The Beaver radical. (Beaver, Pa.) 1868-1873, April 11, 1873, Image 1
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Firth* chief officer of the Atlan tic, in reply Ip a reporter's inquiry, made a statement, ..’istance as follows; “My watch ended i 11 o’clock on Monday night. The sec and fourth officers look charge, and I i-trt- to tny berth. I was aroused by the ;. ck of the vessel striking. The second i orcamedowntomy room, and said ■ -ship was ashore, and he was afraid : ’.i- was gone. I put on a few’ articles of ■. ii;ng, got an axe, and went on deck i t ear the boats. The ship had careened ' ■\r before I reached the deck. I cleared ”o. stuboapd boats. Just then a-heavy swept the boats away. I was holding ; i the mizzen-mast rigging, and now ' "Jie i higher for safety. The night was ' :-irk, and the spray blew so thickly that ■: u;M not see well what was going on s.’. ns. ■isiw nun on the rocks, but did not >•' v they go,i there. All who were -• "ii hoird were in the rigging when I counted thirty two ’' in the nrzzon-masl rigging with il came m-du ling one .woman. When these ' timt there were lines between the ‘■'i i shore, many of them attempted -■ f Tivard tu the lines, and in doing '■vt-hed overboard and drowned. v shoru by the aid of the ■ ar.-i fishermen's boats rescued many At inst all had either been washed • fi-sem <i except myself, the woman, H h y. The sea had become so rough j could not venture near us. | ‘.ht-!) iy wis washed off, but he swam | y reached one of the boats in i I -Cl a firm hold of the woman [ ' 'arc 1 her in the rigging. I could ■ I""; 1 - 1 - on shore and in boats, and '-hun, hut they were unable tn - At J "’clock'in the afternoon, i,i,i i’ujen in the rigging ten Mr. Ancient, a Church of ' l ' ■ whose noble conduct ■•' v ’ r 1 ■ * iire-1 while I live, got a crew 1 Ui r. t t r,iw him out to the wreck. H-v ■ Uu< miin ringing and pen ''tn , then advanced as far as be ■'"‘"'•r is me and threw it in me. I ■- ‘h nr.t ic it around my body, ■ tumpptj clear. A sea swept me •-■'leik, but Mr.-Ancient held fast i'u’ied me back, and got me ' -f btta', I wasjhcn so exbaust • d that I was hardly able" iU .' - ii; it - f->r myself, and but for the V' 1 ' 11 -* conduct I must bate „, ‘ ' n Tim woman, afterbearing , r *^Heritable strength under her j * Ul ' died two hours before M, ' n * l i; ‘d arrived. Her half nude i.isl in the rigging, her ! ■ r U'ji:;g i her awjth foaming—a ■ ' s;>ec?acle, rendered more • c ' r - :r *st with tile" numerous jewels which sparkled on her bands. We had to leave her body there.and it is prob ably there yet. The scene at the wreck was awful, such I had never before wit nessed, and hope never to witness again. Comparatively few bodies drifted ashore. Most of them, with such articles as came out of the ship while I was on her, were carried to sea.” ?2,00 l,OO 5O V.. 05 Halifax, N. S., April 2. —The following is the captain’s statement: “We sailed from Liverpool, March 36. During the first part of the passage we bad favorable weather and easterly winds. On Abe 24th, 25th, and 261 h experienced heavy southwest and westerly gales, which brought the 'ship down to 118 miles a day. On the 3lsl of March the engineer’s report showed that about 127 tons of coal was ,6n board,’ We then' 460,miles east of Sandy Hook with the wind south west and high westerly swell and falling barometer, and the ship steaming on 8 knots per hour; considered the risk to great to push on, as we might find our selves in the event of a gale abut out from any port of supply, and so decided to bear op for Halifax. At 1 p. m.. on the 31st Sambro Island was distant one hundred and seventy miles, ths ship's speed varying from eight to twelve knots per hour, wind sooth, with rain, which veered to west ward at 8 p. si-, with clear weather. At midnight I judged the ship to have made one hundred and twenty-two miles, which would place her forty-eight miles south of Samhro, and I then left the deck and went into the chart-room, leaving orders about the look-out and to let me know if they satf anything, and to call me at 3 a. M , intending then to put the ship’s head to southward and await day light. My first intimation of the catastrophe was the striking of the ship on Mart’s Is land, and remaining there fast. The sea immediately swept away all the port boats. The officers went to their stations, and commenced clearing away the weath er boats. Rockets were fired by the sec ond officer. Before the boats could be cleared, only ten minutes having clasped, the ship keeled heavily to port, rendering lUe Blftrhajird tlOnto ..folooelj (■«•!