St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

to the bottom, and her passengers had
an almost miraculous escape.
The American line steamship, New
York, is aground in the lower bay, and
though her passengers. were landed to-
night, the vessel may remain on the
shoal, where she now is imprisoned,
for several days.
AT dusk tonight the old Dominion
line steamship, Guyandotte, while pas
sing in through the Narrows, struck
the steamship George w. Clyde. The
collision tore a hole of such dimensions
in the Clyde that she had to be beach
ed to prevent sinking.
The latest report from the fleet that
is grouping about in the bay is that
the steamship Advance is aground in
the upper bay.
The New York ran aground on
the tail of the west bank,
mile to the south of Swim
burne island, and about a thousand
yards west of the ship channel Up
to $50 this evening the fog had not
lifted, and at that time it looked as
if the weather would be thicker dur
ing the night. The first and second
cabin passengers, with their baggage,
as we'll as the mails, were transferred
by steamer from the ship to the city.
The steerage passengers may be taken
off later tonight, but it Is more than
likely that they will remain on board
until tomorrow. A Press representative
was dispatched on a special tug. with
instructions to locate the New York
task which was no easy one, consid-
ering that one could scarcely see two
boat-lengths ahead through the drift
ing rain and thick fog Navigation in
the upper bay was a dangerous under
taking in such weather. Shortly after
l o'clock the lines Of the big steamer.
with her three smokestacks, loomed
up dead ahead, and it was easily seen
| that the American liner was hard and
| fast in the sand and mud. There she
lay, perfectly helpless, and headed
northeast. She drew seventeen feet
aft and fifteen feet forward, leaving
space of nearly eight feet below her
water line visible. One of the blades
| of the propeller on the port side was
half exposed above water, and from
her draught it would seem that she is
| imbedded about five feet in the muddy
| and sandy bank. When the tug drew
up alongside the vessel, the passen-
| gers crowded to the rails, and said
they
FELT NO UNEASINESS,
and that there was no excitement on
board. None of the officers nor the
| captain of the ship could be Induced to
make any statement in reference to
the accident. The name of the pilot
who had charge of the vessel at the
time she grounded was also kept
profound secret. One of the passen-
gers, Robert Woodhouse, of Grahams-
| tomn, South Africa, said that he was
on deck at $3.50 o'clock this morning
when the pilot was taken aboard.
About an hour later the ship came to
a sudden stop, while he was in his
berth When he went on deck again
! he was informed that she was aground.
1t was raining heavily, and the fog was
so dense that objects on deck could
not be seen more than twenty feet
away. Mr. Woodhouse said the pas
sengers had taken the matter phil
osophically and were thankful that
nothing worse had happened.
The wrecking tug D. s. Arnott was
the first to reach the steamer this fore
noon, and Capt. C. H. Grant, Of the
New York, Immediately dispatched one
Of his officers TO quarantine, on the
Arnott, to make arrangements for the
! transfer of the passengers and mails
to this city,. A number of boats were
hurriedly sent out to
THE DISABLED STEAMER.
The work of transferring the baggage
and mails was begun at o'clock by
| about sixty men, who had been sent