Show PASSENGER STEAMER SINKS WITH ALL UN ON Lives Are Arc Lost in iii the Wreck of the tile City of Monticello Off Nova Scotia r Five Passengers Escape After a Perilous Trip in a Small Boat Which is Dashed Dashe to Pieces f T S Nov OV i 1 iK the therk I HalifaX entrance to the rk K shoals Sh at the J 1 1 i nr of 1 Fundy this tb morning the We steamer teamer City of Monticello M v I for Yarmouth n m St John overwhelmed by the mountainous it four miles from her destina f Fa tOIl Tl and ind engulfed with of o passengers and crew pr t gale was wal raging ralin tt Rt the th time liD I there thre I hr was W a ft tremendous sea e er TV Th r Monticello carried a full freight list hat TU It r I a fairly large 1 r in she sh he foundered an nit attempt was wiz wasa a jo 11 i reach raeh the land In bt a small boat boatin in huP liri of the Uie quartermaster and pd d tI fl Third Officer Ocer Fleming Stewe Stew e p l Kate Smith and aid three uaen JaMen fr Jf r Tm This boat wan washed smashed by a huge r the th occupants being hurled h i L cl h 1111 the beach at Pembrooke wn nfl n nn n 1 Hi I H It I I is believed these are the theMI MI ivor Th v 1 IY lIy of or Monticello was Wu used in InV tL MS wife V ise service between Halifax Yarmouth i and St Johns and was due dueI I r t I morrow morning She wais wn an ann n n 0 of about bout JiM 3 10 tons tone p c T sv and was waa 88 commanded by Captain H Il Mm rung of Yarmouth where most moet of 1 r 01 creW ev V belong OOlong Till 1 oat boat was formerly called the City f and was wan built at EH rl w in 1 She wa valued at ati atrO rO i M I The vessel had been rebuilt thin bin the rh last fifteen years but was wast wasI t I as safe in exceptionally h hT aj cas Mi e saved so JIO o far as an known k are re lson Cook quartermaster of Lack Hit 1 K NS R Kat smith eN ai tain Norman th sni of the battle l un lin n t amer passenger r Third Officer Fleming 8 i S K Eldridge Eldrid merchant of oC Yar Yarn YarI n I j jh Miss h Elsie o of Yo 1 lliS la I Lt Lost t la Ia 1 tM the th Wreck The i hp passengers were i up rt Olive of St John purser of at ofT 1 1 T minion Atlantic steamer Jam Simon ri rd Mis r Ti s a ldridge of Yarmouth and two children L 1 i t Fripp if f f Woodstock N B BV BY Bv V Y v of New Glasgow N S SI So I 1 in Kit of Sussex N B 0 BT T PK last three named were commer I ii h ra elers tIt rs hI I h list of t dead many wH welt K i a n a navigators Tit I I officers and an nd men lost lent ton loston on the iho Monticello were tl I tain am T F M K Harding Yarmouth H n D I eWell Newell N first t officer of Sable i an I Murphy h second officer Yarmouth i U M L Hilton Hnton purser IOl er Yarmouth N S Sh S SI h tries Greig chief engineer Hall Hali H 1 I H hf rt Poole second engineer nil niu Ringer oller Yarmouth J h t Doucette Dou ette oller Yarmouth I in s I ole nl fireman Yarmouth v Gloucester fireman Lockport l I J John hn K n seaman Yarmouth N C H Hopkins steward eward t of the sla st M n ner er Yarmouth Beecher Hopkins walter waiter BarginO n nN N NS a S Levi waiter waiters Shaung ung I Ibor hu bor i Austin Gable waiter Iter Sable Island Walter Cunningham C waiter waUer Ie u rc im Van E Jr j Ivan Johnson T quartermaster ter Tar Tr mouth r 7 Stanley i ek hand band yf Yi mouth Samuel Surett deck teck han band LocHi urt J Js Dunn deck e d d a Yuba John B fireman St SL John George Pc Morse fireman Yarmouth uth Survivor Tells His is Story Norman Smith S one of oU of the the thes s r ivora was the first t to bring brine the news U of the Ute disaster to t Yarmouth uth Ir from om Pembroke where wb re he be m landed He made the Ute following statement The steamer Monticello left John Jehn morning al at II 15 Th I The wind w blowing heavily at the time hut but was WU WUn no n so 0 strong trong as 5 to cause enu lilly any The storm became heavier however and after af the steamer had paRed named Pe Pc lilo 1110 lb passage it was feared she wit was doomed About 11 when about four ur miles ml off point It n was de tie decided decided to send Mend the women ashore in the boat and J T M Fleming the third of officer fi er Wilson Cooke acting quarter quartermaster quartermaster quartermaster master Nehemiah Murphy second of officer officer and I volunteered to tat take them ashore Snore The women numbered num three BIste EIMe McDonald aged 15 16 daughter of Alex Alexander ander McDonald of Cf Yarmouth Kate Smith of Yarmouth stewardess and nd a colored girl gir w whose hose name I lAid did Ud not know The women n were gotten Into the tile boat with great at difficulty the lb volun volunteers Vt volunteers haR haRt t rs following and getting the boat bent away The wind was blowing inshore at the time and the boat bo t was carried earned rapidly toward the land When the boat got t away they the r were preparing on board to launch munch another but I dont dt it think it IV got away I think all th t Up rest were lost The first boat was vaa w driven ashore asbor near Pem Pembroke Pembroke broke and aid ld on nearing Dearing the land a gi tlc wave wate struck it and threw It up upon upon upon on the shore Jda re smashing it to atoms 1 I I found myself on the beach holding to the grass raa |