•((» jjq ! help could be got from the boats I got ! the passengers into the rigging and out j ride rails, and encouraged them to go i forward, where the ship was lightest and less exposed to water. The third officer, Mr. Brady, and Quar termasters Owens and Spoakman, by this lime having established commu nication with the out laying rock, about forty yards distant, by means of a line, got four other lines to the rock, along which about two hundred people passed. Between the rock and the shore was a passage one hundred yards in width. A rope was successfully passed across this, by which means about fifty got to land, although many were drowned in the at tempt. At 5 a. m. the first boat appeared from the island, but she was too small to he of any assistance. Through the exertions of Mr. Brady the islanders were aroused, and by 6 a m. three larger boats came to our assistance. By their efforts all that remained on the side of the ship and on the rock were landed in safety,and cared for by a poor fisherman named Chancy, and bis daughter. During the day survi vors to the number of 429 were drafted off to various houses scattered about, the resident magistrate, Edmund Ryan, ren dering valuable assistance. The chief officer having got up the miz zen rigging, the sea cut off his retreat. He stood for six hours by a woman who had been placed in the rigging. The sea was too high to attempt his rescue. At 3 p. m a clergyman, Rev. Mr. Ancient,, suc ceeded in getting him a line and getting him off? Many of the passengers, saloon and steerage, died on the rigging from cold. Among the number was the purser of the ship. I placed two ladies in a life boat, but finding the boat useless, carried them to the main rigging. 1 left them and went aft to encourage others to go forward on the side of the sh ip. At this juncture the boiler exploded, and the boat rolled over to leeward, the ship at this time being on her beam ends. Finding myself useless there, I went to take the ladies forward, but found them gone, nor did I sec them afterwards. Many passengers at this lime could not be 'stimulated to any attempt to save them selves, but lay in the rigging exhausted from fright and exposure. I remained on the side, encouraging, helping, and di recting. until about fifteen were landed, when, finding that my hands and legs becoming useless, I left the ship, two othCriboats being close to, and embarked the remainder. On reaching shore I despatched Mr. Brady, third officer, oft to Halifax, across ■ lj ’ • , c .-r- BEAVER, PENN’A. FRIDAY* .APRIL «. 1873. the-comity, to telegraph the news of the disaster, and to obtain assistance. Mr. Marrow, the Canard line agent, prompt*: ly responded, and sent two steamers with provisions to convey the survivors to Hal* ifax, where they will -be cared for and forwarded to New York the> first oppor tunity, ih charge of the first, and fourth officers, the third officer and four men being left at the -island tp care for the dead as they came ashore. Halifax, N. S. April 2.—Truman D. Markwald,-a cabin passenger, was inter viewed by a Chronicle reporter. He says: I turned . into my birth at 9 o’clock on Monday night, and was aroused by the shock of the ship striking. All the men in the cabin rushed upon the deck to see what was wrong. 1 went into the saloon on deck. I observed by the clock that the time was 3-20. Rockets were being fired. Within fifteen minutes from the time the ship struck she careened. The captain with his officers behaved bravely. The cry was raised ‘ Take to the rigging ; it’s your only chance.” At daybreak a fisherman’s boat came out and rescued a number of ns and landed them at Mea gher Island. A handful of the people there warmly welcomed us. They gave us food and clothing and did all for us they could. Edmund Ryan, a magistrate, Dei nis Ryan, and their wives, were espe cially active in administering to our wants. There were three boats’ crews whose names deserve a high place on the roll of honor. The first boat was manned by Dennis Ryan, Jas. Canlin, Frank Ryan, John Blackburn, and Ben Blackburn; the second boat bj Jas. O’Brien, Michael O’Brien, P. Dollard, Wm. Lacy, and T. J. Toorg. I regret that I have not the names of the other crew. To these men chiefly belong the credit of having, at the risk of their lives, rescued from death over 400 souls. They, as well as several others of whose bravery I have beard, should certainly receive some record of their noble conduct. Coming up on the Delta there wore ringing high praises of the gallantry of the boats’ crews already referrefrt<vasr well as of Rev. Mr, An-* dent, who rescued the perishing chief of ficer, Firth ; of Rrody and . opcatiumu, and Of v/WCns, TV A* vr- I7K ©S— lab'.ished communication with the shore. The kindness of Ahe people of Prospect was also universally acknowledged. One of the oldest of the New York steamship commanders has written a com munication to the Post of that city, last evening, giving his views as the cause of the disaster. He says; “A dispassionate view of the loss of this steamer, as set forth