The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-29
 TWENTY MEN ARE DROWNED Sea Claims Victims Near Fernandlna, Fla. ONLY TWO ESCAPE DEATH
 --~-~ Survivors Bring News of the
 Disaster. Steamer feceaie, DsReute From pAil- adeIphia to New Orleans. Goes to Dsvy Jsaes Locker During
 . Heavy Gale.
ONLY TWO ESCAPE DEATH

Fernandina. Fla. Aug. 2s.--About noon today two sailors, one . spaniard, the other an Italian. reported as having landed at Amelia Island beach. to which point they had pulled ashore in the small boat belonging to a vessel lost at sea about 12:s0 o'clock last night. These men, who could not speak Eng fish, were interviewed and the rfsuit of their testimony is as follows:
 They were the only survivors of tho crew of the steamer Peconic Captain Jones, which was bound for NeA OrA leans from Philadelphia loaded with coal: capacity 1.1s4 tons. Counting of1- cers. there were twenty+two persons on board. of whom twenty were drown ed.
 About midnight of Sunday. during tae heaviest part of the storm which had ragged all day the officers of the deck gave the order to put further out 10 sea, fearing they were approaching too near the coast Tn the endeavor fo turn, the ship was struck by a heavy sea. the cargo shifted, giving a broad- side list and she began sinking rapidly. Tn less than ten minutes after tho alarm was sounded she had gone to tho bottom and no trace of hor was lekt upon the waters.
 Their own escape out of all OF the ships crew who went down was soma thing approaching the marvellous.
 Jumped Into ssonf.
 One of these men was at the wheel N1 the time the order was given and tho other was on watch. As soon as ths ship began to careen. these two men rushed for one of the. small boats. which they Jumped into as the weasel began to 20 down. With their knives they severed the ropes as the waters level was reached and the small boat was thrown far out on the waves. They furthermore say that they discovered through the biackness and storm the figures of part Of the awakened crew some of whom managed to crowd Into another of the ships boats. Thie WAS however, caught Eia a trough ek the NAas thrown violently against the ventiiatpTN and then caught 1aete Their cries for help could be heard as the ship wsns down.
 Alone through the rest of the night with the storm raging and threateninM each moment to swamp their boat fheae two men were gradually borne ashore toward Amelia Island, landing just at II a. n1., today.
 Their condition was pitiable with all the marks of savage battle amid tenn pestuous seas The men, whose names are BageIlini Humberti and Antonio Clark, were unable to speak excepting in their native tongues and 1t was some time before the facts of the disaster were thoroughly ascertafned- They have testifed to the correctness of the report before a notary public and the community here has cared for them.
 At the time of the disaster the snip was about twenty miles northeast ok here, heading south and in the teeth oT the gale The only names that either of the two could give were Captain Jones, Mate James and Seanen Donsnt- ca. CaIaleno and Pasaua1 fndecicate He says there were five Spanish nremens one French sailor, one spanish seaanAh' hesides himself. and the rest Italians.
 Tine Pacific was of f,154 register and had on board about 1.5Oo tons of coal. She cleared from Philadelphia for New Orleans August 19.