The Portland daily press., 1899-05-17

ly bad night. He watched the Portland
until she passed out of sight, and then
went to bed. He was awakened at twelve
o'clock by the fierceness OF the storm and
the fog signal The waves also began to
run high, and at noon Sunday went
higher than ever known there before.
Captain Hathaway said that at the time
he saw the Portland there WAS NO reason
for supposing that she could not get
through all right.
Judge Webb asked witness how he knew
that steamer was the steamer Portland.
The witness said he could not read the
name; but she take the inside course
which the Portland and Boston steam
ers always took, and he inferred that 1t
must be the Portland boat. He saw not
only the signal lights; but the saloon
lighted up.
William II. Harrington of South Port
land was at work on Thatcher's island
on November 26. and remembered the
day and the weather. He knew well the
steamer Portland, being sea-faring
man for thirty years, and having often
been on her. He saw the steamer pass
the time the Portland boat usually passed.
She was going to the eastward. There was
no sea, wholesale breeze, and the moon
occasionally peeped from the clouds.
The steamer was all lighted up, and
nothing about her suggested that she was
she was out of sight, and thought moth
ing more about her as there seemed no
reason why she should not get along all
right. Witness said that when the storm
did come, 1t came in q squall. he never
SAW anything like it before. The next
dav the sea rolled in an unheard of way,
taking boiler that was supposed to be
out of the way of the waves aud hurting
it high up.
Edward b. Deering of knightville,
Me-. for 23 years employed by the steam
ship company, and mate of the Portland
on the Friday before Saturday the a6th.
II, superintended the coaling OF the
steamer, but did not sail on her that
night, ns he wished to attend the funeral
of the late Captain Deering.
Captain Michael NJ. Hogan of Glou-
cester Mass, said he was master of the
100 ton schooner Ruth Martin, with
crew of twenty-six men. On Saturda y,
November 26, he was forty miles south
east of Cape Cod, fishing. He saw
storm coming, and came III that night,
making Chatham light about ten O'Clock.
The wind at that time was southeast,
but he thought it would come northeast.
The wind was blowing IA gale. sunday
morning he was off Highland light. He
had been hurrying up all he could to gst
up to the land. thinking 1T was to oe
northwest blow. He had tried anchor
ing III ITS L., Uul NuSiHS Dccu NAi'oi iANiH
that was trying on Sunday morning TO
get of the coast. Soon after daylight,
in the midst of the storm, he
SAW A LARGE WHITE STEAMER
about mile and half away. Shs was
large steamer, making about south
BY east course. She was underway. Cap
tain Hogan put distress flag in the rig
ging for the steamer to come to his assist
auce. She was in rougher aud deeper
water. and northeast from Highland
light. The witness said he was very
busy attending to his own vessel, and
before he knew it the white steamer had
disappeared.
Patrick Drohan of Boston, one of the
crew of the Ruth Martin, saw tho white
steamer two miles away on the weather
quarter that Sunday morning. He saw
her Cor about two hours and by direction
of the captain put a flag in the rigging
union down that she night come to their
assistance, as they were in dire distress.
At this point the court adjourned until
ten o clock this forenoon