New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-13
STEAMER AND ABOUT $50 LOST
Passengers and Crew of Joy Liner Lachmon Drown and
Freeze After Collision In Sound
SHIP RAMMED BY COAL SCHOONER.
Nineteen Out of Nearly Two Hundred Reach Shore AveNsny
in Bos-FOry-eigh Bodies Recovered

IN Boats-F orty-elgh
Block Island. r. L, Feb. 12.--About one hun
dred and fifty persons were drowned and frozen
TO death in Block Island Sound last night a
result of collision between the JOY Line steam
er Larchmont, bound from Providence to New
York. and the three masted schooner Harry
Knowlton. 1t IS estimated that, including the
crew. there were nearly two hundred on board
the steamer when she sailed from Providence.
OF these only nineteen appear to have survived
the disaster ten members Of the crew and nine
passengers. Forty-eight bodies have been re-
covered. Those who survived the accident fol-
low:
BOsAN. Antonio New York.
FEIDMAN Harris No 232 East 49h street New York.
FEIDMAN. Mrs. Harris.
FOX. David. Bridseton. y ].
GALLUP. Miss Sadie Boston.
HIERGSELI4 Fred. Boston
JAHyvIER Oliver Providence.
LCOMBE Samuel. Manchester. n H
TOOK. Mannert. New York
OFFICERS AND CREW
HALL. Richard. Providence. watchman
HEIDT Antony York; deckhand
IIFBERT Martin New York. fireman
MCFARLAND. Louis. Wellington. n c. walter
MVAY George V, Providence. captain
POLAND John. Providence, fireman
RILEY Frank. New York. deckhand
STABLES. James. Brookvile. Me. quartern'as'er
warm James. New York walter
YOUNG Oscar A, Providence. purser.
The passengers. awakened from their sluuo oerS
in comfortably heated rooms. were at the mercy
of the storm Many. it is believed went down
with the ship. Others. thankful at first tha'
thew had escaped drowning, prayed that they
might be relieved of the terrible pain caused by
their frozen bodies, and one man. a passenger
whose name could not be learned. cut his throat
The few who survived were in pitiful con-
dttion. In almost every case their arms anc
legs hung helpless as they were lifted out OF
the boats in which they reached shore. During
the dav forty-eight bodies came ashore. either
in boats or thrown up by the sea. Only six OF
the forty-eight bodies were identified They
were those OF;
ECTkIEss. Harry Block Island
HARRISON Jamss b, Brooklyn,
HEST Jasper Albany. first, assistant engineer
LOGAN Edward Providence. assistant engineer
SMITH George Providence. waiter
ZANDRCs. Jacob. Paterson. " J.. watehman-
An investigation Of the wreck will be insti-
tuted by the United States steamboat inspectors
of the Providence district
ESTIMATES OF DEAD VARY.
owing to the condition offhe survivors ii was
impossible to get from them an estimate Of the
loss Of life Anywhere from I5 10 $50 persons
went to their death. and at a late hour tonight
# was believed that the latter figures are nearer
correct than the former.
The steamship officials estimate that about
one hundred and fifty passengers and crew Of
fifty were on board the steamer when she left
Providence last night. Forty-eIght bodies
reached these shores to-day, and nineteen were
alive when taken from the lfeboats. The only
positive evidence Of the number of victims is
~ the bottom Of the Sound. The list OF pas
sengers and crew, handed to the purser just be-
fore the steamer left Providence was locked in a
safe. and 1t was not recovered
The cause of the accident has not been sat
isfactoriIy explained. II occurred just off Watch
Hill about IL O'Clock last night, when the three
masted schooner Harry Knowlton, bound from
South Amboy for Boston with cargo of coal.
crashed into the steamers port side amidships
Captain George McNay. OF the Larchmoht' ue-
cIares that the Knowton suddenly swerved from
her course. luffed up into the wind and crashed
into his vessel.
Captain Haley of the Knowlton asserts that
the steamer did not give his vessel sufficient
sea room. and that the collision occurred before
he could take his schooner out of the pain
of the steamer
STEAMER SANK QUICKLY.
The latter. with a huge hole torn in her side,
was seriously damaged that no attempt was
made to run for shore, and she sank to the
bottom in a few minutes. The Knowton after