New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-28
STILL ADRIFT AT SEA.
TIE TUG WEB,TER AND HE SCOWS NOT
FOUND.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OF FIFTY-TwO ITAL
IANs IN GEANESEND BAY-REsCUED
WITH DIFFICULTY

Up to latc hour last night the only definite news
which had been received If the tug Webster and The
four Sow, whicn. with their crews ON board. were
blown ont to in the gale Of Tuesday brought
in 10y the tramp ship >tia,on, from Ilarlcp0b Eng
land The StraiOn reported that at 80 Tuesday
afternoon when four miles Of The Long Beach Hotel.
she had passed three ,cows drifting seward Three
mile, further south She sighted tug, apparently at
anchor and unmanaceahc. Captain Ilcnuc~-y. the
owner Of the Webster was not on board her Ties
day, HI place being taken 10y Captain Clark. The
crew Of the Webster entirely one PIT on
board that day. 1t said Yesterday that eleven men
board the tug. If this Is il makes nineteen
men who were driven to sea on the scows and tug
At midnight last night there rumOr in -Outh
81. that hte tug Luckenhach of sandy Hook with
the tug Webster and two bargcS in tow. This rumOr
could not be verified. Report, from the Long Island
beaches spoke Of tugs being OF shore. one report
from Long Beach said that tug passed going in the
direction Oi Ncw-lork with several fishing sma,k IS
and two Scow> in tow. The tug Emma A. Ross pa>-'d
Hockaway Life saving Station with two scows In tow
late in the afternoon. These were said. how
ever. TO be the two which she took in the morning
No ng with the missing ScowS, however, came u the
city, and /: the regarding the Luckenac has any
foundation she must have anchored in the Love- Bay.
The hity-tw1 italians the four loaded sccw, be-
longing TO the street Cleaning Department anchored in
Graves nd lsy Tuesday night had a terrible night
of it, but were all rescued yesterday morning by cap
tain Day, OF the tug Charlie, RunyOn. The ting Do
sOrl' started 10 with tn Monday morning.
but the weather bad that She concluded To-
anchor them in Grave>cnd Bay. The ting Assistance
cam' TO her aid and the anchored the
Stakeboat in the bay. The D0sOrs came bach To the
city. and was at once sen ont to search fo' The
Webster and tho barg viii II had been driven tn
of ROckaway. AnOth-r tug Went down to Graves
end BAY. but found that the scows had draGC their
anchor and driftet into such shallow water that sh
could not them. She stood by all nj -ht. and
Yesterday morning cam up to the city ana SOt pr
visions for the Italian; and long steel haw,,r with
which To pull tn off the hats Just A. Nh,
was ready to start back. however. tho tuc Runyun
came up with the rescued Italian, boaId.
The Italians weIc half dead from cold. hunger and
fear. All night they had been luddcd together in
the little houses but on the stcGn> o, the ,cow~. the
wind h)wlinS and the seas. which da>h.d over IN,
scOws coating everything with ice. The tue Eunyou
went into GraVeSend BAY about o'CUtn u The morn
Ing. Captain Day could not get near the -coW~ h1t
hc borrowed yaWl boat from schooner at anchor lf
I e bay and established ferry between hi, tu- and
the scOW~ y heavy running ard IN" water
fail OF drifting Ice. making the work OF r. -cuc on
Of considerable peril lie made thirteen trlp- LrW'
the and tag before he brought of all the I'ii
At 10 O'Clock he landed them at Pier 10. . Ea-f River
An attempt Will tc made 70 haul of o." -cpN .-
> the weather j, suitable.