The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-10-15
CITY OF ROME SAFE
False Reports that tho Anchor
Liner Had Sunk.
GREAT EXCITEMENT CREATED.
The Naudlin Story Of Sailor Which
Caused Much Anxiety
SEVERAL CONFLICTING REPORTS.
There is Strong Reason to Believe
There Was No Wreck at All.
GREAT EXCITEMENT CREATED.
SEVERAL CONFLICTING REPORTS.

lneEe was NO wreck at ALL
AT First It Was Thought that the Big
Passenger ship HAD Gone to tho Bot
tom with 400 souIs--Then Came the
story that the Foundered Vessel Was a
Cattle Steamship from Montreal and
that az Llvos had Been Lost--This Was
Also Contradicted, and the wrecked
Ship is Relieved TO be the Durham city.
NEw York, Oct .-Telegraphic dis
patches received from St. Johns, N. F.,
late yesterday afternoon, reported the
big Anchor Line steamer City Of Rome
rs lost. p was stated that the vessel
had foundcred Off St. ShotJs, the scene
of many shipwrccks. Later dispatches
were contradictory, several stating tho
City OF Rome which had gone down,
hailed from Montreal These were de-
MED late last night, it being stated that
no vessel bearing that name had cleared
from Montreal
Telegraphic inquiries sent out by the
agents of the Anchor Line in this city
resulted in q denial from ST. Johus 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 created iu-
tense excitement, read as follows;
IN JOINS, 81. f., oct. bit is supposed
that the Anchor Line steamer City Of Rome
tupt Young, which sailed from New York
Oct lo for Liverpool, has been lost oil st.
Shots.
ST.. SHOTS is ham'at four miles from Cana
Pine, and is place which has been the SEEM
OF many slipwrcca7.
81. shots s5 miles in a direct line south
west of 80. Johns. he nearest pdut of i'm,
pOrtauco i5 'rupassv, which is ut the head Of
the huy running between Cape Race and Pine
and about ~ miles from where the City OF
Rome is said to be lost
Then came contradictory dispatch
which stated that the City Of Rome
which was lost was cattle steamer
bound to Dundee from Montreal; th at
sailor named John Brennan had arrived
at lrep8ssy, N. r., and stated that he
--;as the only survivor of the foundered
vessel; that the officers and crew of the
vessel had all been drunk, and were un,
able to help themselves when the vessel
struck and that 43 men had perished.
Probably the Durham city.
Another contradiction followed, with
Shis 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
foundland, and a cattleman named Jas.
Brennan of the crew of forty-three souls
alone escaped, revealed the fact that no
such ship as the City Of Rome left Mont
FeSl iasu " ednesday.
The names Of the boats sailing from
here were, Sarmatian, Rosarian, Lake
EepiRon, Alcides, Thames, Sarnia and
Ontario.
1t is believed hero that the wrecked
gteamer is the Durham City, which sailed
from Boston last Wednesday for London.
She had on board 5l4 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 a crew Of afty
hands
Further inquiries have revealed the
fact that no such cattle ship as the City
Of Rome exists II is just possible that
the wrecked vessel may be the City of
Lincoln, which is expected here in the
course of a few days,
Another dispatch from New Orleans
said that the vessel might be the Ctta
de Roma bound for Bordeaux but what
the vessel could have been doing so far
north could not be explained. --
1t is nQwbslicF1a chat there was no
week at all, but that the story was
merely the yarn Of drunken sailor