Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-11-30
ROLLED FOR THREE
DAYS IN A TyPH00N
Transport Manssuenz Narrowly Is
capes Disaster on the Way
to Manila.
VESSEL A ROTTEN OLD HULK
The Omcefs and Soldiers OFT baafd
ept Busy Battling Will. Buck.
cts for Twelve
Days.

MuHlia; NOV. ou--l He transport
Manaucnz, with Lieutenant Colonel
Webb Hayes and three companies of
the Thirty fifth infantry on board, has
arrived here. She narrowly escaped
disaster The officers and soldiers
were fof twelve days battling with
buckets. The steamer was ,ihseaWoi-
thy, undermined and short of pro-
visions: Her engines broke down and
She rolled three days in II typliodii.
When the Manauenz anchored at
Manila bay yesterday morning, thirty
three days from San Francisco. there
We're several feet of water in her hold
and 400 grimy, greasy, hungry, en-
lausted soldiers and sailors who had
been passing buckets of water since
November II, night and day. First
Assistant Engineer Dunleavy was un-
der arrest. and according to Colonel
Webb Hayes report the engineer
would have been under arrest III there
had been anyone to replace him:
The, t.olonef.; report also declares
that the captain of the vessel told him
that the only thing which brought
them through was the fact that the
men We're greenhorns and failed to
realize their danger. while expert
Anced seamen would have deserted the
ship and taken to the boats in mid
ocean.
The Manauenz is chartered ship.
aying the British flag. She belongs to
a firm of which w. II. Perkins, of san
Francisco. is alleged to be a Junior
member Thu officers say the firm
l., III II,
efforts were made to sell her to the
government for Sl50,000. She started
from San Francisco accompanied by
the transport Pekin, which carried the
remainder of the regiment, and en-
sountered heavy seas at Honolulu
without accident.
After starting IL developed she was
t.gdcrmanned and soldiers had to be
detailed as firemcn, coal passers and
walters and to 10 other work. BE-
fore reaching Honolulu the crew CON
:luoled the ship was not safe and the
majority agreed to desert her. Though
they were closely watched MANY of
The crew, succeeded in getting away,
and the ManaucnZ left Honolulu with
less than half-her crew. The captain
of the transport on November II told
Colonel Hayes that the vessel had
sprung Il leak, and an investigation re-
suited i'm finding several feet of water
i'm her hold. The steam pumps We're
tried, but failed to work, and there
were no hand pumps on board. How
ever, fortY-siN buckets We're found,
6thefs MeFe impfovised and the SOL
diers not employed in working the
ship We're organized into five shifts,
and stripped and forming Lines they
began battling, the officers working
with the men, passing the buckets
which We're sent up to the deck by a
windlass. The longest time shift
could stand was two hours, and often
the period was not longer than half
I'M hour. The battling continued until
the ship anchored here.
The same day that the leak was dis
covered the machinery collapsed, and
the electric lighting plant. and evapor-
ating. distilling and fefrigerating APP
paratus failed to work. There were
no lamps, and the few candles found
were exhausted after few days. Dur
ing the last week of the passage the
Manauenz was in utter darkness at
night She had been rolling in heavy
seas all the way. but November %
She encountered typhoon and
pitched and tossed alarmingly.
The Pekin became separated from
the Munauelz in the storm.
The water rose rapidly. and the bail
ing force was doubled. but the b,fck.
cts were gradually smashed, and bar
rels ant, boxes We're substituted for
them, the men working ih darkness,
planks and pieces of iron shafting
being violently washed among them.
The tiremen could only feed the fires
by being lifted upon the shoulders of
the other men through water waist
deep. The typhoon lasted two days
and a half and in the midst of it the
engines stopped. The officers the1,
held council and found that there
were ago persons on board, with life
boat accommodations for 2l3.
In the meantime the men below. ig-
norant of their extreme peril, We're
passing buckets and singing, what
the He'll DO We Care" whl:e the ship
rolled helpless on the ocean, with
matches closed.
The heat was intense until the ty-
phoon passed, and then the Pekin,
which had retraced her course about
seventy miles. came alongside the
ManauenZ, which was rolling so heav-
lily that the soldiers i'm the hold could
at each roll see the Pcliin through
the matches overhead.
Colonel James S. Petit, commander
Of the Thirty-first volunteer regiment
ordered the Nlanauenz to proceed to
Guam and await relief, but the captain
OF the Manauenz demurred. the Off
cials say because the government was
renting the ship al $500 per day.
Through the remainder of the voy-
age the engines OF the NIanauenz
failed frequently, and the ship would
roll for a few hours while the engines
were repaired. Then the steamer
would proceed again for few hours.
The meat and vegetables fotted be.
cause of the failure of the refrigera-
tors and We're thrown overheard. After
the storm the water supplied to the
ship at Honolulu had to be used for
the boilers and there was little or
none for drinking. in fact, it is as
serted that during the last week of
the voyage the men lived almost en-
tirelN on whisky and beer and hard
tack.
The Jtficers and soldiers were utter
~ exhausted when they reached Ma
Mia. They declare the engineers