Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-15
CITY OF ROME SAFE False Reports that the Anchor N Liner Had Sunk.
 GREAT EXCITEMENT CREATED. The, ,Maudlin Story of a Sailor Whica Caused Much Anxiety.
 SEVERAL CONFLICTING REPORTS. There is Strong Reason to Believe
GREAT EXCITEMENT CREATED.
SEVERAL CONFLICTING REPORTS
There is Strong Reason to Believe There Was No Wreck atlAll

At First it Was Thought that the Big Passenger Ship Had Gone to the Bot tom With 400 Souls--Then Came the Story that the Toundered Vessel Was a Cattle Steamship from Montreal and that 43 Lives Had Been Lost--This Was
 Also Contradicted. and the Wrecked
 Ship iS Believed to be the Durham City.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Telegraphic dis patches received from St. Johns, N. F., late yesterday afternoon, reported the big Anchor Line steamer City of Rome as lost. It was stated that the vessel had foundered off St. Shotts, the scene of many shipwrecks. Later dispatches were contradictory, several stating the City of Rome, which had gone down, hailed from Montreal. These were de- nied late last night, it being stated that no vessel bearing that name had cleared from Montreal.
 Photographic inquiries sent out by the agents of the Anchor Line in this city resulted in a denial from St. Johns that the Anchor boat had been lost The agents were assured by this dispatch, and announced that they had no fear for the safety of their vessel
 The first dispatch, which createl iu- 
 TT JOHNS, N. F., Oct. 15.-It is supposed that the Anchor Line steamer City of Rome Capt. Young, which saIled from New York Oct 10 for Liverpool, has been lost off St. Shotts.
 St. Shotts is,a hamlet four miles from Cape Pine, and is a place which has been the scene of many shipwrecl1s.
 St Shotts is S5 miles in 6 direct line south west of St. Johns. The nearest point of i'm portance is Trepaasy, which is at the head of the bay running between Cape Race and Pine, and about 2Oinles from where the City of Rome is said to be lost.
 Then came a contradictory dispatch which stated that the City of Rome which was lost was 8 cattle steamer bound to Dundee from Montreal; tn at 8 sailor named John Brennan had arrived at Trepassy, N. F., and stated that he was the only survivor of the foundered vessel; that tha officers and crew of the vessel had all been drunk, and were un- able to help themSelves when the vessel struck and that 4S men had perished. Probably the Durham City. Another contradiction followed, with this dispatch:
 MONTREAL, Oct. 14-Inquiries made here with regard to the sensational stories, that the cattle ship which left left here on the 7th inst, was wrecked at Marine Cove, St. Mary's Bay, New  Brennan of the crew of forty-three souls alone escaped, revealed the fact that no such ship as the City of Rome left Mont real last Wednesday.
 1 The names of the boats sailing from here were, Sarmatian, Rosarikn, Lake Nepigon, Alcides, Thames, Sarnia and | Ontario.
 It is believed here that the wrecked steamer is the Durham City, which sailed from Boston last Wednesday for London She had on board 514 head of cattle for the latter port, and they were shipped by R. Bickerdike of Montreal The fore man in charge is named Reilly, and the Durham City carried & crew of fifty | hands.
 Further inquiries have revealed the fact that no such cattle ship as the City of Rome exists. It is just possible that the wrecked vessel may be the City of Lincoln, which is expected here in the course of few days.
 Another dispatch from New Orleans said that the vessel might be the Citta de Roma bound for Bordeaux, but what the vessel could have been doing SO far north could not be explained. It is now believed that there was no wreck at all, but that the story was merely the yarn of a drunken sailor.