The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-17
NINE LOST IN A COLLISION.
81 EAMsHIP GLOUCESTER COLLIDEs
WITH SCHOONER ALICE JORDAN.

9be Disaster Takes Place on Mar
tha's Vineyard, and seven of the
crew Were Rescued and Taken to
Boston Schooner "A Gloucester
Vessel-Cnpt. Howes of the Steam
ship Reports ALI His Lights Burn
ing, Hut the weather Was Cloudy
and the Night Darl1--A Partial List
of the Lost Fishermen.
Boston, Sept. 1s.-The steamship Glou-
caster Of the Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company which arrived
here this afternoon from Baltimore, re-
ports that at 1870 o'clock this morning she
collided 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.
Capt. e. NJ. Howes of the Gloucester
says that the steamer had all her lights
burning at the time of the accident. The
weather was cloudy and the night quite
dark.
Later in the afternoon the names of
seven of the lost fishermen were learned.
They are as follows:
HARRY H. Cow, of Gloucester.
- SCOTT, of the provinces.
JAMES H. RUSSELL, of Gloucester.
JEREMIAH RYAN, of Gloucester.
CHARLIE SMITH of Gloucester.
MAURICE MONsoN.
HENRY PARKER.
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
$40 o'clock this morning. just after the
big boat had steamed through Vineyard
sound, she crushed 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 wa
ter's edge and rapidly filed The Glouces-
ter was stopped at once, and boats or
dered lowered. The schooner sank in
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 boats of the
Gloucester searched for long time for
traces of the nine missing men. but with
out success.
The schooner Alice C. Jordan was owned
by william H. Jordan of Gloucester, and
registered eighty-sx tons gross
The seven survivors of the sunken fish
ing schooner left for their homes in
Gloucester this afternoon. Before leaving
Capt. jeremiah II. Warren, of the wreck
ed vessel, said:
"The Alice c. Jordan with a crew of
sixteen men, left Gloucester last Monday
bound for Block Island on a fishing trip.
AT l:4O o'clock this morning the schooner
was off East Chop, in Vineyard Sound
going through the water at a siX-knot
clip, and the approach of the steamer
was 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 In safety
but as she came nearer, il was seen that
collision was inevitable. and the three
men on the schooner's deck shouted to
those below to hurry on deck. The Glou-
cester struck the schooner with fearful
force, nearly in the center of the port
bow, and cut into her fully third of her
BREADTH She began TO fill Immediately"
Capt. Warren, Joseph Pitts and Jere-
miah Ryan were on the deck when the
vessels came together. Ryan was killed
by a falling spar from the steamer. The
other five men saved were asleep in the
etter part of the vessel, but with the ex-
ception of one man, Fl. G. Carey, every
man in the forecastle went down with the
schooner. Carey states that three of the
men in the forecastle were killed in the
bunks when the steamer cut into the side
OF their vessel. The other five men made
frantic efforts TO escape, but could not
reach the deck before the vessel filled and
plunged to the bottom.
capt. Warren, although he blames the
steamer for the collision, said he was
grateful to Capt. Howes, the officers. crew
and passengers for the kind treatment of
himself and crew.