Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-29
U. S. Transport MaBauense's
Perilous Voyage TO Manila.
HALF OF THE CREW DESERTED
Machinery Collapsed and Soldiers Bai1.d
Water Ten Days from Unseaworihy
Weasel, " hich Had Beer FRO
nounced Sound.
(By Telegraph.l

MANILA. ,S.';%emncr 2S.--' -, =. NJ
III" transport Man<,ut-ii:se With Lou
tenant Colonel Webb Hayes and three
companies Of the frhirty-tirSt Infantry
on board has arrived here. She mar
r"wly escaped disaster. The officers
ANA soldiers We're for twelve days bail
1bin% With buckets. The steamer MAS
unxeaWorthy. UNDER manned ana short
III provisions. Her engines broke down
air.i she rolled three days in y tyrhoun.
'When the lMAnauense entered Manila
slaN this mprnins thirty three days
from san Francisco. there MAS several
feet OF water III her hold and 400 =finv,
Sr.-tsy. hungry. exhausted soldiers ami
sailors had been passing buckets Of
water since November 17,n nigh; ana
day. First Assistant Engineer Dun
10 Colonel Webb Hayes official report,
the chief engineer would also have been
hns2E arrest If thera hal been any one
to replace him.
m" rs!onels report also declares that
the captain of the vessel tn, him that
the only thing which brought them
through WAS til" fact that In. men
We're greenhorns ana Failed 70 realize
their danger. while experienced sea
men "oul, have deserted the ship an,:
taken to tbs. boats in mid ocean
MANY CT GREEN DIES l..i;TED.
Ihe Manauense is a chartered shin
tying the British flag. She. belongs Il.
q firm Of Wnci: senator Perkins. d
i1'iIi tld!lciSSo. Is alleged TO D2 Il Junior
member The officers say tAe firm
hauSht her fer $1,000 ANA they claim
efforts We're made u sell her I, ,hr
government Cor $l50GH0o. She STARTED!
.iGln san Francis accompanied by
me transport pekin, wEliGh carried tn
remainder Of The regiment, ana ,nEoun-
tered heavy seas 10 Honolulu withl ut
accI1ent. After Starting it develo;cti
that She was unaeinlannal ana soldiers
mad 20 he detailed to act a tirem N.
Goa passer ana walters and 20 90 ol!le.
work. Before reaching Honolulu TIL
rev concluded that Ihe snip w:s NJ
safe and the majority agreed Il las II.
Though they We're closely wl.c3 eG
many OF the crew su s@,sd III st, ns
away and the NIanauerse ls., FiSna-
lulu With less than half her crew Til
captain of the transport, on Nover!Ae !.
18th, told colonel Hayes that the vessel
had sprung leak. and an inve=ti:ya ton
resulted in finding several feet OF water
IN .'he mold. me seam pumps We're
tried. but failet! to work and there We're
Il" hand pumps on board. However.
forty-siN buckets We're found, Cthers:
We're in:provised and the sol5iers NOT
employed II working the hip We're or
S>niZed into five shifts ana styipS,l ana
forming lines they began bailing the.
officers working with ,he men, passing
the buckets which We're sent up to the
desk by a windlass
M-NCHn NERH COLLAPSED
Inc longest time a shift could stand
was TWO hours. and often the period
Was not longer than halls an hour
The baling continued until she ship
anchored here.
The same day the leak was discover
ed. the machinery collapsed and the
electric lighting plant and evaporatlns.
distillins and refriserating apparatus
failed 10 work. There We're no lamps
and the few candles found were ex-
hausted after a few days. During the
Lass Week Of the passage the Mana
uense was in utter darkness at night
she had been rolling in heavy seas al!
the way, hut November 22l she encoun- :
tered q typhoon and Pitched ana tossed
alarmingly.