Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-20
Bic Hole Stove IN Her Slde--Pas-
senterS are Drowned In
Their Beds.
RIVER CONDITIONS CRITICAL
While DodeIne One Train Three
Women Meet Death by
Another.
GIRL MURDERER SURRENDERS

NEW LONDON, Conn, March 20
In the fog which descended upon
Long Island sound last night, the
big fall river passenger steame~ Ply
mouth, from New York for Fall River,
with 500 passengers and a crew of 200
men. was run down while passing
through the race by the freight
steamer City of Taunton, of the same
line. bound from New York. A full
hundred feet Of the star board sic OF
the vessel was smashed in as is pa
per, the state rooms Of the second
cabin were entirely cut away. Most
of the crew who were asleep in the
storage, were drowned by the torrent
that poured through the great gap
made by the bow Of the freighter. Al
though greatly terrified, the people
aboard the stricken ship exercised
great self control, and there was nc
panic The collision occurred after
the vessel had slowly made her way
over the sound through the fog until
she reached a point east of Gull Is
land The City of Taun.on drove up
out of the fog, and when she was
sighted by the Plymouth was too
close to avoid the collision, there was
a quick exchange of signals, and then
the crash. The bow of the City OF
Taunton penetrated ten feet into the
hull of the Plymouth. and as she
backed away. she raked the upper
works of the passenger vessel. tear
ing out the second cabin and ripping
the state rooms to pieces. Water
poured into the hold and drowned
the men in their bunks. The Ply
mouth was Immediately headed for
this city, it was thought at one time
the ships company would have to
take to the boats, but the closing of
the collision bulkead prevented the
water from gaining. and the vessel
made harLor and wharf unassisted.
There was no way of telling i'm
mcdiately how many perished. Six
are dead certainly and In the mass
of deb.is fiom the wrecked cabin
and stateroom there were several
more bodies. while in the steerage.
where II Is thought there are bodies
of othe drowned. besides these re-
ported As the Plymouth was being
made cast to the warf there was seen
to be a hole ten feet square In her
hull on the starboard side about 35
feet from hes bow, while for a hun
dred feet her joiner work had been
carried away, including the entire
second cabin and seven staterooms
on the saloon deck. The known dead
are: John Mccarthy, matchmaker.
head cutoff: Snow Coleman, negro
pantryman, drowned; Julis Dawson.
negro mess man, drowned; John Bris-
toll, negro waiter, drowned; John
Wi',iam. negro baker, drowned; John
w. Thompson. Wilkesbarre, Pa,
skull shattered. The injured are:
Patrick Dale, coal trimmer. New
York. arm cut on; Michael Kilduff,
passenger. Boston, right foot cut;
0diuuCioOu,4 aUOut
the face and bruised about the body |
OF the injured it is thought Dale can
not live. as his left arm is torn OF. |
Capt Davis of the Plymouth, declin- |
ed to make any statement concerning
the accident at this time. Capt. T.
II. Low. of the United States marine
corps. with Lieut.. VIM. c. Harlee
and seventy marines occupied the
second cabin on the side where the
crash was felt. it is thought all the
marines lost their knapsacks con-
tanning their extra clothing. None of
the marines were killed or injured
The City of Taunton made this port
at sos this morning. with her bow
stove in and her pumps working. her
bulkhead saved her from sinking.
Patrick Daley. of New York. a coal
trimmer on the Plymouth, died this
afternoon This makes seven dead
as far as reported.
RIVER CONDITIONS STILL
rpIFlcAl IA enllrn