The sun., 1896-03-01

Three Tugs Bench the Freighter or Fort
Hamilton with Hole In Her Side.

Three Tugs Bench the Freighter or Fort
Hamilton with Hole In Her Side.
The freight steamship George w. Clyde of tho
Clyde line. bound for Wilmington. n. G.. and
Georgetown with general cargo. lost her bear
ings in the fog about half an hour after che left
her East River pier.
Capt. Chichesterisuspected that he WAS in the
Narrows. which is the most dangerous bit OF wa
ter hereabouts on foggy day and he siRnalled
for his engineer to go at half speed. which II
about five knots or Fort Hamilton the Captain
saw close on his port bow the Old Dominion
steamship Guyandotte. bound in from Norfolk
with six colored passengers. simultaneously
Capt. G. NJ. Walker of the Guyandotte, who is a
veteran skipper and familiar with the rig of all
coasting vessels. made out the freghter. Capt
Walker put his helm hard aport with the inten-
tian Of sheering of and running in near the
Long Island Shore The Guyandotte was under
very little Roadway. and the Clyde had praoti.
cally stopped. The steamers crashed together.
The momentum of the Old Dominion boat was
sufficient to tear OF many Of the plates Of the
Clyde on the port side, about midships
Much Of tho damage was below tho water-
line, and the Clyde's port compartment amid
ships began to fill. Two tugs and tho Chap
man wrecking steamer Hustler. which were
near by. responded to the long, sharp blasts of
the Clyde's whistle5 for help.
The Hustler had been despatched to tho Mar
rows to assist the Columbian limo steamship
Advance In getting OF shoal where it was re-
ported she had run about three hours before The
afioat, and started back to the city. He helped
the tugs that answered the Clyde's signals for
sB1 aer,
OF Fort Hamilton.
cyde sde All oa nEsH INTO Sos es
passengers ran uu on deck In the driving rain
They were much excited. They say that the
the Clydes deck on to the deck Of 'G the anySn r
dotte, under the impression that the Clyde was
Hustler and the tugs had not been at hand
y,n When the ,a Gnyandotte get to her pier, Capt.
Hook we found the fog thick enough to cut in
Gravesend Bay, and decided to anchor Off Fort
the %nra 6sep cass
We had stonped About 200 feet of / a
sstss ssF0sa asd shoued The" :" s snnp
ssrn''ef spag II. TO Yelled put back Ks Tsvo rTa
engine. Then came the crash. We We're hit on on
the port bow: :,, The other vessel was struck
Tia. that ,sysry.hinE , ., was was a al j. risht We Ne
the clyde. Three tugs appeared almost % tin imme me.
diately efter we, were run into. and they
9f to ss 4e hsl of or Ws @
and, knowing we could be of no assistance. we
came on up TO our pier. We were not In tho
The Guyandotte wasn't even scratched. s topped
| The Commercial Towing Company's tugs
%hen the eoson kaea rspt wers chy
chester. who was on the bridge. and asked him
Its no use" answered he Clyde's Captain, ,
get me into the mud as quick as you can"
rate very short til time m,yHe yhe hsw
sers were made fast and the two powerful tugs
| Island shore with tho (,lyle
The tide was .r o9d S,, and unusually hgh and
the mud until she rested hard and fast on the
sThe clyde is lying with her stern inshore op-
poste about where the foot of Ninety-sixth
north OF the old red dock formerly used for in
specting garbage scows.
alongside Of her last night there were also
couple OF lighters there. but the work of moving
lies so far inshore that nostmen alongshore
say that at low tide she will be- nearly high and
dry out OF water.
| Weather Forecast for tho North Atlantic.
WASHINGTON. Feb. oo.The photographic
forecast for the North Atlantic for March is as
follows:
"Gales less frequent than In February and
| not so violent. OF the American coast north OF
Hatteras occasional northwesterly gales. Along
| the transatlantic steamer routes gales about
once in six days with periods OF strong north
easterly winds. Near the Azores gales about
| once in ten days. Fog on the Grand Banks and
near the New England coast. Ice on the Grand
Banks as far south as AZ ~. with field Ice south
| and east OF Newfoundland.
Herr Singer Acquires vorwaerts.
BERLIN. Feb. 29-Herr Singer. one of the
leaders OF the Socialist party In the Reichstag.
has acquired control OF Vorudrts, the principal
Socialist organ, and has appointed Herr Richard
| Fischer also a member OF the Reichstag, as the
responsible editor and manager of the paper.
Herr Singer will retain control OF the age