The record-union., 1898-10-16


ger, who says he belongs to Guilford,
out mad been engaged in farming in
the United States for ten years past,
is another of the survivors, He said
During the panic l jumped overheard,
swan about an hour and reached a
rock. L tried to climb on it but the
waves We're too strong. I afterward
found raft with a sail on it and held
UP the sail with one arm and fioated to-
ward the shore. While on the raft |
was washed right over one rock. Hap
ply L had on a life belt, and recovered
the raft, when it then struck another
rock, to which / held fast for some time.
AfterWard 1 swan ashore, the land
being only a short distance away from
the rock to which l was clinging Only
the smokestack and the foremost of
the Mohegan can be seen above water"
A dispatch from ST. Keverine, a small
town little to the eastward of the
Manacles, said eighteen bodies from
the Mahegan have been washed ashore
there. They have been deposited in the
parish church.
A member of the Port Houstock lie
boat crew, named James, gave a
graphic account of the wreck He
says that as soon as the disaster was
announced his crew was summoned 10
the boat and proceeded to the Mana
cles. Ihey could see no lights. the
night was pitch dark, and no rockets
were dlscernible, but they heard shout
ing, and pulled toward the spot from
which the voices came No steamer
was visible, but the life boat came
across an overturned life boat to which
four or five men were clinging. They
were taken on board the life boat.
Later the crew heard shouting near
the overturned life boat, and with
grapnels managed to right it. Iu-
side the boat they found a woman and
two or three men alive. The woman
was so tightly damned in the wreckaga
that the life boat men had to cut away
the thWarts of the small boat before
they could eXtricate her
James said the life boat passed sew
eral bodies of men and women and
picked UP couple of men who were
heating on wreckage.
1 he life boat then met a ships boat
having on board twenty-five passen-
gers and crew, all of whom would
have been speedily lost if not rescued
al that time, as the boat was waterloo
ged and rapidly drifting toward the
rocks. The occupants of this boat were
taken into the life boat While the
latter was beating homeward she pick
ed up Miss Noble of Baltimore.
She is the luckiest lady l ever saw
in my life" said James. She shouted
Don't shove me an oar; give me
rope. The sea then swept her toward
US, and We caught her hands and got
her safely on board in as good a state
as could be expected. We then had
forty-eight persons in the boat, includ-
ing the crew, and could hear shouting
from the steamer. We approached her
and saw Steward Gray clinging TO the
jigger mast. We then saw that all
four masts were standing, and the sur
vivors We're clinging to them. We
backed right over the wreck and Sue
po@aad in rescuing the boatswain, cook
and others. Next we rescued an en-
gineer who was clinging to the steam
ers funnel All this covered several
hours. We then made for the shore
Further advices from St Keverine
say the panic on thd Mohegan was ter
rible, and the cries of despair We're
heard on shore. One passenger cut
away the falls Of life boat with q
razor, and thus saved several lives.
Miss Rondebush and her mother,
Mrs. Grandin, entered a ships boat,
which was capsized, and Mrs. Grandin
was damned between this boat ard n
life boat. One of the life boats crew.
at great personal risk. jumped on baord
the steamers boat after the latter had
righted and pulled Mrs. Grandin from
her dangerous position. But she was
landed in a dying condition, and all
the efforts made to revive here We're
useless. When Miss Rondebush landed
later she anxiously inquired for her
mother. whise body was identified by
the Vicar of st. Keverine from the
description of ring, furnished to him
by the daughter. One of Mrs. Grandin's
feet was torn from the leg.
The survivors, without exception.
speak in the highest terms of the devo-
ton heroism and GOODNESS displayed by
the officers and crew of the Inflated
steamer, and declare that all were IN
stantly at their post when it was known
that she had struck.
The perilous position of the ship was
noticed on shore, and a warning rocket
was sent up, but it was too late then to
avoid the catastrophe, which occurred
SO suddenly that there was not suffi-
cient time to get all the life saving ap-
aratus out of the ship.
The terror of the scene was indescrib-
abIe-men jumped overheard in an
agony of despair and the women pas
sengers huddled together and refused to
or iyae II
on the bridge to the last and many in
stances of sacrifice are recorded.
Members of the crew are known to
have stood by and watched the boats
launched and put off, when it was APP
parent that these were the only means
by which their own lives could be
saved life boat with a load Of forty
passengers on its way to the shore,
passed many who were battling for
their lives in the water whom it was
Impossible to save.
The latest list of the rescued shows
that only eleven passengers We're saved
including the Pembertons and maid
named Regain or Ryan.
SAD SIGHT PRESENTED.
ST. KEVERINE, Oct. 15.-In the |
lower end Of the church here lie fifteen |
bodies, among them those of four wo- |
men and one twelve-year- girl. The |
bodies are laid out reverently. The |
faces Of the victims present a sad sight, |
showing how rudely the waves and |
rocks played with their features. The |
whole village and neighborhood are |
alive with excitement
1t is exceedingly difficult to trace the |
events of tho c,tp h11t ia "a |
De ascertained it seems that the wea-
her was not thick, but that strong |
southeast wind was blowing and there |