The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-09
LOST WITH THE LoNDONI&N.
carr. LEE AND TwENTY-FOUR or
HIS MEN go DOWN AT SEA.

Nen-Roat ImproviTcd as Life
Car Smashed by waves
Baltimore, Dec. s.-The tombstone Line
steamer Nedamere OF Liverpool Capt
Robert Bartlett for whose safety fears
were beginning 70 be entertained as she
was several days overdue, arrived this
morning az Pier 81, Locust Point, With
for,y-ive shipwrecked mariners. which
she had picked up at sea. Twenty five
others went down with their ship.
The saved members of the Londonian's I
crew were: Second Omcer +. Cuttings OF I
London, Second Engineer }, w. Gram
nam Of London, Third Engineer F. G. G. |
Ayres of Scotland. c. Tagan of Hamburg, |
donkey man; Charles Johnstone of Dune |
din, New Zealand, cook; r. Cross Of Lon
don; Storekeeper o. Fiszke of Klenem- |
ersdorf, Germany, and j. Mason of Lon |
don, oilers; \. +. Tonge of Dunedin. N |
r.. and Frank Leimke OF Waldast, Ger
many, seamen; Malcolm MCGOWAN, e. |
suddel, T. suddeN T. Liss, j. Wild, &c.
Watts, william Terry, James Clarke, !
Thomas Bright, r.. Bartlett OF London,
John Foyne of Liverpool, Gilbert Elliott
Of Dumbarton, Scotland; r. cupid color
oG Of ST. Vincent, hremen and coal trim
mers.
The supposed lost are Capt William Lee.
Chief Officer Murray Chief Engineer stat
ford, Third Engineer Slater, and twenty
one other seamen. 'aremen and cattlemen.
These twenty-three men were about one
half OF the ships complement. An The 9TH
ers are regarded as persisted. In addition
there were twenty-five cattlcmen. Patrick
Ward of Boston, foreman FOR Swift q
Co.. who had 263 head of cattle on this
steamer. and Daniel Calnan Of ScmerViDe,
Mass, foreman for Neson Morris & Co,
who hau 1872 cattle The cattlemen IN Inc
gangs We're: ~ Muusol John J Neville.
OF waterbury. Conn; Michael Malone, Of
FaA River; John II. Kenny, John Sloan
Frederick Wallace Thomas Hiegins. Hen
ry Nl2eh, Andrew Smith, John Martin
John BI-Ay, Georse Bel John Ward, all
of Boston, John Potts OF Maiden Henry
Boucher and Peter Lamont, Of Lawrence;
John Johns, OF London H Paupipian, OF
Armenia; 49, Maikebohn. Of Russia, and
| William Langley, Jr, OF HalOWel
Daniel Coveney of Dos on and Thomas
| Mccoy of Worcester, Mass. cattle men,
are among the missing.
! The men landed are che survivors Of he
I British steamship Loudonian, Of London.
bound from Boston for Loadon, with a
/ large general cargo and $50 cattlc on deck
She left Boston Nov Is, and on Nov "A.
! m a Vi0lent gale, her cargo shifted ana
she almost caDsizcd. she finally resting on
her beam ends with big seas breaking
/ over hef.
/ Her luckless crew were helpless 10 right
I her, and lol two dass she er.Ileu aDoui
at the mercy OF the winds and waves.
/ Assistance came at O'Clock on the morn
/ ing of Nov. p. The Vcdamere hove in
I sight five mes distant and as 1t was
sun quite dark, the Londonlan burned sig
nal fires and fred stress tockets. II did
noi take the No4amere ong 10 cover the
five miles that lay between her and the
I Loudonian, and as soon, as she arrived
/ alongside she was sgnailld TO stand by.
! At noon, in tho teeth Of a stiff gale, Sec
I ond Odicer iobbs and a Yolupteer crew
CALAMITY aunched che Of the Nedameres
| boa ard attempted 10 reach the sink
| Ing Londonian.
For three hours he sturdy Br.tons bait
ted with wind ard wave In a vain at-
tempt to reach her. but wote finally forced
/ to return TO their ship. Capt Bartlett
then steamed TO wlndward or the doomed
steamer, and irIed to fire rockets with
! lines attached. to The wreck. hopug BY
that means 70 establish connection with
her, by which The seamcn in peril could
be saved. After number of van at
tempts this idea was abandoned, and as
night came on several o her attempts
TO rescue the Iondoniun's crew were made
fruiuessly.
AS it grew too dark 70 do anything more
Capt Bartlett signaled "WHl stand by
you until morning
The pIteous signal, "For Gods sake
don't leave US" came back. During the
night the wind Increased and by morning
II was Blowing very hard Then il was