Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — DISASTER ON THE SEA. [ARTICLE]

DISASTER ON THE SEA.

Appalling Incident of a HurricaneShip and Fifty Men Go Down. The British barkentinc St. Peter, before reported having been passed nt sen and making for Halifax in distress, arrived there Sunday. She was partly dismasted In ii hurricane that srrncß ncr rm inc nrght of Sept. 8, compelling her to put übout for Halifax in order to repair the damage. Capt. Sknling brings the startling report that the storm through which his vessel passed was the cause of sending to the bottom a four-masted iron sailing ship, which must have enrried n crew of nt least forty-five or fifty men. The St. Peter and the other vessel had been sailing within sight of each other all day Sept. 8, but never came within hailing distance. The name of one could not be distinguished from the deck of tjie other. When night closed in the big ship could be plainly seen from the deck of the St. Peter. Her lights were in sight for some time after dark. Then the hurricane swept the ocean nnd on the 9th nothing wns to be seen of the four-masted ship sighted the day before, but shortly after the burkentine passed the floating wieck of a ship’s deck nnd deckhouse, which the crew identified ns belonging to their sailing companion of the previous dny. Capt. Skaling is satisfied that the other vessel went down with every man on board.