The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-16


men who succeeded I'm reaching Port
Houstock. He said the vessel struck
forward on the starboard bow and sank
head first. her stern rising right up in
the air. Only the smokestack and fore
mast OF the Mohegan can be seen above
water.
The wrecked steamer was command
ed by Captain Grinths: the chief officer
was Mr.. Couch: second officer, Mr. Cole,
and third officer. Hindmarsh. Reports
4 received as to the number of survivors
are extremely contradictory at this
hour. In fact, Ii is now said the only
persons rescued are those who We're
taken to Port Houstock in the two
journeys which the lifeboat at that
place made to the wreck. Some of the
rescued persons died from exposure
after landing. Everything possible is
being done to secure a corrected list of
the drowned and survivors. Kipling.
whose name is among the list of pas
sengers, Is not the novelist, Rudyard
, Kipling.
Officials of the transport company be-
lieve most of the passengers were
Americans who were returning home.
TWO OF the Mohegans boats filled with
passengers went down the channel. but
no news of them has been obtained.
A dispatch from st. Keverine, a small
town little to the eastward of the
hegan have been washed ashore there.
A member of the Port Houstock life
boat crew named James gave a graphic
account of the wreck. He said that as
soon as the disaster was announced his
crew was summoned to the boat and
proceeded to the Manacles. They could
see no lights, the night was pitch dark
and no rocks were discernible. but they
heard shouting and pulled toward the
spot from which the voices came. No
steamer was visible. but the lifeboat
came across an overturned lfeboat to
which four or five men were clnging.
They were taken on board the lifeboat.
Later the crew heard shouting near
the overturned lifeboat and with grap-
nels managed to right IL. Inside the
boat they found a woman and two or
three men alive. The woman was so
tightly jammed in the wreckage that
the lifeboat men had to cut away the
thwarts Of the small boat before they
could ex'ricate her. James said the
lifeboat PASSED scverar bodies of men
and women and picked up a couple of
men who were floating on wreckage.
The lifeboat then met a ships boat
having on board 22 passengers and
crew, all of whom would have been
speedily lost If not rescued at that time.
as the boat was waterlogged and rapid
ly drifting toward the rocks. The oc-
cupants of this boat were taken into
the lifeboat While the latter was head
ing homeward she picked up Miss No
BILE Of Baltimore.
'She is the pluckiest lady I ever saw
in my life.' said James. She shouted:
Don't shove me an oar: give me a
rope"
The sea then swept her towards US
and we caught her hands and got her
safely on board in as good a state as
could be expected. We had As persons
then in the boat. including the crew.
and could hear shouting from the
steamer. We approached her and saw
Steward Gray clinging TO the jigger-
mast We then saw that all four masts
were still standing and the survivors
were clinging to them. We backed in
right over the wreck and succeeded in
rescuing the boatswain, cook and 9TH
ers. Next we rescued an engineer who |
was clinging to the steamers funnel.
All of this occupied several hours. We
then made for the shore"
Further advice from st. Keverine
says the panic on the Mohegan was ter
rible and the cries Of despair were
heard on shore. One passenger cut
away the falls of a lifeboat with a razor |
and thus saved several lives.
Miss Rondebush and her mother Mrs. |
Grandin. entered a ships boat. which |
was capsized, and Mrs. Grandin was |
Jdfnrfleu DetNetn lnls DOdl anu a
boat. One of the lifeboats crew. al |
great personal risk. jumped on board |
the steamers boat after the latter had |
righted and pulled Mrs. Grandin from |
her dangerous position. But she was |
landed in a dying condition and all the |
efforts made to revive her were useless. |
When Miss Rondebush landed later |
she anxiously inquired for her mother, |
whose body was Identified by the vicar |
of st. Keverine from the description of |
a ring furnished TO him by the daugh- |
ter. One OF Mrs. Grandin's feet was |
torn from the leg.
The survivors without exception speak |
in the highest terms of the devotion. he |
roism and coolness displayed by the OFF, |
and declare that all were instantly at |
their posts when it was known that she /
had struck. The perilous position of the /
ship was noticed on shore and a warning /
rocket was sent up. but IL was too late
then to avoid the catastrophe. which oc-
CURED so suddenly that there was not
sufficient time to get all the life-saving
apparatus of the ship
The terror of the scene was indescriba-
BILE. Men jumped overheard in an agony
of despair and the women passengers
huddled together and refused to leave /
the deck. The officers remained on the
bridge to the last and many instances of /
sacrifice are recorded. Members OF the /
crew are known to have stood by and /
watch the boats launched and put of
when IL was apparent that these were the /
only means by which their own lives
could be saved.
A lifeboat with a load OF ~ passengers
on its way to the shore passed many who
were battling for their lives in the water
whom Il was impossible TO save
The villagers. headed by the vicar and
coast guard. stood on the shore and i
cheered the boat. When the hfeboat en-
tered the little cove the fishermen waded
into the sea to help drag the little boat
upon the beach and tenderly carried the
exhausted survivors TO their homes
which had been already prepared for their
reception, and the vicar attended the in
Jured.
The hfeboat was again launched and