New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-14
COLLISIONS IN THE FOG.
DANGERS THICK on TIE BAY AND RIVERS
SERIOUS DISASTER AvERTED BY A HAIRS
BREADTH IN MANY CASES-A WRECKED
PILOTBOAT AND BARK.

PILoTBoAT AND BARK.
! The rain of Thursday night turned TO fog shortly
after midnight and yesterday mornings sun shone
I unseen above dense masses of vapor that hung
over the city and the contiguous rivers ana pays
/ In the bays and rivers it was piled up foM on
| fold, white and Opaque, sea fog, danK ana
! clammy. The ferrybOats plying between the Sis
ter cities that surround Manhattan Island felt
their way slowly along, guided to their slips by
bells which rang continuously on the ends of the
/ bulkhcads The tide OF commerce sweeping IN
/ and out of the harbor was stopped, and vessels
caught in tho great white, impenctrablc net were
, obliged 10 anchor where they found themselves
and wait for clearer weather.
/ Two vessels went ashore and will probably
| both prove total losses, and there were several
collisions on the rivers
! The pilot-boat Hope, No. 1, Of tn. Sandy Hook
service was the first victim of the fog. She
4 left here on Wednesday TO take her place on
station" She was anchored of Sandy Hook on
/ thursday night, hut got up anchor and stood or
| shore when the rain came on heavy. When the
ram changed TO fog she somehow got in close
! 10 he Hook, and at 30 in the morning struck on
the beach. Her signals brought to her assistance
the crew Of the lifc-saving station at Sandy Hook,
and lifeboat in charge OF Captain Paterson put
| oil 70 the rescue.
heavy sea was running and while the life
boat was alongside the pilot-boat, taking
of the men, wave dashed the boat
against the Hopes side, stavng in the
| bows. Nevertheless. the ifeboat hoatcd and
through the dark night and the heavy sea the
rescued crew were brought safely ashore. On
board the Hope were Captain Michael Lyons,
Pilots Thomas jackson, Robert Yates Charles
! Thompson and Robert Leer, and crew of six
men, The Hope registered iifty-sevcn tons. She
was fast sailer and used n dispatch boat
! in the The Hope lies in bad place near
where tie fishing smacl; Scotia went to pieces last
year. Yesterday afternoon il reported that
! She was pounding heavily and that part Of her
! keel was gone.
About the same time that the Hope struck on
Sandy Hook an Italian bark grounded on the
Romcr Shoals the edge Of the Swash Channel.
She was not discovered until | O'Clock in the
Afternoon when she was seen from the shore high
and dry on the shoals, with her main and mizzen
masts gone thirty feet above the deck. There is
( little danger of her going to pieces.
! Last evening crew of life-savers on board
! n tug were sent 10 render assistance 10 the
stranded vessel. but the breaking over
! the bark. and tho tug could not get near enough
To take the crcw Of. The bark is supposed to
have cargo Of hides and wool.
10 o'clock Thursday night. The weather was 50
thick that she did not attempt to come into port,
but anchored for twelve hours. Then she eau
tousy felt her way in, arriving at her pier In
safety.
The steamship Brooklyn City was also delayed
twelve hours at the bar on account Of fog.
ON Thursday night. when the weather closed in
thick, the bark G.. de Xaldo from Cienfuc9os, was
coming I'D the lower bay. She anchored. not
daring to proceed. The brig G. +. Geery came in
| after her seeking an anchorage and ran into her
| The head gear of the Ialdo partly carried
| away. and the Gccry tore big hole in her main
| sail
! A. o'cocl, Yesterday morning the fcrryhoat
! Montana of the Rooscvci-st ferry, and the South
ampton of the James Slip ferry. came in collision.
! They we're feeling their way to their slips on the
Ncw-York Shore which are adjacent, and had
| nearly reached them when the collision occurred.
! No damage was done.
! An hour earlier the ferrvhoat Midland, Of the
! Wcchawkcn ferry. and tho steam freight boat
| Sarah jerks came in collision on the North
| River OFF Forty-ffth-st. Both were slightly
/ damaged
( The most serious collision Of the day on the
/ rivers yos that between the fcrryboat Republic,
Of the Catherine ferry line, and the N0und steamer
| CITY Of Ncw-Norl on the Brooklyn side OF the
! East River The fcryhoit started from New
| York ri $40 a. IN. in dense fog Several
/ hundreds OF passengers were aboard. and tull
! load Of trucks Captain Titus was NJ the wheel
| and proceeded SLOWLY. When within 200 feet OF
! the Brooklyn shore, and when the landing could
! be SEEN the lookout forward shouted Back her.
! The bow of the huge Sound steamer loomcd up
! in the fog and the two boats were - close tiat
n collision could not br prevented. The steamer
! was under slow speed. or She would have cnt the
frrryhoat in two IS il was Size struck t.c lciiH
| boat i'm the whcclhDN. and smashed II SutrlPrlN
| 10 block the passagcwaE between the women
! cabins TIE passengers had tcen warned IN tilh'
10 leave the SIDE of the boat in greatest dancer
/ and fortunately no was hurt. although ihcic
! WAS much alarm One wheel of the Rcpabllc was
| disabled but her momentum carried her In'o the
| slim where the passcnacrS were landed. The boar
! was then towcd to the repair ward. The damage
| done her was estimated at Sl,IOO. Inc 'l'N ot
! Ncw-York was not harmed. :,
While the crryboat South brooklyn. pyinS ne-
tween Thirty-ninth-st.. Brooklyn. and Whlt'-
| hal-st was on her way 10 Ncw-Nork IN the log
nj o a m Yesterday she came in collision Wi'H Il
dredging srnw of Governors Island, ana was III
/ jurcd 10 the extent of 500. y" on" was hur,
Al O'Clock p. m. the fog hogan 10 me- anu an an
of shore wind began to blow the Nap"r oH' , w.
! sea Two tugs went 20 the assistance 81 NV
stranded bark on Romer Shoals as soon as Inc loS
| lifted.