The sun., 1900-11-05
ST. PAUL'S ENGINES SMASH.
>rr,usHIP.s sTARBOARD MACHINERY
DISABLED AT SEA.
Los, On. Of Her Propsiiers In Rossh Weather
and Before steam Could He Shut on
There was a wreck In the Engine Room
--ps,..,..r, Not Disturbed BY the Mishap.

ps,..,.,,s Not Disturbed BY the Mishap.
unly a rantical expert would have suspected
thatanythirs had gone wrong with the American
n,a, :, Uaul. which steamed serencly into port
yes,erday morning with all hands well, from
SOUTHAMPTON and CherbourE. The sharp eyes
of the expert might have guessed BY seeing no
,sa,hery fuss under the great ships staroosrd
counter that her starboard propeller was ont
of commission. In fact, the propeller wnlch
I. about twenty feet IN diameter and weighs
several tons lies many fathoms deep on 'e
ocean bed in mid Atlantic, and tls starn"hu
engine room presents wreck oi brok'h anu
twisted steel and brass never before seen ON d
modern twin screw In an American pof' 'I'h
the engine room Of the City Of Paris "hrh an
her -tarbolrd cylinders went 70 pieces on 'he
Irish const in March, lS9O. could have looked
more of a rum ,
The miracle Is that the ST. Pauls double
bo,,or1 was not stove by the crash OF p's'onH'
cylinder caps, connecting rods, ec'eh'r'os
and 80 forth. that. at about slS nlnu'es past
= o'clock oh last Wednesday night "heh 'he
- Paul was In mid-ocean sent thrlH 'Hfoush
fine heart Of the whole ships company p'-
,.rort pa,senrer, describe the effect of the
disaster in different ways. All unite III ue-
.I,roc that the first ''undcrou~ shock and the
.NlllPilt ItlNN NiDldl1Osl' VI w. 10y
prohahy not more than eight seconds. Then
there was a slowing down and the veteran
..a croS-ers knew that the starboard engines
we're not working. A. the sea was very
rough no boat was lowered Win
,,.u,er- aboard to n-pe', the outside dam
,,. T., the ship. She proceeded within hNe
,..uu,a- after the tumult At threr-Qu1r'er -peeo
,.,,In- her port .ngines 4 few Otthe pas son gers
harmed that nixht what had happened out
,iu-' of them knew little about their perm uhtu
rIp nnN morning. capt. W. j. Roberts WHO
WIS tempo 'arily comma nding the snip durlh3
t,. ph.an.. Of can't. Jamison, who i on va
,ir.oo. va. with his officers prepared 70 cam
IL, pa,,an ger, wit h assurances 0l the Hh'p
,.i.ty ID they had needed calming h''r -h'
rad started pitching through ihe srn~ ae"'"
tr.v conclude that the accident was not ''r' u"
II va, not until the 1T. Paul reached p'r' nat
the pIs.cn:eT, fully rel l2ed theeNtent "' ue'
danger.
Al passengers were excluded from points
Ohcr. they might ge, "a glimpse of me -,ar-
h,,rd engine r1um but some few mdiiasrd 10
-, i or To- .rt som" OF the engineer .r th,ir
ASSISTANT. to tell about +. Mr.. ana Mrs W.
-tIteloum when. a. Mr. Perkln- expressed Il,
%, ar,. was a tremendous shock. followed nI
"a -ere> II strong Nlbratlnns J. thyusht "i
the accident 10 the tity of Paris -ald ne YES
tcrdlv. and strangely enou-lI. Surin'.yd 'ha'
so'Ir;hing like II II happened to th' 81
PAU Mr. Perkins aid his " dd
hat wh.n they impaired notes win
other "a .-engrr~ th" mex, morning 'hey iyuhd
thnt none Of them had done 20, some 81 noe
who were IN the dining ~aIoei s3t up 5ii , az
looked an Nous for while. Mr., W ;. PrIh!u-
says she heard that Chief Engineer Johh iluit.r
had shut off Tho steam from the starCodrd en-
plIr- b\ throwing over the emergency lever
IN the pantry. iDl>t a-teril of the saloon she
haid that onr ia. ssnger had ucceeded II, gettlis
INF. hp II Hu
that the machinery Wa mas - luhh, ,,o,..
"A propeller hpi hrcu'u" loose ia"re va,
nnthing in IT," na me- ~ pane, Airr t's
accident the >ic9n.ridp n.," Ired!'''i' 'f"'N, @
an AVERAGE ut about 10 Knots ~
sanVrr Who refu~'d 10 tNv hi' nHn" Sald INA,
he believed the lnishap was DE- =" d'II ,us ', -"
saip ,IGasf h"aE S"a, I"a re re. wa Snddnrmo1- drt
,asscn.nr said he understood 'hat tr" star j,
beard -.af was broken ia several places ihH
Tat two, cylinders were "Fc. kei ana a''"'' ~
Thomas +, walsh. the Colorado million
Glre, who was Il '"mnII-'oheI q, ~" IHCi1
Exposition, SAID the ,hunlrIns NAV suc'"ed"i
tie first shock sounded t. him n II he pro-
ralcr were knocking nolaS IN IN" hip. IT
was very critical momaqt, he added, and
~ effects the hirhast credit on the rngiure".
