The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-01
Disabled on Dec. %. and at the Mercy Of the
Wild Sea Till Last Tuesday Evening. When
Her Machinery Was Set Going Again.
Aid Refused by Her Sister Ship Gallia,
Though Signaled for Assistance.
Captain Mckay Praised BY All Except Texas
Observation-Disclosures Of the Trip-Story
Of the Chief Engineer.
THE UMBRIA AT NEW YORK.

Reached Her Dock mt iI:eo This Morning,
and then Her Captain Went To sleep.
NEW York. Dec. 3l.-The long-oyerdue
Cunard steamship Umbria has arrived.
Her passengers are all ashore. Their bag
gage has been examined. Many of them
have left town. and thousands CT anxious
hearts rest easily. relieved OF the burden
of anxiety that for many days weighed
them down. The great steamship rests
easily In her berth at the toot of Clarkson
street. Her days of toll. desperation and
her thousand battles and perils are past for
the present at least. She is safe, com para
lively sound. Not a thing is there 10
mar the smooth surface of her gigantic
sides. Captain Mckay sleeps at last. He
10 now resting in bed for the first time
since the accident to the steamer. When
the steamship broke down the lives of
hundreds of men and women fell upon tho
shoulders of the one man. Had the msin-
spring broken the works IN the watch
would have been useless And so Captain
Mckay. now that he has landed his hum
dreds of souls. deserves the sleep he is
now enjoying. In hundreds of homes. in
telling the history OF that terrible week
on the ocean. 1t is n great story, and upon
the pier of the Cunard line it was told
many and many time.
lt was 1880 O'clock. last night. when the
hrst news of the arrival off these shores of
the long overdue Cunarder reached this
eity. At that hour the observer at Fire
island made out the lights of some larg
vessel. which was apparently coming into
port and Keeping a. near TO the shore as
sho possibly could do lt took the observ-
or, who knows oil the ships and the lines
by their lights but a few secands to make o
out the unmistakabie night colors of the
CuDard line. and then. In O minute New
York knew II. Instruments tlcked on q
hundred circuits. and within ten minutes
OF the time that the observer of Fire island
saw the first lights of the Umbria nearly
every city for thousands of miles knew
that she had at last put IN an appearance.
lt was cold and bleak on the bay this
morning; cold off Sandy Hook. The wind
whistled mourufully through the bare
trees of Staten island. and the dcnizens of
that part of the world saw nothing extraor-
dinary beautiful or cheerful about their
bleak houses this particular morning. But
10 the handful of passengers huddied to-
gether on the deck of the Umbria at day
break, the bleak land looked precious. in
deed, and there were many who in sheer
happiness, perhaps. threw their arms about
each other and danced. There was n heavy
8 o'clock II began to lift little and then
the Cunarder came in sight of those walt
ing for her at quarantine. She came mp
along hugging the Staten island shore
around the fort. and small army of tugs
and small boats accompanied her, footing
at the huge monster, and barking around
her like so many pug dogs about q mastIff
There was nothing to indicate that the
Umbria had anything but the usual voy-
age. She came along slowly. and was
nnta nod and horr a
as If she had Just passed through @ duel
with some, French gentlemen on the
field OF honor. It was si4 o'cloc K
when she dropped anchor of quarantine
and in q minute later she was boarded by
DIR. JenkiDss boat. ON the Doctors boat
werc score of reporters. who scrambled
up the side of the vessel like so many oats.
About the vessel there clustered the many
boats that had been hired by friends of
those on board and it was all happy and
cheerful and "How's the baby and ma"
for the next half hour. The Cunarders pur-
ser told every body that she had passed Fire
islan6tat three minutes past midnight this
morning; that at 300 the vessel was OFT
passed Sandy Hook. She lay to off there
for some time to wait until day break for
the fog to lift. As she lay there several
vessels passed by her and when they made
her out gave her a greeting.
The Umbria left her resting place shortly
after I O'Clock and passed up into the bay
at 7:4l O'Clock. At $40 o'clock she was Oft
quarantine. and at $50 she came TO an
anchor. The first man seen by the pilot
when he boarded the Umbria. some
miles from sandy Hook was Captain
Mckay. lie stood on the bridge with
one hand on the railing and with his
glass In the other. When the steamer come
at quarantine he was still there. He had
been there almost constantly since the
time the vessel broke down and the lives OF
his charges endangered. and ne stood there
when the reporter boarded the vessel. after
she left quarantine. this morning. aud
when the vessel finally reached her dock,
at 1870 o'clock. Then be took of his hg,
and coat, aud lay down and went TO sleep.