The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22
MARINE

A heavy gale is preventing vessels from
leaving the harbor at Cadiz. and shipping
disasters are feared.
The battleship Massachusetts is stuck In
the sand at the mouth of Pensacola har-
Dor. She is in no danger and will be pulled
off.
The flagship Kearsarge and the battleship
Alabama, of the North Atlantic squadron,
in the gulf, with Target bay, Culebra
island, as a destination.
The national antarctic expedition steamer
Discovery was launched at Dundee, Scot
tened by Lady Markham. wife of Sir Glenn
ents Markham. president of the Royal Geo.
graphical Society.
The dry dock in Havana harbOr, which
the Navy Department refused to purchase,
probably will remain there and be conduct
ed as a private enterprise. a company Will
be organized to construct another for the
use OF shipping entering that port.
The steamer Poughkeepsie. of the Cen
trail Hudson Steamboat Company, ran on
the rocks at Stony Point, a few miles south
of Haverstraw. n. Y, before daybreak yes
terday. All the passengers on board were
taken ashore. No one was hurt. The Ves-
sci is badly wrecked. N.
Captain Bravo, of the steamer Key West.
arriving at Key West, Fla. yesterday, re-
ports a large English steamer ashore on
French. reef. Wrecking tugs and crews
from here have gone to her assistance. No
report direct from the steamer has yet
been received. and Captain Bravo could not
read her name.
Australian Steamship Company and the
British steamer Tay collided Wednesday
night in the Flushing roadstead. The Tay
sank. and only three of her crew were
saved. Fourteen persons persisted. includ-
ing the wives of two sailors. who boarded
the vessel on a farewell visit.
Two old-time river boats-the Kate Keen
and the Nola K.-have sunk to the bottom
Of tho MiSSiSSinni ar Muse tine. Ia. loaded
down with clinging ice and soaked with
water. An attempt will be made to raise
them as soon as the river becomes lower.
They are both the property of Capt. Hysell
and have been in service since the sixties.
The British steamer Theresa Heyman,
Captain Key, from Moolie, FEB: Il, via
Norfolk, March 5, arrived at Fayal. Azores.
yesterday with upper works leaking. Dur
ing the heavy weather encountered on the
passage her bulwarks and stanchions were
damaged and her deck was started. The
vessel lost a part of her deckload and was
compelled to j~ettison a portion.
The first day of spring was characterized
by a gale and heavy snowstorm sweeping
over the English hannel A storm has
been raging for three days over the North
sea. Wintry weather is general throughout
central Europe. In consequence of the gale
in the channel more than three hundred
steamers are anchored off South End. The
vessels are so crowding the anchorage that
several minor collisions have occurred.
The North German Lloyd steamer Lain,
which arrived at New York yesterday from
Bremen and Southampton, was in collision
with an unknown four-masted schooner at
2 o'clock in the morning when about nine
miles east of Sandy Hook light vessel. The
steamer laid by for nearly two hours. The
schooner showed no signals and apparently
suffered no other damage than the loss of
her jibboom. The steamer then proceeded.
The Norwegian steamship Themis, Capt.
Anderson. at New Orleans. from Progresso.
reported that on March Is. during a heavy
mother at ProgressO, the Mexican gun
boat Independence broke adrift from the
anchorage and went ashore on the beach.
The Themis and the Norwegian steamship
Fulton went to the g~unboat's assistance.
and after much difficulty succeeded in float
ing her. The Independence suffered slight
damage to her bottom, broke a propeller
and lost two anchors and chains
A message found in a bottle picked up
on the beach at Galveston, Tex, yesterday.
bv a little girl. says that the schooner
Rover. of New York, was wrecked at Cape
Horn and that the two writer's of the mes
sage, Joseph and James Swift. are cap
tiVes of the Terra del Fuegan Indians. 1t
is believed that the schooner Rover, of
Baltimore. is missing or lost. for an old
Treasury Department list of merchant YES
sells gives such an ocean-going vessel, ard
the name of the same vessel does not APP
pear in the 1900 book. The message from
the bottle bears date of Aug. l, 1899, and is
written on a playing card.