Show STEAMER SUNK BY SIHOONER A Half Naked Passengers Soon Succumb to Cold and Sink Beneath Icy Waves Of the Two Hundred People on Board the Vessel When She Sailed Only Nineteen Appear to Have Survived Sur-vived Disaster off Rhode Island Coast Rock Island R IAbout 150 persons per-sons went to their death In Block Island Is-land sound as a result of a collision of tho threemasted schooner Harry Knowleton Iud tho Joy line steamer Larchtnont bound from Providence to Now York It la estimated that Including Includ-ing tho crow thero wore nearly 200 persons on board tho steamer when she sailed from Providence Of these only nineteen appear to have survived I the disaster ten members of tho crew I I and nine passengers Fortyeight bodies have been recovered Awakened from their slumbers In their staterooms the unfortunate passengers pas-sengers wore at tho mercy of tho fates Many It Is believed wont down with tho ship Others temporarily thankful that they had escaped drowning drown-ing prayed that they might bo relieved re-lieved of tho terrible pain caused by their frozen bodies and ono unknown passenger plunged a knife into his throat and ended his sufferings rho few who survived wero In pitiful piti-ful condition lu almost every case their arms and legs hung helplessly as they wore lifted out of ho boats in which they reached shore During tho day fortyeight bodies camo ashore either In boats or thrown up by the i sea I seaThe cause of tho accident has not been satisfactorily explained It occurred oc-curred just oft Watch Hill about 11 oclock at night when tho threemast ed schooner Harry Knowleton bound from South Amboy for Boston with a cargo of coal crashed Into tho steamers I steam-ers port side amidships Captain George McVey of the Larchmont declares de-clares that the Kuowloton suddenly swerved from her course lulled up Into the wind and crashed into his vessel Captain Haley of tho Knowleton asserts that tho steamer did not give his vessel indent sea room I The steamer with a hugo hole torn In her side was so seriously damaged I dam-aged that no attempt was made to run for shore and she sank to tho I bottom In less than half an hour The Knowleton after she had backed away from tho wreck began to fill rapidly but her crow manned the pumps and kept her afloat until she reached n point off Quonochontaug where they put out In the lifeboat and rowed ashore There wore no fatalities fatali-ties on tho schooner A majority of those aboard the Larchmont had retired for tho night and when tho collision occurred there wore few with the exception of the crow prepared for tho weather which prevailed They hurried from tho warm staterooms to tho deck of tho steamer and Into a zero atmosphere I Chilled to tho bone r any rushed headlong below to secure more cloth lug while others barefooted bareheaded I bare-headed and clod only in nightgowns stood on tho deck fearing that to go below would mean certain death |