Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-05-09
4 CLYDE LINER IS SUNK:
Ocean Disaster During Fog in Which
Twenty or Thirty Persons
Are Drowned.
SHIPS SAGINAW AND HAMILTON COLLIDE
Former Sinks Almost hmm diately
and Boats from Hamilton Succeed
in RescuinG Twenty-Five Persons
DISASTER Occurs Off Hog Island on
the Virginia Coast.

New York, May GA dispatch
from Norfolk reports that the Old
Dominion liner Hamilton and the
Clyde liner Saginaw were in collision
and that a number of passengers
were drowned.
A long distance telephone report to
the Evening World places the num-
Der Of drowned at 20. The collision
occurred at 1910 a. m. off Hog is
land. The Saginaw was bound for
Philadelphia from Norfolk. She car
ried crew of 40 men and 20 passen-
gers. The Hamilton carried full
crew and more than 100 passengers.
Soon after passing the Jersey coast
the Hamilton ran into a fog, which
lasted all night. 1t is believed that
this fog was responsible for the acct
dent.
The Collision.
The Hamilton was going at three
quarters speed eff Hog island, when
the passengers were suddenly thrown
from their berths, and in an instant
all was confusion, and as the pas
sengers managed to reach the deck
they learned that there had been
collision. In the fog could be seen
dimly, across the bows Of the Hamil
ton. steamer about her own size.
Those on board the other steamship
shouted that they were sinking. and
their boat was a Clyde line steamer
and that the name was the Saginaw.
Saginaw Sinks at Once.
The Saginaw had been struck
about 20 feet from the stern on the
starboard side and her stern had
been cut through as cleanly as if it
Lad been done by men in a drIdock.
The stern sank almost Immediately,
and the forward part dr. ftel several
hundred yard. AS % as possible
the boats of the Hamilton, which had
been made really after the collision,
impossible for the crew Of the Ham
ilton to work quickly, and in a few
minutes, before the boats reached
her, the Saginaw was going down.
She settled slowly, and then went
down with a suction that almost
drew the boats of the Hamilton after
her.
Cries of the Drowning.
In the darkness could be heard the
cries OF those On the Saginaw. In
the water and clirging to wreckage
were number of persons, and as
many as possible Of these were pulled
into the boats of the Hamilton.
When the survivorsDWere taken on
board the Hamilton they were made
comfortable, and after waiting
around to pick up anyone that might
have chung to wreckage. the Hamil-
ton proceeded on her way. She was
only Slightly damaged. The Saginaw
was sunk in ten fathons of water
and her rasts were lef sticking out
of the wat r.
Number Drowned Is Thirty.
Ac ord ng to a dispatch from Fort
ress Monroe the number Of persons
rescued by the Hamilton was 20.
This report places the number of
drowned at 80.
Hog island: off which the wreck
occurred. is on the coast of Virginia,
short distance above Cape Charles.
Passengers Rescued.
The following white passengers
from the Saginaw were rescued:
E. B. Cole, Philadelphia.
J. Grevor, Philadelphia.
R. B. Youhead, Chester, Pa.
n. j.
George Hoar, Philadelphia.
Colored passengers:
Mary S. Sauderlin, Windsor, n. C.
Marius Poyner, Windsor, N. C.
John Reese, Norfolk.
Willie Vim, Norfolk.
John Servolls, Berkeley, Va.
Dora ROLAND, Newport News.
The captain, second officer. chief
officer. second assistant and six sea-
men of the Saginaw were rescued.
Three others of the Sa ginaw are
missing.
The Hamilton left New York Mon
day afternoon at three o'clock.
There were 33 people, all told, on the
Saginaw, of which nine were passen-
gers.
Twenty-Five Reported Drowned
Washington, May GA special to
the Star from Newport News says 20
of the passengers of the Saginaw were
drowned and that nine were rescued.
Secretary Shaw Going to Europe.
Washington, May 6.-Secretary
Shaw accOmDanied nv Mrs Shaw hie