New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-06-14
STEAMER and YACHT
COLLIDE IN SOUND
Two Persons Killed and Three
Injured in Crash During Fog

New York, June 14--C. K. g.
Billings steam yacht Vanadis reached
Glen Cove, L. l., early today with the
body Of John ]. Brown, or Boston, one
OF the two victims of q collision in
Long Island Sound last night between
the yacht and the big white passenger
steamer Bunker Hill, of the Metro
pclitan Line. The body Of the other
victim, George II. Kendrick, also of
Boston, was brought back to New
York by the Bunker Hill when she
returned eaerlier In the night with a
hole in her side thirty feet high and
nearly twenty feet long.
Three Others Injured.
Brown and Kendrick and three
others, injured in the accident, were
passengers on the Bunker Hill bound
for Boston. The yanadis rammed the
\ passenger steamer in a thick fog off
Eaton's Neck at the eastern end of
Huntington Bay. The yacht backed
cut Of the hole in the Bunker Hills
side with her bow smashed and fes-
TONED with iron bedsteads and other
furniture swept from the sraterooms
OF the Sound liner.
Brown was picked up from the
water by the crew of the yacht with
both legs broken. He died an hour
later. Kendrick was crushed to
death as he sat at dinner in the dining
saloon Of the Bunker Hill.
Coroner Begins PROBE
The life boats of the Bunker Hill
We're swung out on their davits and
filled with passengers, but when the
officers discovered that the steamer
was intact below the water line they
/ bade the passengers return to the
| decks. Stories told by some passen-
| gers regarding the behavior of the
Bunker Hills crew await official in
yestigation. It was said that some of
| the negro deck hands rushed for the
boats and refused to surrender their
| Places. The coroner at Glen cove be-
| gan an investigation this morning
soon after the Vanadis arrived
! The passengers injured in the coll
| lision, none seriously, were: May
| Wightman Of Boston; Jarvis G. Bell
| Of Chicago, member Of THE Ameri-
can commission for relief Of Belgium,
and Mrs. Martha Waugh, of Philadel-
| phia.
Browns death wound was received
while he lay In bed. in the opinion Of
Captain harrington of the vanadis.
| Parents to CLAIM. Cody
When the vanadis backed away
from the Bunker Hill she carried on
| her sharp bowsprit, amid other
! wreckage, two iron beds. In one Of
7 these beds, Captain harrington be-
lieves, Brown lay, ana rell, bruised,
cut and unconscious, into the water
as the colliding. craft cleared each
other after the blow, Word was re-
ceived early today that his parents
we're on their way to Glen Cove to
| claim his body.
The vanadis lay, a sorry spectacle,
| at anchorage at Glen Cove today, pre-
| psratory to dry docking. Her entire
/ front was crushed in. her bowsprit
| was broken Off short, and her forward
| tsmbers ripped, torn and splintered to
within three feet of THE water line.
. It probably will require three weeks
or more to make her seaworthy again.
Two Blows Struck.
| Two blows, apparently. were struck
i by the yacht, the second after the
recoil Of the first
i When the Vanadis anchored early
today Mr.. Billings came ashore, mott
/ fed the deead mans parents and tele-
i phoned Coroner Luyster The coro-
/ ner went aboard the vanadis and
took the statements of her officers
and wireless operator. Mr.. and Mrs
Billings and Andrew McLeisch OF
Chicago, Mrs. Billings father. left
for New York soon thereafter.
Repaired in Week.
The Bunker Hill, examined in dry
Il COCK today, was found to have sus.
tanned injuries which can be repaired
within a week The Old Colony, q
sister ship, will sail from Boston to,
night If was annoIncAtf to take ha,
place in the interim.
An executive hearing was set fol
late today by the steamboat inspec.
ton service to fix the blame for the
e collision.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..