New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-30
DISASTERS TO SHIPPING.
MORE WRECKED AND DISABLED VESSELS.
A SAILOR CARRIED ovFRBoAED WITH FALL
ING MAST AND DRowNED-AN ABANDONED
SCHOONER PICKED UP

Halifax, y. s.. JAN 2o.-The steamer Polynesian
when getting under way this morning TO proceed for
Portland ran ashore on the Dartmouth side OF the
harbor. The steamer was noated at high water at
noon to-day without assistance. When she backed
out of the deep water terminus this morning she got
much speed astern that when the engines were
ordered to 90 slow ahead the ship would not answer
at and her stern struck the Dartmouth shore
she swung around and lay broadside to the beach.
She did not grind but lay easy until high water and
then came of. The captain and pilot were on the
bridge al the time of the accident. The steamer Will
be examined before proceeding for Portland
The steamer Circassian. from Liverpool, via st.
Johns, n. F. arrived this morning after severe pas
sage. The voyage occupied twenty-five days, five OF
which the steamer passed at st. Johns, where she
was compelled TO stay owing to the harbor being
blocked with ice. she encountered violent weather
nearly all the way from Liverpool, and her decks
were almost constantly delnged with water Two
boats were destroyed, her bridge was damaged and
some slight injury done about the deck.
The lCircassan brought thirty three merchants
from ST. Johns, N. F., bound for Liverpool, who
missed their passage by the Caspian because that YES
unable to enter the harbor on account OF te
ice The Circassians cargo was damaged by breaking
loose and by cases bursting, goods OF all
descriptions being mixed up in mess
Baltimore. Jan. pa dispatch from Norfolk says
the Philadelphia schooner, Mary A. Trainer, from
Georgetown, s. c.. for Philadelphia, with cargo Oi
shingles, went ashore Cape Iattcras yesterday
Her crew Of five rescued by the life-savlng
crew.
The British steamship Clicveden, Captain Angel,
which arrived here yesterday from Madaira, picked
up the abandoned schooner. Jacob VI. IaSkal, ana
towed her into st. Georges Bermuda. The Haskall
was dYsmasted, her cabin and some portions OF the
forward houses carried away. and she was nearly
submerged. The whole of the cargo in the hole was
intact. The vessel and cargo will be sold for those
concerned.
Philadelphia, Jan. o0.-The British steamer Pru-
dentia from ROucn reports that she lost part OF her
bridge rail, smashed boat, and was hoveto for
forty eight hours. Heavy weather was encountered
the entire passage The British steamer Germond,
from Maanzas reports that on January 81, at noon,
thirty four miles from Winter Quarter ghtship, she
passed sunken wreck, with two masts standing
about forty feet out Of water.
Great uneasiness prevails here over the non arrival
of the schooner Umbria, Captain Kerr, which sailed
from Boston month ago for ST. Pierre, MlqueOn, ana
has not since been heard Of
Providence, II. l., Jan. o9.-The fourmaSted
schooner John B. Manning, Captain Brdsal from Bali
more arrived here to-day with her foretOpmast gone
An unknown German sailor, who shipped at Baltl-
more and who was aloft when the stick went, dur
ing a sQuau in Chesapeake Bay on January 70, was
carried overheard with 1t and drowned .,.u :. .o,
here for the safety of the British steamer Athaoasc
now twenty five days out from Liverpool, WIN
cargo of salt consigned TO the 5h ImpGs anS
vessel and tho fact OF her being overdue zen uaS
causes uneasness, she has not been spoken o
heard from. ,,,
Boston, Mass, Jan. oo-The steamer Bavaran
from Liverpool, which arrived here TO-DAY, rcporN
having encountered terrific weather duilng the pa
ator was broken Her scerage ports were als(
stove, letting considerable water into the hold.