The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-17
WRECK Of THBMOHDCAN
Fifty-one Bodies Of Victims Have
Been Recovered.
THE BRAVERY OF THE SAILORS.

None of Them Made any Effort TO Es-
\ cape In tho Lifeboats, and the Gal"
liant Officers Went Down With Their
Doomed Vessel.
= London, Oct. i7-The Atlantic Trans
port company issued the following
statement last evening regarding the
fate of the passengers and crew OF the
steamer Mohegan, which was wrecked
last Friday evening off the Lizard, be-
tween the Manacles and the Lowlands:
! up to midnight 81 bodies had been
recovered. Some were found miles
away, in coves, and it is expected that
more will be washed ashore today
Many persons undoubtedly were kill.
ed by being dashed on the rocks who
would have escaped If cast ashore on
an ordinary coast. Some Of the bodies
are horribly mangled.
The latest advices from Falmouth
say that IS bodies have been identified,
mostly the bodies of sailors. -Four are
as yet unidentified, including those OF
two elderly ladies'. One appears to be
q German. She wore watch and q
wedding ring, both engraved "lSn.'
The other wore silver brooch, with
the letter "D' in pearls. This Is prob
ably the body of Mrs. Charles Duncan.
Nine of the bodies have been brought
TO Falmouth, the others to the VIII
lage church at St. Keverne. The res
cued passengers are being sheltered at
cottages along the shore and the crew
at the sailors home at Falmouth.
The cause of the disaster remains the
profoundest mystery. Nobody attempts
to explain how the Mohegan got SO
far north of her true course-from SIX
to seven miles. There was no fog at
the time, while the wind on her port
quarter was not sufficient to prevent
her answering the helm. 1t has been
suggested that the compass was faulty,
but daylight lasted long after Eddy
stone light was passed. The sailors
say 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
navigating officer on discovering that
he was in the bay suddenly turned sea-
ward. Two engineers who are saved
utCIdlS, lONtNtl, lhtti IiiNy itN'Si si-'SA,
eHed speed.
Remarkable stories of rescues con-
finue. Robert Barrow. a seaman, per-
formed the feat of swimming unaided
through the toughest water to Cove
rack Point, a distance of two and one
half miles. He climbed up the ragged
cliff. where a searching party found
him early the next morning completely
exhausted. A. c. l.. Smith, of Oregon.
q passenger surrendered to a woman
In the water wreckage that was sup
porting him and swan ashore unaided.
The woman was saved. Her name is
reported as Miss Webb but no such
name appears in the company's list
Messrs Smith and w. J. Blooming
daIe say there was the greatest uif-
licuty in launching the boats. The
ropes were new and stiff. and the
blocks would not work. Four or times
rs many sailors as should have been
necessary struggled to lower each boat
The lockers We're hard to open.
The crew, in chvalrous effort to
save the women. made the mistake OF
sndernanning the boats. There were
Dnty four sailors in one boat, which
capsized as soon as 1t was launched.
dessrs. Smith and Bloomingdale say
that Captain Griffiths had appeared Ill
Ill day.
The death of Mr.. II. W. King, who
Els, in former years, a wealthy sum
sner resident of Nantucket, Mass, and
Of his family. including Mrs. King. her
mother, Mrs. Weller. and his sons,
Rufus, aged II, and Anthony aged I,
H. at pppzanrn
where the family had summer cot
tage and were very popular. Joseph
ORorke, Mr.. Kings valet, who was
saved, says he was on deck when the
crash came The lights went out im-
medately. Rushing to the saloon he
heard Mr.. King exhorting his family
to keep cool
O'Rorte, with seven others, chung to
the rigging until o'clock Saturday
morning, when a lifeboat took him off.
He identified the bodies of the Kings
and Mrs Weller and will have them
embamed and taken to the United
States. in accordance with cabled in
Btrictions from the relatives of the
Family at Nantucket.
John Hyslop, the New York yachts.
man, who was saved. in the course of an
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