Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-17
AT FULL SPEED
Mohegan Foundered Five Minutes
After She Struck.
OFFICERS BEHAVED WE'LL
Iu0uest Will BE Held to Inquire Into
Cause Of Her LOss-Many In
stances Of Heroic Behavior
Of Crew and Passengers.

Falmouth, England, Oct. 17.-From
the best evidence obtainable at st. ke-
VERNE it appears that the Mohegan
foundered five minutes after she struck
the rocks. She was going at full speed,
struck twice, stopped and rapidly set
lied into the water. AS the captain and
The executive officers of the steamer
went down with her it has been impos-
sble thus far to ascertain how she got
Jut Of her course, as Falmouth light
nd the coast We're visible. Among the
Incidents recited is the escape Of the
lembertons. Mr.. Pemberton jumped
into lifeLoat 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 Mr..
John Hyslop and the valet of Mr.. T.
w. King are among the saved. The
bodies of six persons, four males and
two females, have been picked up and
landed here.
The officers and crew of the Mohegan
numbered SO. and of these 33 are known
to have been saved. The body of Mr..
r. A. Baxter. one of the passengers, has
been recovered.
The survivors without exception
speak in the highest terms of the devo-
ton, heroism and GOODNESS displayed by
the officers and crew of the ill fated
steamer and declare that all were in
stantly at their posts when 1t was
known that she had struck. The peril
Gus position of the ship was noticed
on shore, and a warning rocket was
sent up, but it was too late then to
fl1 tpctrr 1ryht n1
so suddenly that there was not suffi-
cient time to get out all the life saw
ing apparatus of the ship. The terror
of the scene was indescribable. Men
jumped overheard in an agony of de-
spair, and the women passengers hud-
died together and refused to leave the
deck The officers remained on the
bridge to the last, and many instances
of sacrifice are recorded. Members
of the crew are known to have stood by
and watched the boats launched and
put off when 1t was apparent that these
were the only means by which their
own lives could be saved A lifeboat
with load of 40 persons on it's way to
the shore passed many who were bat
Ting for their lives in the water whom
it was impossible to save.
Helped by Villagers.
The villagers. headed by the vicar and
coast guard, stood on the shore and
cheered the boat. When the lifeboat
entered the little cove, the fishermen.
waded into the sea to help drag her on
the beach and tenderly carried the ex-
hausted survivors to their homes, which
had been already prepared for their re-
ceptton, and the vicar attended the in
jured
The lifeboat was again launched and
put out for the wreck, on it's outward
journey picking up three survivors. The
trip to the wreck was fruitless so far
as taking any one from the vessel was
concerned hut on its way back to the
shore is other survivors We're taken
from the water. This was just before
daybreak.
The latest list of the rescued shows
that only II passengers were saved, in
Guiding the Pembertons and a maid
named Regain or Ryan. The name r.
Kelley appears twice, but both entries
evidently refer to the same person.