Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-21
CUT DOWN IN FOG.
Steamer City Of Taunton Rams
Steamer Plymouth.
Six Killed and Drowned and Others
X Terribly Injured.
Fully 100 Feet of Starboard Side of
Vessel Carried Away.

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Travelling at moderate rate of speed
through Long Island sound. early this
morning, the big passenger steamer
Plymouth of the Fall River Line, east
bound for Fall River from New York.
and the freight steamer City Of Taun-
ton. 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 latter craft, and serious in
jury to number. The dead are:
John e. Mccarthy, Waterman, Fall
River, decapitated.
Unidentified passenger.
John Coleman, colofed, pantryman.
Julius Dawson, colored, mess man.
John Fl. Williams, colored baker.
John Rriscoe, colored, pantryman.
The list of injured is difficult to OBJ
tain, for the reason that many who
were slightly hurt We're attended to inn
mcdiately upon the arrival of the
Plymouth here, this morning. and then
proceeded on their way. AT the hospi-
tai here are three persons:
J. e. Creger. a travelling salesman of
Philadelphia is suffering with a sprain-
cd back.
David Samuelson, colored of New
Bedford, wrenched leg.
Patrick Daley, freight trimmer, was
seated on a bale of cotton on the main
deck, directly in the path of the Taun-
tons bow. Eis right arm was caught
between partitions and crushed from
his body. lie will recover
The names Of Michael Kilduff of Bos
ton, and J. NJ, Thompson of Allegheny,
Pa. are the only others secured by the
officials from the wounded. There are
many others slightly hurt who pro-
ceeded with the special train to Boston,
today.
The responsibility of 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 We're going at a fair speed consid
ering the fog and that there was no
time after the warning whistle which
speedily followed the lookouts discoy-
cry Of the danger to avert the collision.
Engines on both the vessels We're re-
versed but they seem to have met un-
der strong headways, the bow of the
City Of Taunton, which was proceed
ing toward the west. bound from Fall
River to New York, penetrating 10 feet
into the hull of the east bound passen-
ger boat
Swiftly following the impact came the
reverse movement and as the vessels
pulled apart, the bow of the freight
steamer raked the upper works of the
Plymouth with terrible destructiveness,
tearing out the second cabin and rip
ping out stateroomS like so much card
board. Seven cabins in all We're swept
from the starboard bow of the big pas
senger boat. Investigation by the
steamboat officials, today, has resulted
in the following statement regarding
the occupants of these wrecked rooms:
Stateroon. No. 200. occupied by Miss
Magdalena Fay of Baltimore, who was
rescued uninjured.
Stateroom, No 202. occupied by j. E.
Creger of Philadelphia.
Stateroom, No. 203, occupied by a man
who signed himself upon the passen-
gers 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. II. Jack of Taunton, Mass,
both of whom We're slightly injured.
Stateroom No. POS, occupied by ]. M.
Thompson. who WAS at first thought to
be among the killed but who escaped
in what few clothes he could save. He
was slightly injured about the legs and
body, but proceeded to Boston.
Stateroom No. 206, occupied by an
unknown woman, who was rescued.
AS soon as the disabled Plymouth
limped into this port, shortly after 5
o'clock this morning. ambulances were
summoned to bear the injured to the
hospital. the passengers were cared for
until a special train could be made up
to convey them and their effects on
their journey to Boston. and the work
OF searching for bodies of the victims.
members of the ships company. who
We're in the flooded forward compart-
ment, was begun
At o'clock this afternoon. there
remained one body in the lower cabin
of the Plymouth that of John Bris-
coe, the missing waiter. The diver
who had been at work all day sus-
pended operations on account of the
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