St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-01
SAFE ON DRY LAND.
After Days ofAnxiety the UNI
bria's Passengers Reach
Terra Firma.
They All Behaved Admirably
While the Ship Drifted
Before the Gale.
lnexplicable Conduct OF the
Captain of a Ship OF the
Same Line.
Gallant Conduct Of the YES
sells Officers in the Hours
of Peril.

NEW YORK. Dee. 31,-The long over
due Cunard steamship Umbria has ar
rived. Her passengers are all ashore.
Their baggage has been examined.
Many of them have left town ana
thousands of 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 foot of Clarkson street. her
DAYS of toll, desperation, and her
thousand battles and periIs are past,
for the present at least. She is sale'
comparatively sound. Not thlng Is
there tomar the smooth surface OF her
gigantic sides.
Capt. Mckay sleeps at last. lie IS IN
bed, and that for the first time since the
steamship, out there nearly thousand
miles from her destination, i'll mldocean,
broke down and became as helpless as
the warrior of old became when he was
endorsed and his heavy armor made IL
impossible for him even to run away
and live to fight another day. Anu
when the steamship broke down the
Lives Of Hundreds
of men and women fell upon the shout
ders of the one man. Had the main
spring broken the works in the Watch
would have become useless. AnG so
Can't. Mckay, now that he has landed
his hundreds of souls, deserves the sleep
he is now enjoying.
In hundreds of homes, in clubs, III
the hotel parlors today they are telling
the history of that terrible week III mlu
ocean. 1t is great story, and upon tiie
nipr of the Cunard line it was told
many and many time. 1t was l2:3o
O'clock last night when the first news
of the arrival off these shores or the
long overdue Cunarder reached TINS
CITY. At that hour the observer at FIRE
island made out the lights of some large
vessel which was apparently coming
into port, and keeping as near to shore
MS she possibly could do. 1t took the
ohserver. who knows all the ships ana
lines bv their lights, but few SECONDS
to make out the unmistakeaDle highV
colors of the Cunard line, and then In
the minute
New York Knew IL.
Instruments licked OH hundred cir
cuits. ana within ten minutes OF Tue
fine that the observer at Fife lslanu
saw the first lights of the Umbrla nearly
every CITY for thousands of miles Khe"
mat she had at last put in an appear
ance. Once before during the tWepVy-
four hours just past the report ilau DEL nueI
sent out that the steamship h"o anliV0"'
and then it had proven false. IhlS ra
port came from Boston, ana set man " q
heart to futterng, only to increase the
anxiety, to deepen the gloom Iliat had
overcast many hOlneSte"u' DuU This
second tlIhe .lel0 wa to
doubt the news.
The Cunarder had come In Slobt of
land. her lights had been seen; ,SSi mI IN
- few hours sine would be at he, " JnI. u .
before another twelve hours tn miec'
ing ones could be with their trle nds and
so when the mothers OF the families
went down at / O'Clock this mo nima 10
answer the ring at the door b eli r. 81
init the shiYering, red-noSeo little mes
senger boy, to hastily tear onen the
yellow envelope anu anu, gay" -. re in black
ana Whlte the Welco'llo h0"' that
The Ship Had Arrived.
and would be at her dock in the morn
ing-Well, perhaps the wretched little
messenger looked in alarm at the bank
note thrust into his hands; perhaps he
stood in bewilderment when the old
mother caught his rags to her heart and
burst into tears: perhaps he did not
know why she did it, and perhaps on
the other hand he did.
1t was colo and bleak on the bay this
morning; cold off Sandy Hook: the
wind whistled mournrully through the
bare trees Oh Staten island, and the or
binary dehiZenS of that deluded part OF
the world saw nothing extraordinarily
beautiful or cheerful about their bleak
houses this particular morning. But to
the handful Of passengers huddled to
gether on the deck Of the Umbria al
daybreak the bleak land looked preciou:
indeed, and there were many who, il
sheer happiness perhaps, threw thei
arms about each other ana danced
around until the objects on shore be
came more distinct.
There was a heavy mist broke Owe
the bay, but toward O'Clock it began Il
lift little, and then they came i'll sigh
OF quarantine. She came up along
hdgGing the Staten island shore arounC
the fort, and
Small Army OF Tugs
and small boats accompanied her, tool
ing at the huge monster and barking
around her like so many pug dogs abou
maStilt. The Umbria looked auiet an
lady-like. There was nothing to ind
cate that she had anything but til
usual voyage. She came along slowly
TO be sure, but she did not cough as
she had the consumption; in fact, Sh
came along as slowly and as uncOr
cerned and unframed as if she had jus
passed through duel with some Frenc
gentleman on the field Of honor. 1t wa
$40 o'clock when she dropped ancho
off quarantine, and minute later Sh
was boarded by Dr. Jenkins boats. o
the doctors boat were about score {
reporters. who scrambled up the side {
the vessel like so many cats. About til
vessel there were clustered The man
boats that had been hired by friends {
those on board, and 1t was happy an
cheerful and FLOWS the baby an
map" for the next half-hour.
The Cunarders purser, jolly oil
Fields, told everybody that she ha
passed Fire island at three minutes pas
midnight this morning; that at 3:(
O'Clock the vessel was
Off Sandy Hook
lightship and that at 7:41 she passe
Sandy Hook. She lay TO off there f
some time TO wait until daybreak fl
the fog TO lift. AS she lay there sever;
vessels passed by her, and when tic
made her out gave her q greeting. Tn
Umbria left her resting place shortl
after o'clock and passed up into til
bay at 7:4l o'clock. At $40 O'Clock ST
was of quarantine, and at $50 she cam