The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-09-27
LUCKY ESCAPE.
Large Passenger Steamer Ram
med at Sea by q Schooner.
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.
BOTH SHIPS SAVED.
Six Passengers and Two Officers Of the
on Her Regular Trip.

The injury OF six passengers and twt
of the ships officers by 8 collision at
ses 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 sc
miles eff Chatham by the fVenasteo
schooner Earwood Palmer, bound
from Baltimore for Portland, Me-,
with cargo OF coal. The injured:
Mr.. sod Mrs. Friedell, Pittsburg,
bsdly bruised.
J. W. Johnson, North Abingdon,
Mass, leg broken; injured internally.
Condition serious.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Murray, South
Boston, bruised and badly shaken up.
Corporal J. J. Mstsingly, United
States marine corps, hands cut.
Capt. 2 Nickerson Of the Junista,
injury to hsrds.
Q1arternaster John Crockett, hands
cut and bruised.
No one on board the schooner was
injured.
That the accident did not result in
3 general loss OF life on the steamer is
considered remarkable by everyone on
board. The steamer had q great hole
stove in her starboerd side anidships,
her cabins from that point forward
were ripped and torn into kindling
wood, her pilot house was wrecked
and the forenast snd smokestack
were carried away. The Juniata re-
turned to her dock here Thursday al
ternoon and landed her passengers
Arrangements we're made to transfer
the cargo. The Palmer lost her jib
boom, bowsprit and hsadgear.
The accident occurred at g. so O'Clock
Thursday night when the Juniata was
stsaming asoung Cape Cod. A fog
hung over the water and the steamers
speed had been reduced somewhat.
Capt. Nickerson was In the pilot house
directing the movement Of his ship.
Suddenly the Lookout shouted warn-
ing that a big vessel was to the star
board snG bcsr cg down on the steam
er rapidly. Capt. Nicke-Son ordered
the wheel put hard over and the en-
gines reversed but even as his order
was being executed the Tapping OF
huge sails and shouts Of alarm were
heard and in less than minute from
the tine the lookout gave his warning
the steamer was struck terrific blow
sQuarely amidships on the starboaro
side. Immediately following the first
crash the schooner scraped along the
side OF the steamer, her spars and rig
ging turning the upper deck into q
mass Of wreckage. The state roons
and the pilot house were torn apart
as though made Of paper. The i'm.
mense jlb boom Of the schooner after
unr oofng the state room and pilot
house became inbeddled 10 che upper
works and was snapped of short.
AL sbcaFd the steamer remained
cool and there vas not the slightest
evidence OF a panic. SIS precaution.
sry measure the lifeboats were made
ready by the crew aad sailors not thus
engaged went to the assistance OF a
number OF the passengers who were
vigorously working on the mass OF
debris in which several other passen-
gers, Capt. Nickerson and Quarter
master Crockett were buried. It was
found that J. W. Johnson was the only
person seriously injured. His state
room was almost opposite she spot at
which the schooner struck and was
buried in toe mass Of wrecksge. His
right leg was broken and be sustained
internal injuries and cuts about the
head and tace.
The schooner, although damaged.
signalled that she was in no danger
Both vessels remained at the scene IN
til daylight, when the extent OF the
injuries sustained by each was learn
cd. The hole in the side OF the Juniats
was found to be five feet above the
water lire.
Capt. Nickerson decided it would 5s
safer to steam back to Boston. Ths
uninjured passengers were sent Il
Providence by train, whence they pro
ceeded to their destination on TIT
steamer e sex.
The blame for the collision has no
been fixed. CSps>N >Nickerson refused
to discuss the accident in any way.
Robbed the Navy
a dispatch from Toxic says inforna
tion has been made public that thre