Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-02-08
SHE SLID OFF THE SAND
Steamer St. Paul Rescued From
Her Perious Position.
SHE sTEAHED TO NEW YORK
Has Not Sustained the Slightest Injury
the Agents Assert Salvage
Will BE Enormous.

New York, Feb. 4.-The steamer St.
Paul Of the International Navigation
Company line, which went ashore on a
sandbar off Long Branch q week ago
last Saturday, was pulled off the bar al
9:20 this morning by four wreckins
tugs of the Merritt & Chapman Wreck
ing Company, with the aid OF dredse
anchors.
The conditions this morning We're
Favorable for pulling off the stranded
vessel, for tn, W I'D was blowing With
considerable force. The sea was good
and the position of the St. Paul such
that she was able to aid herself con-
siderably by her prCpellors.
When the four Dig tugs took their
positions at few minutes after
o'clock the big hawsers strained and
creaked. There was q pause for a mo-
ment, and then the big liner was seen
to glide slowly but surely seaWard.
But while the crowd on the beach
watched the wrecking tugs and their
valuable tow, she seemed TO come to
a dead halt again.
Put on all your steam,' cried the
man at the bell. Don't be afraid" and
the word passed to the engineers. There
was a harsheE grinding than before
and then the big black hull moved
again eastward. and in a moment or
two was in deep water.
Cheer after cheer went up from those
on shore. The big steamer came off
considerably scared, but 1ot injured
to any material degree. AS she passed
in through the nalToWs, followed by
little fiotilla of tugs, the passengers on
the North German steamer Lahn
crowded on her decks and cheered for
her safety into port.
The white-coated band played Hail
Columbia" and kept on until she was
moored at the pier of the American
Line Company, where she was greeted
joyous1y Captain Jameson. with his
first and second officers, was on the
bridge when the steamer came UP, He
remained there until She was safely
moored. He refused to talk.
The vice president of the company,
A. C. Griscomb, however, made the
following statement. The ship, so far
as we know, has not sustained the
slightest injury. We feel very proud of
the ship during her adversity We are
now Wiling TO run leI 10 SOU tpii'
We will have our men inspect the ship
exterrelly and internally, and il &5di-
ton to this she will be examined by the
| proper authorities, who will probably
| be more able to tell whether or not the
/ American Line or it's ships are capa bic
| of carrying mails and passengers from
| this country to England in safety
| The officials of the company are au-
| thority for the saying that the st. Paul
will probably sail for SOutha mpton in
| about two weeks, as advertised. They
also state that complete and thorough
inyestiga ton will be instituted regard
| ing the accident.
ENORMOUS SALVAGE.
Shipping men are already at work
| fixing up q general average list of the
| losses sustained by the St Paul. Opin-
! ions differ as to the amount of the loss,
but all agree that the salvage that will
have to be paid viii be the largest ever
| collected from any one vessel. The low
| est estimate places this amount at
| 500, 600 The loss will fall on the under
writer's. as the American Line does not
| insure its own vessels. If mismanagc-
ment could be proved against the of
| ficers of the company, however, suit
NAV be brought and the total loss col
lecte1 from the steamship company.