Show mm TERESH LOST american prize or the battle of july ard 3rd goes down while en route I 1 from santiago to the mew york navy dock crew reported saved loss wilt be by the whole nation apparently an fated cruiser new ork nov S A special from harleston S c to the journal said he former cruiser maria teresa has one to the bottom of the sea dr ebby quara nUne officer at this port aa lust sent word that the crew ot the bercsa has arrived at his with ahe news ot the sinking full particulars are not yet obtainable but the wreck has already been officially reported charleston W va nov S the tug merritt put in charleston this morning for supplies she reported the loss of the cruiser maria teresa raised by constructor hobson off san salvador bahamas nov 1 in the midst ot a arious storm the cruiser left calmanera Cal manera cuba on the morning of oct 30 in tow for new fork she had already passed cape bayzl and started northeast around ahe bahamas A furious storm warning of which has already been sent out overtook took her and in her condition the was unable to weather the gale the strain opened rents in her hull which had been patched to enable her to make the journey and fhe began to fill rapidly the took off capt harris and the crew from the sinking ship and she soon went down the merritt brought the captain and men who will proceed north by rail afo lives were lost as far as known the merritt is now at quarantine six alles from the city I 1 later in the day the merritt arrived from quarantine and the survivors of the maria teresa came ashore they j lost all clothing and personal effects I 1 and are supplied scantily the i eresa j sunk thirty miles off walling island at noon tuesday after battling with the gale six hours j E she met the storm tuesday morning and the vessel began to strain in the high beas parts ot the bull thought to i ibe safe became weakened brone and j the water made rapidly in the hold hiie boilers began to give way and fi nally the water extinguished the fires in the engine room the pumps would I 1 not work the whole vessel showed I 1 signs ot a collapse and the men stood stripped and awaiting orders to quit the ship the vulcan was towing the teresa while the merritt rescued of the crew made up of volunteers from the i cincinnati newark and vulcan the ropes were then cut and she then raold ly filled r thy vulcan and lconidas escorted the merrial tl which put inlo Charlo atou the rescued washington nov 6 the navy department part ment has received a dispatch from bleul commander harris who was with the maria teresa when she left Cal menera saying he bad reached charleston last night on the wrecking tug with the officers and fifty tight men formerly the crew of the teresa the cruiser was lost about thirty miles north ot san salvador tuesday last in a northeast gale of exceptional violence i this was all the advises advices received at the department up to 2 news of the loss ot the spanish cruiser came to the navy department from f lieutenant commander harris at about 10 this morning 17 long being temporarily absent from be department the officials of the navigation bureau acting under a strict construction of official etiquette re fused to make the dispatch public until the secretary had given bis consent consequently the publication was delayed when finally published tho als patch read as follows charleston S C nov 5 secretary 0 navy washington arrived here last night on steamer merritt with american crew of the infanta maria teresa abandoned in heavy northeastern eale nov 1 thirty miles north of san salvador have ca enlisted men signed HARRIS to have turned about and sought another passage would have been an extremely perilous undertaking to begin with and even after getting safely about the vessel would be obliged to travel many allea more than intended in order to have picked up another course this time closer to the north american con and with the added dangers that proximity to the florida chaala might r bring it Is said at the navy depart E ment that bleul commander harris will be ordered at once to norfolk i where the rescued seamen will be placed aboard a receiving ship the greatest regret was expressed in official circles regarding the loss ot the maria teresa secretary of state hay bald ho waa indeed sorry to bear i bad f been found impossible to bring the ves eel to the united states when everybody was so much interested in her he expressed gratification that no loss of life waa reported in consequence of the disaster acting secretary alien of the navy nays the loss wag much greater any intrinsic value represented in the nhan she waa the link that connected the preat naval victory with the united states it waa a sentiment bred in this country that succeeded in raising her and it was thewl sh of the whole people that she should be brought to the united states it was the general 1 alon about the state war and navy building that the loss of the maria te acea would prevent any further attempt to bring any of the other vessels to this E country looking at the chart it was not cult for the officers at the department to see the ship had foundered under the influence of a heavy northeast gale re ported As near as they could calca late the lies in about 2600 fath arab orab of water or nearly three miles the location a 24 degrees north latitude by 74 30 west longitude about miles distant from naua and miles distant from Cal menera the port from which it started from a little over two days before she had just emerged from the sage and to make her course was obliged to lay with her head about northwest this would bring the heavy sea over her forward side and under such severe pounding the vessel must have soon succumbed there was no alternative on her lee lay the rocky bahamas and innumerable shoals with shallows between and with shallow water in every direction except straight ahead or direct astern new york nov 6 private informs 1 tion received here from charleston says the infanta maria teresa was abandoned 30 miles north of island one of the bahamas |