Evening journal., 1895-02-11
HELPLESS
Large Steamships and the Ice
Crushers Jam Together.
WALKING ACROSS THE DELAWARE

Steamer Kiihu Thempson Freezes Up In
Eight Feet Of leo and when Reached
ny Powerful Tugs. Parts with Her Pro-
psner and Ruddor sailor with Hands
aud Feet Frozen Unable to Reach
shore.
SD .oiai Correspondence Evening Journal.
NEW CASTLE, February H. The
New England steamer Parthlan, pass,
ing down the river q Saturday evening,
tried 20 shear of 10 ear the steamer
Guild Hall, Just oil this city, and both
vessels jammed Iceboat No vent to
their assistance and she also froze IN and
was rer rdered helpless Tugs asa and
Albert n Hughes broke up the harbor
Ice here in futile attempt to reach the
steamers This morning tho iceboSt
freed herself and got the Parthlan
started down the river
This ship MASS Of Ice.
The steamer Elihu Thompson. from,
Boston for Philadelphia, WAS frozen up
in eight feet OF packed Ice at Bsn Davis.
Signals for help were flying yesterday in
the vessels rigging IL Is believed that
the vessel was driven ashore by the ice.
Tugs went at once to her assistance.
This morning the Elihu Thompson was
towsd into New Castle by the tugs K V.
aud James MeCaulley with her propeller
broken and rudder shifted She Is a
complete mass OF ice. her hull being
sheathed with a foot coating In some
places
Shortly before noon to-day signals Of
distress wero hoisted on oity iceboat
No. . of Obstruction Buoy. just above
the Films Point jstty. and It WAS known
at once that this relief boat WAS not only
giving ont but WAS being frozen In BY the
packing hoes Of ice.
The Guild Hall last evening succeeded
IN working loose and proceeded
slowly mp the river Steamers Surley and
City OF New Castle followed In her wake,
The western channel WAS lined on both
sides with a high wall Of Ice to- day
presenting spectacle never parallelled
Ia recent years
In mid-stream men walked on the ice
between the steamers ParthiGn and Guild
Hall off this city Ia Philadelphia, fol
the first time In 30 years, the Delaware
river is covered with ice strong enough "a
permit persons TO walk from the New
Jersey shore TO the Pennsylvania shore
NeArly = hundred men and boys crossed
over 50 Camden yesterday from Lombard
street wharf and points further down the
river, without difficulty, but not without
some danger The only thing in the way
Of absolute safety WAS a marrow okanns
cut by the ferry boats, over which many
crossed by waiting for a huge block 81
ice, and leaplng from one to another
until the solid Ice was again reached.
The ics at the Delaware Capes, be
tween tbs BreakWstar and shore, drifte'
seaward yesterday, carrying with it thi
coal barge J X Msrry. The anchor o
the Merry caught the Maritime EKohAngl
cable, breaking It. ard preventing any
more reports being sent from the Break
water The station will be moved TO thl
iron pier st Lswes until the cable can b.
repaired
other Happenings on the River.
It took one hour and thirty minui 81
for the steamer SWitzsrland TO work be-
way up from New Castle to Deep Waite
Point, 4 distance Of hva miles
sailor on the Guild Hall got bis fee
and hends frozen. and his head was Gu
by fall when his feet gave way. Tn
captain refused to land him hero. though
mortifcation was setting in, assigning
as his reason that he could not afford on
| mOment'q delay