The San Francisco call., 1897-03-19
MEN WENT MAD
AND THEN DIED.
Members of the Crew of the
ST. Nazaire Frozen in
Lifeboats.
Seventy-Eight Lives Were Prob.
aby Lost in the Wrecking
of the Ship.
Stone. Dead Faces Laughed Mockingly
at Those Who Sought to Save
Their Lives.

NEW YORK, N. Y, March 18.-It is
now believed that seventy-eight persons
in all were lost by the laundering OF the
French line steamer Vile de ST. NaZaire
off Hatteras, although summary OF the
list of the passengers and crew who were
on the vessel when she left here show that
there were but eleven passengers in all,
and that the crew list umbered seventy
one men. OF these, four are known to be
saved.
The officers, crew and passengers were,
with one or two exceptions, residents OF
foreign ports. OF the total number on
board, sixty were colored. The only white
persons on board besides the engineers
were the officers.
The names OF the passengers and crew
are as follows:
Passengers-A. Dumers, L. Dumers. San
Domingo; Raymon Jiminez, Maya
Puezyna Sarnolle, Port au Prince; Mr..
and Mrs. Juan de Dieos Dios Tiiada and
four children, San Domingo.
Alphone Dumers was brother of Hip
polyte Dumers, head of the firm of II.
Dumers & Co., fruit-dealers of this city.
Raymon Jiminez was the head of the firm
OF r. ]. JimineZ & Co., contractors and
engineers. also of this city.
Crew--Paul Jacqueneau, captain; Pierre
x. Mueori, second officer; Andre Andres,
first Lieutenant; Saffren Hubert, second
lieutenant; Philippe Maueri. chief engi-
neer; German Girard. second engineer: :
Marius Laurenzetti, third engineer;
Pierre Sauts, fourth engineer; Charles
LIE Jouene. purser; Alfonso Maire,
doctor; Zeutan Picard, quartermaster;
Louis Mcneil. carpenter; Dominique
Sarona. Fernand Loudon, Pierre Bu-
vac. Pascal Yo, Louis Caiavar, Xavier
Ozias, Carlisle Loudon, Louis Miron.
Leoander Blackefort. Tartulien Terme,
Poipold Paupard, Joseph Chandierre,
Julius st. Catherine, Alexander Blakefor:,
Alexis Mudel, sailors; Romano Corneille,
Antoin Cation, Marie Walendorf. Victor
Cafara. Palaside Caciux. Rudolph Hum
mer. Victor Dupelli r, Frederick Samuel,
Paul Malbert, Eugene Salgert, Victor
Visino. Jean Corideires, Mac Ameiier,
Francis Theodore. Julian Tnomin, Joseph
Kadil, Edward Daliele, Eugene Hugon-
ence, Louis Madeleine, A. TorneIli, fire.
men; Edward Basar, Georges Butin. Au-
guste LaIoup, Charles Marriott, Fortune
Frederic. Yiotorin Marny, stokers: Louis
Charles, chief steward; C. Arene Gouilete,
head waiter; MariEs Venture, chief cook;
Theodore Landa, second cook; Adolphe
Romano., Leon Dupontal. walters; Etienn
Com bat, baker; Thomas Paisible, hospital
nurse; Faustin Augustin, Henri Begatin,
Ameliens Dumeur. Francois Eriche. Sc
bastian PORTER. Francois Dore, Louis
Girard. Henri Clement, stewards, Nine.
Cecile Lavallee. steEardess.
Augustine Ferget, the French line agent
at this port, made the following statement
of the disaster as he had learned it from
Captain Berry's disconnected remarks:
1.-The ST. Nazaire encountered atempest
when forty-eight hours ont from New
York for Port au Prince. The steamshi p
had made about 120 miles from this port
and was off Cape Hatteras. 1
"Heavy seas swept the ship continually
from Sunday afternoon until midnight.
Water poured down the matches and put
out the fires in the e3gine-room, leaving
| US helpless. Captain Jacqueneau ordered
out the boats, seeing no other hope. Four
boats were launched, only to be crushed
against the ship. In a momentary iull
the other four boats were launched in tn g
ice u Vne WleCh anu d4i Oh uOdfo CTOWueu
| into them.
1.-The boat in which Captain Berry
| jumped contained thlrty-seven persons all
told. including a woman and four chill
dren. Berry took command and ordered
signal lights carried for the other boats
to follow. The four boats parted company,
however, almost at once. and Berry never
saw a trace of the other three after leav-
ing the ship. Everybody worked hard to
keep the boats head to the waves and all
suffered most intensely through the first
night. Some froze to death and others
jumped overheard. OF the last four days
OF the terrible experience Captain Berry
has only hazy recollection"
Mate Collins of the schooner Hilda was
interviewed on board that vessel to-day.
In telling of the rescue Of the survivors of
the wreck of the steamer st. Nazaire, he
said that never in his long experience on
the sea had he seen such an awful sight as
was presented by the small boat and it's
occupants when the Hilda came along
side. The four men yet alive were trying
to stand erect, but their legs refused to
support them and time and again they
sank to the bottom of the boat, where four
DEATH. Not. one OF them had the strength
necessary to catch the line thrown to
them and not one could utter word
plainly enough to be understood.
The small boat con tanning the survivors,
he con tinueG, was sighted at 2P. M. Sum
day. The schooner. which was then
about ten miles off shore in the eighbor-
hood of the Fenwich Islands, was brought
around and directed toward the boat. A
very high sea was running at the time and
it took almost an hour to reach her.
After some maneuvering the HiIda was
brought SO close to the small boat that
her crew could see its interior. Half
standing, half kneeIing. in her were four
men. holIow-cheeked and wild-eyed. Their
lips, swollen and parched, moved slowly,
but not sound came forth other than q
rasp like that coming from the lips of o
dying man. Their tongues, covered with
sores and clotted blood. protruded from
between their teeth, too much swollen to
be longer retained in their mouths
The eyes protruded as if the men were
being choked. In the stern of the boat
sat man half dressed and apparently
laughing. His mouth and eyes we're wide
open, and as the boat rose and fell he
seemed to nod his head to the men OF the
Hilda, who leaned over her side, half
afraid to go Into the tossing craft. Gn
The bottom OF the boat lay three other
men. They rolled about as the waves
passed, but none of them rose. They were