Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-26
THE TILLlE LOST.
Supposed Filibuster Steamer
Goes Down Near Barnegat.
BRAVE VOLUNTEERS.
Gallant Rescue by Sailors From
the Governor Ames.
Nineteen Men From the Title Saved While
Four Go Down With the III
Fated Craft.
BRAVE VOLUNTEERS

HFOFluence, X. l., Jan. G0.--Ine small
two-masted flibuster steamer Title
of New York was abandoned at sea,
/ Sunday afternoon, while off Barnegat.
| Nineteen Of those on board of her were
/ saved in the midst of terrible storm
by the schooner Governor Ames, but /
four men could not be taken off, and
went down with the vessel.
Forty tons of dynamite, three dyna-
mite guns and considerable quantity |
of ammunition, undoubtedly intended
for the warning Cubans, were on board |
the Tillie when she sunk.
The Governor Ames arrived from
| Newport News today On board were
4 the 10 rescued from the Title. Ten of |
| them were Cubans, and the remainder |
were the officers and crew of the aband- |
oned steamer and the famous Captain
Jack O'Brien, who had charge of the |
expedition, 1t is supposed.
/ Capt. Waldemar, of the Gov. AmeS, |
says that last Sunday afternoon, about |
| 2 o'clock, while % miles south by west |
of Shinnecock, he sighted small two
masted steamer flying her colors union
down, as a signal of distress. He |
steered toward the steamer and watch |
ing her through the glass, saw that she |
was deep in the water and laborins |
heavily. Soon afterwards he was near
enough to make out two boats filled
with men just astern OF the craft.
The wind was blowing 40 miles an
hour, and the sea was fierce. The
waves were breaking clear across the
Ames amidships, and Capt. Waldemar
had his hands full to manage his great
ship. However, the Ames' course was
changed to bring her as close to the
steamer as possible and when within
/ ON orto Of mill Of bar ba
was hove to. Two boat loads of men
from the laundering steamer commenced
+, to work their way toward the Ames.
Lines were thrown to boats. These
were seized by the men, who jumped
overheard and in that fashion were
hauled aboard by the crew of the Ames
one at time. Eleven men finally stood
safe on the Ames quarter deck. They
said that eight more, including Capt.
Berry were still aboard the Title Capt.
Waldemar called for volunteers, and
Second Mate Nocer and Seamen George
Green, Peter Nelson. Charles Lindquist
and Frank B. BroHz stepped forward.
They struggled Ia the Titles largest
boat and put off to the Title, taking off
Capt. Berry and three men. The four
fellows left aboard Were promised that
: they should be saved as quick as the
boat could return to them.
The trip back to the Ames was hard
struggle. Darkness began to lower, and
as the Ames' five brave volunteers
! were exhausted, it would have been
useless to have tried to make another
trip. Reluctantly Capt. Waldemar put
| the vessel on her course again. She
entered the bay Monday, and was towed
up this morning. A reporter interviewed
Capt George Berry, master of the TIL
: lie, who waived the question Of filibus-
tering, and said the Tillie was pur-
chased two months ago by McAllister
,oF ov,d ,
for carrying cattle and freight He
took in a cargo of soft coal and cased
provisions last week in New York, and
sailed on Wednesday bound for Tampa,
Fla. He said that after discharging
the coal at Tampa, he understood that
the vessel was to commence carrying
cattle from Tampa to Havana for the
Spanish government. Leaving New
York, he proceeded to Montauk Point
where, on Saturday, Is Cubans joined
the vessel. He took them merely as
passengers for Tanapa. The Tillie put
to sea- Saturday night she commenced
to leak in the shaft alley around the
stuffing box. AT the time the trouble
began, the vessel was so miles to the
: eastward of Barnegat and 40 miles from
: the nearest land. The steam pumps
soon became choked, and Capt. Berry
headed the vessel for the Long Island
shore Twice Capt. Berry sighted two
= vessels, but they We're too far away to
see the signal of distress. At last the
, fires were drowned and all hands gave
! up the last hope of reaching shore
The two boats were lowered, and as
, many men as they would hold fell into
them and swung astern of the founder
: ing steamer, holding to her by lines in
, order not to desert their shipmates for
] whom there was no room in the boats.
! Just after this move, Capt. Berry
! sighted the topmasts Of a vessel which
IAo dwxe~t k1xr l.
Ames. The rest of the story OF rescue
has been told as Capt. Waldemar gave
it,
The names of the officers and crew of
the Title are as follows Master George
w. Berry; first officer, G. Lindquist; first
engineer. William H. Mears; second en-
gineer, Charles Nelson; seamen Hugh
Connolly, G. Anderson; firemen, Hugh
McGill, A. H. Fitzpatrick. The remain
: der of the partyS names are given as
follows: ]. D. White, supposed to be
Jack O'Brien, Dr. G. Garcia Victa, Fer
nando TRADER, Octavio G. de Aguiar, |
Benjamin Goberga, Alfredo Parajon, |
) Dr. Frank B. Agramont, Elise Cartaya, |
| D. w. de Moya, DR.. Ramon Pajes, |
/ Frank Pagliucci all of New York. Those
: left on the steamer were Horacio Hevia,
Alfred BermudeZ, Mr. Cancelleri and the
: steward, name unknown. Captain Berry
: gives his residence as 1884 Portland ave-
: nue., Brooklyn, and says he was never
} mixed up in anything like this before, |
having been engaged in tug-boating
| recently.
Before the crew and passengers left
! the Ames, they presented to Capt. Wal
, demar a signed expression of their
gratitude for his services. That of the
passengers included the name of John
O'Brien.
The mate of the Gov Ames. who
claims to have had experience with fill
busters. says that there can be no
, ground for the rumor that traitors
aboard the Title scuttled the steamer.
This officer claims that the steamer was
not filibuster, for she was SLOW being
only able to make eight knots an hour.
She was going to Tampa. he thought,
J and from there to the Bahamas, where
the cargo and men would be transferred
to a speedier vessel, like the Douglas OF
the Three Friends. The mate says that
i. the Ames might have saved all, had not
the gigantic five-master been so OBJ
t stinate in the heavy seas and high
winds 1t took her two hours to ger
. near enough to the Tillie to begin the
rescue and darkness came too soon for
, four men.
A VENERABLE BOAT.
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