Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-14

street, New York, after having been
a runaway for nearly year. contain
ed the first direct charges against Capt.
McNey and his crew. HiergeseI as
serts that Capt. McVey's boat was the
first one which lefc the sinking steam
f, er. He said that he saw many wom-
en- on the hurricane deck. rushing
about helplessly and begging for life
preservers. Many of these women
pleaded with the panic stricken pas
scngers and the crew 10 direct them
to the life boats, hut their prayers were
UNDECIDED.
Young Hiergesell said:
My Stateroom was almost at the
point of collision On the port side of
the steamer. l was in bed with my
clothes on and when l rushed on deck,
| found the officers reassuring the pas
, sengers AMI telling them that they
were in no immediate danger. The
captain left his steamer in the very
first boat. / cannot be mistaken as to
his identity for l saw him on the Ken
lucky as we came over to Providence
this afternoon and he is the same man
who stepped into the first boat launch
ed from the sinking vessel. The sec
ond boat was taken possession of by
] gang of negro walters. These men
seem to have lost their heads and 50
many of them crowded into the boat
j that it was capsized as soon as it
struck the water and l believe that all
of them were lost. l got into the third
boat with five other men. There were
no oars in the boat and we We're
obliged to drift at the mercy of the
wind ana the waves.
Miss Sadie Gallup Of Boston was in
such a serious condition when the Ken
lucky arrived at Block Island that it
was considered dangerous to move her
and she did not accompany her fellow
passengers to this city. She will remain
or the island until she can be safely
returned to her home in Boston.
Physicians who had an opportunity
to examine the bodies expressed the
opinion that in many cases death had
been caused by the cold. rather than by
drowning. A glance at these victims
showed the effects of the terrible cold
,, to which they had been subjected.
One of them, a man about so years
Of age. mad apparently been member
of the crew. His white beard was en-
cased in ice and his left ARM frozen
rigid, was raised as if to ward off q
blow.
A woman of about 3S years of age
was placed on a slab and as her head
rested on it, her hair frozen solid as a
piece of marble, stretched out and
touched the floor. Her face was covered
with blood On her right hand were two
wedding rings and on the third finger
of the left hand was a diamond ring.
On the left arm was a bracelet.
Oscar A. Young, the purser of the
Larchmont was loud in his praise of
the crew of the steamer. He said there
We're eight life boats and four RATS on
board and when the collision occurred
every man went to his station and did
all in his power to save the lives Of
the passengers. Young said he left the
steamer in the captains boat. He said
that as near as he could remember, he
had assigned about 10 passengers to
their berths previous to the collision.
There were many others on board,
however, some of whom had not at
that time applied for sleeping accom-
modations, and he believed that some
others planned to sleep in chairs in
the big cabin. Young was handed a
list of the passengers on board his YES
sci before he sailed from Providence,
but he left it in his room and it went
down with the vessel