Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-15
ASTARTLING RUMOR.
The Ocean Racer City Of
Rome Reported Lost.
Shipping Circles Greatly Ex-
cited Over the News.
The Wreck Was Tramp Steamer
Of the Same Name.
She Went Down with Her Cargo of Cat
tie the Newfoundland Coast.
OF a Crew of 43 Only One
Was Saved.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
ST. JOINS, N. F., Oct. 14.-It is re-
ported here that the Anchor line
steamer City Of Rome, Captain Young,
which sailed from New York October
10th, for Liverpool, has been lost off st.
Shots. st. Shots is eighty miles in a
direct line southwest OF st. Johns. The
nearest point Of Importance is Trepassey
which is at the head of a bay running
in between Capes Race and Pine, and
about twenty miles from where the
City OF Rome is said to be lost. 1t is
understood the vessel had about 250
passengers on board.
NOT THE ANCHOR LINER.
A man by the name of John Brennan,
belonging to Sligo, Ireland, arrived at
Trepassey this morning from Peters
river. He says he is the only survivor
OF the crew of forty-three men OF the
steamer City of Rome which became
a total wreck on Monday night at
Marine cove, st. Mary's bay. He says
the captain and other officers were all
drunk and unable to save themselves.
He was thrown up on cliff and rescued
bv man Tuesday morning. The vessel
had on board 575 head of cattle, a
quantity of -four and Indian corn. The
man tells most pitiful tale about the
struggle the crew had among the bull
locks, trying to save themselves. The
steamer was commanded by Captain
Nelly, and left Montreal October eth,
bound for Dundee.
NOT FROM MONTREAL.
MONTREAL, Oct. 14.-No such steamer
as the City of Rome sailed from here
October 7th, as reported in the st.
Johns dispatch, detailing the loss of q
steamer of that name.
1T WAS A TRAMP STEAMER.
New YORK, Oct. 14.-It is believed
this evening that the steamer reported
lost is the Citta Di Roma, a tramp
from New Orleans for Bordeaux. T.
When dispatches from st. Johns,
N. F., gave the meagre statement that
the City of Rome had foundered, it was
Immediately believed that the ocean
racer which left here Saturday last, had
been caught in an unusually strong hur-
ricane, and either run ashore or went
down with her passengers and crew.
Excitement was intense throughout the
city and Brooklyn. Those who enter
tained fears as to the safety OF the YES
sci we're greatly relieved later, when a
dispatch from st. Johns stated definitely
that it was not the well-known City of
Rome, but tramp steamer of the same
name.
THE CFrTA DI ROMA.
At the office OF Henderson Bros,
agents for the Anchor line steamships,
nothing definite could be obtained for
some time. 1t was at first given out
that the vessel ashore was the Citta dl
Roma. This steamer sailed on the Esd
from New Orleans for Bordeaux. On the
30th of September she left Norfalk, Va.
Finally Mr.. Connolly, of Henderson
Bros, stated that he had received a
private cablegram from st. Johns, which
put the matter at rest so tar as the
Anchor line was concerned. The cable
stated that the vessel ashore was cattle
steamer from Montreal. This is tramp
steamship, having no register at Lloyds,
but was named City of Rome. 1t had
SIS cattle on board. The captain OF the
vessel was named Nelly, and it rs re-
ported he was drowned with the first
officer.
TIE CITY OF ROME SAFE.
In answer to an inquiry, Henderson
Bros, agents for the Anchor line,
received the following:
"CAPE RACE, N. F., Oct. 14.-Your
City of Rome passed Tuesday afternoon.
All we'll"
AAJje,
ST.. JoHN's, N. F., Oct. 14.-There is
considerable excitement here over the
story OF the man Brennan, who claims
to be the only survivor of the cattle
ship City of Rome. There are numer-
GUS persons here who refuse to believe
his story.