Show STEAMER GOES I DOWN IN STORM StOR StORIA StORi i IA 1411 l But Two oi of the Officers Officers and Crew 1 I CARGO OF VESSEL SHIFTED DISASTER OCCURRED ALMOST IN INAN AN r Fa Aug F 1 ty me man constituting aU all But two of the officers andere and crew of t the Amt Amen can stear ec nc Capt Captain n J Jones bound from Philadelphia to New Or Jean eans wIh with coal ore drowned b by the sinking of that essel oU off of Florda Florida today toda The disaster was a the I resul result of a a fier tierce gle gale w which raged I along the coat coast during the night and I early morning Lashed bJ by the storm storman j an immense wave struck the v vessel with with terrific foce force about 1230 30 this morning The impact coming just a vessel was maing making a turn caused I a shit shift of tIle e cago cargo and the vessel cl leaned over ad and sank immediately The I accident occurred so quIckly that only two of those aboard aboard heran Italian I and nd a a S able to se save themselves The They succeeded in getting into a life boat reache reached Amelia bech beach i about pon and on landing told the I stor story of of the disaster Went D wn Rapidly I About midnight ot of Sunday Sunda according to their st ry during the the heaviest part of the storm which ha had rage raged al all day the officer of f the dek deck gave the order cave to put further out t to sea fein fearing the they I were approaching the coast to too nearly In the endeavor to turn the ship was i wIth a a heavy se sea the caro cargo shifted and she began sinking rapidly In les less than te ten minutes after the alarm wa was sounded she had gone to the bottom One Of f the two survivors was at the wheel at the time the order was gIven the other was upon watch Two Were Saved it S 5 SOI a as the snip ship began to caren careen these two wo men rushed for one of the smal small boats whIch they jumped into as I Ithe the vessel essel began besan to sink sink Wih With their knives they severed time the ropes rones as the i waters aters level was vs reached and tIme smal small boat was thrown fa far out on te the waves The They sy say that they discovered I through the blackness and storm the figures of par part of the the awakened crew some ome of whom maged managed to crowd into another of the ships boats This wa was however caught In a trough of f the se sea thrown thrown violently against the ventilators or ors and tn n wedged f fas Their piti pitiful it ful cry for help be heard as the ship went down In the sen sea Night f Horror Alone Alon through the of the night In the awful wah wash of waters wIth the storm raging and threatening each momert moment to swa swamp their small boat these two men were ere gradually borne ashore toward Aela Amelia Isad Island landing just at U a m tOday Te The men whose name names are Humbel and Antonio Clark Clark were unable to speak except in theIr native HaliTe tongue tongues ad and I it was some time before the facts of the disaster were thoroughly acer ascot tamed The They have hao to the cor or of thea the ove report before a notary public ad and the community here cared for their wats wants I I in n the he Teeth of a Gale At the timo of the tho dister disaster the ship wn about OO mie miles northeast of here beading south arid and in Ia the teeth of the thesle gale The vessel had been engaged in the engg fruit ruit trade from Central America America to New ew Orleas Orleans buton but on a aCcount count of quarantine antine regulations tons prohibiting the i 1st port of bananas she had ben been engaged for two voyages to carY carry co coal from to New Kew Orleans She Was as of 1154 ton tons register and had on onboard board about 1500 tons of cal coal She Sheared ared arrived at Philadelphia July 24 ad and cleared for New ew Orleans Aug ID |