Show 01 I 1 f HE SEA A collision colligon at sea causes loss of ol 01 life A 1 AD AID A 1 CO 60 DOWN the th lumber of lites list lost oot tot rut thought to be starly ose doodled DoD dred V NEW YORK oct 31 the spanish steamship viscaya was run iota into off cir Bar negal by an unknown e schooner hooner c yesterday and both vessels tassels were bank sunk the captain and sixty one passengers 0 of I 1 the steamer were lost the fate of the crew on the schooner is unknown i A the chief officer second officer the surgeon eur geon one engineer and c eight tight of t the he crew were picked up so tar far as known these are the only persona persons oat out of a crew and passenger liet list of eighty fix six of and the crew of the unknown ac schooner boner that has been saved it is feared that all theophers the others arel are lost and that the li ii lit t will number up to eighty if it not more the details are meager the viscaya biscaya left slew new york yesterday afternoon af ter for havana with nice regular passengers and a crew of seventy seven seve ii it is thought there were eom othera others on board kot on the litt iet athala at halt past eight thursday evening a large four mamaed schooner hove insight in sight and bore tore do down n on the steamer et eamer striking on the starboard bunkers carrying away the bridge and cabin the captain was instantly killed several piantes later both bath vessels had bunk stink and the passengers and crews were struggling struz gling in the water the steamer was a staunch vessel and captain aunill wai was one of the most trus nia ed employed emp loyes of the line one of the passengers not on the regular list was juan pedro a cuban millionaire lion lio alre and director in the tile steamship line the other passengers oa on board as far as learned were st A calvo w wife ife fon eoa and maid mr purr and ana three children A ruiz jose A alaiba aba ramon alvarez juan F heam bedman a oscur islaub laici luici Pel bellion lion jose garcia surgeon rico says at the time of the C collision olli he was in the cabin talking to mrs calvo suddenly there came an it awful shock and the steamer rolled well over on the port side everybody in the cabin was thrown down dow aul and immediately a a scene cana of wa wildest confusion ensued mrs calvo begged me to gave save her bar son and I 1 went up on deck to find him there a terrible scene met my eyes the bridge deckhouse and all torn away there was a great gash in the starboard aide side just abaft the coal bankers bon kers and through this the water was rus rushing hing cloe clope by on the starboard beam was a big tour four masted schooner with bowsprit a and fore rigging gone and beams stove in I 1 men were running about wildly on our decks shouting all kinds of of orders and I 1 can remember see seeing ing the crew of the schooner hooner Bc doing the he 0 same o on their vessel the next thing I 1 knew the water was washing over our deck decks with the wild idea of saving ourselves several of us cl clambered rn bared u up p the port do down van went the steamer and up we climbed we reached the fore top gallant yard and just then the bull hull reached the bottom this left us just above tha the surface of 1 the water but each swell dashed over our limbs the twelve survivors were there some of our crew tried to reach the schooner hooner ec but she went ta the bottom almost as quick as Viez issaya ays and a tar far as we could bad had not a sail in sight eight one of the men in the yard said while climbing the rigging he ha had seen a boat lowered from the schooner and seven men get in and row away but we could not see anything a of it although it was a bright moonlight night then in hope of attracting attention we cut ent the tarred ropes on the yard and lighting them swung them in be the air but in vain all through the long night wo we clung to that yard growing folder colder and stiffer each hour toward daybreak one 0 of I 1 the men thought he beard a steamer passing and we all shouted as loud as aff wa we could then a boat r made its appearance and we were taken on board the humboldt we could not have lasted much longer the collision is inexplicable in view of the statement of dr klco rico that the night was a bright moonlight one and the sea smooth A dispatch from lewes delaware toni to ni paya says the tug Her hercules coles arrived this evening and reports thai that the schooner booner ec lost was the cornelius Corn elim hargraves II argraves ten men arm fr m the liar har graves and seven from viscaya biscaya were a picked up by the schooner sarah L davis and transferred to the I 1 hercules ler cules the latter proceeded tor for the wreck to render assistance but at midnight t met the be tug butler batter which had been to the scene and found both vessels sunk stink and all bands hands gone they picked up the body of a woman the survivors report that nearly one hundred people were clinging ing to the wreck at one time tibe schooner Bc nooner hargraves cleared from lewes october 27 with coal for fall river mass blass |