Show DISASTER AT SEA NINE SAILORS DROWNED IN A IlIXE COLLISION I Captain Tells the Story Collapse of an Elevator in Other Oth-er Casualties BOSTON Jan HThe Gloucester fishing schooner Fortuna was sunk In I a collision with the Boston Fruit com panys steamer Barnstable off Highland High-land light last night Nine of the For I tunas crew were drowned and fourteen four-teen saved The lost art William Ackman Robert Childs Harry McFee Thomas Steward Crawford Minache Harvey Emeneau Simon Devans John Clark William Tobin The first news of the disaster reached the city on the arrival of the Barn stable today with fourteen survivors of the Fortunas craw From thess i was learned the collision occurred about 730 p m when the vessels were about four miles off Highland licht The night was extremely dark and a lumpy sea was running The Fortuna was bound for Gorges carrying a crew of twentythree men including Capfain John W Greenlaw Carain The schooner was on the starboard tack going at a good rate The Barn stables lights were seen but the schooners course was not iltered until too late a she had right of ay The steamer struck her well forward cutting a deep hole and the schooner began to settle immediately Before the boats could be cleared she went down and the crew were left struggling until fourteen picked in the water unt were up by the Barnstables boats The others had gone down Captain Paine of the Barnstahle said today I todayWe were about three or four miles off Highland light southwest when we struck the schooner right unler cur bow We were proceeding on our way never dreaming of impending calamity calam-ity when suddenly we saw the ftar board light of a vessel directly iu our course I seems as if the light had been covered by the foretackle and I the wind at that moment had blown i I clear thus enabling us to see the great i I danger we were in The wheel was I hove round to port but it was too late to avoid collision We struck the Fortuna For-tuna about three feet aft of Core rigging rig-ging She sank about four minutes later We instantly inched our hosts and made every effort to save the crew We got fourteen among whom was Captain Greenlaw but nine were drowned The Fortuna was a vessel of about 116 tons and insured in the Boston Marine Insurance company Captain I Greenlaw was part owner i I Message in a Bottle LONG BRANCH L L Jan 14A ashore in message fromthe sea came a bottle The message was written with a pencil and states that the ship Charles Stewart was struck In a gale and asked for help The message was signed Mate George Stout The only Charles Stewart is a little nineteenfoot schooner which comes from Galveston Texas An Elevator Collapses MINNEAPOLIS Jan HThe 100000 bushel elevator of the Minnesota Linseed Lin-seed Oil company at Tenth street collapsed col-lapsed this morning Only one em ploye in the elevator heard the warning I warn-ing and scrambled out of the window and onto the adjoining roof Some 80000 bushels of flaxseed stored In the elevator was poured out onto the ground The standing portion of the building 1 In a dangerous condition Gone to Pieces VICTORIA B C Jan 14The sealing seal-ing schooner Kllmeny 24 tons M Hlll ram master and carrying a crew of four whites is reported to have gone to niece on the west coast of this island is-land in the sale of last Saturday Meagre particulars only are obtainable and it Is not known whether the crew survived the disaster or not The KHmeny was built two years ago and the present year was her third sealing venture |