The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-05

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after the meal they were on deck and felt the
throbbing OF tho pumps and saw bilgewater
squirting from the vents OF these pumps. they
insisted that ths City OF Rome was filing with
water. The fact was that the City of Rome al
ways keeps her forepcak full OF water.nnd Capt.
Young ordered that 1t be pumped out and that
the bilges be emptied so that they could make
certain that none OF the ships plates had been
sprung and that she was not leaking.
The only visible damage that was done by the
collision with the berg was the knocking on
OF one elbow Of the Rilded nRurehead and the
bending OF the bobstay. But these croakers
where from seven to fifteen feet OF
water in the ships hold and that
her two forward collision bulkhcads were
chuck full and that tho water was gaining on
the pumps. and n few other things OF that kind.
They succeeded by their talk in keeping near
ly all the passengers up that night or at least
in preventing them from undressing when
they went to bed. 1t wasn't until Satur-
day that everybody was convinced that
the croakers didn't know what they were
talking about. and on Saturday after
noon the passengers got together elected
George d. Davis OF Boston their chairman and
Capt. @. c. Wyatt Of Ireland their secretary.
and appointed n committee which drafted
a set OF resolutions expressing heartfelt thanks
to Capt. Young. his officers aud crew. for the
scamanship. courage and discipline which had
preserved them in the time OF peril.
The stories OF all the passengers agreed
yesterday that the big ship had run UP on the
berg. broken a piece Of it of and had then
slipped down, Capt. Young when he spun his
yarn to the reporters said:
&" We ran into tho berg in a fog and that's all
there is to it. our iigurehead had her arm
l..
was strain 10 any plate and no ieaEH age So far
ss we have discovered. and IL there had been
any. we'd know, 1t / think. She's as tight now
as tho day she was built. Tho accident hap
pened in latitude 1890 \. and longitude
1874 W. We were going at half sneed, about
nine knots, for seNera. hours before we struck.
We saw one piece Of floating ice that
warned us that we might be entering
an ieeneld and we slowed down until we had
almost stopped Then we saw the berg AMI
began to back full speed We we're going about
three knots an hour when we began TO
/ back We always keep our forepeak
full OF water. 1t holds about fifteen tons.
There the Captain stopped and Que OF the
! reporters repeated a question about the posi-
bility Of damage to plates under water Said
the Cantan: The ship IL fit to go around
the world. No repairs are needed OF any con-
sequence. There's no leakage. and il there
was any damage. she'd he leaking. We may
get diver to make absolutely sure
SoMe Of the passengers who spun yarns yes
terday included in them tales OF panic. Of
women fainting and men going crazy. One Of
them declared that an eminent Brooklyn divine
had gone crazy and had drawn knife
and lourished 1t about his head in the
cabin. Others told how tables had been torn
up and hurled about. and how men and women
had been knocked down and had tainted. Tho
fact is however. that tho shook while it
was severe was not sufficient to knock ybody
down who was standing squarey on his
feet. and as for the tables and chairs fvng
around the room they were all screwed firmly
down to the floor. The dishes were swept Off
the table because the racks were not on. the sea
being smooth.
The presence OF an iceberg near q steamship
in mid ocean Is usually disclosed by a fail in
temperature which occurs sometimes when
the berg is ten miles off. But in this case tho
weather had been 30 bad and cold and so foEgy
that no change in temperature was noticed and
80 the City Of Rome and this berg crcpt upon
each other without waning.