The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-07


roof He told his story as follows: i found
myself in the water without knowing just
now l got there. BY some means or an
other, just when l had abandoned all hope
OF being saved, l found myself floating
near portion of the cabin roof with two
others. They pulled me on the raft. Short
y after We got on the raft a keg of claret
noated near and we captured it. 1t was a
long time before we got the keg open and
l am sorry 1t was ever opened. My two
companions drank until they became
worse than intoxicated. One of them laid
down and went TO sleep. but the other in
sisted upon quarrelling and finally attack
ed me. To save my life had to knock him
overheard. The bath sobered him and /
pulled him aboard again He began drink
ing harder than ever and finally fell over
board and was drowned. After his COM
panion awoke, he behaved himself and la
ter We We're picked up. As to the cause OF
the wreck ! can say but little. In the eN-
citement, many took no notice of anything
but their own safety and that of the help
less ones around them. ] really cannot say
as to the list of the ship. I had not gone
TO breakfast and was only up long enough
to notice that il was a terrific hurricane
and that the waves were mountain high.
Mr. Gushing had a brother is years old
on the Colma. Nothing has been heard
ribly cut on the head by floating lumber,
besides being bruised about the body.
George Rowan another passenger,
bound for New York, agrees in the main
with the previous statements of the
storm and added: There was absolutely
no discipline, no organization of any kind.
Everything was a panic. The captain
stood on the bridge. Women screamed and
the children cried. clinging in despera-
fn hafrs arafc nd m g. fVI N
gers. AS soon as l became convinced
that the ship was doomed 1 hastily pulled
down some life preservers. When seen
by the steward he ordered me peremptorily
to discontinue what l was DONG. Without
paying any attention to him, 1 kept on
pulling down life belts and passing them
out. As / am unable to swim, / tied one
of these belts around me and jumped
into the sea. Three times I sank and had
just reached for a piece of wreckage,
when l was again knocked under by some
thing, presumably a plank, a large cash
was cut in my head and / am cut and
bruised all over. After floating about
for twenty-four hours on a large piece of
wood 1 was picked up by boat from the
San Juan"
Sailor A. L. Carpenter, was one of tbs
party on the raft. He says that attempts
were made to lower the boats, but failed
All the women were in their staterooms
for none of them expected that the disas-
ter was upon them. Il think that some
thing shifted below" added Carpenter
"The vessel ran into a gale from o'clocb
Monday night until II O'Clock the follow
ing evening. She steered badly and wher
about thirty miles below Manzanillo she
lost her steerage way, swung her held
around few points and in less time thar
ii takes to tell 1t, she careened over o.
her beam ends. Scarcely ten minutes
elapsed before she went down. Capt
Taylor died at his post. 1 was throw
into the water and when I came up
seized a stick of lumber and nOated abou
until picked up by the people on the raft
Such a hurricane 1 never before expert
enced in all my seafaring life. Lumber
broken decking and dead bodies drifteC
by US and the horrors of the situation wa.
alone enough to render us helpless"
Following is list of the survivors land
ed to-day Third Mate Hansen, r. A. Vii
les, A. Carpenter. A. Richardson anc
Thomas, Fitch, members of crew; H. A
Sutherland, c. Gushing. ]. NJ. Thornton
H. H. Boyd, George Rowan, Bruno Cenda
Jose Manuel G. D. Ross, Louis Sangenies
T. ]. Oriel and Juan Ramos.
The following survivors were landed al
Mazatlan: Thomas Serali, d. Olivas, A
Guttierez and Carlos Luitz.