The Saint Paul globe., 1898-10-16


FALMOUTH, England, Oct. ia
dispatch from st. Kervein, a small
town little to the eastward of the
Manacles, says eighteen bodies from
the Mohegan have been washed ashore
there They have been deposited in the
parish church. A member of the Port
HOustock lifeboat crew named James
gave a graphic account of the wreck.
He said that as soon as the disaster
was announced his crew was summon
ed to the boat and proceeded to the
Manac cles. They could see no lights, the
night was pitch dark and no rocks
were diScernible, but they heard shout
ing and pulled toward the spot from
which the voices came. No steamer
was visible but the lifeboat came
across an overturned lifeboat to which
four or five men were clinging. They
were taken on board the lifeboat They
heard some more shouting near the
overturned lifebOat, and with grapnelS
they managed to right 1t. In the boat
they found a woman and two or three
men alive. The woman was so tightly
jammed in the wreckage that the life
boat men We're obliged to cut away
the thWarts of the small boat before
they could eXtricate her.
James says the lifeboat passed sew
eral bodies of men and women and
picked up couple of men who were
floating on wreckage. The lifeboat next
met a ships boat having on board
twenty-five passengers and crew, all
of whom would have been speedily lost
If not rescued at that time, as the
boat was waterlogged and rapidly drift
ing on the rocks. The occupants Of
this boat were taken into the lifeboat.
While the latter was beating home
I'd cI7a roi0l Of al
-timOre.
4'She is the pluckiest lady ever saw
in my life" said James. "She shouted
Don't shove me an oar, give me rope
The sea then swept her towards us and
we then caught her hand and got her
on board. We then had forty-eight
persons on board the boat including
the crew, and could hear shouting from
the steamer We approached her and
saw Steward Smith clinging to the jig
ger mast. We then saw all the four
masts were standing ard that survivors
We're clinging to each. We backed right
in over the wreckage and succeeded in
rescuing the bOatsWain, cook and
others. Next We rescued an engineer
who was clingirg to the steamers fun
mel. All this occupied several hours.
We then made for the Shore"
Further advices fIom st. Kevien says
the excitement on the Mohegan was
GGfrlDle, dnU- cries OF despair. were near u
on shore. One passenger cut away the
ropes of a lifeboat and thus saved sew
eral lives.
Miss Rondebush and her mother, Mrs.
Grandin, entered ships boat, which
was capsized, and in righting the boat
We're jammed in by the Prov of a life
boat. One passenger jumped on 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 her were
useless. When Miss RondebuSh landed
later she anXiously inquired for her
mother, whose body was identified by
the vicar of ST. Kervien, by the descrip-
tion of a ring furnished by her daugh-
ter,
From the best evidence obtainable
at st. Keverin, it appears that the
Mohegan foundered five minutes after
she struck the rocks. She was going
at full speed y struck twice, stopped
and rapidly settled into the water. AS
the captain and the executive officers
Of the steamer went down with her, it
has been impossible thus far to ascer-
tain how she got out of her course, as
Falmouth light and the coast were
visible. Among the incidents recited
is the escape Of the Pembertons. Mr..
Pemberton Jumped into a lifeboat, his
wife threw him their two children,
then she leaped into the boat herself
and thus the whole family was saved.
1t is now known that John Hyslop
and the valet Of T. w. K ing are among
the saved.
The bodies Of six persons, four males
and two females, have been picked up
and landed here.