The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1898. MARIA TERESA ENGULFED - DURING A FURIOUS STORM Raised Spanish Cruiser Foundered O the Bahamas Was Being Towed and Con- vojed From Santiago to the United States, Gallant Struggle Made by the Dis- abled Captaln and Lleutenant- Commander Harls and the Crewto Save the Vessel, but They Barely Saved Thelr Dwn Llves, Bpecial Dispatch to The Call CHARLESTON, Nov. 5—The tug Merritt put into Charleston this morn- ing for supplies. of the cruiser Maria Teresa, raised by Constructor Hobson, off San Salvador, a furious storm. The cruiser left Caimanera, Cuba, on the morning of October 30, in tow, for New York. She had already passed Cape Maysi and “started northeast around the Bahamas. A furious storm, warning of which had already been sent out, overtook her, and in her con- dition she 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 she began o fill rapidly. The Merritt took off ptain Harris and the crew from the » and she soon went down. brought the captain and 136 n who will proceed north by rail. No lives were lost, as far as knowh The Merritt is now at quarantine, six miles from the city, communication with her being difficult. Later in the day the Merritt arrived from quarantine, and the survivors of the Teresa came ashore. They lost all clothing and personal effects, and are supplied scantily. The Teresa sunk off Walling Island at mid- after battling with the gale six hou She met the storm Tuesday morning, and t vessel began to strain in the high Parts of the hull thought to be e became weakened, rivets broke and the water made rapidly in the hold. The boilers began to give way, and finall> the water extinguished the fires in the engine room. The pumps would not work The whole vessel showed signs of a collapse, and the men stood ped, waiting orders to quit the ship. The Vulcan was towing the Teresa while the Merritt rescued 114 of the crew, made up of volunteers from the Cincinnati, 2 vark and Vulcan. The ropes were then cut, and she rapidly 2 filled. The Vulcan and Leonidas de- serted the Merritt, which put into Charleston with the rescued. Captain Crittenden and Captain Lacade of the Merritt had their arms sprained. The crew left the shin for Norfolk. - OFFICIAL STORY OF THE LOSS OF THE TERESA WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—A thrilling story of the loss of the cruiser Maria Teresa is given in the official report of Lieutenant Commander Harris to the Secretary of the Navy, received by telegraph at the Navy Department late this afternoon. It is dated “On Board Wrecking Steamer Merritt fifty mile off Charleston, November 4,” and say Secretary of the Navy, Washington— ADVERTISEMENTS. ASTHMA CURED TO STAY CURED. During the Last Six Weeks Over 700 Sufferers Have Tried DOC- TOR ROUXEL'S Asthma Cure. Over 600 Continued the Treat- ment. That Speaks for Itself. The doctor wants each gufferer from Asthma, Hay Fever or Bronchitis in this city to call and get one. When asked regarding his reasons for giving his remedy away in this manner he #ald: “'People are naturally skeptical about an asthma remedy, and when you consider the alled ‘cures’ on the market you can hardly blame them. Now I claim that my Cure cures. It will instantly relieve the most violent attack. It has permanently cured thou- sands who had been considered incurable. If 1 did not bel e it why should I be giving It away? = sufferer who gets a sample can tell whether 1t is as I represent it, and it doesn’t cost him a cent. That is falr, isn't it?"* It certainly does not look as iIf anything could be falrer. Those living in the city or vicinity must call at office. Those living at a distance can receive free sample by addressing DR, ROUXEL, 323 Kearny street Hours—il . m. to 4 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays—11 to 12. Use and Facfal Soap E Faclal Cream. Age, Tlness, Care cause Wrinkies. Derma- tologist JOHN H. WOODBURY, 127 West 424 st., N. Y., 163 State st., Chicago, has had over 26 years' practical experience removing Wrin- kies, Crow's Feet, etc. No pain. She reported the loss | | | ha Bahamas, November 1, in the midst of | | til perhaps 6 p. m.; there was a heavy THE FORMER SPANISH CRUISER MARIA® TERESA. From a photograph taken by a staff artist of the Herald-Call an hour after she was abandoned by Admiral Cer- g I ] vera and her crew. |the interests of the clothing trade. Sir: I have the honor to make the fol- Jowing report of the loss of the Infanta Maria Tere t1a. m. I found that g hard, and went on the bridge. ~ We had left Watlings and light abeam at 10 o'clock, and up ) midnight the weather was pleasant, and al 1t well with the ship, although we