in this morning’s despatches, would seem to warrant the conclusion that it was attributable^firstly, to the most culpable cupidity on the part of the company owning her, and, sec ondly, to gross carelessness on the part of the ship’s officers. When we bring the charge of cupidity we bring it on the ground that the ship was not suffi ciently coaled on account of the high prices ruling in Great Britain for that commodity, and it is not at all improba i b!e that the captain was instructed, in case his very light supply of coal should warrant it, to run into Halifax to fill up. j “It is not an for North Atlantic steamers through stress of weath -ler to so exhaust their fuel as to render I it absolutely necessary to touch at one of I the Brilish-American ports, but ,In the case of the Atlantic no such excuse could be offered; the mere fact thavshe has j been only nine or ten days at sea proves | conclusively that, though she might have t experienced a hurricane, still it was not ! continuous, or she could not have made 1 so good lime, and it is hardly probable that it she had had four,days’ more coal left she would have borne up for Halifax, and if she did not, then it is evident that she was sent to sea with less than filtecu days’ coal on board, to make a winter’s voyage of three thousand miles ! Nelth er can there be any excuse of want of ca pacity for storage of coal, for she was one of the largest ships in the world, and con sumed less per diem than many of half her size. “When we make the charge of gross carelessness on the part of the officers, we do it on the ground that on a compar atively clear night they approached the most dangerous coast in the world with out proper precautions; for when Captain Williams made the light Yvhich be sop posed was ‘Sambro,’ he deliberately went below and turned in, and a few minutes after the ship struck! Now we do not remember at the moment the character of the lights on the Nova Scotia coast, but it would be fairly safe to assert that the two lights—that is, the ‘Sambro’ and the one on the Prospect headland were quite distinctive, being respectively ‘revolv ing,’ ‘flash,’ or stationary, and we know of no can be offered by a.com rounder offtmatherfor not acquainting himself tfrofp|i|hly of the nature of the light made so as certainly to define his position. ciTComstances may be broaght(forirtM*btrt atla first glance the loss of this veftaenu&s very bad look both for master and owners, And both he and they will and tninirJte he held to a strict ac countability ftn it ' I ' _ - MHO EJECTIONS- CcßVE&fcSib Ohio, April X—Chas. Otis, candidatefor mayor on the citizen’s ticket, was elected by about 800 majority over John fipniiogdon, republican. The balance oflbsjirepubncaa, ticket and re publican cajoNSkJ*teB to the Constitutional Convention elected. , April 7.—The election passed tfj quietly. The returns come in that anything more than are useless. The in dications toMrbsi Ball, Democratic can didate for J|tyof, Is elected, and Rickieg and Babefeffcptb Democratic candidates for the Constitutional Convention, are probably elected. April 7,—The election passed exciteßient. The ticket was mostly elected. The couwMahd scbool board are Repub- and Liberal candidates for delegates to the Constitutional Convention are elect ed. King, Hoodley, Freiberg and John son were on both tickets, and of course are elected. The returns with reference to the four Police Commissioners elected under the new law are more meager. Gither, Republican candidate in the first .district, is having large gains, but the Republicans are by no means sanguine of his election. There is now hardly a doubt that the whole general city Democratic ticket is elected, not excepting Warring ton, of whose election there appeared some indications earlier in the evening. CONNECTICUT BHSCTION Hartford, April 7 — l This City gives Haven, Republican, for Governor, } Ingersoll, Democrat, 3,612 ; Smith, 'feoi perance, 27; against last year, Jewell, Re publican, 3,481; Hubbard,"Democrat, 2,- 439; New Brittain gives Haven JB2l, lo gereoll 954, Smith 54 ; against Jewell 936, Hubbard 554. Returns from thirty eight towns foot up Haven 11,088, Ingersoll 11,509; the same towns last year gave Jewell 12,339, Hubbard 11,661. The choice of Governor by the people is doubful. Hawley, Re publican, for Congress in this district, is elected by about 1,400 majority. Later —Starkweather Republican, for Congress, in third district, is undoubted ly re-elected. General Hawley runs about 1,600 ahead of the Republican State ticket in his district, and is elected by about 1,800 majority. Last fall he had 633. Ingersoll, Democrat, is elected Gov ernor by the people by 2,000 to 3,000 ma jority. The Legislature will be close. Latest —In the second Congressional district Kejlogg has 255 majority; with four towns