The evening world., 1894-05-04
But the Persian Monarch Is Still
on the Eastport Sand Bar.
Passengers Say that Capt. Bristow
Was lnso.ent to Them.
aren't Says a Pilot Was on Board
When the Ship Grounded.


Wilson'S pier. No. 1. Brooklyn. at 6.45
o'clock this morning. by the tug C. e.
Evarts, Capt. Philip Dick. which was
sent to their aid yesterday by Sander
son & Son. the Wilson line agents.
They were all well. but very out
spoken in their expressions OF displeas-
ure at the treatment they said they had
received from Capt. Bristow. the ships
commander.
Nearly all the passengers left imme-
diately after their arrival. and gave in
structions TO have their baggage for
warded on its arrival at the Brooklyn
pier. An Evening World" reporter
found Miss Emma Bagley. one of the
belated passengers. this morning. She
was positively 'nawsty."
1T was about O'Clock Wednesday
night" said Miss Bagley, when the
passengers and myself were In the chief
engineers room when we felt the YES gel
strike something and shiver from stem
The captain Immediately notified tn-
chief engineer through the .ube that
something was wrong; heard him SAY:
ran out of the chief engineers room
pell nell up the s;nircase to the deck.
In the rush several of the ladies' mar
Towly escaped INJURY.
Il stubbed my toe and In falling struck
my nose against the railing. When we
got up, on deck the vessel was hard
aground The fright Of most OF the pas
sided. but one lady. a, Mrs. j. Hyman.
bride. became quite hysterical and had
to be taken below by her husband and
I'VE stayed on the bar all yesterday
and until o'clock last night, when the
tug Charles 4. Evarts arrived to take
tow ordered all the passengers to board
the tug. The crew rigged up n chair in
which the ladies were lowered to the
lively refused to be lowered to What What
seemed to them a great distance In the
chair, but Capt Bristow Numbered and
stormed i,75 Ground 50 that we had lad to do It.;
that he didn't loop rope around our
waists and lower us that way like
oWes ass the so9s the TO tSs t five bs to
Miss Bagley was asked why It was
that Capt. Bristow had been rendered a
testimonial bv the passengers IL he had
treated them.
oh" she said "that was all the do
ings OF that woman The Duchess She
time to make the other passengers be-
was finer than could be obtained any
"She marched US all into the cabin
and made us sign the testimonial to the
Mrs. Mary smitn, wife of a London.
Ont. physician, who had been to Eu-
rope for her health, after landing at
Wilson'S pier. hurried to the office OF
the Wilson line. at Y State street. this
While at the steamship office Mrs.
Smith was seen by an Evening World"
currences on board the ship two or
three days previous to striking the bar
Mrs. Smith said that the weather was
flne and clear. and that no fog was
"The night was calm" said Mrs
we Sond Ranis see all tne oe
deck about $50 o'clock, and about to
retire when the shock came"
Passenger Agent Dunnett Of the VII
arch yesterday. in the tug Evarts. re-
MI. Dunnstt said that @ pilot from I'm
S Soard When i the W Vessel Struck the bar. "
1t is believed in shipping circles that
some strange occurrence happened on
board the Persian Monarch, and that
keep the real cause of her grounding
The Wilson line people say that Capt.
An order of the Company requires all
captains of the Wilson line steamers to
run sufficiently close to Fire Island to
be reported from the signal station at
The Evarts was followed to the
belonging to the Southern rowboat Com
pany. which the Merritt Wrecking Com
pany had hired. The Merritt took
with her several barges with which to
The Eysrts was unable to run along.
side the Persian Monarch on account Of
Se 'anST wdt e. e saF By ss
manned by members OF the Merritts
crew.
About midnight the Evarts steamed
antine at $50 this morning. and the Per.
sian Monarch's passengers were inspected
by Deputy Health officer Talmage. He
seeded dsay tn' to Wilson'S hs
Brooklyn.
sandsrson & Co. denied to an Even
s he5a seeh that @ .hs
used by the captain or any Of the crew.
Agent Dunnett, Capt. Bristow was not
@ cred d''o over Gasa the eAs SHIPS SIDE into into the
II was in charge and witnessed no act
ola oceur N same Ing CAPTAIN
trew frrew Of the tug Merritt. but l do not
EASTPORT, L. l.. May 4.-The strand
ed steamship Persian Monarch lay a
title deeper In the sand this morning
than she did yesterday owing to the long
ocean swell that prevailed all night.
Shortly after daybreak one of the
barges began lightering the freight from
the steamship. The tug l.. J. Merritt
soon afterwards went to work to get the
steamer of the ba- At 10 o'clock Capt.
Bristow thought she had succeeded In
working the ship back towards the
ocean about fifty feet
Thi: made him feel very hopeful, and
he saia he thought he would have his
vessel afioat at high tide tonight.
Ctpt. Bristow later discovered that his
sse'sel Lad not been budged one inch.
she was still embedded In eight feet OF
sand and lying In ten feet Of water. The
snip has only 1000 tons aboard. she
draws eighteen feet of water.
Al ! o'clock the tugs in attendance
abandoned the hope of getting the Per-
pan Monarch of the sand bar to-day.
u was then low tide and nothing could
De done until high water.
Inc ship is in such a position that II
the southeaster promised for this after
noon materializes her decks will be
swept by the waves.
Yacht AlEa AhOat Again.