had trouble in keeping the pump in the forward fireroom from being choked coal. The wind continued to in- g in force until perhaps 3 a. m. when it reached its height, although there were times all uay when it blew as d as ever. The direction was about The sea continued to rise un- northeast. sea all the following day. Soon after 1 came on deck I relieved the second mate, Mr. Johnson, to fight the water. About 3:30 the first mate, Captain Locato, came up, and he also went below to work.. Captain Chit- tenden, who was on deck almost as soon as I, gave his attention to the pump. pecially to priming the cem.ri'.;}mul pump in the forward fireroom. ere W e many new . When a heavy sea struck the s the plates leaked at th butts and seams, showing that af- ter the fire they had resumed their for- mer appearance, but were not tight. There was at the mainmast an inch of thwart ship vibration, and on inch longitudinal vibr ing this examination, Captain Chittenden was and fell on the chain, hurting h back enough to temporarily dis He continued to give us valuable ad »out thrown down side At 2 a. m. we made signal to the Vu and Merritt to go to windward, which did as well as they could. Up to 1 o'clock a. m. we were running the star- board main engines and had steam on the ntral boil sut the trouble in the ard fireroom caused the steam to run hten fires under the starboard fler, and we stopped the engine =0 as to run the steam in for the pumps. The pump for keeping the water from the forward compartment was driven by a belt, and when the sea broke over the bows the belt became wet and sliy As soon as the water was up to the floor place in the forward fireroom the rolling of the ship washed into the coal bunkers | and carried the coal out, choking pump and carrying the floor plate which made it difficult and d About 8 o'clock I called for work there. volunteers to hoist coal and water into the ash hoist. F ybody responded, and the work was c long as it seemed of 3:30 a. m. it was reported t coming into one of the starboard forward coal bunk- and running into the firerooms. Where o that he could g0 below | jo5ts the Vulcan slipped the hawser of alf an | B | contintied until 1 p. to which the Vulcan replied, “We will old on until she sinks or parts the tow A t signal he made was, * -ue s s will take all.” After that I had to go aft to force the drunken men overboard, and about 5 o'clock we were 1 off. The boa hauled under the em as near as it afe, where the ofl and lee of the ship made it smooth, and were held by one line, while another line with a ladder attached floated to the stern. Two double bights were stopped on the right side to go over a man's shoulder. The end was slackened from ine.” i the ship and when two men jumped they were hauled into the boat. A very fine fellow named Olsen attended to’ this. When all had gone but he and I he cut the line and we jumped together. It was perhaps 5:30 when we reached the Mer- ritt. While she was getting the surf the Teresa. I expect that the wreck dragging off to port brought all the strain on the port bridge and started the bitts. When the boats were in the Mer- | ritt at my request started to speak the | Vulean, but as unable to reach her, and apparently did not hear our whistle. he Merritt then returned to find the wreck, but could not do so. The search m. the following day, when she headed for Charleston. Very respectfully, IRA HARRIS, Lieutenant Commander. - MAY CHECK BRINGING OF OTHER CAPTURED SHIPS WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—The Navy Department has received a dispatch from Lieutenant Commander Harris, who was with the Maria Teresa when e left Caimanera, saying he had reached Charleston last night on the wrecking tug Merritt with the officers and fifty-eicht men formerly the crew of the Teresa. The cruiser was lost about thirty miles north of San Salva- dor Tuesday last in a notheast gale of exceptional violence. This was all the advice received at the department up to 2 o'clock. The news of the loss of the Spanish cruiser came to the vy Department in a telegram from Lieutenant Com- | mander Harris, received about 10 the water came from we do pot know. About 2 o'clock the ll-inch gun in_tne | after turret ran out and in twice. When it recoiled the second time something gave way, and It settled to extreme eleva- tion_and remain tationar: V sked the Vulcan to signal the Li s to stay close to us, and the latter hoisted the flag at the signal yardarm, which was a signal agreed upon to call the Leonidas to come within hail, She was steaming ahead of us and making rather bad weather. seemed as if she feared to turn in the 'y sea, but eventually she did cross