The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-11
SCHOONER RUN DOWN
VILLA Y. HERMANO SUNK IN MExI-
 CAN GULF.
Was Accidently Rammed by Steamship MObila, but Crew and Passen- geDs Were Saved and
 Arrived fin Mobile.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Mobile. Bent f1

Mobile, Sept. 10.
 The Cuban steamship Mobiia. of the Manson line. arrived up tonight from Ohio upper docks pier 4. On board were Captain William J. Clark, Mate Thomas Banks and Seamen Niconar Barra. Emil Bertrand, Thorston Thors- tenson, Leonhard Johnson and Anton Hall of the schooner Villa Y. Hermano, also Mrs. Clark and Amy and Evelyn Clarke, wife and children of the cap tain.
 The schooner was run down and sunk on September 5th at 1o:30 p, m., In the Gulf of Mexico by the Mobila in lati- tude 29.16s north. S7.20 west.
 the schooner as. soon after the crash as possible and jumped overheard. Boats were lowered from the Mobila at once and all picked up. Members Clark or her children made a single outcry. The entire party of ten were carried on to Havana and brought to this city without landing at the other ballast and had sailed from Havana. August 2s. bound for Pascagoula, Miss, for a cargo of lumber.
 The captain and crew and two chill dren. when the Mobila reached here had on the clothes in which they left the ill-fated schooner, the children be- ing in their night garments Mrs. Clark had been given some apparel by
 
 Clark had nothing to give out with reference to the running down of his vessel. The schooner until recently was the property of Vida and Bro, of considered one of the fastest sailing vessels entering this port.
 Only recently Messrs. Villa sold her and she ,;u was transferrsd IS rS to PascsEouia. ia night that the craft was q good one and he was at loss to explain how she was run down by the Mobila. The schooner M. A. Achorn arrived up this seeing portions of the schooner in the gulf sixty miles off Fort Morgan.
 Quarantine Situation.
 supervisor for South Alabama, reports tonight everything quiet here and in against refugees from Florida and he said. twenty-five guards patroling the PerdIdo River and bay which sepa- rate Escambia County. Florida and Baldwin County. Alabama. All guar antine officers on trains on the three roads north from Mobile have been especially cautioned as to Florida refugees as well as others from infect ed districts. The caution was not talned by all the officers. pr. Mohr expressed much qualification at condi- tions in Mobile and this section and stated that Wnlle napplly coHnoent ol the success of the quarantine service, he would not leave loop-hole open for the entrance of the infection. Begin ming tomorrow morning especial vigil lance will be maintained as regards the bay boats plying between Mobile and the eastern shore.
 A rumor gained circulation here to- day that there was a suspicious case at Daphne, Baldwin County, Dr. Mohr in- formed The Advertiser tonight that the rumor was absolutely groundless. He investigated and learned that 1t was Mobilian who had been i'll with malarial fever for some time While regretting that such a rumo- should get out. pr. Mohr said such occurrences might be expected at any time, although they should not he encouraged.
 At o'clock this morning. the drug store and residence at Whistler, occu- pied by pr. Paul Jones. was destroyed by fire. The loss Is estimated at be- tween S5 900 and $7,000.