The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-13
STEAMERS COLLIDE,
A Cunarder and a Fabre
Steamer Meet.
SUPPOSED TO HAVE GONE DOWN
The "Umbria" Repaired and Gone OF
Her Way Rej"icIng-Oid the
liberia" Sink?

New YORK, November 1.-THE
Cunard steamer UmbriG collided with
the Fabre steamer Iberia, about four
miles off Long Beach Hotel, lust
beyond Rockaway, Saturday afternoon.
The Iberia was badly damaged, having
her whole stern cut off, and the UmJria.
after taking off the crew of thirty men
and lying by the injured ship all night,
came up to her dock for repairs, this
morning at II O'Clock, When she left
| the Iberia the latter was
SINKING BADLY AT TEE STERN.
and it looks as if she would 90 to the
bottom before noon. The Umbria WAS
but slightly injured, and came back to
her dock merely as a precautionary
measure: According to the agent of
the line, Vernon h. Brown, all the mark
she bore OF the ugly wound she gave the
IBERIA was a ragged edged hole in the
collision bulkhead, being in its largest
dimensions about SIX feet by three feet:
the hole is just abaft of the extreme how
and Its lowest point about five feet
above the water line. This is on the
starboard side. A small hole was also
punched in the plate on the port side
directly opposite. The Cunard people
tell the following story: The Umbria
lett ner dock Saturday morning at 1915
O'Clock, with 2l5 cabin passengers, sixty
seven Intermediate passengers and 429
steerage. Sandy Hook was reached at
u II p. M, and the pilot left her at
l2.3O, without any incident
THE WEATHER WAS HAY.
and was growing thicker all the time.
At 10 the ship was slowed down On
account Of the thick fog. About five
minutes later a steamer whistle was
heard in what appeared to be to the star.
board bow. Captain McMioken was on
tie bridge. As the whistle seemed to be
growing nearer, the engines were
stopped altogether, and almost the next
moment strange steamer was seen
directly across the bow, her head point
ing to the northward. The Umbria
engines were Immediately ordered re-
versed at full speed, but that did not
prove enough to neDtralize the head
way and the UmbriG
STRUCK THE STRANGER
on the port quarter, carrying away a
portion of her stern. Orders were i'm
mediately given to lower the boats ard
make an examination of the Jmbria,
which was done, with the result given
already. The two steamers drifted
apart and lost track of each other for
fully twenty minutes. Shortly after,
getting nearer, the first officer of the
crippled steamer got aboard. His name
is GuilIot. He said the name of his
ship was Iberia Of the Fabre Line.
The Iberia had sailed from the Persian
Gulf on September 1sr, with a cargo of
dried fruit, hides, coffee, etc. There
were thirty men in the crew, all told,
inclusive of the officers. The IBERIA
HAD MET WITH AN ACCIDENT
to her machinery and been lying to
making repairs for about thirty hours.
She had just got under way when the
accident occurred The Iberia was q
steamer of about 1000 tons register,
and belongs in Marseilies, France.
Being in the middle of the day there
was great exitement among the passen-
gers on the Umbria. The blowing of
the whistle of the strange steamer had
put everybody on the qui vive to see
whence the sound came, and when the
iberia doomed out of the fog the excite
ment grew intense among the 700 pas
sengers Men were at once put to
WORK ON REPAIRING THE DAMAGE
to the Cunarder. It was an all-nieht
job. A plate of steel five-eights of an
inch thick will be placed over the hole,
which will be guarded with concrete,
making the steamer as strong as ever.
Captain McMioken, thoroughly ex-
hausted, went to bed when the UmbriG
was docked. At noon tomorrow the
Un1briG expects to continue her voyage.
HIGHLANDS, N. j., November 12.- The
steamer Iberia, which collided with the
Umbria, could be plainly seen from here
yesterday, as she lay off the Long Island
shore, nothing can be seen of her to-day.
It is believed she has sunk.
NEW YORK, November 1.-THE steamer
UmbriG, injured by colliding with the
steamer Iberia on Saturday, again left
port this morning, fully repaired.