Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-08-31
The Passenger Landed in Safety.

CAMDES, August 90 Inc stea hef Ni'. VI
Richmond, in the fog Tuesday morning, run
On Marks Island in Penobscot Bay. The cap
tain and part of the crew went to Camden IN
a small boat and chartered the steamer
Pioneer which has jus, gone to take the pas
sengsrs to RocAland. Ii is thought that the
steamer will be got off without much dam
age. She runs on the Portland and Mount
Desert line.
The Richmond lies about twenty feet on
the ledge, with four fathoms of water under
her. The steamer is filling and it is feared
the she will sink before the tugs from Ban
gor and RockIand can arrive. The passen-
gers landed in safety on the island shortly
after she struck Capt. Dennison, father Of
the present captain, who was one OF the pas
.engsrs, is here making the necessary arrange
ments.
The steamer City of Richmond which left
for Bar Harbor at six O'Clock Tuesday morn
ing. went ashore in a thick fog on
ledge at the south end of Marks Island about
an hour later. She is reported badly ashore,
with her bow on the ledge and her stern IN
the water The steamers Pioneer and Hen
~ Morrison, and two schooners have gone
to her assistance, and will attempt to get her
OFF. No causaltes to passengers.
The steamer Planet, which went to the
wreck Of the steamer City of Richmond this
morning has Just returned She landed the
passengers safely at Rockland, where they
will wait and take the Lewiston to Mount
Desert tomorrow. The captain of the
Planet says that the Richmond was not more
than tifty feet of her course when she struck.
and had commenced to back water. The fog
was a dense bank. The officers, crew and
passengers all behaved well. All the bag
gage, a greater part of the furniture, freight
and bedding was saved every stateroOm was
searched, and one lady who left her diamonds
in the stateroom had them returned to her.
1t was about low water when the steamer
run on the ledge, and as soon as the tide
came in the after part of the steamer sank,
and she is now under water aft of the wheel
house, with her bow twenty feet on the ledge,
between a buoy and red spindle. The
steamboat line put the buoy down at their
own expense for their own advantage.
The tugs from Bangor have not arriv ed
yet, and unless some support is not put under
her before night it is feared that she will
break up. The steamer can be seen from
here with a glass, and looks as though only
the walking beam and smoke stack were out
of water. The City of Richmond was off
s1l tons and very fast.
Capt. Hamilton of Portland arrives to-mor-
row morning with appliances for raising the
steamer. and Capt. Hamilton's sloops will be
sent to be used in the work. The passengers
speak in the highest terms of the conduct of
Capt Dennison, his officers and crew. No
blame can be attached to the captain or
pilots, for the disaster seems to have been
due to the dense fog, and slight and unusual
variation in the running time.
Later.-This morning the steamers Morri-
ture and other articles saved from the wreck
The Morrison has returned this evening
from second trip to the wreck. and the tug
Ralph Ross of Bangor also towed in the
schooner Hunter with various articles
saved from the steamer. 1t was reported
that the Richmond was broken in two amid
ships, but now it is believed that the hull is
not badly injured except at the bow, and that
she may be got of if the weather continues
to be fair.