Show BURNED SEW J NflitTEN p p pEfiI Frightful Calamity Ofl a Vessel flying Bctwen < 5 5 ConnecticutTowns and Hew York1 S 5 5 I S S I L I II LI 0 I I PamcStricKen passengers Jump Into theWatert B Wrath of Dieatlideallng Flames f ° Hv IQkQjt14Tlt0 Bridgeport I line steamer NutniegStatewas burned in liongIsland soundi1off SandsPont LL ll at sunrise this i morn Ing and ten persons were burned tiS deaih or I i 5 di ¼ wned S S Iet Dad Samneiyjayne Bridgepqrt agga master1 of Nutmeg State body at New I Yprkmorgiie i L I i I ttaNilson member of the crewbijdy not recovered fromi wreck vr Charles Andersori vatchmai ore boards > body ia wreck Patrick Coffey mate body to < wre < r Bernard fiendry oiler body fo nrecfc I JThomas Murphy member of crew I body in wreck John Connors member of crew body in wreck Unknown woman passenger 28 years of age burned body recovered Unknown > man drowned body not recovered re-covered Unknown girl 4 years old body recovered re-covered Most of the passengers who escaped suffered nothing more than shock from immersion in the chIlly water and only four persons were sent to the hospital The steamer was run aground at the outbreak of the flames and burned to the waters edge Bodies Drift Ashore The bodies of two victims of the disaster dis-aster drifted ashore abou Vioon cn the beach a mile east of the biazlng wrecTt One was the body of a woman about 23 years and the other a girl of 4 years The Nutmeg State with over 100 persons per-sons on board bound from Connecticut towns to New York was discovered on fire about 539 when she was within a few miles of Sands Point L I Tin > flames were in the bow of the boat between the forward cabin and the donkey engine room The fire was on the main deck and seemed to be a small affair sar Captain C M Brooks not winlslng to needlessly needless-ly alarm the passangers ordered the crew called to work as quickly as possible pos-sible with bucketsrand hose For about twenty minutes the flames dtd not seem tatw angeraus andthe men appeared to nav them in chetk Suddenly they burst into a furious blaze amidships S Passengers Were Frenzied Baggageman Samuel Jaynes was detached de-tached from the fire fighters and sent to alarm the passengers and all the members of the crew who were in the forward part of the boat He ran through the passageways on the several decks shouting to the passengers and the sleeping crew He remained amid ship crying out warningsuntil he was forced by the flames to jump overboard over-board The passengers in various stages of frenzy rushed from the state rooms to the upper deck Life preservers were given them and many of the men assisted as-sisted in putting them on the women and children By this time the entire middle section of the Nutmeg State was burning fiercely and the people forward were completely cut off from communication with those on the after part of the bunt This left the people on the rear decks in a most perilous situation as the life boats on the amidships davits were surrounded by flames and there were few of the crew in the rear to give aidAs As the flames continued to spread both forward and aft the pilot headed the steamboat at full speed for the beach at Sands Point Draft Swept the Fire The draft swept the fire toward the rear of the beat The Kissencers in that part of the boat went as far back on the rear deck as possible but were enveloped with black smoke > and the flames were leaping toward them threatening in a few moments to rbaet them alive They huddled close to the rear rail In fear waiting for the steamer steam-er to strike the beach With a shock the Nutmeg State struck the rocky bottom and people seemed to shoot from all parts of her like shot from a sling They jumped in the water andtried to reach the lifeboats life-boats which had been launched from the forward part of the vessel All the passengers were in the water but a few moments but many of the members mem-bers of the crew had become imprisoned impris-oned in the forward part of the ship below deck by the flames There was no outlet in the thick sides of the steamboat except the small port holes through which no man could squeeze leaped Into the Sea k The first person to leave the burning steamer was Baggageniaster Jaynes who gave the alarm to the sleeping passengers When the emoke and flames forced him from amtdshlfis he was almost exhausted and made a leap for the sea > In doing eo he struck his head against the guard rail and was stunned falling into the water helpless A launch from the steam yacht Kismet picked him up and carried him to the Kismet where the brave fellow died shortly after being taken aboard The Nutmeg State had hardly struck the beach when several passing craft came to her rescue sent out life beats and picked un the passengers struggling strug-gling in the water An unknown woman passenger although al-though provided with a life belt was seen to fall back to the blazing deck who was trying to A man passenger keep himself afloat on an oar became exhausted and was drowned Cowards In the Crew When it became apsKirvnt that the 5 Nutmeg1 State was doomed to destruction destruc-tion the doieri or so of hw freZsht handlers are said to have takcir possession posses-sion of the first of the life boatslaunch ed They fought back any of the men or women who1 tried to get ixIts the boats and refused to take the chit dren It was > Impossibly for Captain Brooks to control tie rowdy eawardil freight handlers and they were Btteriy oblivious to the perils of the passengers passen-gers When ie passengers were forced from thlirlife boat It doubled the demands de-mands on a second which was lowered and awild scramble the anic strickenr people ensued This boat was Overloaded1 arid overturned It could jot be righted to the waiter and men 1 sS c tT I women and children remained Irsi thor chlllywater ctfrjging to the 4x > atuKSil SI i help arrived from the passing craft U Thaiiugboat Reed ran under thbStfirtf L I of the Nutmeg State and swaof tbe passengers jumped from the btrntn oat tothe decks Then the ttw 0rwardand iriado an effort to save tfle I fmprisoneii men in tha crewS oru crew-S I Heat Was Intense s 1 Tha heat was so intense that tfrdrovoj the tug away and it again turned it Attention to picking the people upifroij thowater It made another att ibid sorae of the tugs men awiij somewoodwork at the bovtf bgtl iItfutmeEStates Two of the liven j wer savedj bet the other meni er 1 crew wh6 probably were exftau5i i front the smoke were unable to cla i out of the holtU before t2w Reed ti again forced away from the ship i account of the llamas It is belIeved nox seven men of t 1 Bridgeport boat were burned toRte Ire their quarters beloW decks at 1 bow S S The passengers and rescued iceml from the burnings ship vrerejtpta aboard the City of Lawrence and body of Baggagemastei Jajn a wa 1 also conxeyed to the Hartford line which proceeded ore heir way to fbi city Of the seventy of the rescuexl aboard only four needed hospital treat S meat No Record of Passenger The excitement was sUch at the tl of the abandonment of the burns vessel that no positive statement asj the exact number of persons who wished w-ished cam be obtained from the offlceS of the boat or from any of the persod rescued No record of those on boaril was kept by the nursery because flu United States navigation laws do no require coastwise craft making regular trips of less than 100 miles toymako list of passengers f I The Nutmeg State was a Wooden L e peHer of a little over 1000 tons find for the last severe years hasvtried on a freight and passenger business between Connecticut forwn i arid this city She carried se largo Quantity af miscellaneous freight which was aft destroyed There was a large coB snjgijnt of L cartrl ig la itt tile MOKf ajAi wiitar I flames reached them they began to plodo and continued firing for sometime some-time The boat was valued at 70000 |