The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-14

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the only one In the wrecked staterooms.
About seventy Of the $50 passengers
were In the dining room at the time
Of the collision. The side through which
the prov OF the Vanadis came was the
most crowded at the time. and II was
considered unusual last night mat 80
few persons were hurt at that spot. only
ono Mrs. Elizabeth Walsh of Brighton.
Mass. who was with her husband. was
injured so that she had to be helped
from the boat.
Woman Hurled Across saloon.
She was seated with her back TO the
eide OF the steamer and when pieces
of the stateroom above came crashing
through before the blow of the yacht
Mrs. Walsh was caught and hurled Tor
ward toward the centre of the room. Her
back and left leg were severely wrenched'
but she refused to he taken to a hospital.
Immediately after the collision men
and women made a rush for the upper
decks. diving into their staterooms TO
get life preservers and buckllng them on
as they ran. They were very cool for
the most part. and SO far as could be
learned the only real panic was on the
part OF four negroes of the crew who
r,pped the cover Off % a lifeboat and got
in. They were driven out by passengers,
who told them they ought to be ashamed.
From the BOAT deck. along the rails
OF which the passengers TO
watch the Vanadis, could be seen the
man supposed to be John Brown strug-
Cling In the water. He a apparently
been caught by the wreck of the with
drawing Vanadls and drawn out badly
hurt. The Bunker Hill slowed down.
her engines reversed. but by the time
she had stopped the yacht and Brown
had disappeared.
Game Back Under Own steam.
Cant. w. r. Holmes after examining
the damage to his ship sent a wireless
message TO the offices of the line here
asking for a tug, but soon after sent
another message that ne was aole 70
proceed under his own steam and would
be in about 10 o'clock. 1t was about
10 40 when the Bunker Hill, after pick
ing IN policemen from the police boat
Patrol north OF the Brooklyn Bridge,
drew into her slip.
Two ambulances had been sent Tor
from the Hudson street hospital by q.
II. TAYLOR, passenger traffic manage or
the line, and as soon IA the boat drew
alongside white clad surgeons jumped
aboard and went to the relief OF those
who had suffered from sprains and cuts.
There was only one badly injured. Miss
Martha Waugh of 1928 Arch street.
Philadelphia. whose left leg had been
broken.
she had been made as comfortable as
possible on the floor OF the saloon cabin.
and her leg was quickly set by Drs.
Slater and Valentine. She was the only
one taken to the hospital. the others
preferring 10 go to hotels.
Twenty Cabins Wrecked.
They we're a d%isgruntled lot Of pas
eengers. but after looking at the wrecks
OF twenty cabins they ~retoiced mar the
collision had not occurred q Few hours
Inter when they would have been IN bed.
~ 1, had many persons would I'M
doubtedly have been killed. After stand
ing about on the deck and ship Tor a
while they we're taken away in sight
seeing buses to the Grand Central
Station and sent to Boston by rail. .
All the passengers agreed hat most or
the crew had acted with great cooihess
and that the passengers, particularly the
women. had shown remarkable self-pos-
session. Many of them remarked on the
absence OF shock. the keen proved yacht
cutting into the ship as II she had been
butter, n to this attributed the lack
OF panic.
decks and could see the great holes
through which bits OF the superstructure
dropped 10 the water as the steamer lay
motionless IN the fog they did not lose
their presence OF mind.
..The thing that caught my attention
was the extraordinary way in which the
Vunadis kept coming into US" said Jacob
NJ. Piaut of Cincinnati. IT was aft at
the time. where | could see we'll. and 1t
seemed as II the Vanadis came back
after each bump with more force than at
frst. The last blow was much the most
severe.
Then she seemed to slew alongside
and slid of. her bow n tangled mass OF
broken steel. She had left her tibboom
and most OF it's rigging In the steamer.
We feared for her safety after she dis
appeared, but later heard that she was
all right"
Miss Ethel Lorenz Of the Boston Chill
dren's Aid Society saw Brown in the
water after the shock.
"Ve seemed terribly hurt she said
"and It was awful to watch him. Before
the men on the steamer could 10 any
thing the VanadIs had come in between
us and Brown and picked him up II
must have been Brown, for he wa
PACED after the excitement died dowr
md did not answer his name. We heard
that he died later
The desire to be u~ncrowded probably
saved the life OF George McGinnis OF
East Orange. He entered the dining
IboIu ana SNdTltu LOT tnt part tldt Wds
wrecked. but changed his mind because
20 many persons seemed to be seated
near there. He sat on the opposite side
and was looking across when the bow
az the Vanadis came through the ships
side.
Bow Came Right In.
ut looked as IL she was going &c
Keep coming right in" said Mr.. McGin-
nis. Bits OF the broken staterooms
above dropped through the hole and the
stcampipes and steel beams were ex.
posed. Then very deliberately the prov
was withdrawn and we looked out &c
the water. Mrs, Walsh was thrown
forward over her table and a big piece
OF timber Just missed her. There was
tremendous excitement in the dininp
room for "A time because OF the near
ness to the water and the view we had
Of the outside and people rushed for
the upper decks, But there was little
real panic
When the Bunker Hill reached he,
dock the rents In her frame had beer
fenced off so that passengers would no
81 their curiosity walk through then
overheard. II would have been easy &c