The sun., 1910-10-02
WhalebOat, In Tow, Goes
Nose Under With 80 or
80 Men Aboard.
ALL NEW HAMPSHIRE'S MEN
Only so Accounted For Aboard
Ship Hours Later MIdshlp-
man In Charge In Delirium.

o. MAJ Be DAYS Before . Correct List oF
the Lost Is Obtained-A semI-OmctaI
statement From the New Hampshire.
hut Nothing Given out OmciAIiS Tho
Lives Himself I.aunch Was ToNIng
Loaded whaIebOai Win Long Line.
u - feared that twenty or more sail
OILS from the battleship New Hampshirs
were drowned last night when a liberty
boat taking to the hAttleship between
eighty and ninety men whose shore leave
had expired was swamped IN the Hudson
about 2j0 feet from the West ISSth street
pier q
The only estimate 81 the number
drowned was made 10y taking the differ
.nce between the number who were res
Cued and taken aboard the Louisiana
and IN. New Hampshire and the number
supposed to have been in the boat Rear
Admiral Vreeland. commander of tho
squadron. declined to give an offiCiaI
statement Of the accident last night
for lack of certainty. and il was said that
names would not he known before the
regular roll call this morning. IL then
The shore leave uf large number of The
New Hamp-hire'z men expired a. o. clock
Last night. and Midshipmsn & de- g.
Chevalier. whose home ~ in Boston.
Was cent to IN. pier al the foot of West
I5sth street to get the sailors He was
in charge - a large steam launch and
a sailing launch towed nv the other.
The latter was big whaleboat.
At about q. Is o'clock the two launches
left the docA carrying about an the men
they could Midshipman Chsvalier was IN
the liberty boat. or sailing launch, ~
the end Of long tow line. There was
a stin southwest breeze blowing and the
water was rather rough
One report j. that in some wav the
majority 81 the sailors IN the whalehoat
got bunche I in the bow uf he vessel amt
before there was any warning of over
cruwding in The how 'he boa; = nose went
under the water and IN anol her inst ans
she had shipped 49, much water that she
-wamrad. the sudden shifting ~ ms
-ailor- 10 t.,- stern aided IN swampinE her.
NIosHIpMsN SAWS NANr
Midshipmsu Chevalier. who - repu'ed
- he one of The best swimmers IN the navy,
was one - the iirsi pi' ched into the water.
bat he grabbed the edge - the upturned
boat and yelled To the sailors swimming
around him 10 do likewise. Sevaral WIN
showed signs of weakening he aided -
~, hold on The bosr
The steam launch which had been tov-
ing The swampsd boat had gone on SONS
distance hefor. tho-" aboard ~ her
noted the absence - her tow and that
the batter WAS overturned Then q series
- sharp tnots from her whistle notified
he private Launches tied up A. the dock
ana close ~ hand
within a shor' time launches from
m" Louisiana and Kansas came with
enough men 10 assis, in rescuinR the
struggling New Hampshire men IN The
water Midshlpman Chevalier swan
around m the water directing hts men
in their Efforts 30 get TO tho rescuing
launchas
From the ljSth street dock the launch
" u HicLis pu' out with Georg. GigEis
IN charge SiS men climbed aboard her
The launch MARY manned hy George
Reeves. was another ~ rhe frs g. pr
nv. nni several friends aboard "f he.
helped Reeves rN-cus sixteen men The
launch Heron. Al Williams. ran on, and
picked oT fteen The launch jennie.
with Joseph Zwicks in charge. got nh'",
a icyen The launch from tho Iou,si-
ana got about fifteen. and the boat fro'u
the Kansas got some. but the uvmro-
vas not definitely known last night,
All the rescu~d wer" frat taken aboard
the Louisiana. which was nearest. and ~
they GO, m condition - he moved they
were taken to their own ship.
Midshipr1an Chevalier vas such physi.
cal wreck when he was helped On hoird
the Louisiana that /, was seen that hs
needed hOepital treatme lie insisted
on being taken to his own vessel and va
removed 70 II against the advice ~ ths
medical officers ~ the Louisiana
The 'nidshipman's condition Was due
~ much 90 his efforts 20 save HE nen as
20 his feeling that IN some way he wollI
~ held responsible for the disaster. He
be'ame delirou- in the New Harnrshirea
hospital and could give no connsotSd
acr0unt ~ what had happened.
apt Thomas =. Rodgers ~ the New
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