New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-25
uAR1EM RRInGE WRECKs A TUGBOAT

HARLEM BRIDGE WRECKS A TUGBOAT
The tugboat Titan, belonging TO the Starin
Transportation Company, steamed up the Harlem
River from Blackwell Island yesterday, with a
heavy scOw on which were twelve platform cars OF
the Northern Railway Company. As the toWs passed
The Mott Haven station of the NeW-Haven Railway
The tug boat whstled for the draw bridge al Third
ave. to open. and the heavy iron span Slowly
swung aside 10 allow the boats 10 pass. Inc tue
swept the Sc0w up the TVcr aud forced the tug
boat against the end of the bridge. captain James
Mahan who was in the pilot-hOuse, seeing that the
crash was unavoidable, opened the door ana leaped
for the bridge lie was drawn upon the dIaW IN
time 10 avoid being crushed TO death. The tug
boats pil0t-hOuse ANA upper works were cohpetely
wrecked. strewing the river with splinters and
covering he hundred persons on the draw with
cloud of steam; for the collision had SHIFTED Inc
boilers OF the tug-hOat aud had brokenthe exhaust
PlPe allowing The steam 10 escape Ii i'' - yuan
When the collision took place there was great ex::
citement among the people on the bridge, many OF
them throwing themselves on their 1ace5 10 Gudlu
against any possible explosion. 4 splinter struck
Robert MCGce. a deCk-hand on the tugOOat, ana IN
Iicted severe scalp wound. captain AIahah was
badly bruised by his leap. The bridge hands are
required to keep the draw clear OF persons When IL
is opened. and il was only through good fortune
that disastrous accident did not take place, IN
yolyiug great Joss of life. The Titan drtted still
further up the stream IN an unmanageable c0hdl-
iion until she towcd with the scow TO the New
Haven Railway docks. Ihe damage 10 lIc Tug
boat amounted % about 50 900; the scow had one
vi her buwarks splntered and was damaged 5000
The physicians at Roosevelt Hospital reported
yesterday that John Drake, who was shot by
William G. Rhinelander, was comfortable ana
doing we'll Rhinolanders wife and her brother,
Hugh McGinnis, called at the Iombs and had an
interview with the prisoner. BON hhlheIalldeI
and hls wife were much affected They conyersed
for half an hour After the visitors had departed
Rhmelander said to a TRIBUNE reporter:
Ny wife stated here to-day in the presence or myself
and her brother that she had no sympathy Tor Drake
AND while she has yet made statement OF any KIND
70 any Que else she said, IN genera TERMS hat she 0d
not think had done wrong, aud that she was sorry for
he trouble she had got Inc INTO She SAID thS sne was
coming u every day as long as am III Tue IoD'
The prisoner exhibited letter signed %. Is.
Silknan." expressing sympathy with him. IT was
eouched in "ersqky PhTsseo l9gy and was t,su ad-
fIbe integrity of honor Murders Row, The
iombs y ~ With regard TO the statement Of
John -. Townsend. Rhine lander SAID:
Mr. Townsend thinks II wrong that should cntlclse
Nj DRAKE, whom he terms deiencees: man. hr.
Tovsepd seems have lost sght Of the fact that Drake
truck character rneu was defenccIess ana not
10 position 10 the aspersons he heaped upon me
IN the hearing OF my WIFE, whom ne sought TO separate
from