The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-17

port company issued the following
statement this evening regarding the
fate of the passengers and the crew
of the steamer Mohegan, which was
wrecked last Friday evening OF the
Lizard, between the Manacles and the
Lowlands:
.Of the passengers, IL have been
saved. 10 bodies have been recovered
and SO are missing. OF the crew and
cattlemen, SO have been saved, II bodies
have been recovered and 81 are MISS
ing"
Since this statement was issued, nine
other bodies have been picked up, IN
Guiding two that have been identified
as those of passengers
The reports of the various corre-
spondents differ widely as to the res
cues, recoveries and losses, though
none has been able to obtain the exact
number of those saved or of the bodies
recovered
The bodies of the following passen-
gers have been recovered: T. w. King,
Edna King, Master King, James
Blackey, Miss H. NJ. Cowen. Mr.. Fal-
lows, b. Franklin Fuller, Mrs l. NJ
Luke, George Seymour, Miss L. b.
Warrener-
The latest advices from Falmouth
been identified. mostly the bodies or
sailors. Four are as yet unidentified,
including those of two elderly ladies'
One appears TO be German She wore
a watch and a wedding ring. both en-
graved ISL The other wore silver
brooch, with the letter ID" in pearls
This is probably the body of Mrs.
Charles Duncan
Nine of the bodies have been brought
to Falmouth: the others to the village
church at St -Keverine. The rescued
passengers are being sheltered in cot
tages along the shore and the crew at
the Sailors Home at Falmouth.
Tugs have been cruising in the Vlcln-
ity all day, despite the very rougn
weather, in hope of picking up other
bodies.'
The cause of the disaster remains
the profOundest mystery Nobody at
tempts to explain how the Mohegan got
so far north OF her true courSe-trOm
six to seven miles. There was no tog
al the time. while the wind on her
mort quarter was not sufficient to pre-
vent her answering the helm 1t has
been suggested that her compass was
faulty. but daylight lasted long - er
Eddystone light was passed Sallors
saw the fact that the Lizard light was
not visible should have served to give
the alarm
The masts of the Mohegan, which
are above water, show that her stern
| is Iandward, causing a theory that the
/ navigation officer, on discovering that
| he was in the bay, suddenly turned
seaward Two engineers who were
saved declare, however, that they never
slackened sDeed.
| STORIES OF SURVIVORS.
Remarkable stories Of rescue con-
I tinue Robert Barrow, seaman, per-
/ formed the feat of swimming through
/ the toughest water to Cove Rack point,
a distance of two and a half miles. He
| climbed I'D the rugged cliff, where a
! searching party found him early the
! next morning, completely exhausted.
a C. L. Smith of Oregon, passen-
/ ger. surrendered to a woman III the
water wreckage that was supporting
| him and swan ashore una1ded- The
| woman was saved Her name is re-
ported as Miss Webb, but no such name
! appears in the cOmpanyS list.
I Messrs. Smith and W. J. Blooming
dale say there was the greatest diff
Guilty in launching the boats. The ropes
were new and stiff and the blocks
would not work Four or five times as
many sailors as should have been nee
essary struggled TO lower each boat.
! The lockers were hard to Open-
The crew, in a chivalrOuS effort to
save the women, made the mistake Of
/ undermanning the boats. There were
only four sailors in one boat. which
/ capsized as soon as it was launched
Messrs. Smith and Bloomingdale say
that Captain Grifhths had appeared i'll
all day.
The death of Mr.. T. W. King, who
was a newspaper proprietor of Nan
| tucket, Mass, and of his family, in
cluding Mrs. King, her mother, Mrs.
Weller, and his sons. Rufus, aged IL
years, and Anthony, aged Z years, has
| caused deep sorrow at Penzance, where
the family had a summer cottage and
were very popular.
Joseph O'Rorke. Kings valet, who
was saved, says he was on deck when
the crash came. The lights went out
Immediately Rushing to the saloon he
heard Mr.. King exhorting his family
/ to keep cool. O'Rorke, with seven
others. elung to the rigging until s
/ o'clock yesterday morning, when a
! lifebOat took him off. He identified
the bodies Of the Kings and Mrs. Wei
| Ter. and will have them embalmed and
| taken to the United States. in accord
ance with cabled instructions from the
+, relatives of the family at Nantucket
The description in the London dis
patch of Mr.. 7. W. King as a newspa-
per proprietor at Nantucket. Mass, is
probably erroneous. Inquiry%shows that
the proprietors of the local papers in
Nantucket and its vicinitytbear other
names.
In Boston newspaper circles Mr..
Kings name is unfamiliar. Probably
he was a wealthy summer resident Of
| Nantucket.