to hear from. These towns gave a Republican majority last year of 145. In the first Congressional district Hawley has 1,288 majority, with five towns to hear from, which gave a Repub lican majority last year of four. In the third Congressional district Starkweather is re elected by about 1,200 majority. In the fourth district Barnum, Democrat, has 1,249 majority, with two towns to hear from, which gave a Democratic majority last year of 47. The Senate probably stands 11 Republi cans to 10 Democrats. Laa,t year it was 14 Republicans to 7 Democrats. The House will be very close, the chances be ing that it is Democratic by a small ma jority. Oil Citv is partly submerged by high : water. The water continues to rise, 1 When the publje finds that it takes four bushels of wheat to pay for the transpor tation of a fifth bushel from the producer in lowa to the consumer in New York, and nearly the same proportion for every ton of coal brought from the coal-fields of Pennsylvania, naturally enough, the question whether this is necessary acquires a great importance. From the railroads themselves it is difficult to get a definite answer to this question. The railroad trade has its- secrets, like any other which those who make their living there, from are loth to disclose. Fortunately, however, we have the authentic calcula tions which will show what is really the coat of Tail way transportation. In 1863 a report was made by the Board of Trade, ~in London, England, from the returns made to Parliament by ail the railroads in the United Kingdom of their expenses for that year. This average was 2s, 7d. (say 62 cents) per mile for each train, including “goods, coal and other mineral trains, conveying two or three hundred tons, as well as passen gers.” The items from which this average was made are thus given in the report ; S. D, Cmt*. Maintenance el way and works ... 0 ll Locomotive power 0 9 is Repairs and renewal of carnages.. 0 2*4 5 General truffle ebargea 09 is Rates and trades, IV4; Government , doty, 1 o 2«4 5 Compensation for accidents and , low i 0 y, i tagai and parliamentary expenses. 0 i Working expenses not m the above 0 2 4 This means that the average actual cost of transporting a train, carrying from two to three hundred tons a mile, was in Eng land sixty-three cents. How is it in this country ? As a rule, our railway directors do not see the advantage of giving such infor mation to the public; but still we have the data upon which it may be computed. The Saihoay Gazette for March 8, 1878, calculates from the tables in the Illinois Railroad Commissioners’ Report that the expense in that State for carrying a train a mile amounts to $1.03, and says; “In Massachusetts, from much more accurate returns, the average cost per train mile is put at $1.31.” : ofjbe jWne of 354 miles, the average cost per frdnf mile Is given as $1.12. The excess of ex .pense between this country and England arises probably from various reasons, among which not the least is a want of economical management. Here there are the materials for a calculation like this; l l V The cost of mining SOOJtons of coal, at 60 cents per ton f ISO The cost of transporting It to New York, say 300 miles, at, to be generous, $1,50 per mile 450 Total cost of 300 tons of coal, landed In New York s<Bo Price obtained for SOI* tons, at 16 per ton.. 1,800 Profit made out of the consumer $1,170 —nearly twice as much as the mining and the transportation r?allv cost. No w’Ohder, then, that Mr. Galt, in bis feport of the Board of Trade in London, said : “When the public come to know that a passenger can be conveyed one hundred miles for two pence half penny (5 cents,) for which he is charged eight shillings and fourpence ($2,) and that a ton of coal can be brought from the North of England for about a shilling (38 cents) the cost there being six or seven shillings and the price in London four or five times that sum, It requires no prophet to foretell that the days of railway monopo ly in private bands will in this country (England) soon be numbered.”— Daily Graphic. A Burlington telegram of the sth says: The most terrible rain, hail and wind storm ever known here came at a min ute’s notice this morning, creating fearfu havoc and loss of life. The storm struck the city on West Hill, tearing the roof from one of the school houses and descend ing thence through the business portion of the city. Buildings were unroofed and agreatdealof damage done. The most horrible part of the catastrophy was the destruction of T. N. Pond’s butter and egg depot, on Jefferson street, and the death of seven persons. The house was blown down and twenty-five persons were buried beneath the ruins. Mr. Pond and three others were taken out dead, and nineteen others were rescued, more or less injured. Mr. Pond was a young man of great promise, who had