Show STORY OF THE DISASTER A FULL account of the marine cli disaster at samoa appears elsewhere in this issue V the th story is somewhat crudely told but here and there are graphic flashes atwould it would have been more acceptable if it were more consistent and the facts presented in better ot or der it starts out with a misstate ment that six warships war ships were ground to atoms and subsequently subsequent lT furnishes an array of facts that two of the six were beached did norgo not go to pieces and have since beeb floated neither does WOW it appe that any of the others were actually broken to atoms the statement stat emerit in that regard having been made fo effect after which there has beatt bee considerable straining throughout to thus start out with an assertion ak and then annihilate it with aft facts acts to Is equal to laying down a and destroying it with the argon at ment the narrative is offered too mow in the form of desultory patches dot DOI arranged in their proper the reader being under the necessity of resorting to mental leapt leaping ng to form connections the we tale would have been better bau it been more consecutive and AB if there had been fewer however it is the best and really the only description that ba baa rt ached us and every reader 1 ca d take the statements it contains an out of the materials form his own ow picture of the dramatic occurrence t tbt h account of in reading this phenomenal disaster one cannot belp being struck jy aby the heroism of tho ta officers and seamen generally 1 ana d were upon the ill fated vessels exposed to the fury of the storm not a whit behind this feature wo unda kitei the unselfish devotion courage and rema remarkable liable endur inee of the people on shore who lr with rare intrepidity to save sa v e w lives of the unfortunate marinero mariners ma war lUO in this latter phase phaar of the troche it is specially notable V tho the natives placed the white sw dents dent afar far in the thea shade hade aured out anio into the surging OR eav t tog 90 afraid where white men were buffeting the ang angry rry snatching drowning men dpn w jaws of death and carrying thela w the shore nor did their ow cease with the saving of lift fsr they in the spirit of selfa storo ator contributed from their scanty for the as of provisions supplies port poo of the rescued american aay 11 i ore we hope there will be f jol expression of appreciation prom and government of the valuably ablo heroic service thus rend ereo of this country in a fc woo wp sas certainly e extreme peril Christia act on our 00 j is due if for no other purpose ila w r w v to 0 counteract the possible effect tipon ion the natives of the unchristian like att conduct of the rescued american survivors of the 8 torm storm the conduct of many of them it appears was disgraceful numbers of theny them availed themselves of the earliest opportunity of getting fank nh the consequence of this condition being that they became quarrelsome and disorderly it is not a feature that the american consul was con to request the assist fance of the germans to maintain the peace it I 1 t was very prudently and correctly represented in n response that a movement of that kind would result in the being attacked b by the americans aad nd thus matters would have been made much worse the conduct of 11 bour our seamen under such circumstances was more censurable than the be same behavior would have been hoder ordinary conditions act it will be observed that the un generous spirit exhibited in com ants upon the commander of the cauhope which escape escaped d from the and thus eluded disaster is alii maintained every conceivable theory was offered in the first place dept superior seamanship yet this AB in the light of the latest details fit appears to be the most feasible ex Yoa tion in the absence of def 4 aute information it was conjectured i 4 and 11 even insisted that the calope 48 the only vessel that haj had steam when the hurricane began w howl now it appears that athe 1 of ft the he wari warships hips had steam on ir t the english vessel was the tb only 6 e thich b managed to gets get out of the ir fir f r this being the case the s d hpe of the calliope is altri attributed bu ted to i 0 superior SUPer for strength of her engines r f course jealousy suggests any life kreoll but that of greater probes experience and adroitness aie yi there 11 is also an attempt to censure etain D knee for not stopping and i A ring assistance instead of put u tw out immediately for sydney af ir ast 4 turning returning to the island and i the situation doubtless tle he remained he would have se condemned seeing that the 1 l 10 and peril eril were over ove for fo not no ungto lit to the nearest port and sa the ale news of the dreadful disk 8 elt t to the world so it was a of be condemned 30 OU io do and i be condemned dont uw t lethe he better part for individuate individuals to in au all matters if they oy leaning to incline to thea the 4 side of magnanimity by doing so they are more likely to touch closely the lines of justice there is no disparagement neither should there be of the seamanship of the brave and resolute off officers leers of our unfortunate t warships when tested by a trying orieal they acted well and a bly ably according to all accounts to give due credit to those of a vessel of another nation is no reflection on them |