The evening world., 1894-04-02
LAST EDITION.
EMS IS SAFE
AT FAYAL.
TOWed to the Azores by the
Oi!.TaDk Steamship
Wild6OWer.
PROPELLER FRAME BROKEN.
Glad News for the Many Persons
Who Feared She Had Been
Sunk by an Iceberg.
TO PICK UP THE PASSENGERS.
The Kaiser Wilhelm will Probably
Go to the Relief of the
Belated 400.
TO PICK UP THE PASSENGERS,
The Ems Is safe.

The overdue North German Lloyd
liner was towed into Fayal at the
Azores, to-day, and the first news was
Press despatch:
FAYAL. AZORE ISLANDS. April =
The North German Lloyd steamship
Ems from Bremen, on March II. and
from Southampton on March IS. for
New York. has been lowed here by the
steamship Wildfower, Capt. Living
stone, from Blaye, France. for Whining
ton, Del. The Ems has her propeller
frame broken.
The Wildfower is n British oil steam
ship, owned by Alfred Stuart & Co, and
halls I.om London. She is of only Las
tons register, and 1t was no small
task Tor her to tow the 5,lOO-tons Ems.
The North German Lloyd agents re-
ceivei their first despatch from the home
office in Bremen about the Ems, at IL
o'clock this morning. 1t read as fol-
lows:
BREMEN. April :,
yierd Edwards tranships passengers Kaiser.
The Company i%nterprets the despatch
as meaning that the passengers Will be
brought direct to New York by the kai-
ser Wilhelm II. The distance from the
LOI'S " .NcN iolh 10 -'-vS ii' "i'N
the Kaiser Wilhelm II. is expected to
reach New York about the 18th.
1t is figured that the Wiidhower must
have picked up the Ems when the latter
was about four days out.
An active young man in the office OF
the North German Lloyd Steamship
Company in Bowling Green posted a
copy of that welcome despatch on the
bulletin board of the Company, II II
was eagerly read by a hundred anxious
men and women who had haunted the
Company's Office for the last four or five
days.
The Ems was sighted March q by the
Red Star liner Noordland when abou,
$50 miles out from Southampton. From
was heard from the vessel. and wher
she was three days overdue the agents
OF the Company here grew anxious.
There were. the crew included aoou'
400 souls aboard of the Ems.
1t was feared the Atlantic liner haC
run into a big iceberg and been SUM
with all IN board.
Just what was the cause Of the break
ing OF the propeller frame of the En-:
is not learned in the first dispatches. /
may have been from striking huge block
Of Ice or 1t may have been smashed !!
an uncommonly severe storm. such al
prevail on the Atlantic at this time o
the year.
The propeller frame Of a steamship, is
as its name indicates, a steel frame tina
nts in between the rudder and the hui
OF the vessel and supports the propeller
on an axis which runs from one uprigh
TO the other. When It becomes damage
the propeller cannot be used, unless tbs
injury is rather Of a weakening kin thar
"A break.
The steamer Roland, of the North Ger
man Lloyd line, reached port early n,
left Bremen March H. or three days
ahead Of the Ems She experienced
strong northwest winds. with high seas
from March Ii to %. on March q tht
Roland, in latitude 1857. longitude 80
struck a heavy gale from south-south
west to northwest. lasting twentN-tonl
hours. The ship hove to and labOEec
heavily. making but eight miles in the
twcnty-fonr hours. Westerly gales pre-.
vailed, with high seas and heavy snow
squalls.
taste of similar, weather, and Capt
R~cimkasten viii have "A mariners yaIf
to spin Of his experiences.
The news from Fayal vii, IN a Weigh
Of fear from the hearts of those who hnc
friends or relatives aboard. 90,
Tho Wildnower cost $500 10 build
ThS EWf r w 56 9 IsTs G ,5G}r, i,2,' cd i@R.. i
Is believed. viii award IN" WildhoweI
about 10000 after the general averag'
is settled, so that the h,tle tramp Steamci
has had a rich haul.
Other steamers overdue and ]causins
nXict among the agents are the Italian
steamer Charles Martcl, from Marsc!llc'
March 3; the Panama, from Bordeau'
March Is, to Funch, Edge Il Co, and tn
tramp steamer Peruvian, from Shield
March o.
""THILADELPH1A., April Pete
can agents of the steamer Wildhowcr
which towcd the disabled steamer EN-
into Fayal, received a ,ablegram from
Cant. Livingstone this morning whiCl
confirms the Associated Press despatchcs
Tho WildNpvrr was returning ewpt,
from Biaye, whore she had discharged
cargo Of oil. when she fell in with tn
disabled Ems. BESIDES capt. Livingston
the WildhOwcr carries a crew of fruI
forty TO sixty men.