The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-24

Tacoma, Wash, April 2S.-The steam
ship Glenogle of the North American Mail
| Steamship company's Tacoma Oriental
line, crashed into the steamer City of
Kingston about o'clock this morning off
Browns point, cutting the City of Kings
ton in two just aft the boilers. The twelve
passengers and the Kingstbn's crew of
| seventy We're 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 huh of the
Kingston sank Immediately, but her upper
works. cut in two, fioated. They were
beached and at low tide tonight an eX-
animation will be made to learn whether
any passengers were lett IN their state
rooms
A bank of fog hung about Browns point
this morning. In the harbor it was clear.
The Kingston undoubtedly lost her bear
ings and was in the course OF outgoing
vessels at the time of the collision. The
Kingston was evidently proceeding to-
ward Tacoma under the impression that
the Glenogle was lying at the dock.
When the Victoria liner rounded the point
and the Glenogle doomed up Just aheaa:
the officers were at least momentarily
confused.
Signals Were Not Heard.
1t is stated the GIenogle signalled the
Kingston to pass outside, and had this
been done the accident would not have
occurred. The Kingstons officers We're
probably unable to distinguish the WhlS-
ties and in the attempt to pass inside ran
directly across the bows of the Glenogle.
The Glenogle was acting on the theory
that the Kingston would pass and she
had been signalled to do so. The result
was that both boats were headed in the
same direction and when the kingston's
engines We're reversed, it brought her
directly ahead of the Glenogle.
The Glenogle cut the Kingston in two
and the two parts quickly separated and
drifted apart The purser and night
Waterman went through the decks
Weakening the sleeping 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 Gienogle made fast to the after
part of the wrecked Kingston and started
toward the ocean wharf with her in tow.
The tug Victor was sent off after the for
ward house and towed it to the beach. |
The officers of the Kingston got out the |
lifeboatS and the Glenogle's crew had one |
of their lifeboatS into the water before |
the big liner had been stopped.
Aroused By shrieking Whistles.
The sound of the crash and the Shrek |
ing whistles of the two boats aroused the |
crews on the ships in the harbor. Captain |
Poyles of the James Kerr, loading wheat,
OrQereU out q boat ana 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. boat from !
the Casta was sent out.
The position of the passengers and crew
on the Kingston was perilous. The hull
filled with water and sank but the upper
works remained afioat. As the passengers
were being taken off. one of the masts
toppled over and fell across the deck
house. where a number We're congregated,
and the frail structure gave way be-
meath the weight. A Chinaman was
caught in the wreckage, but was after
ward rescued. A cabin boy tloated off
on piece of wreckage, and was picked
up by the boats
The Rev Horace II. Chapman rector
Of Trinity church. occupied the stateroom
struck by the Glenogle's prov and was
only being released by the part
ing of the ship. His forehead was cut
but he was not seriously hurt.
Cabin Boy the Hero.
Ben Volkenburgh the captains boy
was the hero of the collision. He awoke
Captain Anderson by breaking inhis door.
We're bumped. laconicaliy explained
:
The captain demanded an explanation,
out the boy cut him short with the eX-
1lanation that the Kingston was sink :
ng
Awake the glory hold returned Cap
ain Anderson, and the boy went for /
ward to arouse the sleeping crew. He /
'eturned and assisted in getting out the
passengers. a man went overheard and
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