New-York tribune., 1901-08-19
BENNETT WRECK NOT FOUND
SEARCH FOR 1T AND BODIES OF PILOTS
TO BE RESUMED TO-DAY.

AS soon as the pilots who were rescued from
the James Gordon Bennett. which was run down
and sunk off the Scotland Lightship on Satur-
day report, an investigation will be made bv
D. c. Chase president Of the New-Jersey Board
of Pilot Commissioners Nothing definite, II is
thought can be settled, however, until the re-
turn OF the steamship Alene, which cut the Ben
nett in two.
At the office of the commission. No. Il State
St there was no one yesterday who could speak
officially of the action that would be taken
Captain Wood who took out his license as a
pilot at the same time that Godbey. who was
killed in the collision took out his in 1860 said
he took out the Spartan Prince on Saturday
afternoon. and the weather was clear and Sooo'
None of the pilots in the office would venture
an opuion on how the collision occurred. 1t is
curmised however, that either the steamer
MORO Castle or the barge, both Of when were
near the scene Of the accident must have caused
the Alene 20 change her course suddenly ana
without ample warning to the saliihs iiidS'e
Of the steamer or Of the pilot boat
The Bennett was two miles east Of the scot
land Ijebtship and seven or eight miles south
eost of Sandy Hook when the accident occurred
There is plenty of room there and apparently
no reason why the vessels should have come
together.
The accident was the worst that has hefailen
.p,. ,ilot boat since December II. 1883. when
the Guion Line steamer Alaska sunk the pilot
boat No s and all board We're lost.
The steam pilot boat NewYork yesterday
took on board John Ferguson. a diver OF IoTnp-
kinsviue. with full apparatus for deep sea work.
and started down outside the Hook 10 make an
effort to recover the bodies of the men drowned
from the James Gordon Bennett Up to dark
the diver had not succeeded in finding any OF
the bodies: in fact he not even able to ma
the two parts of the Bennett although the
places where they went down had been caielully
noted The search will be continued this morn
ing. The pilots fear the bodies will rise on an
ebb tide and be carried TO sea. The life savers
along the New-Jersey and Long Island shores
have been asked to keep a careful Watch lor
the bodies.
The opinion Of Albert ]. Dexter, OF No. "a"
Iexington-ave Brooklyn, one Of the two pilots
who we're saved from the pilotboat James Cor
don Bennett is that after letting his pilot GO
the CAPTAIN OF the Alene probably marked out
the course and then went below. leaving a
helmsman on deck; that the position ot the
wheel was such that man who was there
would be unable TO see forward. and that it Was
cutie possible and even probable, that there WAS
no lookout at the time. This opinion Mr.. Dexter
expressed 20 a member Of his family, VINO r4lr
II 70 a Tribune reporter last night MI lex ICeX..r
said that with John F. Hopkins OF NO. ~ CH CHl-
ton place Brooklyn the other pilot VINO w was "a
soTad he was asleep below decks. They heard
sbc,,+e and rrshine on deck saw that COLI
Sion with ti the Aiene was inevitable They hey
Jumped at once swan out OF reac9 Oh IN
SS+aaIrner,s pr0peller and were picked up DE
hoste fror the Alene. Dexter said that ne dld
not know, Of course, just how the accident os-
Cured hut in his opinion the Alehe N~s Pio"
ably wholly blameworthy. -, .,.o
The body of John Godbey, one or me thiee
pilots who were drowned. was brought y,-t. yesteT-
5ay 70 his home. No. III Hall-st, Brooklyn;
Ia nifa and his son Charles at the Hotel
Coiumbus' cairo. Greene County, y Y Nine
kilograms have been sent 70 them but up 10
O'Clock last night no reply Hdu ,oS baroa last
Itzzy Godbey a daughter, reached nome last
night. , o,.,,,rocly 7 mas
II is understood that when ShamroCk "a fI
bera two wears ago Godbey was employed j!
Sir Thomas Upton. Sir Thomas TOOK 4dii.
IN the pilot continued the acqualn'ahce Win
him and at different times sent MN eH'S'