The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-14
IRON STEAMBOATS, GROUND.
THE CEPHEUS And PEGASUS STRAND
orr SEA GATE-BOTH ELOdTED.
Crphcus Touched First and the other Went
on the sand Trying to Drag Her OF
Some Excitement, hut Nobody Hurt
Nervous Woman Jumped Overheard.

some Excitement, bui NOBODY hurt-
Nervous Woman Jumped Overheard.
Two Of the Coney Island iron steamboats,.
the Cephcus and the Pegasus. ran aground on
the Pumpkin patch. of Nortons Point. Coney
| Island. late yesterday afternoon in the fog.
The Pegasus ran aground in pulling the
Cepheus of. Tho boats stuck in the sand at
low tide. so that there was little danger that
they would be seriously injured Both boats got
back to'Ncw York soon after q O'Clock last
evening and landed their passengers safely.
| The Pegasus had a part Of her bulwarks torn
| away by q towiine. Otherwise the boats were
| not injured None of the passengers was hurt.
| About 100 OF them were landed Mt Sea Gate In
| small boats near W here the steamers grounded,
| but the majority came home on them.
The Cepheus ran into the sand her whole
| length shortly before ; o'clock on her 3 80
| p. NJ. down trip. Shc was then only a short
| distance from the beach. Her engines were kept
| going. but the boat could not be moved. Many
| Of the women passengers were frightened, but
| the crew told them there was no danger. The sen
was nearly calm. Capt. W H. Van Setback told
! the passengers that the boat would slide off at
| high water even II no one came to help them.
| As the tide rose the Ccph"us swung further In
| shore until she was only a few yards of Sea
| Gate one OF the women passengers became
| hystercal and jumped overheard. A man
/
hcr They were cared for at the cottage OF j.
| T. Nelson
The Pegasus which left New York an hour
after the Ccphcus. came along before the tide
had risen much aud made futile attempt to
pull her sister ship of. After swapping n
hawser in tho attempt she went on to the
Concy Island pier. landed her passengers, took
on a new load. and returned to the stranded
| vessel. Cart Harvey Of the Pegasus passed
| Iipn 70 hn Cor nd hn Pa n
haul away again. As she did so she ran in
toward shore herself. and by the time she had
| the Cepheus out Of tho sand her own keel
ground into the bottom.
The Cerheus steamed out into the fog.
leaving the Pegasus In the sand. Small boats
came of from the shore and took number OF
The passengers from the Pegasus to Sea Gate.
From Sea Gate these passengers took stages to
the trolley line terminal and took cars to their
homes Meantime the Cepheus ran down to
tho Coney Island pier landed her passengers.
and with u fresh load started back In response
to signal from the Pegasus she cam in to help
the Pegasus again. ust then the revenue cut
ter Gresham came along. and boat from the
Pegasus; As the Cepheus pulled away and the
line frightened cle9t on the Pegasus gave
S %%a an" second line was passed. from the
Cepheus. but this was too short,
As third line was being madS fast the tug
Baltic. which had come down. from New York
with Superintendent Freligh Of the Iron Steam
Baltic made a line fast 10 the Pegasus's quar-
ter, and after hal: an hours work pulled her
The Geph us started fo- New York, followed
few minutes later by the Pegasus. The first
sGaGa sHn shoy ssr ,S 2 lock
OF twenty. second street. where she tied up Tor
the night, The Pegasus. after landing her pas
rnS sS sf 'i sf
1oy he EnyE thipl bo har Gan iN Iani, la1
e put back; She landed her passengers at the
and R9 Ss eD to Eo Brsp f1 Po the
steamers went to The Battery and started Of
the way down ,.he Patrol ,Eassed the Pegasus
and .Cephcus bound in The Patrol put back
The pliGh, Of tho Cepehus first became known
. the Sea Gate RESIDENTS through Lighthouse
ng Of the dsnbed steamer helped 70 at
tract the cottagers and Atlantic Yacht
n sS he to Sea1 her som n 6 the oGas%
folks were fearful lest the CerheVs's pas;
ho yndDt %P nnnS6 nd
got ready and steamed around through the
fog TO where the steamer lay. She had three
Sight PO Of from the Shore in III" The We" Jog
= few minutes after the Cepheqs was noticed,
S We're w"nlcrlnr what really had happened
they heard screams Tb and a. mom"n later
the shore watchers could see man strug
n naet wiz" Th5 MG an ae Mr'r kent %n 10 sS
head, for he, soon had the woman ashore
na%by When" they he Ss ou Two hours
! driving their clothes, The Nelson's concluded
f4f .s to e 80 each
apss3s hsw The f" 9sSs sS Ee TO yna 4
m@c spS ID, to o q rvy Sc hts os ws
Covered before tho Atlantic cot TO- he her and
: boat followed the Atlantic around to the yach,
J.. club landing Another steam launch also made
: trips to the stranded steamer. and altogether
. Cant ". H. Van Schaick. Of the Cspheus, said
. last night that on the way down the bay an un
4 usual humber of mudscows were encountered
0 which. together, with the fog which came up
. made it dillcult for him to follow the usua
"WS Ind about seyeenty:..hve MESSENGERS or
there MS nry o Tnsm
: had kept the whistle going and Just as We
$ not know We. We're so near shore until we felt Il
z thnmpp ind found ourselves stuck tast in thi
3 dSnlGG o Of he water arTgna US. sns
: and as We were on the sand didn't feel wo i,
ried several OF tn" passengers came 10 mt
and inquired If there was any danger. They
seemed to lie rcassured when told them how
matters stood. The first thing did after
found that We were aground was to try and ge
= her OF with her own engines. but. after work
ing Thorn for time, | found we would have tr
. get assistance. Then ! sent boat ashore anC
II telcphOnsd to New York
y None OF the passengers asked to go ashore
a aud al seemed willing to wait until auothe
a boat should come along TO null US of, Ate
3 waiting about Nh hour W" sighted the PegRsu
). and sIgnnIInd TOR help After she had tugg",
- at us for about fifteen minutes Capt, liaNe,
g told me he thought he hal better land I'M
| ms nd tp Uh u,
$ bad more water | told him to 60 ah"ai
. In halt an hour the Pegasus returne,
/ and tried to pull our stern OH while the en-
: grn"s were backed, In doing this the Tegasu
e must have drfted inshors, Tor after ten min
n tune the Pegasus went, ashore, As soon Il
- ! found We were aiioat. with the a.
n sistance Of boats from the GreIhAm | pu
:, some hnwsrrs aboard the Pegasus and tried Il
y pull her of This didn't work, | ran dow
10 roney Island aud landed my passengers, in
i, tending To- 10 back and try again TO get IN
y Pegasus of We took on about 100 passenger
= and started hack it'll" after o'clock WRc,
V we got near the Pegasus ] saw that the Bait
had got TO her and wR~ told by the Superiu