The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-23
X I I R A !! !!
THOUSAND IN PERIL
The Hoboken Ferryboat,
Netherlands Crashes
Into the Pi1ing of
Her Slip.
FOUR PASSENGERS INJURED
The Mems Cabin Badly Wrecked
Blood and Screams Cause
a Panic.
FOUR PASSENGERS INJURED
Wind and Tide Drove the Vessel
Attwart the Barclay Street Slip
Miraculous Escapes.

est and biggest ferryboat on the North
River, the Netherlands, with LOGO pas
sengers on board, from Hoboken, crash
ed against the pier as she was endeav-
oring to make the Barclay street slip
this morning. A hole forty feet long
was torn in her port cabin. Three pas
sengers were seriously injured. dozen
others We're slightly hurt.
There was no fog at the time, ana
the boat ran into the south pier. The
tide was full ebb. The big ferryboat
floated with it from the Hoboken pier,
and when opposite Barclay street made
a sudden shoot for the slip. The Prov
missed. but the swift tide slowed the
ferryboat against the pier just forward
of the amidship section.
There was a crash of heavy timbers,
a rush of passengers from the point
of danger, but little screaming orother
signs of panic. The boat was crowded;
every seat was occupied.
Both fore and aft platforms outside
of the cabins were crowded to the
rails. That a score were not killed out
right was regarded nothing less than
a miracle.
The fact that the Netherlands is
twin-screw boat and has open cabins
reaching. the full length of the craft
gave a free passageway to the passen-
gers scurrying out of danger.
A CALL FOR AMBULANCES.
When the employees of the ferry COM
pany heard the crash and saw the GRIP
pied ferryboat they sent out call for
amburances from the Hudson Street Hos
pital.
Two responded, in charge of Drs. Cut
ler and CRANKY The police reserves OF
the Liberty street station were called
out in charge of Roundsman SAUL while
a great crowd soon gathered along the
dock to watch the Netherlands at the
outer edge of the slip.
It was more than a half hour after
tbe accident when the first man came
ashore from the ferryboat. He had made
a perilous climb to the stringpiece, and
walked along that lofty perch-at low
tide-to the slip. He proved to be +.
w Jackson. auditor of the Equitable
Life Insurance Company, who lives at
East Orange. There were many pas
sengers aboard from the Oranges.
''I was sitting right at the point where
the boat struck the pier" said Mr.. jack
son, I" and on the outside at that All
the seats were occupied and there were
people standing up. l don't think any
one was fatally injured, though 1T is GER
tainly a wonder how they escaped. L
only had a slight scratch on the hand'
though the outer shell of the boat for
forty feet was smashed in clean up to
the inner seats of the cabin"
Twenty minutes later the Netherlands
had steamed in to her pier, after flrst
getting impaled on the Central pier by
the gaping hole in the starboard SIDE.
The surgeons rushed aboard to attend
The injured The police, by this time
reinforced by Capt. Allaire, kept order
and cleared the passageways.
LIST OF THE INJURED.
Those most seriously injured were then
noted by the police and taken to the
hospital Here is the list
L. A. ROBELOT, age SO, manager in
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
Spring and High streets, West Hoboken,
artery cut in the head removed to the
Hudson Street Hospital
j. C. SAXTON, age 50, East Orange
broker at So Broadway, right hand cut
and back injured; took cab to hospital
FRED RANBOLD, age 50, 1,037 Park
avenue, Hoboken, knee sprained; removed
to the Hudson Street Hospital.
FRANZ ALTHANS, age IS, laborer, 10
Newark street, Hoboken, left hand cut
Mr.. Robelot was covered with blood
from head to foot, and the bandages
which had been tied about his head
were soaked with the flow.
He leaned heavily upon the arms of a
surgeon and brawny policeman as ne
was led to the ambulance.
Mr. Saxton, who was cut at the front
and ack of the head, remarked: -"All
I'm afraid of is that my back is serious
ly injured. / shall go to the hospital to
have the glass of the broken windows
picked out of my wounds" Then he