The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
GREAT SCHOONER RAMS
 STEAMER DURING FOG
JUNLATO OF MERCHANTS AND MINERS LINE LIMP BACK
 TO BOSTON

Six of Her Passengers and Two of Her
 Officers Injured-That General Loss
 of Life on Steamer Did Not Occur
 is Considered Remarkable-Struck
 SquareIy Amidships-Upper Deck
 Turned Into P Mass of WrecIkage.
 Boston, Sept. 21.-The injury of six passengers and two of the ships offi- cers by collision at sea was reported by the steamer Juniata of the Mer- chants and Miners Transportation company, bound from Boston to Balti- more and Norfolk, wbich returned to this port late this afternoon, disabled and badly damaged. The Juniata was rammed last night, thirty miles off Chatham, by the five masted schooner Harwood Palmer, bound from Balti- more for Portland, Me, with a cargo of coal. The injured: J. w. Johnson, North Abingdon, Mass, leg broken, head cut and injured in ternally, condition serious. Boston, bruised and badly shaken up
 MT. and Mrs. Friedell, Pittsburg, Penn, bruised.
 Corporal J. J. Mattingly. United 1 States marine corps, hands cut: Capt. 2. Nickerson, of the Juniata, | injury to hands.
 Quartermaster John Crockett, hands GU 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 8 great hole stove in her starboard side amidships, her cabins from that point forward were ripped and torn into kindling wood, her pilot house was wrecked and the foremast and smoke stack were carried away. The Juniata returned to her dock here this afternoon and land- ed her passengers. Arrangements were made to transfer the cargo. The Palmer lost her jibboom. bowsprit and head gear.
 The accident occurred at 9:50 o'clock last night, when the Juniata was steaming around Cape Cod. A fog hung over the water and the steamers s speed had been reduced somewhat, A sharp lookout was being kept and Cap tain Nickerson was in the pilot house personally directing the movements of his ship. Suddenly the lookout shouted a warning to the pilot house that a big vessel was to the starboard and bear ing down on the steamer rapidly. Cap l tain Nickerson ordered that the wheel be put hard-over and the engines re- versed, but even as his order was being executed the Tapping of huge sails and hoarse 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. Ir1l- mediately following the first crash the schooner scraped along the side of the steamer, her spars and rigging turning the upper deck into mass of wreck age. The staterooms and the pilot house were torn apart as though made of paper.
 The immense jibboom of the schoors- CT, after unroofing the stateroom and pilot house, became embedded in the upper works aIld was snapped off short.
 All aboard the steamer remained cool and there was not the slightest evil dence of panic. As a precautionary measure the lifeboats were made ready by the crew, and sailors not thus en- gagged went to the assistance of nurl> Der of the male passengers who were vigirously working in mass of debris in which several other passengers, Captain Nickerson and Quartermaster Crockett were buried. It was soon found that J. W. Johnson was the only person seriously injured. His state- room was almost opposite the spot at which the schooner struck and was burfed in the mass of wreckage. His right leg was broken and he sustained internal injuries and cuts about the head and face.