The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-09
The VedamOre's Crew Worked for
Hours in the Storm.
SHE VANISHED IN THE NIGHT,
Men Were Left on the
Ill-Fated Vessel. who Are Sup
posed To Have Left Her in Their
own Boat and Gone Down
toa Watery Gravc-Ncs-
sci Sighted Again.

| BALTIMORE, Dec. S.-Ihc Johnston
Line steamer VcJamorc OF Liverpool,
Captain Robert Bartlett. for whose safety
fears were beginning TO be felt. as she
was several days overdue arrived this
morning at Pier 81, Locust Point, with
forty-fve shipwrecked mariners. which
she had picked up at sea. Twenty-Five
others went down with their ship
THE RESCUED.
The saved members OF the LOndOnians
crew We're: Second Officer p. Gittins, OF
| London. Second Engineer j. W. Gran
nall, Of London; ThirdEnginecr +. @.
! Ayres, of Scotland. G.. G.. Tagan. OF
| Hamburg, donkey man. Charles john
! stOn, of Dunedcn, New Zealand, first
| cook; r. @. Cross. of London, store
| keeper, o. Fiskc of kleimmersdorf Ger
many. and j. Mason. OF London, oilers:
| y. T.. Tonge, OF Dunedcn, and Frank
| Leimke. of Waldstan: Malcolm MCGOWAN,
| p. Suddell. ~. l.. Liss. T.. Watts. William
Terry. James Clarke, Thomas Bright,
X. Bartlett, j. Wilde Of London; John
Foyne, of Liverpool; Gilbert Elliott, Of
| Dumbarton, Scotland; T. cupid (c0lored),
! Of ST. Vincent. hremen and coal trimmers.
These twenty-thrce men were about
Ollf-ilal NA llif sup fNlllli ltts -AAl
! the others are regarded as perished.
THE CATTLEMEN.
Tn addition there were twenty-five cat-
| tlemen: Patrick Ward, Of Boston. fore
man for Swift 6 CO.. who had 263 head
! of cattle ON the steamer and Daniel Cali
! nan. OF Someryille Mass, foreman Tor
! Nelson. Morris & Co.. who had 3a2 cat-
| tie. Tho cattlemen i'm the gangs We're:
] .H|
| bury Corn, Michael Malone, of l'al
| River: John j.. Kenny. Johnston, Fred
! erick Wallace. Thomas higgins, Henry
! Walsh Andrew Snitn. John Martin.
! John Btbv. George Bell. John Ward. All
| OF Boston. John Potts of Maiden. Henry
! Boucher and Peter Lamont Of Lawrence.
| John Johns. OF Lennon ii. Panpiplar. OF
Armenia: - Meikleiohn. of Russia, and
| William Langley, Jr.. Of HallowelL
Daniel Coveney. 3f Boston. ard Thomas
Mccoy, of Worcester. Mass, also castle
men, are among the missing
The supposed lost are Captain VIM.
Lee Chief Officer Murray. Chief Engi-
neer stafford Third Engineer Slater ana
twenty-one other seamon. hrcmen and
cattlemen.
LONDONIANs CREW.
The men landed are the survivors OF
/ ANf l4llilrM NNHNlllNA lsIlttAIlNlAAif NA Af"lt
| don. bound from Boston for London. with
o. large general cargo and six hundred
| and fifty cattle on deck. She leit Bos-
ton Nov 18th and Nov. 2ith IN a violent
! gale her cargo shifted and she almost
capsized. she finally rested on her beam
! ends with big seas breaking over her
/ Her luckless crew were helpless 40 right
her and for two Gays she drifted about
/ at the mercy Of the winds and waves.
| Assistance came at o'clock ON the
morning OF November 9th. The Neda-
more hove in sight five miles distant and
| it was still quite dark the LOndonian
burned signal fires and FREQ siyrockets.
IL did not take the Vedamore LONG 10
cover the five miles that lay between her
and the Londonian and as soon as she
| arrived alongside, she was signalied TO
stand By.
A VAIN ATTEMPT
At noon I'm the teeth of stin gale. Sec
ond officer Hobbs and q volunteer crew
! CALAMITY launched one Of the Ncdamorc
! boats and attempted TO reach the sink
| ing T.ondonian. For three hours the
| sturdy Britons battlcd with wind and
wave I'm O. vain attempt 20 rcacn her
| but were finally forced TO return 10 their
| ship
CAPTAIN Bartlett then steamed 10 wind
ward Of the doomed steamer ana tried
| 10 fire rockets with lines attached 20 the
wreck. hoping by that means 20 estaO-
| ush a connection with her by which the
seamen in peril could be- saved. After
number Of vain attempts this idea was
| abandoned. and as night came on sew
eral other attempts 10 regcue the Lon
| domains crew were made fruitleFsiy
WILL STAND BY YOU"
As II grew too dark 10 do anything more
| Captain Bartlett signalled "Wiil stand
By you until morning" The piieous sig
nal. "For Gods sake don't leave Ms,
came back in reply. During the nght
the wind increased and by morning il
was blowing very hard. Then il was
that another means of rescue was de-
cided upon. For hours life buoys with
lines attached were foated 20 the Lon
DOMAIN and at last her crew succeeded
in getting one aboard. one OF the Neda-
more's life boats was impr0vise1 as n
life car TO be hauled between the two
ships. II made a tyip successfully, ana
twenty-five half frozen. exhausted men
were hauled up over the high side OF the
Vedamore. As the boat was going hack
| TO the Londonian wreck a bic sed broke
over IL and demolished II. The lines vera
also carried away and the communication
broken. Chief officer Doran, OF the We
damore then stepped up TO Captain Bart
lett and volunteered 10 launch another
life boat 70 attempt the rescue.
4 NARROW ESCAPE.
For two hours the boats crew strrg-
gied az the oars, bat could not get closer
than sixty yards Of the wreck. They
were at last forced TO give up and re-
turn 10 their ship. and in doing 50 the
boat was snasted against the ships
siae and lost. They all came near
drowning. bet were hauled aboard with
lines. Another fearful night OF peril and
! fear passed.
The next morning twenty-three Of the
men OF the Londonian succeeded I'm
launching one OF their own boats and
reached the VelamCre IN safety. Their
boat was also lost. and all that day was
spent IN trying to establish communica-
ton with the wreck The gale was con-
stantlv increasing. and all efforts TO save
othars were in vain. Even after night
| had fallen the Vedamore was kept cruis-
ine about IN the vicinity, but when day
broke next morning the Londonian had