The evening times., 1895-08-21
They Pushed Women Aside in
a Steamship Collision.
MANY AMERICANS ABOARD
Details of the Leaford-LyOn Disaster
IN the English Passen-
gers Injured by Crashing Tim
bers, but No One Drowned-Sailor's
Heroic Rescue OF "A Woman.

New York, Aug. 21.-A special cable
dispatch to the Sun from London gives the
folio wing details OF the collision in the
English Channel between the steamships
seaford and Lyon, reported in yesterdays
cable dispatches to the United Press:
The seaford, with 45O passengers. in
Guiding more than 100 Americans, travel
ing from Paris TO London ,collided in mid
channel at O'Clock yesterday afternoon
with the Lyon, of the same hne. The Sea
ford is one of the finest ships in the New
Haven -Dieppe service, which is much pa
tronized by Americans.
The seaford left Dieppe under a bright
sky and with a smooth sea. Shortly after
A O'Clock she ran into dense fog. What
folio wed is clearly told by Craig A. Marsh,
well-kDown New York lawyer:
II had been sitting near the rail on the
port side, about amidship. Five minutes
before the collision l went below with q
friend. We felt the shock, but 1t was not
greater than sometimes when a Jersey
ferry boat bumps against the New York
dock hurried oD deck and found the side
of the ship crushed iD. There was a wedge
shaped hole just where had been sitting.
Three passengers who had been sitting with
ME lay on the deck with broken limbs. /
Joined my wife on the promenade deck.
TWO COMPARTMENTS FLOODED.
1--WE did not at first think the vessel was
going TO sink, for the officers assured US
that there was no danger. We soon noticed.
however, that she was getting lower in
the water, which poured In a steady stream
into the side of the ship. The compartments
had been broken open.
''All the passengers received life pre-
servers, which all put on An attempt was
made TO lower the boats,b but it was inef-
fectual, and presently became unneces
sary. The other steamer came alongside
and the sea was sosmouth thai she was able
to touch rail to rail. We were then settling
more rapidly, and in the scramble to get
on the other boat the only signs of panic
occurred.
There were few Frenchmen who acted
the partofcowards, violently pushing women
aside in order to get tn the rail. One woman
fell overheard, but sailor jumped after
her. and she was pulled out from between
the two ships with q crushed foot.
sALUTED THE SINKING SHIP.
I'm less than ten minutes after we got
aboard the Lyon. our ship foundered. She
sunk slowly, stern first. Her bow rose
in the air, there was great puff OF steam
when the water reached the furnaces and
then sudden My she disappeared. Capt.
sharp stood on the bridge of the Lyon and
sadly saluted his doomed ship as the waves
engulfed her"
John F. Lewis, a lawyer of Philadelphia.
went TO the bridge of the Seaford when the
fog came on, purposely TO note If she COM
piled with the regulations. The indicators
showed half speed. The whistle was
blown properly until the other boat was
heard and then, he says, one of the ships
gave wrong signal, hence the collision
Mrs. Clara S Foltz. a woman la wyer, OF
California, and her daughter were among
the coolest of those who reassured their
follow passengers..