The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-10-16
WRECK OF THE
STEAMER MOHECAN.
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ing several women, got away safely,
but was capsized. A number of its oc-
cupants were rescued by life boats
Another boat with sixteen hands was
picked up by a life boat and safely got
ashore, and two or three other per-
sons managed to reach land Out Of
the ISL persons on board fortyfive es-
capped.
Up to a late hour tonight thirty
bodies have been washed ashore at diff
ferent points.
The rescued persons are receiving the
greatest attention from the inhabitants,
and the utmost kindness is being
shown TO the female passengers.
NARROWING SCENES.
LONDON, Oct. 15.-Harrowing scenes
We're witnessed to-day at the London
office of the Atlantic Transport Com
pany, to which the wrecked steamer
Mohegan belonged A number of wo-
men tainted there when the extent of
the calamity became known and there
was a constant stream of messenger
boys running to and from the office,
seeking for information or taking mes
The Mohegan, it is now said, has
been an Inflated vessel from the start
1t is added that she was only bought
by the Transport Company when their
own boats had been delivered to the
United States Government during the
war. She was formerly the Cleopatra,
Of the Wilson and Furness line, and
was bought direct from the Hull ship
nd Sko
line and only made one voyage out and
home. This, it is asserted, was most
unsatisfactory and friends of the crew
say her engines were defective and
that her boilers leaked. She is furth-
er acknowledged to have arrived at
New York in such a condition that she
was sent home empty and her return
voyage took several weeks, during
which she drifted a whole day and
night owing to the trouble with her
engines.
For the past two weeks the steamer
has been in dock undergoing repairs,
but the managers say she was perfect
in condition when she left port on this,
her first voyage under her new name.
1t is asserted however that in a twen-
ty-four-hour trial last week her per-
formances were very unsatisfactory,
and the crew did not wish to go on her
on account of the previous defect in
her engines. 1t is surmised here that
the engines broke down and that the
vessel in the rough sea and heavy gale
which prevailed, drifted on the rocks.
The report received as to the num-
Der of survivors are contradictory at
this hour. In fact, it is said now that
the only persons rescued are those who
have detailed their experiences, as al
ready cabled and those who We're taken
to Port Houstock in two journeys,
which the lifeboat at that place made
to the wreck Some of the rescued
persons died from exhaustion after
landing Everything possible is be-
ing done to secure correct list of the
drowned and survivors.
Two of the Mohegans boats filled
with passengers went down the chan
mel, but no news of them has since
been obtained.
THE MOHEGAN'S PASSENGER
NEW YORK, Oct. 15-Following is
a list Of the passengers on board the
steamer Mohegan: P. A. Baxter, w.
BUSHNELL, H. F. Cwan. Miss H M.
Cowan. Mrs. 8. c. Crane, Charles Dun
can. Miss Rose Duncan, Mrs. Fenton,
Mrs. ]. P. Firing, Miss Fraser, B.
Franklin Fuller, c. Seymour George,
Mrs. C. l.. Grandin, A. H. Harrington,
Miss Hart, John Sloop, Richard Kelly,
T. w. King and valet, Mrs. T. w. King
and maid, Master w. King, B. A. Kip
Il nnlyxx
L. M. Luke, Mrs. l.. M. Luke. Miss
Merryweather, H. Morrison, Jr., Miss
Katherine Noble, D. J. O'Neill, F. A.
Pemberton, Mrs. F. A. Pemberton, two
sons Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hmberton, Mrs.
Pemberton's two maids, Miss Maud
Ronderbush, Mrs. Shepherd, Miss
Saunders A. G. L. Smith, Mrs. Comp
ton Swift. Mrs l.. H. Warner, Mrs.
Weller Mr. Cardary, Mr. Fellows.
The journal" prints the following
list of passengers saved from the
wreck: Mr.. and Mrs. Pemberton, two
children and nurse; Miss Katherine No
BILE, Mrs Compton Smith, Miss Ronde-
buck, ]. N. Adams, ]. N. Metchine,
James c. Smith, R. D. Mensell, Victor
Rawlings, Alfred Warren, w. Breden-
burg, A. McWhitter, James Ward, w.
Moorhilson, A. G.. Smith, George
Maule, R. D. Watson, j. Nichlen, H.
Sullivan, Thomas Moore, G. w. Thu
lowe, A. c. Marlane, Thomas Nicholas,
Walter Whitehead, Frank Huntley, J..
Wiginton. Sixteen other persons, names
not reported, are saved.
A cablegram says John Hyslop, the
measurer Of the New York Yacht Club.
L. among the saved.