The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-29
BOTH SHIPS SAVED.
Six Passengers and Two Officers of the
Steamer We're Injured. The Coils.
Ion Took Place as the Steamer
was Rounding Cape Cod
on Her Regular Trip.

The injury Of six passengers and two
OF the ships Officers by q collision at
sea was reported by the steamer Jun
iata of the Merchants and Miners
transportation company, bound from
Boston for Baltimore and Norfolk,
which returned TO Boston, Thursday
afternoon, badly damaged. The Jun
iata was rammed Wednesday night 80
miles CIR Chatham by the hvemasted
sschooner Harwood Palmer, bound
from Baltimore for Portland, Me.
with a cargo or coal. The injured:
MIR. and Mrs Friedell, Pittsburg,
badly bruised.
j. w. johnson, North Arlington,
Mass, leg broken; injured internally.
Condition serious.
Mr.. and Mrs. John o. Murray, South
Boston, bruised and badly shaken up.
Corporal j. j. Mattlngly, United
States marine corps, hands cut.
Capt. Nickcrsop OF the Juniata,
injury to hands.
Qlartermaster ohm Crockett, hands
cut and bruised.
No one on board tho schooner was
injured.
That the accident did not result in
general loss OF life on the steamer is
considered remarkable by everyone on
board. The steamer had great hole
stove IN her starboard side amidships,
her cabins from that point forward
were ripped and torn into kindllnR
WOod, her pilot house was wrecked
and the fOremaSt aud smokestack
were carried away. The Juniata re.
turned to her dock here Thursday af.
ternoon and landed her passengers.
ARRANGEMENTS we're made to transfer
the cargo. The Palmer lost her lib
boom, toWsprit and headgoar.
I Ile acc lent eccrrred at 8. so O'clock
Ihursday night when the Juniata %as
steaming aroung Cape God. A fog
hung over the water and the steamers
speed had betn reduced somewhat.
CapG. Nickerson was In the pilot house
olrectlng the movement OF his ship.
suddenly the lookout shouted warn.
ing that q big vessel was to the star,
BOARD @nd +, ing down on the steam
er rap ~. C.,l G. Nickerson ordered
the wheel J. hard over and The en-.
gineS reversed but even as his order
was being executed the lllppinp OF
huge sails and shouts OF alarm were
heald and in less than a minute from
inc time the lookout gave his warning
Ile sttamer was struck a terrific blow
hquarely amidShlpS on the starboard
sioe. Immediately following the first
Crash Tie schooner scraped along the
slos OF the steamer, her spars and rig.
ging turning tie upper deck into a
mass of wreckage The state rooms
and the pilot house Nerc tern apart
as though made Of paper. Tie i'm.
mense jIb boom Of the schooner after
unroohng tie state room and pilot
pouse became Undecided IN the upper
WorkS and was snapped Off short.
All aboard the steamer remained
COOL ana there was not TIE slightest
evidence OF panic. AS a precaution.
afy measure the lfehoatD were made
ready by the Gre " q I'D Bail0rs not thus
engaged went to the assistance of
number or the passengers who we're
vigorously wording ON the mass OF
depf1s IN which several other paSsen.
gers, Capt. Nickcrson and Quarter-
master Crockett were buried. 1t was
lound that J W. Johnson was the only
person seriously injured. His state
room was almost opposite the spot at
which the schooner struck and was
buried In toe ass OF wreckagc. His
right leg was broken and lie sustained
internal injurlCs and cuts ub1ut the
head and face.
The schooner, although damaged,
signalled that she was In no danger.
Both vessels remained at the scene un.
til daylight, when tha Gx5ont CT the
injuries sustained by each was learn
ed. Tho hole in the SIDE Of the Juniata
was found to be five feet above the
water lice
Capt. Nickeraon decided it would be
SAFER to steam back to Boston. The
unipJufcd passengers were sent to
Providence by train, whence they pro
ceeded to their destination on the
steamer Il sex.
The blame for the collision has not
been fixed. Capt 'Nickcrson refused
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