The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-15

Station, up the beach. The cat-boat carried
fishing party of five men ana the sinall
boats eleven men. They went up the pay
toward the inlet. Nothing has been seen OF
them since. 1t is thought the storm carried
them ont to sea- as they were too far down
to be washed up on the meadow lands.
A ATRANfP STEAMER WRECKED.
1t was reported from st. Johns, \. F.,
this morning that steamer had been
wrecked off Saint Shots a location that has
been the scene of many shipwrecks. Saint
Shots is eighty miles in direct line SOUTH
west of st. Johns. The nearest point OF I'M
pOrtance is TrepasSy, which Is at the head
Of the bay running IN between CaDes Race
and Pine, and about twenty miles from
where the wreck occurred.
When the dispatches from ST. Johns gave
the meager statement that the City Of Rome
had toundered it was Immediately believed
that the ocean racer OF that name, which
left here Saturday last had been caught in
an unusually strong hurricane and either
run ashore or gone down with her large
number of passengers and crew. 1he eX-
citcment was intense throughout this city
and Brooklyn. Those who entertained
fears as to her safety were greatly relieved
later when the dispatch from st. Johns stated
definitely that it was not the well-known
City of Rome but a tramp steamer OF the
same name.
At the Office of Henderson Bros, the
agents for the Anchor Line steamships,
nothing definite could be obtained for some
time. 1t was first given out that the vessel
ashore was the Citta di Roma. This
steamer sailed on the 2Sd OF September
from New Orleans for Bordeaux. and on the
Both of September she left Norfolk, Va.
Finally Mr.. Connolly of henderson Bros.
stated that he had received a private cable
gram from st. Johns which put the matter
at rest as far as the Anchor Liue was con-
cerned. The cable stated that the vessel
ashore was a cattle steamer from Montreal.
1t was tramp steamship, having no regis
ter at Lloyds, but was named the City OF
Rome. 1t had 575 cattle on board The
captain OF the vessel WAS named Nelly, and
it is reported that he was drowned, together
with the first officer.
THE STORY DIsBELIEvED.
Dispatches from st. Johns and Halifax
this evening say that the reported loss OF
the cattle-ship named City Of Rome off st.
Shots is not believed there. II there had
been any such wreck it would have been re-
ported from St. Marys which is nearer than
Trepassy to St. Shots.
Cable messages from both St Pierre and
ST. Johns report cattle steamer ashore at
St Shots and it is possible that the
wrecked SHIP is the Italian tramp steamer
Citta di ROMA. which left Norfolk Septem-
Der 30th with a cargo of cattle.
a SURVIVORS, STORY.
ST. JOINS N, F., Oct. IA man by the
name Of John Brennan, belonging TO Sligo,
Ireland, arrived at TrepasSy this morning
from Peters River. He says he is the only
survivor OF a crew of forty-thIee men of the
steamer CItta dl Roma, which became u
total wreck on Monday night at Marine
Cove, st. Marys Bay. He says the captain
and crew of the vessel were all drunk and
unable to save themselves He was thrown
upon q cliff and rescued by man Tuesday
morning. The Citta di Roma had on board
5I5 head OF cattle, a quantity OF flour IN
sacks and Indian corn. The man tells
most pitiful tale about the struggle the crew
had among the bullocks trying to save them
selves. The steamer was commanded by
Captain Nelly and left Montreal October
| 7.h, bound tor Dundee.
There is considerable excitement here
over the story of the man Brennan, who
claims TO be tile only survivor OF the cattle
ship City Of Rome. There are numerous
persons here VINO refuse TO believe his story.
DELAWARE BREAKwATER (Dol.) Oct. IA.
| The United States steamer Atlanta, which
! left New York on Sunday to 90 to the as
! sistance OF the Despatch, arrived here this
! evening short Of coal The Atlanta had
| fifty hours Of the heavy gale, during which
! her haWse-plpe split 4 violent explosion
| OF gas occurred, by which SIX men were in
| jured, two of them being in critical COLI
| ditiOu. The Atlanta is now repairing her
engines.
HULL Mass.), Oct 1.-THE steamer Bos-
tonian Of the Leylan line, which sailed from
| Boston for Liverpool this morning, is ashore
! Oh Georges Island Shoal
THE STORM PASSING NORTH.
WASHINGTON, Oct Il. - The Weather
Bureau of the Signal Service reports: The
storm of the Atlantic Coast for the last
three days moved rapidly north to the Nova
Scotia coast giving violent gales on the At
lantic Coast. The storm in Manitoba
moved east to Lake Superior, and these two
| disturbances Will probably unite during the
next twenty-four hours, giving rain to the
| lake regions and Atlantic States north of
| Virginia. The clearing condition moved
| from Utah to Colorado, stretching in a
| ridge of high pressure from Idaho to the
! West Gulf, and will give clearing or fair
weather for the next lorty-eight hours to
! the Northwest Mississippi Valley and Ohio
! Valley. The temperature has generally
risen east of the Mississippi River and gen
| orally fallen elsewhere.