Show YIZCAYAS YMIIS A Number of Them Land at Lewes Delaware I ECOND MATE WALKEWS STORY I T ho Steamer Was to Blamo as the Schooner I Had the Elffttt to the Road Captain Allen Condemned Vizca a Victims Saved NEW YOUK Nov lIt is now certain hat twentyseven lives wore saved from he wrecked steamer Vizcaya Word is received from the Delaware breakwater hat eight persons saved are now there amos not known A United States tug was sent this morning to Sandy Hook for the seven survivors taken oft at Marshall Marshal and are now on board that vessel The Ceballo representatives who went with the tug after the seven survivors picket up by the pilot boat has returned They brought saven of the crew of tho Izcaya and ono of tho schooners crew A dispatch received from Lewes Delaware say that Second Engineer Arthur Gueralla Fourth Engineer Leopolde Mediar Ha the I second boatswain secojd cook oaclireamn oI1reman and twosailorj has = arrived there Also tho I body of the stownrdcsj bas come ashore I Second Mate Walkci of the scln oior Cornelius Hurcreaves inves the following account or tho collision o I had just came on deck a few minutes before 7 oclock Thursday evening I saw tho Vizcaya five miles off A green light shone on the port side and I did not feel the least uneasy Our lights were burning and must have been plainly visible to those on board the Spaniard We wore ailing at the rate of eight knots an hour and neared the Spanish ship rapidly I turned a fare light to show him a sailing vessel was near but he held on his way I began thinking we might strike him or ho us if one of us did not alter our course I was in charge of the deck Finally I ailed the captain When he came on deck he looked at the cloud of canvass on tho Spanish steamship then at our sails all of Which were set Wo can clear him I guess ho said and we held on our way I watched the vessel drawing near and nnally ventured 11 think we will strike them wi Captain Yes by wo will Hard a port hard a port he shouted but it wan too late Like a race horse our vessel darted forward We struck the Viscaya amidships The Hargreaves tore a great hole in the Spaniards side Then the ves els swung slowly saboat until almost side by side Then a chorus of agoniz ing cries burst forth Men and women darte ViifTin o ni t fV itVio nn the steamship and jumped dour on d-our decks But our ship was as sorely wounded as their own As Captain Alien heard the panicstricken people drop ping on our deck he shouti d to me Walker keep tnein back lets save our Own crew first To the boats men to the boats He himself cut away tho I t astenings of the long boat and jumped in The first mate and three of our crew fol lowed I In the meantime I was fighting a gang of Spaniards benton getting to our boats suddenly 1 looked around and saw Allen lad shoved o with four companions Tho boat > would easily have carried sixteen I jumped into the rigging and shouted Captain you are not going to desert your second mala aro you For Gods sake come back I He shouted some hiug in reply and I saw him waving his lands in farewell and know the coward had I made off leaving tho rest of his crew to perish Walker then told in a dramatic way of the struggle for life of the remaining ten men of the Hargreaves crew and crowd and Spaniards from the Vizcaya Walker hrew gang plank overboard and followed it i A large number of persons clung to it and it was capsized again and again each t ime to sink some of reightage of human l ife Finally the number was reduced to five They lost strength gradually and one by one let go and sank into the depths laaving Walker alone Again and again he was washed overboard but struggled back He was fast loosing his mind and consciousness conscious-ness when he saw the Barnegat light and Barnegt lght tried to paddle toward i But drifted out t sea Many vessels passed but too far to see his signals At 4 a m ho fell in with a Spaniard who had a raft of spars and j joined him Soon after they were picked up by D tug The list of rescued now foots up to foraytwo leaving sixty seven missing SIXt First Mate Perrin of the schooner Har graves arrived from Philadelphia this morning and told his story He says the blame of the collision rests entirely with the steamer peopleas the schooners lights were burning and she had the right of lghts way When the steamer was close aboardinstead of palling her helm to port she pulled it nerd c tarboard and before the schooner could be cleared the crash came Mate Perrins story differs from that of Mate Walker regarding the actions of the cap tain He says seven of the Hargraves Hagves crew including the captain and himself and four of the Spaniards got into the n uuuuut1 Jug uuai uuu tuLeu ui tuu crew I and three of tho Spaniards in small boats I smal They rode until early next morning when they were picked up by the schooner Davis I and afterwards transferred to tho tug Perrin adds that when Captain Allen saw the Spaniard paying no attention to the schooners flaresignals he blew the steam whistle when the Spaniards seemed for the lirst time to see them and then camo the fatal errorin her steering |