The sun., 1903-11-26
DENVER SANK THE ARABY MAID
PICKED Up NINE or B4Rk'S CREW
ALIVE AND TUO DEAD.
searchlight Finds the survivors IN the
Tossing Sea After Showing the Bark
as She Capsized-SuryiyOrs Here
Hole Stove IN the Liners bows.

SVu AIltT SnONlnk tue DuTh
as She Capsized-Suryi,Ors Here
Hole Stove In the Liners Bows.
The crack steamship Denver Of the NAL
lory Line got in from Galveston last night
with big rent in her starboard bow from
a collision with the Norwegian bark Araby
Maid, which she sank last Saturday even
ing off the Dry Tortugas. The steamship
practically cut the bark in two, and Of the
barks crew Of eleven men two were lost,
the second mate and a seaman. Their
bodies were picked up by the Denver's
crew. The Denver's boats rescued the
captain and the other members OF the
barks crew after considerable difficulty
and brought them to port last night.
The Araby Maid was vessel OF $40 tons
and was 35 years old, having been built at
Greenock in 1858. Her skipper, Capt. A.
Larsen, is a Norwegian and his mother,
according to the captain, owned the largest
! share in the vessel Her hailng port was
Laurvig, Norway.
The bark sailed from Mobile about ten
days ago with a cargo Of lumber and was
bound for Norfolk and thence to South
America. Capt. Larsen had stocked his
vessel at Mobile with eighteen months pro-
visions Friday last, just after the
Araby Maid had got into the Atlantic and
was laying course for Norfolk. a schooner
bound for a Gulf port ran into her
and did some damage to her stern.
The bark started back to Mobile for re-
pairs.
The peuver, which is the newest and
largest vessel of the Mallory Line, left
Galveston Thursday afternoon for this
port. On Friday she ran into a storm
that made things pretty. uncomfortable
for her three passengers, but the weather
moderated rapidly on Saturday, and when
Saturday evening came it was cloudless.
The Denver was making about IL knots
at O'Clock Saturday night, and apparently
there was no suspicion that any vessel
was ahead At least, the passengers who
we're on deck Watching Morgan liner
astern hadn't any. Suddenly passengers
and crew. heard a cry ahead and then the
Denver hit something with violent shock
and crash. 1t was the Araby Maid, and her
crew raised great outcry.
Capt Evans was on the bridge Of the
Denver The engines We're quickly re-
those on board the Mallory liner could
see that the sailing ship had l,een struck
almost exactly anidships and that the
rent extended almost clean through her
decks As the Denver backed, the bark.
whose sails were all set. began To drift
away rapidly, crossing the Denver's bows
and going toward the northwest Capt
Evans ordered the Denvers searchlight
into play, and in its field hose Oh the Denver
saw the bark capsize. The sea was strewn
with lumber and wreckage.
IN Nv minutes after the collision the bark
had sunk, according to some Of those on the
Mallory liner. Captain Evans found that
his own boat had three whole plates smashed
was above the water line. From the sea
to port, still tossing with the recent storm,
came cries for help and the Denver's life
boat was ordered away; The search,
over the mass Of wreckage. and a quarter
of a mile from the Denver the men in the
liteboat caught sight, one by one, of the
ba,k's crew swimming or clinging TO wreck
be pulled in. He was fully dressed, a. he
with five men was on dec X at the time of the
collision. Others had been reused from
their hunks by the thrush of the water.
The two bodies found were those OF Mate
Marand and Seaman trir kSen.
Erckseu'S body was badly CIT and his
head VAS VI almost IN Two. The mat e's body
showed no injuries. He had been sick in
his bunk ever since the bark left Mobile.
The bodies were tafsu into the lifeboat
After seven men had been picked ny alive.
and the liieLoat had gone Lack to the
Denver, more cries ior leIp were
heard The ,eai,I.ligt. picked ur a big
piece Of timber to NJ ioh tie second mate
ciinGirg The Cahin DO, was 50 weak
that it ". all The mate could 90 TO hold
him on. The .ifeloats crew reached the
wo Just as the hoy was aboq' to let go.
The sea Lad Washed over 10th until they
wrrc ald', conscious
The Denver had been standing by for
over two hours then, and in the meantime
The Morgan liner which had been far astern,
had passed her. The Denver lost no time
in picking up her course for this port. Al
.lut-
vices over the two dead men were held
and they were buried at sea,
When the Deliver got to her pier last
night wrecking tug was sent for and
repairs on her bow were begun.
Officers of Mallory liners are not FL
lowed TO report to the owspapers, and no
statement from any one in authority ro-
garding the cause of the collision was
obtained. Some Of the DcnVerS crew
said the Araby Maid did not have a liEiI
a, her forrmast hut in her forehead rig
gng near the deck, where il was not visible.
and that the side lights We're also carried
so low that with her heavy deckoad it WAS
impossible to see them.
"From what we could make cut" said
one of those on the Mallory liner, "the
bark was heading southwest and her cap
tain says she was going along under the
breeze, then blowing a. Il rate of twelve
knots, the same pace We were travelling.
He also told us that he saw us bearing
down upon him ind thought we would
lool; out for him.
when he saw that we were coming
right at him, he SAYS, ii was too late to do
anything to save his ship and he had barely
time to save himself Capt. Larsen said
hat he was carrying his lights as he had
always carried them and as the rules of
his country provided, but nobody on the
Denver saw them. At the same time, |
guess 1t will be pretty thing to figure
out Just who was right and who was wrong