St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-01
LOSS OF A Big LINER,
The Steamer Iowa Collides
With an Iceberg in the
Atlantic.
With a Heavy List to STAR
board She Sinks From
Mortal Sight.
Not Likely That All Her Crew
and Passengers We're
Rescued.
The Crew Of the Robert Me.
Carroll Lost on Tybee
North Breaker.

New YORK, Feb. 2S.-The Red Star
line steamer Pennland, Capt Busch
MAIN, which has arrived at this port
from Antwerp, reports that on Feb. %.
at 10 a. M, when in latitude 1920 n,
longitude 1854 W., she sighted steam
er which appeared to be stopped. The
steamer was carrying no sail. She had
heavy list to starboard, and was blow
ing signals of distress. She proved to
be the Warren line steamer Iowa, Capt.
Owens, from Boston Feb II. for Liver
pool. The British steamer Chester,
Capt. Tolle. from Rotterdam Feb. 10,
for New York, was taking off in her
boats the crew of the Iowa. and she will
bring them to this port. The Pennland
reports that she could not get near
enough to the Iowa to ascertain what
the nature of the trouble was. 1t is be-
lieYed, though, that the Iowa had been
in collision with an iceberg. Capt.
Buschmahn, of the Pennland, was seen
this afternoon and said:
A Captains Story.
ave first made out what appeared to
be an abandoned vessel at 1l:15 o'clock
on the morning of Sunday last. There
were two steamships lying by near each
other. No smoke was coming from the
SmokeStackS of either vessel. At the
time when we first sighted the vessels,
we were about five or perhaps six miles
from them. Everybody was on deck.
l Immediately ordered that the ships
PROV be turned in the direction of the
vessel, and in a very short while we
were within hailing distance. One
vessel we made out to be the steamship
Iowa. She flew the British flag with
the union down. The other vessel we
made out to be the steamship Chester,
an oil tank, also flying the British flag.
The Iowa was on her starboard side.
away over. almost on level with the
surface OF the water. Some of her crew
could be seen on board of her. Others
we made out in small boats,
Making for the Chester.
which stood by to receive them. We
offered assistance, but our offer was de-
clined, and then we made ready to pro-
ceed on the way to New York. When
last seen they were still transferring the
men from the rapidly sinking Iowa to
the Chester. l should say that there
were about fifty men on board the Iowa.
Now if the work was done rapidly, then
all the men on the Iowa were undOubt-
edly saved-that is unless they perished
when the collision occurred. The Iowa
was sinking quickly, and there is no
telling how long she lasted after we
passed her. But three or four hours
after we left her fearful snow storm
began. The snow fell. it seemed, in
one great, immense fake. 1t was nearly
impossible to see through. Such a
storm would make the work of rescue
impossible. 1t is quite difficult to say
how long the Iowa had been sinking.
There was no ice to be seen about at the
time, but the Iowa may have made
many miles with her men at the pumps
since the time she was struck until the
time we passed her,"
Facts From Boston.
BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 2S.-'rhe Swifts,
of Chicago, vino have branch house
here. were the largest shippers OF cattle.
The leather was shipped by Boston
firms, and the provisions mainly by
Chicago and Western houses. The
Warren line steamer Iowa, reported by
the steamer Pennland as apparently
being abandoned i'll 4 sinking condition,
is four-masted steamer of $500 tons,
built at Liverpool in 1879. Her cargo is
valued at S35O,955, and consists of 164
eases of organs, 442 head of cattle, 760
boxes of bacon, 667 boxes of hams, 936
tlerceS, $50 tirkins, and 1,600 pals of
lard: 1922 sacks of flour, 1881 bushels
of corn, 1875 quarters of beef, 2,0S7
bales of cotton, and a large amount of
general merchandise. The steamer is
valued at $3.50, ,000 and is fully insured
in English companies. The amount of
insurance on the cargo is not known
here