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Show COVER NMENTTR AN SPORT LOST Ijfflrcn and Recruits K.n Route to Philippines Philip-pines on ll.mrd-.Ul Saved. Washington, Sept. 5. The gcvern-inent gcvern-inent transport Morgan City, in a collision col-lision near Nagasaki, Japan, was so badly injured tiiat she made for tide water and beached herself, savin-,' all on board. She sailed from San Francisco Fran-cisco on August 10, with T:J4 recruits for the Philippines, in addition to her crew and the following officers: I-irst Lieutenant J. C. Castner, Fourth infantry; in-fantry; First Lieutenant Pates, Twenty-fifth infantry; Second Lieutenant Conger, Eighteenth infantry; Second Lieutenant Hurt, Third infantry; Surgeon Swift, six postal clerks and two female nurses. This was the first trip of Captain Doris as master, and it was the first voyage of a transport by way of N aga-saki, aga-saki, and her fourth voyage to the islands. Doris was first oilicer when Captain Lombard was taken ill, just before the vessel sailed, and he was given the command, lie had instructions instruc-tions to take on a pilot at Kobe, and the accident may have occurred before he reached that port. |
