Evening journal., 1898-01-14
TANKERS IN COLLISION.
Miscaloulation Causes Trouble
in the Delaware River.
BOTH STEAMERS RETURN TO PORT
GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN
MEET IN MID-DDLAWARE AND
BOTH SUFFER- DAMAGE WHICH
COMFELs THEM TO PUT BACK
TO THEIR DOCKS.

COMFELS THEM TO PUT BACK
TO THEIR DOCKS.
Yesterday brought reports OF more
accidents I'M tlre Delaware river than
have been chronicled I'm one day for a
.ong time. A fruit steamer. Reading
collier. towing two barges and two
Others tows went aground and two
tank steamers were IN collision.
The vessels in collision were the Ger
man steamer Wilkommen, Captain j.
| T.. S,haffer. hence for Belfast, with
| .267 400 gallons OF refined petroleum.
yalued at Sal .454, and the British
steamer AureOle. Captain j. Crosby.
bound from the port OF Wilmington for
| Cette France, with 1863 695 gallons OF
| crude petroleum, valued at $58,910.
/ Both cleared on Monday, the fcrmer
I'm the charge Of pilot Thomas Marshall
and the Aureole In the charge Of Pilot
H. Maull
Were Il not for the fog the vessels
| would probably be at sea to-day. The
accident occurred yesterday afternoon
of New Castle, when the weather was
clear Both vessels arrived at Phiiadel-
phia last might None OF those most
! directly concerned cared to speak OF
the collision.
JAS far as WAS known last night both
| vessels are not badly damaged, al
Though surveyors, who will make an
examination to-day, may find greater
injuries Than were visible last might.
The Will1ommen has part of the top
plate on the port bow stove in. while
the Aureole rs damaged on the STAR
board side abreast Of the engine ROOM
as Is also the steering gear
, II Is understood That the collision oc-
! Cured while the AuroOle, which is a
much faster boat than the other, WAS
trying to pass the Wilkommen at the
bend in the river near New Castle.
The vessels getting too close upon each
other, strenuous efforts were made 10
I | get a safe distance apart, but In doing
7 so the starboard slide amidships Of the
: | Aureole struck the German steamer on
: the port bow.
As both commanders could not all
: once ascertain the extent OF their dam
ages. and as port WIS close at hand
| they decided to return and undergo q
= | survey. The AureOle anchored in ths
Z | Stream of Gloucester aud Will1ommar
. off the mouth OF the Schuylkill river
| The AureOle halls from Newcastle u
. | owned by Hunting g. Son. and wal
launched In October. 1895. while th'
Wilkommen halls from Geestemunde
was built in 1887, and rs owned by ths
Dutch-American Petroleum Company
Beth vessels are OF Steel
The British steamer Ethelwold, Cap
tain List, hence for Port Antonio, II
4, ballast, fetched up on the upper end o
v Chester Island; the collier Lebanon
. Captain Robinson, from Portsmouth
l, with the barges Bast, from Newbury
IN port and keystone, from Portland, .ol
The lower end OF Tinicum Island; TN
schooner Gladiator. Captain Mcdonald
's from Placentla Bay, Newfoundland
"a touching at Gloucester. Mass. in tow o
l. the tug Pilot, at Ridley creek, and
barge In tow OF the tug Mascot
no grounded on the Delaware side half
u mi,e below Marcus Hook. All OF then
remained fast until yesterday afteI
noon when they we're fiOated, ap
parently without sustaining amy dam
~ age.
l-I The schooner Virginia RuIlon, boun
x l from Virginia for New York, whic
Of | was ashore on the virginia coast 70
he more THAN two weeks, passed up frou
be the Delaware BrealSwater yesterday !
O. tow OF the tug Rescue, bound for WI
mingtOn to undergo repairs.