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The fog Of yesterday made trouble for
Sunday excursionsts. The usual summer
Sunday night report about Q RockAway
boat being In distress reached the news-
paper o6,oes about II o'clock p. NJ. and
was to the eject that the General slocum
bad oollidsd with q yacht In the fog on
Barren Island and bad then gone aground
near that Island At that hour che was
reposing In her berth ct the foot Of West
i2oth street.. having landed her returning
passengers. .. .,..
What really happened was that the steam
boat JuliA plying from Rockaway to CO.
narsis Lost her bearings In the fog and
Instead of following The crooked inside
stcamboat channel that makes out from
Tie Rookaway landing toward tho inlet
and then bends north at . sharp angle
toward Canassle. she drifted out through
the inlst IN the oourss Of the big Rockaway
boats and then drifted inshore till she
went aground Oh Barren lsland. This
ali happened 4 little after . O'Clock IN tho
evening at about the time that the General
Hlocum ws feeling her way out Of the
inlet through the fog In her last trip TO
the city.
The fiahermen saw both steamboats,. and
then after seeing the smaller one run aground
they went ashore and told tho collision
story.
A matter Of fact. the Slocum with o
thousand or more passengers aboard made
her trip TO the city without mishap. II
she was In any danger at any time OF collid-
ins With the Julia her crow and passenSen
The Julia, which Is ITO feet long, and
had ali the passengers aboard that she
could carry, was on the sand oil night aor
cordins 70 the last report Two OF the
passengers came ashore. They swan a
part Of the distance but walked the rest,
| the water was 90 shallow. The boat was
about q half mile from shore. Several
| Of the passengers on the Julia lost their
heads when the boat grounded and jumped
overheard They, were taken aboard again
them in the lifeboat
Capt. Rhoadss Of tho Julia sent word
ashore by one OF the two swimmers that
his boat was Il no danger. and that he
would look after the comfort Of his stranded
| passengers.
The Julia will be pulled of the shoal
to-day.
The Grand Republic skipped her trip
Rockavsy kay s on account q the fog Las. '
| the Hudson. and got back all right. The
| Iron steamboat Taurus started for Rock.
| away at oAS A. NJ, but when little past
Coney Island found the fog 30 dense that
| she turned about and came back to the
| city. The Coney Island boats got through,
but hate. The last In was the Pegasus
which got back at 1880 O'Clock this morn
At O'Clock this morning an Of the starin
| boats had been accounted for except tbs
| Matteawan, which left Glen Island at
O'clock with a full load Of passengers for
this city. At that time the fog was pretty
thick at the island. but II was not enough
set out without any thought on the part
| Of any Of the passengers that she would
have trouble in making her trip. Almost
before she had got well out Of sight the fog
began to close In. and when at O'Clock
| Il was time for the Sam Sloan TO depart
| for the city IL was 30 thick the skipper
| thought that 1t was best not TO attempt
the tIlp. 90 dIttT ne Hiu Uiktn u BOOu
look at the weather he landed the passengers
that had come aboard, and they were in
formed that the company would provide
transportation by land.
The trolley company PIT on twenty
five extra oars and the railroad Office az
New Rochelle was besieged with persons
anxious to make their way home All Of
the trolley cars were Allied. and the ticket
agent on the steam line had sale that
cleaned him out Of all the tickets that he
had In stock.
II Is supposed that the Matteawan did
not try to get through Hell Gate. She
may have anchored or have managed q
landing somewhere.
The fog seemed from the Battery to be
all to the east, and at o'clock the North
River was clear TO all points Of the COM
pass. The men sitting on the pier heads
at that hour were able TO see as for as ST.
George but they knew that there was
trouble somewhere, for they could hear
the warning whistles Of the harbor craft
from the east