The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-20
BARK ABBIE PALMER BADLY
DAMAGED.
On Her Way From Honolulu to Port
Blakeley-One Man Lost and All
Have Narrow Escapes.

The bark Abbie Palmer, Captain
Uhlberg, which left here some weeks
ago for Port Blakeley, was badly dam
aged and lost one man in the collision
with the Canadian Pacific steamer
Empress of India off Cape Flattery on
the 9th of this month. The bark was
towed into Seattle on the Sth. She had
narrow escape from total wreck. The
damage is said to be about 100000.
The man who was lost was a seaman
named Miller, who was shipped in Ho-
nolulu. He was on the lookout ar the
time of the collision and is supposed
to have been stunned and knocked
overheard.
AT Victoria the Empress of India re-
ported that she had been run into by
the sailing vessel but the account of
the accident given by Captain Uhl-
berg, in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
is very different. 1t is stated that the
steamer was at fault and that she has
tened away without even waiting to
save the crew of the bark. The account
given at Seattle is as follows:
The collision occurred at 2:45 in the
morning. The Palmer was about
twenty-five miles northwest of Cape
Flattery, on the way from Honolulu
to Port Blakeley. The Empress of In
dia was going from Vancouver, b. c.,
to the Orient. The bark reports seeing
the steamer ten minutes before they
struck, but was lose-hauled and could
not change her course. Every effort
was made to attract the Indias atten-
tion, but she did not, it is charged,
make any attempt to avoid the COLI
sion. The Palmer's side lights, it is
claimed, were burning at the time.
1t was a bright, moonlight night. The
lookout saw the steamer approaching
and reported to the second mate, who
was aft. The latter ran forward and,
having asCertained that the Palmer's
lights were burning, called Capt. Uhl-
burg and all hands on deck. The
steamer was bearing rapidly down on
the bark, and all on board yelled in
unison to attract her attention. 1t
was useless, however, and the big liner
crashed into the sailing vessel. 1t was
at this time that Miller, the lookout,
disappeared. 1t is believed that he was
stunned and fell overheard, sinking
without outcry
His absence, in the confusion of the
moment, was not noticed The crew
thought the bark was sinking, and
We're going to make a desperate at
tempt to board the Empress of India,
but were prevented by the officers. The
steamer glanced off and hove to, it is
said, some distance from the injured
ship. The latter took in sail and wore
around for the India, but she, the sea-
men allege, resumed her voyage with
out waiting to hear whether or not the
Palmer was in a sinking condition.
Wednesday night the tug Pioneer
picked up the distressed vessel and
brought her to Seattle.
Three minutes after l came on
deck" states Capt. Uhlburg, of the
Palmer, the steamer struck our port
bow and glanced Off We did not
come together again. AS a result of
the collision our bowsprit was bent
! like an elbow to port, the whole stem
was carried away, and several ribs
broken. There was a large hole about
( five feet square in our stem beneath
! the figurehead, where we were stove
in, which admitted the water. Consid-
cradle rigging was damaged. 1t was
| a narrow escape.
"When we learned that the bark was
not sinking we took in sail and wore
around for the steamer which was
lyir~ to at some distance. She steam
ed away, however, and left US"
The steamer put back to Victoria and
reported that the lookout man of the
Palmer had been thrown by the colli-
sion on to the deck of the steamer and
| was safe