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Show TWENTY LIVES LOST RESULT OF STEAMSHIP COLLISION COLLIS-ION OFF VIRGINIA COAST. Vessels Were Enveloped in Heavy Fog and Came Together While Run-' Run-' ning Ten Miles an Hour. . . - ' " i A collision at sea that- cost the lives of . twenty , or more people, and the sinking of the Clyde steamship Saginaw Sagi-naw by the Old Dominion steamship Hamilton, occurred between Winter Quarter lightship and Fen wick, island lightship, en the Virginia coast, Tues-day Tues-day morning. The fog whistles .of both vessels were distinctly, heard by each other for several minutes before the collision col-lision occurred. According to Captain Boaz of the Hamilton, his ship was making about nine miles an hour, and the Saginaw about ten. The fog was so thick that objects a ship's length away were visible, and when the two crafts hove in sight .of each other, bow on, there was but a moment's in- , terim before they met. The Saginaw ; veered, as did the Hamilton, but they had no time to clear each other and the ; knife-like prow of the southern sound- vessel struck the Clyde ship on the port quarter about twenty feet from her stern, cutting the entire, rear of the ship away. . . The inrushing water caused the Saeinaw to settle rapidly at the stern, and the impetus of the Hamilton took her out of sight of the crippled vessel. ves-sel. The engines, already reversed, were put full steam to the rear and the Hamilton circled to the scene of the wreck, at the same time lowering two lifeboats. , It is generally estimated that twenty lives were lost. The Clyde estimate of the missing is six of the crew anj nine passengers. This is the report that the Clyde officials sent to their home office in Philadelphia. |
