was entering the Gulf of Genoa
at 1.30 o'clock yesterday morning, when
she met the Ortigia, outward bound
They only noticed each other when a col
lision was inevitable.
The blow of the Ortegia crashed into
the starboard side of the Maria p. ,penetrat-
ing six yards, and ripping up the Maria I.
like matchwood. The water rushed in
through the hole, and the Maria Z. san in
three minutes.
The majority of the passengers were
asleep at the time of the accident, and had
no time to escape after the alarm was
given. They were engulfed with the YES
sell The Ortigia remained on the spot
until 6 o'clock in order to pick up the sur
vivors. She rescued fourteen of the crew
and twenty-eigh of the passengers of the
Maria p. Other steamers have been dis
patched to the scene of the disaster, and
are now searching for further survivors.
The Ortigia's bow was smashed for a
space of twelve feet along the water line.
There is some upon the fact
brought TO mind by the disaster that the
Ortigia once collided on the some spot
with the French steamer Uncle Joseph.
At the conclusion of the sitting of the
chamber yesterday at Rome, the minister
of marine %nounc the news of the dis
aster in the midst of a profound sensa-
ton, adding that an officer, a seaman, a
stoker and Ia passengers of the Maria p.
had persisted. I'Ht 1HI afH
The Ortegia had twenty-flve passengers
on board. The Maria p captain was
named Ferrara. ..|
The chamber has ordered an inquiry
into the disaster.
The sky was overcast at the time of the
accident, and there was little see. Both
captains were asleep. and the third officer.
Revello, was on watch On the Ortigia, and
Second Officer D'Angelo was on watch on
the Maria p. The Ortigia was going at the
rate of eleven miles an hour M the Ma.
ria p. at the rate of eight miles. Both yes.
sells saw the lights of the other and con.
tinued on their proper roads till the mis-
take was made, it is not established by
whom, which brought the Maria p. broad
side towards the Ortigia. Third Officer
, Revello, of the Ortigia, saw the danger
and ordered the engines reversed, but the
order came too late. .
All the boats of the Ortigia were low
cred, and the crews rescued all they coult
j of the survivors. The latter, for the mos
!, part, remain in such a state of terror sine
the rescue that they are unable to give
single detail of the disaster
Captain Ferrara, who was saved, sale
that he was sleeping in his cabin when b.
= was awakened by cries and shouts and
!, great noise. He rushed upon deck anC
, saw the Ortigia backing off while his owl
I ship was sinking. Seeing that all wa
lost he jumped into the sea-, where he wa
picked up by the Ortigia's boat.
A passenger named Balena, a jeweler
was on board with his wife and tire
young children. He said that he had no
turned in when the collision occurred. H
seized two of the children, and his wifi
caught up the third, and they ran upol
ueCh anu Juilpeu iHIO Ohe soa' OHli
dren weighed him down and he sanl
after a hard struggle, When he came t
the surface his children had disappeared
His wife had managed to cling TO a piec
of wreckage till tie Ortigia's boat save,
her. They lost everything,
! Second Officer D'Angelo, of the Maria p.
. who was on watch on that ship when sh
"A was struck by the Ortigia, was drowned
Among the saved is a child of S years
.n who is the only survivor of a family G
seven who went down with the i'll fate
- ship.