The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-23
Schooner and Steamer
Collide.
WERE NO FATALITIES
Eight Persons Injured. Accident &C.
Cured at Night in Fog. Both Ships
Badly Damaged. Blame for
Collision Has not Been
Fixed.
fRy the Associated Press.)

Boston, Mass, Sept. 21.--The injury
of six passengers and two of the ships
officers by collision at sea, was re-
ported by the steamer Juniata, of the
Merchants and Miners Transportation
Company, bound from Boston for Bal
timore and Norfolk, which returned
to this port this afternoon, badly
damaged. The Juniata was rammed
last night thirty miles off Chatham,
by the five maSted schooner HARDWOOD
Palmer, bound from Baltimore for
Portland, Me-, with a cargo of coal
The injured:
Mr.. and Mrs Friedell, Pittsburg,
badly bruised.
]. w. Johnson, North Abingdon.
Mass, leg broken, injured internally
Condition serious.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Murray South
Boston, bruised and badly shaken up.
hands cut.
Captain u. NickerSon, of the Junla-
ia, injury to hands.
Quartermaster John Crockett, hands
cut and bruised.
No one on board the schooner was
injured.
That the accident did not result in
a general loss of life on the steamer is
considered remarkable by every one
on board. The steamer had great
hole stove in her starboard side amid
ships, her cabin from that point for1
ward were ripped and torn into kind
ling wood, her pilot house was wreck
ed and the foremost and Smoke-Stack
were carried away. The Juniata re-
turned to her dock here this after
noon and landed her passengers. Ar
Nte,t n 70, h.
cargo.
The Palmer lost her jib- boom, bow
spirit and head gear.
The accident occurred at $50
O'Clock last night when the Juniata
was steaming around Cape Cod. A
fog hung over the 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 a warning that a big
vessel was to the starboard ami bear
ing down on the steamer rapidly.
Captain Nickerson ordered the wheel
put hard over and the engines re-
versed, but even as his order was be-
ing executed the Tapping of huge
sails and shouts of alarm were heard,
and in less than a minute from the
time the lookout gave his warning the
steamer was struck terrific blow
squarely amidships on the starboard
side. Immediately following the first
crash the schooner scraped along the
side of the steamer, her spars and
rigging turning the upper deck into a
mass of wreckage. The staterooms
and the pilot house were torn apart
as though made of paper. The i'm
mense jibboom of the schooner, after
unroofing the state rooms and pilot
house became imbedded in the upper
works and was snapped off short
All aboard the steamer remained
cool and there was not the slightest
evidence of panic. AS a precau-
uonary measure the life boats were
made ready by the crew, and sailors
not thus engaged went to the assist
ance of a number of the passengers
who were vigorously working on the
mass of debris in which several other
passengers, Captain NickerSon and
Quartermaster Crockett were buried.
1t was found that j. w. Johnson was
the only one seriously injured. His
Stateroom was almost opposite the
spot at which the schooner struck, and
was buried in the mass of wreckage.
His right leg was broken and he sus-
tanned internal injuries and cuts about
the head and face.
The schooner, although damaged.
signallod that she was in no danger.
Both vessels remained at the scene
until daylight. when the extent of the
injuries sustained by each was learned.
The hole in the side of the Juniata
was found to be five feet above the
water Inc.
Captain Nickerson decided it would
be safe to steam back to Boston The
uninjured passengers were sent to
Providence by train. whence they pro-
ceeded to their destination on the
steamer Essex.
The blame for the collision has not
been fixed. Captain Nickerson re-
fused to discuss the accident in any
way.