ahead of the Merritt, and i under the Merritt's some dista nce. 1 thin liferafts which the Vulc About 11:30 o’clock we sig; to ask the Merritt if we could be turned fely to run for the lee of Watlings nd. To this Captain Wolcott replied and as Captain Chittenden thought ' would sink if we tried to turn this idea cen up. he Vilcan and Merritt could with n n threw led the Vulcan was Bot u eulty keep their head to wind and Ay was “running so high that the Vulean's bitts started, or the tow lines parted. The ship was falling into the Prough of the sea. At 1 p. m. Captain Chittenden asked me to signal the Vulcan to cast off the Merritt's tow lines and have the Merritt come alongside. Then I assumed the command, told the men what Was to be done and assigned them sta- tions. I told the chief engineer to start the engine to aid the Vulcan in keeping our head up. He did so, but It could run but a short time with the steam we had. We signaled the Vulcan, “We have to abandon ship.” I ordered Captain Lecato to take charge of the lee surf boat, and when it was lowered to the rail ordered Captain_Chittenden_into it against his repeated prote: vas placed in the boat with his hoat was unable to reach the lines we had astern, but the Merritt picked them up and after taking Captain Chittenden aboard towed the boat to our lee quart this maneuver each trip. 9 From 2:3) o'clock the She - 18 handled. work of transferring the crew continued. Captain Tecato made two more trips, when, his arm being disabled, his place taken by Mr. Johnson, who 2150 took two boat- loads. The life raft was taken over and capsized, but was righted. It was put in charge of James Bashford, ordinary sea- man, of the Illinois Naval Militia. He and Bis érew took six Cubans to the Merritt. The smaller surf boat towed under the jee side was then gotten ready, and put it in charge of Charles A’ Dunne, Ruartermaster of the first class. T gave Him nearly all the good seamen ieft for a crew. It was launched very ndsomely and made two trips. In all these trips we poured oil from the sponsons on both Pes, and the Vulcan also used ofl to ake it smooth where the embarking was g:;taer 1 doubt if we could have worked Without it. The ship labored more and Mmore heavily. Before I left the bridge She rolled her sponsons under, which I Should estimate to be thirty degrees, and her pitching was enough to show her rudder, propellers and perhaps twelve feet of her keel. She was about four feet by fhe head. She fell into the sea and shud- dered as she rose. There was no water aft. The Vulcan did her best to keep her head up, steering to starboard and going at full speed while the sca beat fhe Teresa’s_head to port. Throughout the day the Vulcan did everything possi- ble. We were constantly signaling. With the exception of three men who got drunk and gave much trouble, all the Brew behaved well. Every man’did his duty and my orders were instantly obey- ed by reckers and men of tha navy. When the fires- were low I called for vol- unteers and the donkey bollers were at once fired up. Twice I asked C. F. Smith and James F. Brien, chief machinists, to ofl the steefln%gen and they did so. When I took Dunne, from the helm to Jower the smaller surf boat his place was taken by Willlam C. Morehoff, machinist second class, who steered the wreck until we left the bridge together, when he lash- ed the wheel amidships. Willlard Cros- sett was signal man and was as cool as . e made no mistakes. About :30 he made signal, “Hang on to the wreck until you are sure she is sinking,” It | o’clock this morning. Secretary Long being temporarily absent from the de- partment, the officials of the Naviga- tion Bureau, acting under a strict con- | struction of official etiquette, refused to | cult for the offi | pounding the vessel must have make the dispatch public until the Sec- retary had given his consent. Conse- quently the publication was delayed. When finally published the dispatch read as follows CHARLEST , 8. C.. Noy. 5—Secre- Navy, Washington: Arrived here night on steamer Merritt with Amer- n crew of Infanta Maria Teresa, aban- ioned in heavy northeaster, November 1, hirty miles north of San Salvador. Have i} eight enlisted men. HARRIS. Looking at the chart it was not diffi- ers at the department e how the ship had foundered un- the influence of the heavy north- gale reported. As near as they east could calculate, the vessel lies in about 2600 fathoms of water, or nearly three miles. The location is 24 degrees north latitude by 74.30 west longitude, about 235 miles distant from Nassau, and 310 miles distant from Caimanera, the port from which she started a little over two days before. She had just