Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-27
TWenty-Eight Dead and Missing
As Result Of Collision Between
The Gladiator and st. Paul.
APPARENTLY UNAVOIDABLE
Crews Behaved Well--Board of Trade
VIII Institute the Usual
Inquiry.

London, April 26.--The total mum
Der of dead and missing of the Gladia-
tors crew as IA result of a collision
| between the American liner st. Paul
aud the British cruiser off the Isle of
Wight is %. The admiralty late to-
night issued revised list of the names
| OF the Gladiator victims, which in
| cludes an additional death in the hos
pital, bringing the total OF deaths
known up to FIVE. Twenty-three men
are missing, according TO the list and
six are suffering severe injuries. The
| secretary of the admiralty expresses
lear that there are still eight others
| missing, but is unable to give the
| names as yet. Divers today searched
part of the sunken cruiser for bodies,
| but We're not successful in finding any.
| The opinion among shipping men and
| naval officers and officials appears to be
unanimous that the occident was un-
avoidable, being one OF the chances of
the sea, which all seamen must risk.
There will be the usual naval court
OF inquiry by the board of trade.
| The officers OF both ships refuse to dis
cuss the affair until they have given
their testimony officially.
All witnesses of the disaster agree
| III iNNlNdily LDlL DOln crews DenukeU as
| well as possible,
Coming so soon after the loss of the
torpedoboat destroyer Tiger. which was
sunk by the cruised Berwlsk off the
Isle of Wight on April last 36 men
being drowned. the sinking OF the Glad
| iator is a severe blow to the British
| navy.
Rough weather prevails in the chan
mel today and many of the channel
steamers We're unable to make their
usual trips to the continent.
REsCUERs HEROIC WORK.
Yarmouth, April 26.-Heroic service
in rescuing the Gladiator's men was
rendered by the royal engineers at
| Fort Victory. Several of them put out
| in two small gigs Immediately after the
collision and picked up as many Of the
| sailors as they could find in nthe wa
| ter, although several men sank with
| in their sight. Corporal Stennlng and
others of the engineers swan boldly
into the sea and rescued some of the
| most exhausted of the sailors
| The surviving officers of the Gladia-
| tor We're cared for over night at the
residences of the officers of the Engi-
| ncer corps. Today they and the res
cued seamen have recovered fro mtheir
thrilling experience.
A seaman who was employed in the
| NiiduidNti y NdHbttl SAUL III SltdhilB VI
| the accident:
ut happened at quarter of 3
O'Clock, during what we call grog time.
| A lot of us were in the canteen when
we heard q horrible grinding noise
and table vessel heeled over SO that we
we're thrown off our feet. We made for
the upper deck az fast as we could go
| hut there was no disorder. When we
reached the deck we saw that a steam
err was into us amldships. and when
| she drew out she left an awful hole,
nearly 10 feet deep The SNOW
was SO thick that II was impossible to
see anything on the water.
Two of our boats were forced free
| by the collision and two others were so
damaged as to be useless. 1t seemed
long time before boats were lowered
from the st. Paul and in the meantime
| some OF our men had jumped into the
water to swim ashore.
They must have been nearly frozen
Besides, there was a strong sea run
ming This proved too much for some
of them and they chung 10 floating
things until rescued"