The age-herald., 1898-09-17
SEVEN LIVES
 WERE LOST Steamer Gloucester Sank the Schooner Alice |. Jordan, THE VESSEL RAPIDLY FILLED Captain and Six of the Crew
 Were Rescued. OTHERS WERE ASLEEP BELOW Traces of the Missing Fishermen Searched for Without Success. THE STEAMER BLAMED FOR TT Three of the Men in the Forecastle Were Killed in Their Bunks When the
 Gloucester Crashed Into
 the Schooner.
Traces of the Missing Fishermen Searched for Without Success.
THE STEAMER BLAMED FOR IT

Boston, September 16.-The steamship Gloucester, of the Merchants and Miners Transportation company, which arrived here this forenoon from Baltimore, reports that at 1:30 o'clock this morning she col lided with the Gloucester schooner Alice Jordan off Martha's Vineyard, and that nine of the Jordan's crew were drowned. Seven of the crew were saved and brought here on the Gloucester.
 The Gloucester sailed from Baltimore on her regular trip to this city, touching at Norfolk, which port she left Wednesday night. When north of Cottage City. about 1:40 o'clock this morning. just after the big boat had steamed through Vineyard Sound, she crashed into a Gloucester fisherman, which had sailed across her bows. The schooner, which proved to be the Alice c. Jordan, was cut down to the waters edge, and rapidly filled. The Gloucester was stopped at once and boats ordered lowered. The schooner sunk in a very few minutes, and before nine of the crew, who were asleep below, could reach the deck. The captain and six of the Jordans men were taken from the water by the Gloucester's men. The commander of the fisherman, Capt. J. H. Warren, was also rescued. The boats of the Gloucester searched for long time for traces of the nine missing men, but without success.
 Capt. M. F. Howes of the Gloucester says that the steamer had all her lights burn ing at the time of the accident. The wealth. CT was cloudy and the night quite dark.
 Captain Warren stated that most of his crew were new men recently shipped at Gloucester, and that he did not know the names of those lost.
 Names of the Dead
 The schooner Alice Jordan was owned by William Jordan, of Gloucester, and reg istered eightysix tons gross.
 Later in the afternoon the names of the seven lost fishermen were learned. They as follows:
 HARRY H. COW, Gloucester.
 - SCOTT, of the provinces.
 JAMES H. RUSSELL, Gloucester.
 JEREMIAH RYAN, Gloucester.
 CHARLIE SMITH, Gloucester. MAURICE MUNSON.
 HENRY PARKER.
 The seven survivors of the sunken fish ing schooner Alice c. Jordan left for their homes in Gloucester this afternoon. Be- fore leaving Captain J. H. Warren, of the wrecked vessel, said:
 ''The Alice c. Jordan, with crew of six teen men, left Gloucester last Monday bound for Block Island, on a fishing trip. At 1:45 this morning the schoone: was off East CnOp Tn vineyard sound, gong at a six-knot clip, and the approach of the steamer noticed by the lookout fully twenty minutes before she crashed into us. The schooner kept to her course, believing that the steamer would pass her immedi- ately but as she came nearer 1t was seen that collision was inevitable.
 Struck With Fearful Force
 T'he Gloucester struck the schooner with fearful force, nearly destroyed her port bow and cut her into fully third of her breadth. She began to All immediately, Captain Warren, Joseph Pitts and Jere- niah Ryan were on the deck when the vessels came together. Ryan was killed by falling spar from the Star.
 .'The other five men were asleep In the after part of the vessel but with the eX- ception of one man, H. c. Carey, every man in the forecastle went down with the schooner. Carey states that three of the men in the forecastie were killed in their hunks when the steamer cut into the side of their vessel The other five Nen made frantic efforts to escape, but could not reach the deck before the vessel filled and sank"
 Captain Warren, although he planes the steamer for the collision, said he was grateful to Captain Howes, the officers, crew and passengers for the kind treat ment of himself and crew.