The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-26

bOStoH, MISS, september Zl.-InSI
injury of six passengers and two of
the ships officers by a collision at
sea vas reported by the steamer jun
iata of the Merchants and Mincrc|
Transportation company, bound from
Boston . for Baltimore and Norfolk
which returned to this port this after
noon. badly damaged. The Juniata|
was rammed last night thirty miles
off Chatham by the five masted schoon-
er HARDWOOD Palmer. bound from Bal
timore for Portland, Maine, with a
cargo of coal. The injured:
Mr.. and Mrs. Friedell. P%ittsourg,
badly bruised.
j. w. Johnson. North Abingdon,
Mass, leg broken; injured internally
Condition serious.
Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Murray, South
Boston, bruised and badly shaken up.
Corporal J. J.. Mattingly, United
States marine corps, hands cut.
Captain z. Nickerson. Of the Juniata,
injury to hands.
No one on board the schooner was
injured.
That The accident did o result in
a general loss OF life on the steamer is
considered remarkable by every one
on board. The steamer had a great
hole stove in her starboard side. amid
ships. her cabins from that point for
ward were ripped and torn into kind
ling wood. her pilot house was wreck
ed. and the foremost and smokestack
were carried away. The Juniata re-
turned to her dock here this afternoon.
and landed her passengers. Arrange
ments were made 70 transfer the car
go. The Palmer lost her jib boom
bowsprit and hesdgear.
The accident occurred at $50 O'clock
last night when the Juniata was steam
ing around Cape Cod. A fog hung over
the water. and the steamers speed had
Deer reduced somewhat. Captain
Nickerson was in the pilot house di-
rect;ng the movements of his ship
Suddenly the lookout shouted a warE-
ing that a big vessel a to the star
board and bearing down on the steam
er rapidly. Captain Nickerson order
er the wheel put hard over. and the
engines reversed. but ven as his or
dee was Eeina executed the Tapping oil
huge Sails and shouts OF alarm wer"
heard. and in less than a minute from
the time the lookout gave his warning
the steamer was struck a terrific blow
squarely amidships on the starboard
| side. Immediately following the frs
crash the schooner scraped along me
side of the steamer, her spars and rig
ging turned the upper deck into a mass
of wreckage. The staterooms and he
pilot house were torn apart as though
made of paper. The immense jib boom
of the schooner, after unroofing thf
staterooms and pilot house, became i'm
bedded in the upper works and was
snapped off short.
All aboard the steamer rename
cool. and there was o the slighteSt
evidence of a panic. KS a ~precautio1.
arv Measure lifeboats were made ready
by the crew, and sailors, not thus n
gagged went to the assistance of a mum.
Der of the passengers who were vigor
ously working On the mass of debris
in which several other passengers
Captain NickeTson and QuartermastaI
Crockett were buried. 1t was found
that J.. w. Johnson was the only one
seriously injured. His stateroom wa:
almost opposite the spot at which tht
schooner struck. and was hurled in tbs
mass of w~reckage. His right leg was
broken and he sustained internal iniu.
ries and cuts about the head and face
The schooner, although damagei
signalled that she was in no danger
Both vessels remained at the scene
] until daylight, when the extent of the
injuries sustained by each was lean,
!. ed. The hole in the side of the Jun,
iata was found TO be five feet above the
water line.
Can Nickerson decided il wouid b.
safe TO steam back to Boston. TIL,
injured passengers were sent to Provi
dence by train. whence they proceeded
10 their destination on the steamer rs
sex.
The blame for the collision has no
been fixed. Captain Nickerson refuse.
TO discuss the accident in anyway.