The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-23
BARK IS SENT DOWN
Cunard Liner Campania Sinks
the EmbletOn.
MANY ARE DROWNED
TWO OTHER STEAMERS IN A
COLLISION.

London, July ga dense fog hung
over the Irish channel yesterday morn
ing and the Cunard line steamer Cam
pania, en- route from New York 70:
Liverpool, struck the Liverpool bark
EmbIeton, bound for New zealand,
amidships, cutting her in twain. Inc
Embleton sank Immediately.
Seven of the crew were rescued, but
it is believed the other eleven mem
bers of the ships company, including
the captain, were drowned.
The Campania had her bows stove
in. but arrived safely at Liverpool tiVe
and half hours late.
The Campania was little injured, but
had a narrow escape from serious dis
aster. The fog had delayed her pas
sage since Friday noon, and tender
went out from Queenstown four miles,
as Captain Walker would not take the
liner near the shore.
At Tuskar Light the fog was becom-
ing denser every moment. When the
Campania was about thirty miles
northeast of the light phantom ship
rose suddenly, without warning, dl-
rectly across her bows.
Thirty seconds later the phantom had
become a solid sailing vessel, into
which the liner crashed, her steel lore
foot going through the Embleton ike
her Just abaft the mainmast.
The forward half sank instantly
the stern swung yiciQusly round and
the mast and yards for moment tore
at the Campania.
A lump of wreckage came down on
her decks.
The stern of the bark also disap-
peared. and the face of the sea was
Uttered with spintered timbers, boxes.
n
lighter cargo, the deck houses and such
things.
Then there was nothing.
Gone In a Minute.
From the instant the phantom came
into view from the bridge of the Cam
pania, until the last vestige of the YES
sci vanished, some sixty or eighty sec
onds had elapsed.
According to the Embletons survi-
vors. for nearly half an hour before the
collision the captain and first officer
We're below at breakfast, and although
the fog whistle of a large steamer
could be heard every minute, the bark
never shifted her course, the helmsman
receiving no order.
When, at S:25 a. m, the second Off
Ger, TO use his own phrase, heard the
rush of a steamers bows he shouted
down to the captain, who rushed on
deck. but he was too late to give an
order.
Efforts Are Too Late.
The Campania was under one-third
steam. The captain. first officer and
pilot were on the bridge. The engines
were instantly reversed and the helm
put hard down.
No precaution was omitted.
Some of her passengers had even
grumbled at what they called super
fluous caution.
After the crash and the sudden cries,
the boats were quickly gotten out.
There was no signs of panic; the
crew was eVeryw mere at their stations
and the best discipline was main
tanned, the bull<headS were closed and
everything possible was done to save
life
Some of ne Campania's plates were
bent by the collision; her fore peak
filled with water; her fore tOpmast was
broken short off and her steel rigging
torn and twisted.
The passengers held meeting,
adopted resolutions of thanks TO the
captain and crew, and subscribed zoo
for the relief of the survivors and the
families of the lost.
The Cunard officials announce that
the damage suffered by the liner will
not prevent her sailing for the United
States next Tuesday.
In q collision last evening outside Bel
fast Tough, between the local passen-
ger steamers Dromedary and Alligator,
five passengers were killed and more
than fifty more or less seriously in
jured, in many cases the amputation
OF legs being necessary.
There We're 500 passengers on board
the two vessels and. terrible scenes fol-
lowed the collision. 1t is feared that
some others have been drowned.