The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-21
DISASTER IN SOUND
PASSENGER AND FREIGHT STEAM
SHIPS IN COLLISION.
SIDE WAS RIPPED AWAY
AND PASSENGERS AND CREW KILL
ED OR INJURED.

Met in the Decentralization Will
Seek to Discover the Responsible
ity-List of the known Dead and
Injured-InfOrmatiO Difficult to
secure-OmciaI Statements of the
Collision AmbuIances Met the
Plymouth at Her Wharf.
New London, March 20.-Traveling at
n moderate rate of speed through Long
Island sound early this morning, the
big passenger steamer Plymouth, of
the Fall River Line. bound for Fall
River, from New York. and the freight
steamer City of Taunton of the same
line. came into collision in the fog just
east Of Plum Island. the bow of the
freight steamer raking the starboard
side of the Plymouth, and causing the
death of six of those on board the
plymouth, and serious injury to num-
Der of others. The dead are:
John S. Mccarthy, Waterman, Fall
River.
Unidentified passenger.
John Coleman, negro, pantryman.
Julius Dawson, negro, messman.
John Briscoe, negro, pantryman.
The complete list of injured is i'm
possible to obtain. for the reason that
many who were slightly hurt, were at
tended to Immediately upon the ar
rival of the Plymouth here this morn
ing, and then proceeded on their way.
Three of the injured are at the hospi-
7 tVo
cling salesman, of Philadelphia, who is
suffering with a sprained back; David
Samuelson, a negro, of New Bedford,
leg wrenched, and Patrick Daley, u
freight trimer, whose right arm was
crushed from his body.
Michael Ki1dun of Boston and J. NJ.
Thompson Of Allegheny, Pa, are the
only other persons injured, whose
names are known by the officials.
Responsibility Not Fixed.
The responsibility for the accident
has not been determined and will be
the subject of an investigation. 1t is
said by the officers of the two vessels
that both were going at a fair speed,
considering the fog, and that there
was not time after the warning whis-.
ties, which followed the lookouts dis
covery of the danger, to avert col
lison.
The steamers apparently were un-
der good Roadway when they met. The
bow of the City of Taunton, which
was proceeding to the west, bound
from Fall River to New York, went
ten feet into the bow of the eastbound
vessel. The bow of the freight steam
er raked the upper works of the other,
tearing up the second cabin and rip
ping up staterooms like cardboard.
IL, oil ont frO1
the starboard bow of the big passen-
ger boat. An investigation by the
steamboat officials to-day has resulted
in the following statement regarding
the occupants of these wrecked rooms:
Stateroom No 200, occupied by Miss
Magdalena Fay, of Baltimore, who
was uninjured.
Stateroom No. POI, occupied by some
person or persons who have not been
identified 1t is not positively known
whether the occupants of this room
escaped or met death by being swept
into the waters of the race.
Stateroom No. 202. occupied by j. E.
Karger of Philadelphia
Stateroom No. 203. occupied by an
American who signed himself upon
the passengers register as Nosten, but
whose name is believed to be Marsten.
He has not been accounted for.
Stateroom No. 204 occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. H. lack of Taunton.
Mass, both of whom were slightly in
jured.
Stateroom No. 205, occupied by J. NJ.
Thompson, who was at first thought
to be among the killed, but who es-
capped in what few clothes he could
save. He was slightly injured about
the legs and body, but proceeded to
Boston.
Stateroom No. 2O6 occupied by an
unknown woman who was rescued.
AmbuIances For the Injured.
AS soon as the disabled Plymouth
came into this port shortly after
o'clock this morning ambulances were
summoned to bear the injured to the
hospitals. The passengers were cared
for until a special train could be made
up to carry them and their effects to
Boston and the work of searching for
the bodies of victims, members of the
ships company, who were in the flood
ed forward compartment was begun.
At o'clock this afternoon there re-
manned one body in the lower cabin of
the Plymouth, that of John Briscoe,
the missing waiter. The diver who
had been at work all day suspended
operations on account of darkness and
fear of getting the life line entangled
in the wreck. Work will be resumed
in the morning The other bodies have
Deen recovered.
The question as to the identity of
the passenger killed in the collision oc-
cupied the minds of the officials to-
night. 1t was thought at first that
the victim was John NJ. Thompson of
Allegheny, Pa, but Mr.. Thompson APP
peared this afternoon with some friends
with whom he had been staying. The
name of the missing man, as 1t ap-
peared on the purser's list. was &c.
H. Nosten," though the signature is a
little obscure, and may be &c. II.
Marsten,' or "Masten"
The body lies at an undertaking shop
awaiting word from relatives or
friends. All the mans outer cloth
ing. as well as his personal effects,
were swept away in the crash. His
residence is unknown.
Like knife Through Paper.
rumor was current IN this city this
afternoon that several Italian work.
men, who were steerage passengers on
the Plymouth, were missing. These
men were IA the deck cabin, on the
gtarhoard side, and the Taunton's bow
crashed through that compartment
Ike knife through paper. II was In
this cabin that Waterman Mccarthy
WAS killed.
Oflcials Of the company tonight
said that AZ far a. they knew all the
sfeeraKe passengers had been account
- for, although they admitted that u
WaH possible that one Or two might
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