Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — VESSELS COLLIDE A[?] SEA. [ARTICLE]

VESSELS COLLIDE A[?] SEA.

n I jirsiii Mora Than Sixty People Perish —Both Vessels <Jo Down, The Captain of tho steamer Humboldt from South American ports, who arrived at New York, Friday, reports that at 6 o’clock Friday morning, six miles east of Barnegnl, he sighted a wreck and bore down to it. The wrecked vessel proved to be the steamer Vizcaya, which sailed* Thursday for Havanna, He saw several persons in the rigging, and seat a boat to their rescue. The chief and a second officer, the surgeon, one engineer and eight of the crew were taken off and brought here. The persons rescued stated that on tho evening of the 30th inst, at 8 o’clock, the steamer was run into by a four-masted, coal-laden schooner, supposed to be bound to the northward. Both vessels sank, within five minutes. One oolored boy was taken ashore by the sohooner’s boat and landed at Barnegat. Captain Cumill of tbe Vizcaya was drowned, as were also a part of her crew in all about sixty-one persona. The four passengers of the Vizcaya were all lost They were a Cuban millionaire, his wife and two children. The captain and crew of the schooner are supposed to be lost The survivors are unable to give the parv ticulars of the collision or its cause. The Vizcaya was 1,388 tons register. She belonged to the Spanish line of steamers plying between New York and Havana. J. Id. Ceballos, the company’s agent is here.'