Evening journal., 1897-01-29
NEWS OF NEW CASTLE.
.BUSTLE ON THE RIVER.
Working in the Blight at New
Castle To-day to
FREE PHILADELPHIAs COMMERCE

A NUMBER OF MERCHANT MA
RINE DRIVEN INTO HARBOR AT
NEW CASTLE. SOME DRIVEN
AGROUND. AND OTHERS HEM
MED IN.
BY the appearance Of New Castles
river front to-day an old-fashiDned
Winter has truly set in, and the time
honored custom of large vessels com
ing in to tie up awhile, perhaps for all
Winter has been revived. The vessels
that have already arrived are:
Schooner Charles M. Patterson, Phil
adolphia for Savannah; schooner A.
Dsnike, Allyn's Point; barge Bala, for
FAN river; steamer Pawnee. New York
for Philadelphia; steamer Norman
Philadelphia for Providence, and city
ice boat, No 3.
The full force of Wednesday nights
storm was felt on the lower Delaware
river and on the bay. 1t seemed to
those who were out on the various
kinds of craft that the wind blew
harder and the snow fell faster than
ever before. All the time the ice was
making rapidly. Navigation in such a
time was impossible, and anchors were
cast by the larger vessels in mid
stream, while sheltered coves along tie
river and bay were sought by the
smaller craft Vessels were coated with
ice, and it was with difficulty that men
were able to stand on the decks
Since daybreak yesterday morning,
when the snow ceasing to fall so
thickly, permitted a fair outlook ahead.
city ice-boats Nos. 1 and have been
relieving vessels in the Horseshoe
which had been forced so far out Of the
channel by the ice as to touch bottom.
Three large steamers were held there
the Mameluke, Ardamhor and Mexi-
canc-all outward bound. After q
great deal of work they were freed and
they proceeded down the river all of
them having passed Reedy Island late
yesterday afternoon. Several coal
barges were released at this point also.
A number of vessels were sent
aground.
a tank steamer that grounded was
the Elbruz, bound for Hull, England,
which fetched up" in the channel. IL
was stated, off New Castle. AT high
tide the vessel was freed and pro-
ceeded.
The British steamer Borderer from
St. Jago with iron ore. which was re-
ported aground near Bombay Hook
was gotten off yesterday after assist
ance had been sent to her. At Sac
/ o'clock In the afternoon she was an
chorcd below Reedy Island The Bor
dcrer passed in at the Delaware Break
water late Tuesday afternoon.
] The tug Albert Hughes, while bring
ing up the Schooner Island City ha,
her stern badly damaged by thl
schooner running into her At th,
Breakwater there is much ice, an,
boats are keeping In the harbOr, ther,
being nine tow-b0ats stationed ther'
yesterday Last evening the wind wa
blowing twenty-seven miles, from The
west northwest, at that point it having
! increased from twenty miles in th'
morning. Snow was falling heavily
there.
Ice-boat No. 1 was working along th'
city front yesterday and as far down a.
the Horseshoe, while No. 2 patrolleI
from there down to Marcus, Hook. Cap
tain West, of No. 2, reported in the af
ternOon that the channel was clea
from Eddystone below the Hook, an,
that the ice was being moved by TIL
tides No. 3 was engaged most OF tn
day in working in the blight at New
Castle There were several ccastinl
steamers reported at New Castle an,
Marcus Hook last evening as bound n
to the city.
Announcement has been made tha
TIE Chesapeake and Delaware cana
will close for lock repairs for ten day
beginning to-day. AS a consequence O
this and the haavy ice in the canal tn
Ericsson Line steamers, winch run be
iweeh philadelphil and Baltimor,
have pcen Withdrawn from service.