emerged from the Crooked Passage, 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 sue- cumbed. There was no alternative. On her lee lay the rocky Bahamas and innumerable shoals with shaMows be- tween and with shallow water in every direction except straight ahead or di- rect astern. To have turned about and sought an- other passage would have been an ex- tremely perilous undertaking to begin with, and even after getting safely about the vessel ~would have been obliged to travel many hundred miles more than intended in order to have picked up another course, this time closer to the North American conti- nent, and with the added dangers that proximity to the Florida shoals might bring. It is said at the Navy Department that Lieutenant Commander Harris will be ordered at once to Norfolk, where the rescued seamen will be placed aboard a receiving ship. The greatest regret was expressed in official circles regarding the loss of the Maria Teresa. Secretary of State Hay said that he was indeed sorry to hear that it had been found impossible to bring the vessel to the United States when everybody was so much interest- ed in her. He expressed gratification that no loss of life was reported in con- sequence of the disaster. Acting Secretary Allen of the Navy Department sald the loss was much greater than any intrinsic value repre- sented in the ship. She was the link that connected the great naval victory with the United States. It was a senti- ment bred in this country that suc- ceeded in raising her, and it was the wish of the whole people that she should be brought to the United States. Tt was the general impression about the State, War and Navy buildings that the loss of the Maria Teresa would prevent any further attempt to bring any of the other vessels to this country. UNCLE SAM WILL NOT LOSE VERY MUCH WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—No orders were issued by the Navy Department up to the close of office hours as to the disposition of Lieutenant Commander Harris and his crew, and Captain Croewninshield of the Bureau of Naviga- tion said no orders would be formulatad to-night. | It is sald at the Navy Department | that provision was made by which the | Teresa_could have weathered any ordi- nary storm. A rough wooden deck had | been nailed over her upper works. Her hull was then sheathed and heavy chains were wound around her so as to hold her together. Although far from seaworthy, all that was expected was that the cruiser might be kept afloat until docked in this country. She had been stripped of all guns and valua- bles, save the big turret 1l-inch guns before starting, so that it is believed there will be no loss on that account. It is the opinion of the Navy Depart- ment that the Government, besides the value of the ship herself, loses only the amount per diem of $800 per day through the sinking of the vessel, be- cause the contract appears to have re- quired the delivery by the wrecking company of the vessel at the navy-yard at Norfolk, Va. According to the contract, salvage was to consist of such further compen- sation over or above the per diem and stipulated expenses as might be award- ed by a board anpointed for that pur- | pose, consisting of a representative of | each party and a third party, their sur- | vev to be made after the vessel's de- | livery at Norfolk. | The first thing now in order is a court of inquiry; in fact, the depart- ment has no option in the case of the loss of a vessel under such conditions. | This court is required to'fix the re- sponsibility for loss. Upon their con- clusion will depend whether or not a | court-martial shall be held. Lieuten- ant Commander Harris is the only of- ficer whom the department knows to have been attached to the Teresa, al- though he was doubtless supported by some warrant officers whose names | were not reported to the department before the ship sailed. He w. mand of the Vulcan throughout the war and bears an enviable reputation for ability in his profession. The opinfon is expressed that with the material raised by the wreckers of the Teresa and from the other ships which have been operated upon so far the Navy Department will be able to reimburse itself fully for the outlay of $800 ner diem to the contractors. The loss of the ship will be a bitter disappointment to the people in Nor- | folk, where extensive arrangements have been made to bring excursions from all points to the navy yard there | to look at the famous ship and where the reconstruction of the vessel would afford at least a year and a half's work to a large body of mechanics and la- borers. HSin b Finest Train Running. 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