The record-union., 1899-04-24
CITY OF KINGSTON
WAS CUT IN TWO.
Crossed the Path Of the Steamer
Glenogle.
She Was Coming Into the Harhor at
Tacoma.

Signal Of the Big Liner-Al the
Crew Were Saved and Probably
ALI the Passengers-Selbor
School at San Rafael Burned
and One of the Boys Cremated.
TACOMA, April 23.-The steamer
Glenogle Of the North American Mail
Steamship Company, Tacoma Oriental
line, crashed into the steamer City of
Kingston about o'clock this morning
off Browns Point, cutting the City Of
Kingston in two just abaft the boilers.
The twelve passengers and the Kings
toms crew of seventy were saved
through the prompt action of officers of
the Glenogle and Kingston, and two
ships lying in the harbor, which lowered
boats and assisted the people on the
Kingston to reach the Glenogle.
The Kingston is a total loss and the
Glenogle is damaged. The hull of the
Kingston sunk Immediately, but her
upper works, cut in two, foated. They
were beached and at low tide an exam
ination will be made to learn whether
any passengers were left in their state
rooms.
A bank of fog hung about Brown S
Point this morning. In the harbor it
was clear The Kingston undoubtedly
lost her bearings and was in the course
of outgoing vessels at the time of the
collision The Kingston was evidently
proceeding toward Tacoma under the
impression that the Glenogle was lying
at the dock. When the Victoria liner
rounded the point and the Glenogle
loomed up just ahead, the officers were
at least momentarily confused.
1t is stated the Glenogle signaled the
Kingston to pass outside, and had this
been done the accident would not have
occurred. The Kingston's officers were
probably unable to distinguish the sig
nails, and in attempting to pass inside
ran directly across the Glenogle. The
Glenogle was acting on the theory that
the Kingston would pass outside, as
she had been signaled to do so. The
result was that both boats were head
ed in the same direction and when the
Kingston's engines were reversed it
brought her directly ahead of the
Glenogle.
y
gers Of the Kingston to the effect that
there were eight men seen in the smok-
ing room Of the Kingston just before
the collision 1t is said only three of
these We're seen afterward. but there is
no confirmation of this story
The smoking room of the Kingston is
forward and is a portion of the upper
works now lying on the beach
The Glenogle cut the Kingston, in two
and the two parts quickly drifted apart
The purser and night watchman went
through the decks awakening the sleep
ing passengers and the crew.
Many of the crew escaped only in
their night clothes while those sleeping
more lightly or nearer the deck were
able to seize clothes.
The Glenogle made fast to the after
part of the wreck of the Kingston and
started toward the ocean wharf with
her in tow. The tug Victoria was sent
off after the forward house and towed
it to the beach
The officers of the Kingston got out
the life boats and the Glenogle's crew
had one of their life boats in the water
before the big liner had been stopped.
The sound of the crash and the
whistles of the two boats aroused the
crews on the ships in the harbor.
Captain Powles of the lanes Kerr
loading wheat at elevator A. ordered
out boat and went to the wreck with
Chief Mate Dole The second mate was
sent on shore for tug and the Victor
put off to the scene A boat from the
Casta was sent out
crew on the Kingston was perilous. The
hull filled with water and sunk, but the
upper works remained afioat.
AS the passengers We're being taken
off one of the masts toppled and fell
across the deckhouse, where a mum
ber were congregated, and the frail
structure gave way beneath the weight.
A Chinaman was caught in the
wreckage, but was afterward rescued
A cabin boy floated off on a piece of
wreckage and was picked UP by the
boats.
T. W. Wright, a Tacoma sailor board
ing-house master, was, he claims, the
only man on the deck of the Kingston
at the time of the accident. He said:
Il had no trouble climbing from the
floating deck to the Glenogle. The hull
Of the Kingston went down like a shot
almost Immediately after the collision,
the mast disappearing below the sur
face like an arrow shot into the water.
People came out in all stages of dress
and undress and climbed as high above
water as they could. Only one man
that / saw jumped overheard, but three
or four We're in the water. / think two
women went down in the hull, but I am
not sure of it. 1t was clear enough to
see everything plainly and the trouble
seemed to be lack of caution. The
Kingston was not expecting the Glen
ogle and got rattled''
The Rev. Horace Chapman, rector of
Trinity Church, occupied the stateroom
struck by the Glenogle's PROV and was
pinned in the wreckage fer several
minutes, only being released by the
parting of the ship. His forehead was
cut slightly but he was not seriously
hurt. His story is as follows:
My cabin was No. Al, almost ex-
actly amidships on the lower tier of
staterooms on the upper deck 1 was
i awake looking out of the window and
saw the Glenogle for fully half a min
ute before the crash. l saw she was
coming straight for me, but felt at first
that she would sheer away
| "The next moment there was a crash
| and / was imprisoned in pile OF
splinters. I was pinned fast and strug-
pled hard to escape 1 was certain