New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-07
HOW TAB0GA WAS LOST
Men in Fight for Lives in Sea
with Swine and Cows.
TWO CLIMB STEERS BACKS
Scores of Porkers in Water Had
To Be Beaten on
with Oars.
TWO CLIMB STEERS BACK
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.l

Colon. II. p. June con the twenty
third Of May twenty-three passengers
went down to death when the steamer
Taboga sank off the coast of Los santos,
on route from Pedragal TO the city Vi
Panama. To-day there are in jail In the
capital city the two men most concerned III
the wreck These men are Captain Iaiip-
he'll and Pilot Matthews. both English
men. Captain Campbell was the last man
10 leave the ship and live.
Pilot Matthews demonstrated with fFos-
nero Pinol a member Of the nirm VI
Plnel Brothers. owners Of the line that '"e
,ybi,e water they saw ahead was causod
Nv a school Of sardines The white water
nroved TO be from a dangerous coral reel
into which the ship smashed at fuii speeu,
Aboard the fye-hUnGred-ton ship were ~
rassengcrs besides members OF the c's"
MANI OF the passengers were members VI
prominent interior families returning VIII"
,heir children from convent schools. Else
where aboard were slowed a. many caltis
ord bogs as the vessel could carry.
Whom the ship struck there was goou
order for few moments. linen '"e o"N'S
frightened but calm passengers were
startled by an unearthly shrek from scores
of animal throats and by the sa'npeu'hS
animals. who battered down the doors Oh
their Enclosures and broke for the sea. Inc
officers made a desperate EFFORT 10 tes'o'o
their authority and the lifeboats were low
cred as quickly as possible. The ashihgs
of one tore loose just as it was being let
down and it dropped from sight end first.
Struggling swine and kicking cows
plunged upon mass Of human bodies
Two men seized steers and were carried
TO shore. but the children had no chance,
and the water was then to be colored with
their blood and that Of the struggling
brutcs.
Many Of the hogs got 70 land and scram-
bIed UP the rocky banks, but very few OF
the cows swan through the surf. Several
times the porkers had to be beaten or from
the boats by means of vigorously piled oars.
Previously fusilade of revolver shots
had failed TO check them. and the animals,
as they rushed from the ship. plunged heal
long into a flaming sheet OF lead from OIL
GERS and members of the crew
SURVIVORS, tell numerous tales OF heroism.
-Four messengers stated they were unable
N swim. but despite that gave place 10
women and cnlldren OiIe VI t''NN' ."
brother of the French charge daffalres'
was picked up twelve hours after the yes
sci settled. having chung to piece OF deoH
luggage. Passengers and members OF the
crew chung to trunks, spars and deck UNI
! hers until they were picked up. The great
est assistance TO the passengers came from
two men who are said TO have been the
coolest persons aboard. They went calmly
70 their deaths. One was the second ehsi-
neer. a Scotchman named Perivanche. ana
the other was a Cuban cigar maker, Greg
oire.
4 brother of enc of the survivors states
that there were only three life preserVers
aboard Whether or not these were uscd
With effect does not seem TO have been es-
tablshed. The coast where the wreck &C.
Cured is dark, and there arc no hsht-
houses except at the entrance 20 the Cahal
Zone. The stories told by the eighty sur
vivors brought in on the steamer DaViu
have aroused indignation 10 white heat ana
prosecutions were demarded on all SIDES
TIE arrest If two officers named was the
result