II was only after the reporters had been
beard tue ~, Paul that they cOt the foregoing
accounts - the accident from la-s"hg-r-
Later samuel bette. acting manager Of the
International Navigation Company NJ 'hi7
lurt gaze ou rai, statement.
"On LAT Wednesday evening a, rlN mlnut"-
ta~, O'Clock, the 81 Paul struck nith her
,r1rboard lro,eler Il Submerged dcrric{
WuICh carr,CI away the prui'..c" ana thr taIl
-hyl' iu-t in q" the stern tube, P,t' 81 the
itl -hait Wa lost with the prol cIler here was
~ugm damage To- lcr stiGbuard eh.lI"~. hty
Nr,e Immediately stoplcd. No ~" Nas injured
1Ho vr,i" tNl3s Wa> "Tc. within, "h ~,cpi.de
'id'N p.l~."us1r~ Wrr" II dtnn"r, amt many
dii'i knoN W'mt hrd hat"nlni 'ii. icy l,
Ia VA, trall,r. FOR rrnalr- The IIir.land
which will sail On Noiu'.>ia iav for Antwerp.
wiz ir.ch '' H,rlh'n,pton, Nonii - ~ new =
r;,p.r men VIII Is al,ON" aboard the ~hIp or
I-.u,'tr1 - iu'nry low ~" Captain ur engineer.
ayiN 'hi-c"mparN - dunpt har" our ruiloy"
do 'h. all, iuE. h'i do u uIi -eiy,'a
MIR Be,,l' said IN response 10 a question
a to how he knew IN" 81 Paul struck dcrelict
that there wa- always an assistant engineer
IN the tunnel shaft near the stern and that he
knew from TIE noise and sensation that the
.hip must have ht a .uhmerged wreck The
"p2r!ers w,s wTd NO, Hee .ad DO
the company considered is machinery trade
secret.
after ia. propeller and all shaft lad been
twisted on may be described. from mforma-
ton gathered from nnn,no seysrHl ,oros@ -SoT"
jumping from a speed Of about eighty revolG-
tons to 100 or more. The great hollow s'aa
shaft, as hiS around as 'our barrel, parted
,allly cut ~ the steam the moment the engine,
race. failed 10 work. and four oi the -lN cylinders
rnable - Withstand the pressure suddenly pay
ruon them, were blown apart. II l. said the
w. whole cylinders are the high lreSsuras.
which are PSI inches In diameter. The in
ts"mrdato cylinders s. inches in diameter, and
tha three low pressurs>. - inches esCh. were
wrecked. Chief Engineer John Hunter
was on lis way to the Clntlin's room.
20 turn IN his report. n he docs NJ each shifting
~ the watch Ho knew inS'inctively that
something had happened 70 tho Starhoard
engines and h" ran I" the pantry and turned
the eu'erC"Hv} i"v'r H. thought AZ first tina,
no had stopped tNo engine but almo-, sim
ant on dutv rad -hu' ~ steam In the engine
room lh"r" wa- great crashing of metal
around the second engineer Ia the .ew SEQ
ond> that elapsed before al was quiet in tho
engine room there Wa also n great gushing
M Of steam The bed plate OF the engin g,
Wa started and muDL 81 their frame WORK
was broken.
james 4 wh:Nt. second y.ce-pre.ident
20 the lntcrnl'ipu1l \avlylt on Companv
q pa senlrr IN the -. Faul llc va snlotiug
% cigar Il! hi. room. tie though, the -hip had
track d"rc.'ci OF tn1t 4 nIc Wdv" I'd boarded
hyr. II Wa all over go "a !cW .,cui.lS Mir
gh' aad hr went below ~ -cc yu,t had
.rrIrred. II Wa not 'r.c that the intcri,r
"' 'G' engine room ] 'gked IKE q mas Of ulnk
II" would rot uufu" The parts of tine machinery
'ha' had been wrecked le,iu - D." ,yI. ~ -,
~ Clucrr and was uunhl" :. Z. i ACar 'h.,
Hl,.iu" room had been D',.'.rd tl,l - rNt.ut
g.: he damage would hc known TIE INN -,
'hn mp Wa n'' !liI.'i rwp evil ltsr- wcre
intact Mr. Wright aid he Wa uraIlc 20 -,,
h"", long u would TAX" 'n repair us replace In,