New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-15
SHIP AND SEVEN MEN LOST.
THREE OF THE CREW SAID TO HAVE
COMMITTED SUICIDE

, c,pr.,o AND THE MATE AMONG THE
ALLEGED ADMINISTRATIONS THAT THERE
w.sA Mr.r1NY on THE WRECKED BARK.
Highland Light. Mass. Sept l4-The Hahah
harl Monte Tabor. with a cargo Of salt. struck
on Peaked Hill Bars about midnight last night
According to the survivors, the captain, maze
aos,arat., bv his situation shot himself with his
ro,,o,ver and the mate Ssppoa. fearing death
by drowning. drew his razor aoio '''
and dropped dead in the sea.
u-har tho bark broke up which she did Wlthih
an hour after striking. her crew OF twelve men
o,,,,r % the deckhouse and went over the SIDE
.,,h I, Five lost their hold and were swept in'o
.ho 60. and drowned The others reached shore
ovb,ustod and were taken 10 Peaked hlli Hta''oh
and cared for.
The dense fog which prevailed prevented the
ufe-saving men from seeing the wreck i"e III
that was known Of the disaster was "he" Tue
saven survivors were found on the oeach- Inc
distance from the shore. the roughneSs Oh inc
Goa and the fog would have made 1t impossip'" Ior
,ho ,fe-savers t. render aid. even had the vessel
been seen when she struck.
Can,sin Isaac Fisher. Samuel Flsher anu
Charles Kelley, with their crews were prompt!
on the scene. hut nothing could be dohe' a p''-
81. vas nicked up. containing message written
/ In
scene Of the disaster is near where the Italian
horL Giovanni was wrecked in 1910. when out
=. q creu Of fourteen only one was saved. Wreck
100 is strawn along the beach for several miles
and the life saving men are watching for any
bodies that may be cast up.
Tho captain's name Louis Genero. and
the vessel sailed from Trapani on july 81 lor
Boston with a cargo OF 900 tons OF salt con
signed TO George +. Downs The Monte
,roho. was a wooden bark Of o92 tons
,,ross and l,;7 net She was 153 feet long. -
feet beam and ~ feet inches deep. She was
buiIt at Verazze in 1873 and hailed from Genoa
The body Of the mate was washed ashore at
Race Point at q o'clock. About lO:3o CLOCK t"o
other bodies were picked UP on the shore. one
,,,,h the throat cut This makes TWO members
of the ships company VINO went u 'i'e'i ue"'"
with their throats cut.
! one Of the saved men can talk Ettle rrench'
ord he gave the names Of the crew and SAID
r., tho captain and mate committed suicide az
,, "a the bark struck The names of the saved
are. Caserolla Rappella. Francisco Otairo An
galo Cases. Mindola Bergozza and Miguel Leota'
ssamen; Magillo Fortunate boatswain' ana Le-
fs,ann Sabbato boy. Both bark and crew be-
longed In Genoa. ,.,.. ., ,ho oo,oir hoo
~ Ashore but nothing OF value VIII be saved.
IVnoters are on the beach gathering up what
Csn he got Of the spars and rigging
| II ia considered a suspicious circumstance mat
~ Tho captain and the chief officer OF the bark
sbomld have committed suicide Sheriff Whitcomb
will probably hold the rescued seamen until the
r,val Of United States officers from Boston.
m,a salors not being able to converse In English.
!, has thus far been Impossible to get at the
hottom facts in the case but II Is suspecteu that
- rnutiny broke out on board ana that the wreck
a ~ -, - The vessel was consequence. II VIII
,,rs nrobably be deemed wise on the part OF the
ppfticers to hold the sal who came ashore
until an Interpreter arrives rom bos.on, Dos. :,
UNI, the tide -bbed to-day all that could be
- ,he wreck was few broken. jagged
tIn,bers. over which the breakers roied'