The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-03
DOOMED Steamer AILsA
Her Owners Surrender Her to the
Underwriters.
SHE MAY NEVER BE RAISED
Divers Bring Up Water Soaked Mnil and
II II to DC Dried--Hole in tho
George W. Clyde Will
Bc Repaired.

New York, March 1.-The work OF
lightering the steamship George w:
Clyde which was run into by an Olu
Dominion steamer Saturday. Is being
pushed by the Chapman Wreckihs
company today. Yesterday the wreck
ers worked all day, and removed from
the Clyde all the dry cargo. Today iiNe
steam pumps are at work on the dis-
abled steamship. and the balance oi
the cargo is being removed to lighters.
Early today divers went down the out
side of the clyde and made prepira-
tons for temporarily closing the big
hole in the side Of the clyde, resulting
from the collision. The wreckinS com
pany expects to be able to get the clyde
to her dock sometime today.
The Ailsa of the Atlas line, which
was sunk Saturday afternoon in col
lision with La Bourgogne of the French
line, has been abandoned by the owners
as wreck At the office of the steam
ship agents, Fim Forwood & Kellock,
it was stated this afternoon that the
vessel was now in the hands of the
underwriters, and so far as the Atlas
line is concerned they will do with her
as they please.
Their representative in this city is
Arthur II. Clark of No. "A State street.
He said to a reporter:
"Our instructions from London i
have asked today for bids from various
companies to raise the vessel.
mo bids have yet been submitted,
and / can't tell you yet what VIII be
done with her. When we get the bids
We'll have to decide whether 1t VIII
pay to raise her, and then the matter
of repairing or selling her as she stands
will have to be decided
IN THE UNDERWRITERS HANDS.
Mr. Clark said he was not authorized
TO answer any questions as to the in
surance He also was silent when asked
whether any suit would be brought
against the owners of La Bourgogne for
damages. He said he had received no
report from the diver examining the
hull of the Ailsa as to how badly she
was hurt.
No member of the firm of PIN. For
wood g. Kellock was accessible TO re-
porters. The cashier, who represented
them, positively refused any informa-
tiOn as to either loss or insurance. He
declared that nothing was likely to be
done toward Furnishing the panic
stricken and cowardly Spanish iiremen
of the vessel who let down the life boat
and rowed away with it, leaving the
passengers to their fate. He declared
the incident was unduly magnfied by
the newspapers but in any case 1t was
every man for himself and there was
no law to punish a man for trying to
save his own life.
Secretary Nash, of the board of pilot
commissioners, said that no complaint
had been filed against Pilot Murphy OF
La Bourgogne by either the French or
Atlas lines. He thought this was an in
dication that no blame for the collision
was attributable to the pilot.
Two bags of mail recovered from the
Alsa were brought back to the New
York postoilices today. The letters are
In pretty bad condition from their sub
mersion. When dried those of them
whose superscriptions are legible will
be forwarded with an explanation OF
how they came to be damaged.