Evening star., 1898-10-15
DEATH IN SHIPWRECK
Steamer Mohegan Goes Ashore in
Vicinity Of Lizard.
HEAVY Loss OF LIFE REPORTED
Survivors Taken Ashore in a Gale
in Lifeboats.
STORIES OF THE WRECK

I steamer MOheSan, captain GrtfNthS,
| belonging to the Atlantic Transport Com
| pany, has been wrecked in the vicinity of
the Lizard between the Manacles and the
| howlands. 1t is believed that large part
| of her passengers and crew We're drowned.
| The reports received as to the number of
| survivors are extremely contrary even at
| this hour. In fact, 1t is now said that the
! only persons rescued are those who have
| detailed their experiences. as already ca
| DIED, and those who were taken to Port
Houstock In two journeys which the life
boat al that place male to the wreck Some
| of the rescued persons died of exhaustion
| after landing.
Everything possible is being done to Sc
! cure correct list of the drowned ami of
| the survivors,
| A lifeboat landed thirty-one of the pas.
| sehsers and crew of the Mohegan. One of
| the former, a woman, died after she was
| brought ashore.
Another lifebcat has landed sixteen more
| oI the s'lrvlVors of the Mohegan.
| Forty-Fivc Survivors Landed.
| 1t is announced from Port Houstock
| cornwall, tfat fcrty-five survivors of the
| -Hoheeah have been landed by the lie
savers of that place. Five dead persons
nave also been recovered
Fourteen members of the crew of tha
rocks. vi ''c
All the survivors are in a pitiable condt
| tioh' ana some of them have been hsdIv
injured by waves and rocks and are suf
| limbs. 'N II az ui GU
Inc Mohegan left London for New Yor1,
on thursday, having on board, SO far as
can be ascertained at present fftv-nine
passengers and a crew of Il5 officers and
men. 'S 'iid
"hen the Steamer was seen to be in dis
tress, Aleboats put off from the shore and
every effort possible was made to save tba
passengers The coast at this point is ex-
tremely dangerous, and has been the scena
OF numerous wrecks.
Ihe general opinion at present is that
the machinery Of the Mohagan becama dix
abled during the heavy eavterlv gale which
was blowing and that she ran ashore ard
foundered A number of tugs which nnt
out from this port to the assistance Of the
MoheSan were compelled to return syithour
| being able to approach the vessel owing To
the severity of the weather prevailing
Story of the Wreck
|. One of the survivors Of the Moheean Mr..
George Maule of New York. was inter
viewed after he had sufficiently recovered
to be able to tell the story of the wreck
He said: We left London on Thursday
and all went we'll until o'clock yesterday
evening, when most of the passengers were
at dinner.
ne steamer was going at full speed
ard suddenly we heard loud crash. which
seemed to denote that we had colIfded With
some other vessel "
But when we rushed on deck We round
that the Mohegan was on the rocks be-
tween Manacles and the IowIands in tha
vicinity of the Lizard
Orders were given immediately tc lower
the boats. and the crew of the steamer he
haVed Ike heroes Her captain stood on
the bridge, and the greatest order pre-
vailed among the officers and crew.
The steamer, however, Immediately be-
gan TO settle by the head Two boats were
lI liaunched. Ihe women We're sent away in
the iirst boat. But whether these boats
reached land or not do not know
Il managed to secure a life belt and
Jumped overheard in company with the
en- Ghief officer Of the Mohegan. Mr.. Couch.
He made me take off my coat and shoes
soon after that we were parted from each
other. When 1 was leaving the vessel
little girl begged piteously that 1 try to
was powerless to help her
Eventualy l caught hold of a plank
which was floating on the water, and l
chung to it for seven and a half hours, At
the expiration of that time / was picked IN
by tug L could not have lasted much
longer
Il cannot explain how the accident oc-
Cured. The whole matter is not very clear
to me-
A. Gresmfth's Experience.
A. Gresmith, first-cabin passenger, who
says he belongs to Guilford, but had been
engaged in farming in the United States
for ten years past, is another of the sur
vivors. He said:
During the panic 1 jumped overheard
swami about an hour and reached a rock
L tried to climb on it, but the waves were
too strong. 1 afterward found a raft with
q sail on it and l held up the sail with one
arm and fioated toward the shore
While on the raft. l was washed right
over one rock. Happily, ! had on life
belt and recovered the raft which then
struck another rock, to which l held fast
for some time AfterWard l swan ashore
the land being only short distance away
from the rock to which 1 clnging."
Only the smokestacii and the foremast
of the Mohegan can be seen above water
dispatch from st. Keverine, a small
town little to the eastward of the Man
acles, says eighteen bodies from the Mo
hogan have been washed ashore there
They have been deposited in the parish
church.
Narrowing Scenes in London.
LONDON, October 15-Harrowing scenes
were witnessed today at the London office
of the Atlantic Transport Company, to
which the wrecked steamer Mohegan be-
longed. A number of women tainted there
when the extent of the calamity became
known, and there was constant stream of
telegraph boys running to and from the
office, seeking for information or taking
messages to anxious inquirers
The Mohegan, it is now said, has been an |
ill-fated vessel from the start. II is added |
that she was only bought by the transport
company when their own boats had been |
sold to the United States government during !
the war. She was formerly the Cleopatra |
of the Wilson and Furness-Leyland Line |
and was brought direct from the Hull ship
yard.
She never ran for the Furness line, and
Only made one voyage out and home This
it is asserted, was most unsatisfactory and |
friends of the crew say that her engines |
were defective and that her boilers leaked. |
She is further alleged to have arrived at |
New York in such condition that she was
sent home empty, and her return voyage
took several weeks. during which she drift
ed whole day and night owing to .he |
trouble with her engines. 1t is surnised |
here that her engines broke down, and that |
the vessel, in the rough sea and heavy |
gales which prevailed, drifted on the rocks |
The wrecked steamer was comma nded by |
Capt. Grift1ths. Her chief officer was Mr.. !
Ccuch her second officer Mr.. Cole and her |
third officer Mr.. Hindmarsh
The officials of the Transport Companv :
believe that most of the passengers were
Americans who were returning home