The record-union., 1891-10-15
SEA DISASTERS.
THE CATTLE STEAMER CITY OF
ROME WRECKED.
All of Her Crew Save One, Including
Forty-Three Men, Reported to
Have Been Lost.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oE.

ST. JOHNS On. F.), Oct. IA dispatch
was received here shortly after noon to-
day in which it was stated that the An
chor Line steamer City of Rome, of which
Captain Young had command and which
sailed on October 10th from New York
for Liverpool, had been lost off st. Shots
a hamlet in the district of Placentia and
st, Marys, n. F., four miles from Cape
Pine.
The news caused intense excitement
| and great uneasiness, as it was known
| there were large number of passengers
on board the City of Rome bound for Eu-
rope.
St.Shotts is more particularly noted as the
scene OF many disastrous wrecks than foI
anything else, and the vessels that have
had the misfortune to founder there have
generally been total losses.
The dangerous hamlet is eighty miles
in direct line southwest of St. Johns,
and the nearest point of Importance to
the place is Trepassy, which is located at
Head Bay, running in between Capes
Race and Pine, and about twenty miles
from where the City of Rome is said to
have been lost.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-When the dis
patches received from ST. Johns gave
the meager statement that the City OF
Rome had foundered, it was immedi-
ately believed that the ocean racer, which
left here Saturday last, had been caught
in an unusually strong hurricane and
either run ashore on had gone down
with her passengers and crew. The
excitement was intense throughout this
city and Brooklyn. Those who enter
tanned fears as to her safety were greatly
relieved later when a dispatch from st.
Johns stated definitely that it was not the
well-known City of Rome, but a tramp
steamer of the same name.
At the office of Henderson Brothers,
| 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 di Roma.
! This steamer sailed on the 23d from New
Orleans for Bordeaux. On the 30th of
September she left Norfolk, Va. Finally
Mr.. Connolly, of Henderson Brothers,
stated that he had received a private
cablegram from st. Johns which put the
matter at rest, as far as the Anchor Line
was concerned. The cable stated that the
vessel ashore was the cattle steamer from
Montreal. This is a tramp steamship,
having no register at Lloyds, but was
named the City of Rome. 1t had 750 cat
tie on board. The captain of the vessel
was named Nelly, and it is reported that
he was drowned, with the first officer.
In answer to an inquiry, Henderson
Bros, agents of the Anchor Line, re-
ceived the following:
"CAPE RACE IN. F., Oct. 14.-Your
City of Rome passed east Tuesday after
noon, all well.''
STORY OF A SURVIVOR.
ST. JOHNS On. FL, Oct. IA man by
the name of John Brennan, belonging to
Sligo, Ireland, arrived at Trepassy this
morning from Peters River. He says
that he was the only survivor ofa crew of
1orty-three men on the steamer City of
Rome, which became total wreck on
Monday night at Marine cove in St.
Mary's Bay.
He says that the captain and crew and
officers were all drunk and unable to
save themselves. He was thrown upon
a cliff and rescued by a man on Tuesday
morning.
He also stated that the City of Rome
had on board SIS head of cattle, q quantity
of flour in sacks and Indian corn.
The man tells most pitiful tale about
the struggle the crew had among the bull
| locks trying to save themselves.
The survivor said in conclusion that
the steamer was commanded by CAPTAIN
Nelly and was bound from Montreal for
| Dundee.
There is considerable excitement here
over the story of the man Brennan, who
claims to be the only survivor of the cat
tle-ship City of Rome. There are numer-
Gus persons here who refuse to believe his
story.
PROBABLY THE CITTA DI ROMA
New York, Oct. 14.-Dispatches from
st. Johns and Halifax say that the re-
ported lost of a cattle-ship named City of
Rome off st. Shots is not believed there.
! If there has been any such wreck, it
would have been reported from st.
| Marys, which is nearer than TerpaSsy to
st. Shots. Cable messages from both st.
| Pierre and st. Johns report cattle
| steamer ashore at st. Shots, and it is pos
slble that the wrecked ship is the Italian
tramp steamer, Citta di Roma, which
left Norfolk September Both with cargo
of cattle.
ACCIDENT ON THE ATLANTA.
DELAWARE BREAKwATER (Del.), Oct.
| 1.-THE United States steamship Atlanta,
which left New York on Sunday to 60 to
the assistance of the Despatch, arrived
here this evening short of coal. The At
lanta had fifty hours of heavy gale, dur
ing which the hawse pipe split. A vio-
lent explosion of gas occurred, by which
six men were injured. Two of them are
| IN q critical condition. The Atlanta is
now repairing her engines.
THE BosToNIAN ASHORE.
HULL (Mass.), Oct. 1.-THE steamer
Bostonian OF the Leylan line, which
sailed from Boston for Liverpool this
| morning, is ashore on Georges Island
shoal
Two young American bicyclists have
wheeled it up Mount Ararat.