Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-29
TWENTY-FIVE. LIVES LOST.
The Rome Crashes Through the George
Jeanne Among the Icebergs.

The Rome Crashes Through the George
Jeanne Among the Icebergs.
New YORK, May 28.-The steamship City
of Rome, which arrived here to-day, reports
that on May rs, at 4:3O p. m, during a
dense fog, she collided and sank the French
fshiDg.bark George Jeanne, which was 'yng
at anchor. She received two of her crew,
but the remaining twenty-five were lost.
A Graphic Account.
New YORK, May 29.-The Tribune says:
The steamer City of Rome, Of the Anchor
line, reached here to-day, having on board
besides her 1921 regular passengers, two
French fishermen, the only survivors of the
crew of the French fishing bark George
Jeanne, which was sunk BY
the City of Rome in collision
on the banks of New Foundland, May 25th.
The names of the rescued men are Hubert
Albert and Frank Alphonse Marie. The
i'll fated bark, after che was struck, sank IN
less than minute; carrying down with her
twenty -four men, only twenty OF whom were
saved. Cspt. R. D. Munroe, of the City OF
Rome was. ----------~
Too Much Broken Up
by the remembrance of the scene to give
more than brief statement. The steamer
left Liverpool on May 20. The weather
was fine until Monday, when after bright
morning a dense fog came on. 1t
was so thick tha. fon the bow Of
the steamer it was difficult to see
one hundred feet ahead. A great many
icebergs were passed. Between 10 a. m,
and / D. NJ, fftyeight were counted large
and small. The Captain asserts that the
vessel s pace was slackened to to half speed
and fully realizing the danger every precau-
ton was taken. Bells were rung whistles
sounded continuously. At 4:30, when the
fog was the thickest the men forward saw
the spare and maSts of bark appear in the
mist barely twenty feet away.
The bark lay at anchor and according to
the captain story was not ringing its bell
or keeping a lookout signal to reverse the
engines were given, but she struck the little
bark and her
Iron Bow Cut Through
the George Jeanne with as little resistance
as if sbe had been piece of cheese. People
Of the City otRome saw few baretooted
Frenchmen in blue blouses running tranH'
cally forward on the bark.
The murky air was filled with atrighted
cries, the shrill exclamations of horror
from he deck of the steamer, and the hoarse
soundipgs Of the steamers fog horn and
then The bark went out Of sight. A few
spsrs hosted on the sea and four men could
be seen.
Struggling in the Water.
Life buoys were thrown to them, and as
soon as possible the steamer was stopped
and backed to where the bark had been and
two boats we're lowered BY this time one
of the four fishermen had sunk,
two were clinging to the buoys and
third Aoated alongside the steamer support
ing himself by spar. The fourth officer,
Arthur C. Turner, rugged rope around his
body and taking another rope had himself
lowered to the man. Turner succeeded in
getting q loop about the Frenchmans
arm and neck. Strong arms
pulled him half way up the
side Of the boat when the loop slipped over
his head and he fell back into the water
and sank out OF sight. This man was the
captain OF the George Jeanne, Joseph r.
Londin. Meantime Albert and Marie were
picked up by the boats. Steerage passengers
who landed from the City of Rome at Castle
Garden declared with one accord that the
steamer was making ut least fourteen knots
an hour when thecolision occurred. Every
one on the George Jeanne except Marie was
below. Marie sat near the stern keeping
lookout. He heard the whistle of the Rome
for eight minutes before she appeared. lie
rang the bell Of the Jeanne, and kept it up,
and was ringing it when the Rome crashed
into her Tie lost fishermen were
oil married. Charles Morgan,
steersge passenger, declared that
officers on the bridge were watching
passengers leaping and jumping and were
not keeping proper lookout. The official
log of the steamer states that on Monday
the steamer made iOS miles A memorial
was presented to Captain Monroe, signed
by the cabin passengers, praislng him for
his efforts to save the survivors.