built up a large trade, and was well known through out the State. The wife and two children of Mr. Steiger, a German schoolmaster, who lived in the house adjoining, were killed by the falling of the east wall of Pond’s bouse. The persons killed were T. N. Pond, and three of bis employees, named Pendergrast, Trainer and Neff RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION. Terrible Slorm lu lowa. Mrs. Steiger and her two children. Some ot the men rescued from the ruins will probably die. The Mayor am? the police force have been on the ground ever since the accident, rendering every assitance possible. Believers in the importation of Chinese as a solution of the much vexed and im perfectly understood labor problem, will now have to look elsewhere for a panacea for the ills of the system. We now have it on the authority of the New York Ski- Utiji that the experiment of substituting Mongolian for home and European worit men has very generally proved a failure, the only exception thus far being at North Adams, Massachusetts. Various reasons are given to account for the mis carriage of the scheme. The Chinaman, it is said, is liable to infirmities and weak nesses the same as his European American competitors- Jn spite of bis apparent docility he manifests a lamenta ble proclivity for the highest wages going, and to check this tendency a system of issolation and seclusion from outside in fluences is necessary. Intelligent while men and shrewd Yankees are disgusted at their keenness in making a bargain* and the growing difficulty. 0 f overreach-* log them is a matter of general complaint. The meek, almond-eyed, strangers who were lately glad to work for little or noth ing demand the highest wages when they have learned the trade. But there is this difference between them and other work men. If their demands are refused they do not sit down lo starve in idleness. They generally start on their account next door to their old employer,and draw ofl bis customers by underselling him in his own specialty. The average Chinese laborer is no more virtuous than his white prototype, and very soon learns the vices of the “Melikrn roan," adding to them certain Oriental improvements which do not make them any the more wholesome. He is apt to he excessively fond of smok ing opium, and*, like bis betters, gels lazy, and disposed to take bis “day off” as of ten as possible He is avaricious, too, to a degree, and is by no means a model of honesty. When be has learned his trade and picked up a few words of English— 1* I® tion he can obtain at ever soslight arTTh crease of wages. Capt. J. B. Hervey, who has had in his extensive laundry at Belleville, N. J., 150 Chinamen, has re luctantly come lo the conclusion that their labor is not profitable, ami has re cently at considerable loss, an order which he had given for a large addition to this force. Many of those first imported by this gentleman de serted in the manner stated above, and did'hot go empty handed. They had con tracted considerable bills with •' ~ , _ __ I*"-* t£i6 ftQon* keepers of „„ strengUl £ f •«« ?acl that the Chinese were employed for a fixed number of years, and would be able to pay. The merchants have in this vyay lost large sums, and there is no possiSility of their ever securing their claims. 3 7 Of 63 The Bulletin mentioned also, the recent commotion among the Chinamen at Bea ver Falls, caused by the fact that some new arrivals from China received a cent or two a day less than their fellow-coun trymen who had been at the trade for years. And what renders this affair the more curious it says, is the fact »bat the old experienced hands joined in with the raw arrivals and could not see why ad should not receive the highest maximum pay- —Pittsburgh Commercial. —The Republican party was never belter organized in Pennsylvania than it is today. It is composed of live men, who know exactly what they are doing, and when the proper lime comes they will do it—that is, they will win a victory for the right. The manner in which the newspaper organs of the party have con demned the wrong in Congress shows exactly how determined the party is to stand for the right in the future, main taining its organization to win victories and not seeking triumphs to destroy that organization. There is no necessity, at this early day. therefore, to trouble our selves about the candidates to be voted for at the coming October election. At the proper lime such candidates will be found, and when the election day arrives they will be elected. —Harrisburg State Journal. —The Rhode Island State election on the 2d inst., resulted in the success of the Republican ticket. The vote for Govern or was—Howard, Republican, 0,273 ; Chace, Democrat, 3,565, with a few small towns to hear from. Howard's majority will be about 5,800. NUMBER 15 “Chinese- Labori ,,<