Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-20

Falmouth, Eng, Oct. 16.-The sur
yivors of the Inflated Mohegan, which
foundered of Lizard point Friday
night, speak in the highest terms II
/ the devotion, neroiSm and GOODNESS
displayed by me officers and crew OF
the steamer ana also declare that all
were Instantly at their posts when it
was known that she had struck a-leak.
The perilous position OF the ship was
noticed on shor" and Warming rocket
was sent UP, but it was too late then
to avoid the catastrophe which oe-
CURED so suddenly. There was not
enough time to launch all the life
boats of the ship. The scene was III
describable. The officers remained on
the bridge to the last and many in
stances of sacrifice were recorded. The
members Of the crew are known to
have stood by and watched the boats
launched and put off, when it was ap-
parent that these were the only means
by which their own lives could be
saved. A life boat with a load of 40
persons on its way to the shore passed
many who were battling for their lives
in the water whom it was impossible
to save. The villagers have done all in
their power to aid the wrecked people.
A dispatch from st. Keyerine,
small town a little to the eastward of
Manacles, says that Is bodies from the
Mohegan have been washed ashore.
They have been laid in the parish
nhIIrnh iC hot -
the persons on the boat drowned.
A member Of the Port Houstock life
boat crew named James, gave a
graphic account of the wreck. He
said that as soon as the disaster was
announced his crew was summoned to
proceed to Manacles. They could see no
lights, the night being pitch dark and
no rocks were discernible, but they
heard the shouting and pulled toward
the spot from whence the voices came
The lifeboat came across an over
turned life boat to which four men
were clinging. They were taken on
board the life boat. Later the crew
heard shouting near another over
turned life boat and with grapnels
managed to right it. Inside the boat
were found a woman and two or three
men alive. The woman was so tight
ly damned in the wreckage that the
lifeboat men had to cut away the
thwarts of the small boat before they
could extricate her. James said the
lifeboat passed several bodies
of men and women and picked up a
couple of men who were floating on
wreckage. The lifeboat next met the
ship boat having on board % passen-
gers and crew, all of whom would have
been speedily lost if not rescued, as
the boat was waterlogged and rapidly
drifting on the rocks. The occupants
of this boat were taken into the life
boat. While the boat was homeward
bound it picked up Miss Noble Of Bal
timore. Then there were 4S persons
on board the life boat including the
crew, and they could hear shouting. AS
they approached the Mohegan they
saw Steward Grace clinging to the jig
ger-mast. Then they saw all four
masts still standing and survivors
clinging to each. The rescuers backed
in over the wreck and succeeded in say
ing the boatswain, cook and others.
They next rescued the engineer who
was clinging to the steamers funnel.
Miss Rondebush and her mother,
Mrs. Grandin, entered the ships boat
which was capsized. Mrs. Grandin
was damned between this boat and the
life boat. She was landed in a dying
condition and efforts made to revive
her were useless.