The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-22
VESSELS CRASHED. ! {. ]
ON THE II OCEAN. 4
The Steamer Juniata Is.
Rammed and Many
Are Hurt.
a GREAT HOLE WAS
TORN.lN THE SHIP
i4i8s - M --- /.
Her Cabins and Pilot-House
Wrecked and Her Smokestack
WAS Carried Away The
Schooner Harwood
Palmer Did the
Damage.
(By Associated Press.)

1$ BOSTON,, MASS, September 21.-The In
jury Of six passengers and two OF the
ships officers BY a collision at sea was
reported by the steamer Juniata, OF the
Merchants and Miners Transportation.
Company, bound from Boston for Baltl-
more ana Norfolk, which returned TO this
port this afternoon, badly damaged. The
Juniata was rammed last night thirty
miles OF Chatham by the fiye-mastcd
schooner Hurwood Palmer, bound from
Baltimore for Portland, Me, with cargo
OF coal. The injured:
Mr.. and Mrs Frlcdell, Plttsburg, badly
bruised
J.3W. Johnson, Northablngton, Mass.
leg broken, injured internally; condition
serious.
Mi. and Mrs. John C.. Murray, South
: Boston. bruised and badly shaken up.
35 Corporal J. i. Mattlngly, United States
Marine Corps, hands cut.
$$. Captain u. Nickerson. OF the Juniata,
injury to hands.
6 Quartcrmaster John Crockett, hands cut
and bruised.
No one on board the schooner was in
4 jurcd,
Great Hole in Steamer.
That tho accident did not result In a
general loss OF .-fe on the steamer Is
considered remarkable by every one on
board. The steamer had great holc
stove In her starboard side amidships, her
cabins from that point forward were
ripped and torn into kindling wood, her
pllot-housc was wrecked and the forc-
mast and smokestack were carried away.
The Juninta returned to her dock here
this afternoon and landed her passengers
Arrangements were made TO transfer me
cargo The Palmer lost her jlbboom,S DO W
spirit and hcadgear
The accident occurred at $3.50 o'clock
Last night when the Junla Ia was steamns
& around Cape Cod. a fog hung over the
g water and the steamers speed had been
reduced somewhat. Captain Nickerson
& was in the pilot house directing the move
ments OF his ship. Suddenly the lookout
shouted warning that a big vessel was
TO the starboard and bearing down on the
steamer rapidly. Captain NlcKerson or
dercd the wheel put hard over ana me
engines reversed. but even as his order
was being executed the Tapping Of huge
sails and shouts OF alarm were heard,
md In less than a minute from the time
the lookout gave his warning the steamer
was struck a terrific blow squarey amid
ships on the starboard side
Mass Of Wreckage.
Immediately following the first crash
the schooner scraped along the slde OF
the steamer, her spars and rigsing turn
ing the upper deck into q mass OF wreck
age. Stnte-rooms and the pilot-nous
were torn apart az though made OF paper.
The Immense jibboom OF the schooner
after unrooang the state rooms and pilot-
house became lmbcdded In the upper
fur,6 was SnanDcu+ or snort. tfi4tiae
All aboard the steamer remained cool,
and there was not the slightest evidence
of a manic. AS n precautionary measure,
Tho life boats were made ready ~ the
crew, and sailors not thus engaged went
to tho assistance OF a number OF the
passengers, who were VIGOROUSLY "orhihs
nm the mass OF debris In which several
othcr ma sscngers, Captain Nickcrson ana
0uartermaster Crockett We're buried It
4 ,vaa found that j q w. johnson was the
only one seriously injured.
State-Roonl Burned.
14,s state-room was almost opposite
tbc snot ut which the schooner struck,
md was buried In the mass or wrecKage
His right leg was broken ana ne sustl susthin-
ed internal injuries and cuts about inc
head and face.
rho schooner, although damaged slg-
nol,nd that she was In no danger. Both
,,nsscls remained at tho scene until day
light, when the extent of the injuries sus-
taInod by each was learned. The hole IN
the side OF tho Juanta was found to pc
Ave feet above the water line
Captain Nckerson decided It would pc
.ofo'to steam back to Boston. The un-
Injured passengers were sent to Prov,
dence by train, whence they proceeded
to their destination on the steamer rs
sex. r,.., ~, ,,ot
4 hann5 nxod, Captain Nlckerson refused
~ discuss the accident In any way.
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