The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-31
C0WARDL Y CAPTAIN.
Commander Hansen Is Charged
With Gross lnhun1anity.
Many More Lives Could Have Been
Saved if He Had Taken on More
of RoScuod

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A dispatch from San Francisc,
says after the tales of heroisr sur
rounding the Columbia wreck-th
glorious death of Captain Doran, ant
the self-abnegation Of the girl May
belle Watson comes the other sid,
of the disaster.
A charge of gross inhumanity AMI
the sacrifice of many lives has for
mally been made against Captain
Hansen of the San Pedro. by thu
third officer, Robert Hawes of tht
Columbia. 1t has been made to Loca
Inspector Bolles.
1t is part of the record of the Uni
ted States. If that charge be true
the women of San Francisco woull
be justified in melting out to Captain
Hansen the fate of Captain Ireson
of Marblehead, celebrated in song:
Old FLUID Ireson, for his hard beart
Tarred and feathered, and carried
in a cart,
By the women Of Marblehead.
Ireson sailed away from sinking
ship.
Now comes the accusation in sc
many words that Captain Hansen
was the cause of many men and 'Fo.
men, struggling in the water by re.
fusing to take any more of-the res.
cued on the San Pedro--a steamer
that could not sink because she car.
ried a cargo of lumber.
The fearful charge is calmly made
under oath by Third Mate HaW'se.
He solemnly says to Captain Bolles
that he brought boat load of rescu-
ed passengers up to the San Peiro
and requested that they be taken
care of. He declares that he was
met with a refusal to receive any
more of the Colum bias passengers.
Il repeatedly asked them to take
the women-one OF whom was hall
naked and delirious," says HaWse' ID
his sworn statement.
Such an appeal would ordinarily
melt the heart of bronze, but AaWse
declares that the man in command
of the San Pedro refused to shelter
any more passengers Of the SINKING
Columbia. Then comes the fearful
accusation:
"If the San Pedro had taken these
passengers, l could have saved many
more lives.
Hawse says his boat was so full he
feared to take any more in 1t, lest 1t
be swamped. He saw many more
men and women struggling IN the
water and all he needed was his
empty boat to go to their assistance.
That is dreadful accusation Tor
CAPTAIN Hansen to face, particularly
when his steamer is safe in the haroor
of Eureka and the photographs sho"
that she could have taken away many
more men and women aboard with
out endangering the lives Of any
But Third Officer Hawse does not
stop with his charge against Captain
Hansen. He has sea dogs con-
tempt for the men whom he rescued
- MS boat and did not show any EVIL
dence OF chivalry in the hour OF nero
ism. One of the four women be hao
nicked up was out Of her head. All
The women we're scantily attired but
three Of them were heroines, and
Hawse in his sworn statement, says:
az desire to speak in the highest
terms of praise in regard to the three
noble women and in lowest terms OF
contempt for the men passengers who
would not inconvenience themselves
to make the lot of the women more
comfortable.
And then come tribute all around
to the man who was on his orioge
wben through fog and not in BED,
as was Captain Hansen. This tribute
comes srom all sides to Captain Peter
Doran who did everything that man
could do to save the people, and then
vent down with his ship to his deatn
rather than crowd some Of his pas
sengers from life boat or rait'