The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
TWO STEAMERS WRECKED.
GALES AND a roc DRIVE THEN
Ashore ON NEWFOUNDLAND.

Tho british RhoaorA and the Norwegian Eu-
Eenio Completely wreckcd-No Lives Lost,
but the Crews sunered from E1posuro-Ono
Crew In Beats and the other on n CIiG.
ST. JOINS, n. f., Sept. ls.-Tho equinoctial
gales and dense fog sent to destruction two fine
steamers near here last night Two others were
lost in about the same positions this line last
year within a day OF each other, the Palestrina
and Abbeymore.
The first to take the land last night was the
Hhodora. fifteen days from Boston, England,
Tor Philadelphia. In ballast. She had been en-
veloped In dense fog since Monday, unable to
get observations and steering by dead reckoning.
Cant. Flaws supposed himself well beyond
Cape Race, and was driving her at her best
speed with fore and aft canvas set when, at
dusk last night, the lookout sighted land.
Though her engines were reversed, they had no
eject. She ran upon Hornhead, eight miles
north OF Cape Race, and tho seas speedily
pounded her to pieces.
Her engine crew barely escaped with their
lives, for the machinery collapsed and the en-
CINE room was soon a mass Of broken rods and
plates. The sailors launched the two starboard
boats, as the port boats were smashed by the
falling masts.
Into tho boats her twenty-five men crowded,
each grasping a life buoy, and waiting not for
food or baggage. This haste was rendered i'm
p%erative. because the bunker coal had taken fire
and the hull was rapidly breaking asunder.
Scarcely had they left tho side when tho
boilers blow up. tearing the decks to
pieces and separating the hull into two
parts. the stern portion sliding back into deep
water and sinking to the bottom. The boats
kept together all night. Tho ill-clad stokers
and seamen suffered severely from the OK.
posture. and it was with difficulty that the
boats kept afoat, as they we're filled by
tho seas. constantly keeping all hands
busy bailinR out the water. This forenoon
a mail steamer sighted and rescued them.
They were drifting seaward. and, had they
missed her. would probably have persisted.
At 7:30 last night at Great Island, thirty.dve
miles north Of here, the steamer Eugene, q
Norwegian tramp sixteen days from Shields for
Louisburg, in ballast, also went ashore. running
into q break between cliffs 200 feet high. II
she had struck atty yards on either side she
would have shattered herself against the sheer
wall and sunk with all hands In deep water;
but as II In she lies in a natural cradle, her bot
tom punctured BY numberless rocks and her
bows stove in.
Her boatswain. at great risk. made his way up
the steep cliff with o slight line attached to his
body; to this q heavier ono was fastened, and
by Its help the crew OF twenty-five and Can't
Hansen's wife. who was on board. were got to
the top. Had the sea been coming in they
would all have persisted before they could get
there. AL night they spent without food or
shelter. but this morning signalled the main.
land and were taken of.
Both vessels are complete wrecks, and 1t 10
fortunate that no lives were lost. Much alarm
was felt here this forenoon when reports arrived
Of boats being found broken up. It was feared
the Rhodera's crew had perished. and the British
warship Buzrard was about sailing for the scene