Evening journal., 1899-08-17
IN DREAD OF STORM.
Captains Will Not Go to Sea
Because of Predicted Storm.
THE ITALIA IN COLLISION


SCHOONER II. ]. M'CARTY DRIVEN
ASHORE IN DARKNESS AND
STORM AT THE BREAKWATER,
AND IS FULL OF HoLEs-CREw
SAVED.
For the past few days northeast
winds have been raging in the vicin-
ity OF the Delaware Breakwater, and
the captains Of the various vessels
which are bound outward are anchor
ed in the Delaware bay, because they
do not care to proceed to sea, fearing
to encounter the storm that has been
predicted to rage along the coast. A.
captain OF an incoming vessel stated
to-day that there were as many as
seventy-five vessels at anchor between
Fourteen Foot Bank and Brown shoal,
and a careful lookout has to be kept by
those on mooring vessels to avoid a
collision. The vessels consist Of
barges, big tugs and schooners of va
rious sizes. A number Of tows from
the Chesapeake, which put into
the Delaware river for shell
ter, are among the feet. The wind at
the Delaware Breakwater yesterday
was blowing thirty-four miles an hour
from the northeast.
The schooner II. ]. McCarty, bound
from New York to Lewes, was stranded
just outside the Harbor OF Refuge yes
terday morning about / o'clock, but
was floated about five hours later by
the tug Hughes. The vessel is full
Of water and her hull is badly dam
aged, and the deck load Of empty bar
rels were swept ashort. The Nc
Carly, which halls from Bath. is to
be towed to Philadelphia for repairs.
The captain and crew had been taken
from the vessel before she was floated.
Hamburg-American Line steamer
Italia, under charter to the Interna-
tional Navigation Company, which
passed up the river yesterday from
Liverpool and Queenstown, was in col
lision in the Delaware-river off Green
wich Point with the British steamer
Wraggoe, which was at anchor await
ling orders to proceed to Girard Point
to load grain. It is claimed that the
Wraggoe was lying across the main
ship channel, having swung around tc
that position just before the Italia ap-
lpeared, about o'clock in the morn
ling. The liner struck the Wraggoe
on the stern, and the latter's bulwarks
were damaged, as were some of the
plates on the Italia's starboard bow
THE starboard anchor Of the Italia had
ljust been taken in, and one Of the sail
ors had just moved away from it when
the crash came. The Italia brought
one cabin and 126 steerage passengers
Thirteen of the latter were detained by
the immigration Commissioners for a
further hearing.
Two fruit carrying vessels that had
"a severe experience with the West In
dia hurricane were the steamer:
Banan, Norwegian craft, and the
Ask, a Danish vessel, which arrived
lat Philadelphia yesterday from Porf
Antonio. The Banan was six day.
making the voyage, while the Ask wal
out half day longer. caused by hei
being driven farther off by the storm
than the Banan. Captain Monsen. o
the latter vessel, says the wind begaI
) to blow fiercely about noon last Thurs
/. day, increasing in velocity until II
= o'clock in the evening, when it wal
blowing with hurricane force. The yes
I sci was then about two miles of Cas-
S tile Island Light, and so powerful wa
t the hurricane that the Banan was pu
e before the wind. and for four hour
= she was driven back in a southerly di
d rection. The rain came down in tor
{ rents and the officers were unable 4
see one ships length ahead About
q O'Clock on Friday morning the storm
{. and rain began to cease and the vesse
e was then turned around. The seas wer
/. running high and the decks of bot
II vessels were frequently covered dur
e ing their battle with the elements.
e Captain Hansen, OF the bark Salins
which arrived at Philadelphia yester
day, after a voyage of thirty-nine day
from Ivigtut, Greenland, reported tina
2 his vessel when off the coast passed
3 large boat, bottom up, which had bee
le stove in. Near it was a dead bod.
rs whether man or woman could not b
e. ,ascertained, and some wreckage.
is black can buoy, marked No. Z, wa
Te also passed.