The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-09-07

MONTREAL, Sept. 6.-The steamship ashore
near Indian Harbor, N. s., is supposed by the
agent of the White Cross Line to be the miss
ing steamer Ludwig.
LATER REPORTS FROM HALIFAX.
HALIFAX, Sept. 6.-Something more definite
has been received relative to the unknown
sunken steamer off Indian harbor. The wreck
appears to have been frat noticed Saturday,
and there is little doubt that the ship went
down during the violent gale last Wednesday
night. Captain Albert Pride of the packet
schooner Arrow, who was the first to make the
discovery, has arrived at Sherbrooke and he
makes the following report:
Sunday last, when near Mate Shoals, my
vessel bearing southeast by south, two miles
from Mate on the east side Of Indian harbor, !
observed ships spar in the water with heel
upward showing about II feet in the trough Of
the sea. 1t was pitch pine and about l8 inches
in diameter. 1t appeared fast to the standing
rigging of vessel and evidently had been
sawed half through and then broken Oh.
White paint and a little loose canvas were
visible beneath the water and a derrick boom
similar to those used on steamships was at
tached to the spar. The water was then quite
thick and black with a substance that seemed
to be coal dust, and in consequence nothing
could be seen more than inch or two below the
surface.
The report made by Pride is doubted by
some, but others corroborate his story. The
wrecked steamer probably struck a sunken
rock and went down before any one on board
had time to leave her. What her name Ia will
rem ain unknown until the scene is reached
by divers. Fears have been expressed that II
might be the United States steamer Alliance
which is expected at Halifax from Charleston.
That vessel, however, was to call at several
places on the way and may not be due for
several days yet.
WHAT IS THE THOUGHT IN WARRINGTON.
A special despatch to the New York
Herald dated Washington, lSeptember 5, con-
tains the following statement about the Alli-
ance:
WARRINGTON, Sept. 8, 1883.
Commodore Earl English, Chief of the
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, says
sthst the department has heard from Com
mander Allen U. Reid, commanding the Uni
ted States steamer Alliance, within few days
and that he encountered most OF the gale last
week off the coast of Nova Scotia, but that he
succeeded in getting under the lee OF an island
and rode out the storm without damage OF any
kind. For this reason Commodore English 10
confident that the steamer reported sunk OF
Indian HarboT cannot be the Alliance, though
it is true that she has been cruising along the
fishing banks and is still In that locality. At
first he was somewhat startled at the report
that it was feared the lost vessel was the Alli-
ance, but on recalling the recent reports OF
commanders Of our naval vessels he distinctly
remembers the report Of Commander Reid and
the details OF the letter, though he could not
fix the place where he said ne encountered the
storm. The Alliance sailed from New York
for the fishing banks July 6. She was at Prince
Edward Island August q, and the last report
is dated August 30, received at the Navy De-
partment yesterday. A search was made for
the report until after midnight, and though it
appears upon the key of letters received the
document could not be found in the usual
place. The fact, however, that 1t took six
days for it to reach the Navy Department
shows that the Alliance must still have been az
Prince Edward Island, that being the period 1t
has taken for five previous letters dated there
to reach the department Naval officers do
not suppose for a moment that the steamer re-
ported lost is vessel of our navy, for Com
mander Ried has the reputation of being q
careful seaman and there does not so far appear
to be any cause for apprehension.
STILL LATER NEWS FROM THE ALLIANCE.
To the Editor of the Press:
The Advertiser of this evening suggests the
fear that it may be the United States steamer
Alliance. cruising in Canadian waters this
summer, which was wrecked near Halifax late-
ly- 1t is simply impossible that it can be the
Alliance, and the fear is groundless. The
great gale occurred Wednesday night and
Thursday, the 29th and Both OF August. By
letters received here from her, she was safe at
anchor at Georgetown, P. E. I. Friday Aug
ust 31st, after the gale was over.
She intended to go thence to the Msgdalen
Islands in the Gulf of st. Lawrence, and to
Sidney, @. B., and cannot therefore be expect
ed to be at Halifax until September 10th to
18th. She is to come to Portland and stay
while, and then join the rest of the North
Atlantic squadron at New York, which is to
go up to Newburg, N. Y. to participate in the
celebration there October 10Th.
The derrick which was seen attached to the
mast, and the blackness Of the water FROM
coal dust about the sunken steamer, clearly in
dicates it was a coal steamer, a number
of which have been running this summer from
the coal ports of Cape Briton and Nova Scotia
CITIZEN.
Portland Sent g.