New-York tribune., 1890-05-26

NHO SAILED ON luE SAME DAY.
Three great Transatlantic liners by coins
cidence. left Queenstown on the same day last
week. They the City of Rome, of tho
Anchor Line; the Aurania, of the Cunard Line,
| and the Alaska, of the Guion Line. The City Of
Rome left the harbor of Cork at - 80 D. H.. on
May IS. The Aurdnia started at . 90 D. H.. and
the Alaska at 80 p m of the same day. Yes
terday they all arrived at this port. The table
of their times is as follows:
ouSeH;'Ggn SaT s FI,s Tdk Island Sandy %sv Hs. ss
ASrania AIasHd ....y 500 :SSi m. s:2S pm 9i9 m.
Thus the City of Rome won the race Her
time was days hours 81 minutes and the
Aurania's time was days hours and 80 minutes.
The Alaskas time was Z days 10 hours 52 min
utes. This time is not remarkable. but all of the
ships experienced heavy weather. which delayed
them. Captain Young, of the City of Rome.
said /" II mere coincidence that all three
ships left Queenstown on the same day. My ship
has made better time frequently. On the second
day out | saw the smoke of large steamer
away to the southland and | think it was ono
of the other liners. No effort was made to beat
any record or to push the ship We simply logged
along and got here. On May 81, at noon, we ran
into the heaviest gale | have ever experienced
on the North Atlantic. The seas were tre-
mendous. and you can see by our salt-encrusted
smoke-staclx how they swept over the decks"
The smokestack of the great ship was as white
as if it had received a spring coat of whitewash,
the great seas that had dashed over the ship for
twenty-four hours having left a crust of salt an
inch thick on it. On May 22 the City OF Rome
sighted several icebcrqs Captain Young said
that the ice-limit extended further to the easS-
ward that he had ever known it TO do before. and
hot ha n
usually southern course.
This race of the three great Transatlantic
liners did not end without a tragedy, for on the
City Of Rome two men were stabbed one OF them
probably fatally, and the Aurania ran down
steam launch in this harbor and drowned two
men 1t was o'clock when the Aurania came up
by Robbins Reef from Quarantine. The steam-
launch Yeda was her way from Port Morris to
Newark BAY Aboard Of her were Henry, Walter.
Philip and Charles Biel, Lawrence OBrien and
John Mcmahon. They had just bought the boat
and we're taking her TO Newark. Suddenly tho
great steamer came upon them. 1t was darKs
and they had no lights up Before any one on
board the little craft realized what had happeneds
the Aurania's bows crashed through the launch|
Not enough was left of the little boat TO START
fire with. The smallest kind Of kindling wood
was not in the race with the thousand Fragments
into which the great steamer split the launch
The Aurania stopred and backed her engines
as soon as the officer OF the deck saw tho
launch, hut the headway OF the great mass couid
not be stopped in time To avoid the COLLISION. Inc
six occupants of the launch were thrown lnuo tho
water. The Aurana lowered boat 70 seho 10
their assistance, but before the boat couh geo
TO where the men were fighting for their n'eS tna
revenue curter Washington, in charge of pilot.
r..l. IoI cba1
had lust left the Aurania and was steaming dow"
tho bav but the keen eye OF her pilot saw the
accident and he reached the spot IN time %
rescue four Of the men in the water Two OF
them were lost. -
The drowned men were Henry Bel. Of No. 10
Flm-st. and Charles Bicl, of Greenvllle, y. I.
The forp,er was thirty-two years old, ana was IN
the plate glass importing business at No. %
Crosbv-st He was married. and leaves wife
and two children. Charles Bel twenty-eighu
veors old. and unmarried. The men that were
saved were in "A state Of collapse when they were
cot ON board the cutter and a short time longer
ir the water wculd have been fatal TO them
The launch was % feet long and leet beam.
BEFORE the Aurinia ran down the launch things
had been made lively on board the City Of Rome
bv the stabbng of one fireman and the serious
injury of another by a passenger. Inc paSsen-
q,r IL -
drst-st He is a cattle-tender by profession and
a mouller bv trade John llagerty, the New-
Work representative of Nelson Morris, of Chicago,
a large cattle shipper, had sent Curran over 10
England with cargo of cattle, and Curran was
returning. There were thirty other cattlemen on
hoard the shin. and the sailors and tiremen aSsero
that they had been making disturbances all the
trim Certain it is that in the course Of the trip
Curran went into the galley and assaulted one OF
rho cooks kicking him in the face and tearing his
lin omen so that the ships doctor had to sew 1t
up. ,
Whom the City of Rome was leaving Quarantine
vcstcrdav the watch in the ,ir6room was relieved,
and among others Michael Brennan and John
Jobnson came on deck. Curran and the hremen
cot into a scufle, and the catteman drawing a
LARGO CLASH knife. stabbed Brennan three times.
one stab was lusi beneath the heart ana another
WAS in the abdomen lie also hit johnson sew"
,rol times over the head with the knife. 1t IS
Thought that BrcnnanS wounds are fatal lie
Iov last night in the siclI-room of the ship, with
the ships doctor i'll constant attendance upon hn'.
.Iohnson's wounds were rot so bad that he wad
unable to 60 to his bunk
When the City of Rome reacher her pier woro
WAS sent for the police. and Curran was ta0h
10 the Charlcs-st. police station. Ills Versio"
of the story is that tl,c tremen were poNihs VI.
him. all the way over, and that brennan anu
Johnson assaulted him when they came up from
the tire-room. lie says that he acted IN seN-ae"
fence entirely.
Among the passengers by the CITY OF honc
were: -, ,,..o,ou,,
william Audcr.oa George \. Allan W. batracIoasHs
II ,r pri,o. y r. Crane. Henry Clague, f. Il Coooys
~ coprov Dr Edward f. Dorr ~. +. Drlmmond 'orni w
ri.h Gustav Fisher Benjamin Folsom, Ohited . sa'eA
Consul at Sheffield John Griffin. Henry ~ Guy ~ ue''
MN q T. Cren W. w. Hirst John Hopkins W. "a
Ii-,ir Miller Hall George Humphreys, Dr. H. LIE
Johnson the Rev j. K Knusdcn. the Rev Thomas onsf. @
-. p'. = T. Warton Robert Rushmore ana Loeo
Thompson. .o-s.
The Aurania brought among her passengers
~, r,,rhcrt Coghlan, Professor Doughy' DE
= r. collins, II. Cotman George poason' IL
A. rcks,ein A. J. Fisher, Clarence ,. flsAe' .. a.
,irord H. Harrison, John Hoppe E' D. ho"e ."aa