The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-10
SHIP IS LOST
While on Way From New York 10
Galveston.
WITH sixty PEOPLE.
She Is Now Overdue Several Days
and Is Supposed to Have Found
cred at Sea Of the Coast Of North
Carolina Last Saturday-She Was
An Old Vessel.

An Old Vessel.
New York, Feb. 2.-The Mallory
line steamship San Marcos, Wnlcn
left here on Wednesday for Calves
TON. Texas, with ten passengers and
crew of so was reported today to
be missing and there are grave
qears tbst she is the vessel which
won't down off Elizabeth City, n. c.,
ON Saturday.
The San Marcos was ie to pass
Sand Key, near Keywest on Sunday
night, but up to today she had not
heen cited of that point. The At
lantic and Gulf Of Mexico nave
been secured with wireless messages
to the San Marcos, but up to tooa!
there has been no reply from the YES
sci.
The Mallory line officials here TO-
day declared that they had no anA-
ety as to the safety OF the san
Marcos. but they were forced to ao-
nit that they have heard nothing
from the steamer since she left mere
last Wednesday. She is due IN Cal
-estion tomorrow, but should nave
.een spoken by other vessels long
before this.
A message from Key West today
sisted that anxiety over the San
Marcos had reached that city anc
wireless messages had been sent out
for a radius Of $50 miles from Sano
Kew. calling for the San Marcos.
She has not replied. None OF the
vessels passing Sand Key have reach
ed the missing boat.
The San Marcos is nearly 80 years
old, and is one Of the more o!o
fashioned kind of iron vessels. She
was at one time a Ward liner, then
was sold to the government for an
army transport for service during
the Spanish-American war and since
that time has been in the Mallory
service between here and Galveston,
Texas.
The vessel that went down near
the Diamond Shoals lightship, Oh
Elizabeth City, N. c., so far as can
be learned, was not unlike the san
Marcos in appearance. She had
passenger deck like the San Marcos
was plainly q coaster and few the
United States ensign.
The vessel that wenl down on
Diamond Shoals was .afre at the
stern. She was seen by the obserV'
er at Cape Hatteras, by the man
aboard the Diamond Shoals light
ship and also by those on the SaVan'
nah line steamship Savannah, which
was not far OF at the time.
The strange feature Of the vesse.
Soundering is that not trace Of heI
has been on the sea since. she
was completely engulfed. Not
single spar, not a boat nor even
niece Of drift wood has been found
Her stern was spouting smoke ane
fa-3es when she was last seen anc
she seemed as If to plunge downward
nose first.
There was tremendous sea run
Y ming when the unknown vessel Wer'
to the bottom. This prevented the
Savannah approaching the vessel
But the Savannah wa, herself en-,
gagged in keeping her head on tc
the storm and could not have rem
6ered assistance if her officers hao
wanted to.
The Savannah sighted the IN
known vessel hours before she sank
But both vessels were engaged III
fighting their way through the ter
rimc gale with the Thermometer at
the time at nearly zero.
Beth vessels kept plunging on to
the southwark, but no signs ever
came from the stranger. The IN
known vessel seemed to be weather
ing the storm well enough until the
flames broke out at her stern and
she went down in a few minutes.
The San Marcos was in command
Of Captain Davidson. She is OF e.
41sS tons, 3i7 feet long, SO feet beam
and draws 81 feet of water. She
had single funnel and two mass.