New-York tribune., 1901-06-15
.SA w PERSONS SINKING.
EYEWITNESSES WHO ARE SURE THERE
WAS LOSS OF LIFE.

Ralph r. Wallace. clerk in the employ of a
Water-st coffee export house. said that he be-
heved four women were drowned in midriyer
He was passenger aboard the Northfied
1t was when the tugs first gave us aid" he
said. AS soon the tugs were seen approach
ing us four women who had been screaming that
the boat was sinking leaped into the water
Ihey apparently could not wait until succor
was really at hand. 1t was several minutes be-
fore the boat had come alongside Then a search
was made for the women, but they could not be
found. One. remember, was a short woman Of
about thirty-five years, with dark hair and eyes
She wore a white dress and a broad black hat
remember her only because she appeared nearly
crazed with fright and could not be ouieted"
Max Sullivan, A deck hand was at the end
OF Pier No 10 when the Northfield drifted in
and sank there
Il have doubt that several women roro
drowned" he said. because they were floating
around In the water and although we hauled
In as many as we could, il is possible that some
or them sank before we could have reached
them"
THINKS HE SAW MAN DROWN.
Captain Louis Suffer. of the Port Huron
steam lighter Livingston, asserts that he saw y
man drown as the Mortified took her final
plunge TO the bottom at the end of Pier No. 10
We were lying alongside the ship Natuna
which is moored to Pier No O. when we saw
the Northfield coming slowly toward the docks
sinking as she came,' he declared. My son
Louis and the engineer jumped into our bip
barge and pulled out toward her BY this time
the water was running over the lower deck.
We could see young man holding fast to n
stanchion just at the edge OF the gangway for
the teams. His face was white with fright and
the water was up to his shoulders
Keep your head. there" yelled nv SON let
so the stanchion and we will save your
The man looked up as though he had heard
His white straw hat fell off. but he still held
on suppose he was afraid the current would
carry him back among the horses. Then the
boat went under until the second deck was well
covered. 1 watched every minute for hin, 70
come to the surface, but saw nothing He was
surely drowned
I'm the mean time my had reached the
sinking ferryboat. He took five women and two
men into the boat and brought them back here
They took our. names. and said they would
send a present"
Captain Suffers story about the man drown
ing corroborated by his son and by Louis
Crumb. of Port Huron. engineer of the Living
ston.
THINKS AN OLD MAN WAS DROWNED
G. X Klnsey. of Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten
Island, who works at No. 439 Broome-st. this
city. had a narrow escape from drowning and
| says that elderly man, who tried TO get out
as he did through the ferryboat stokehole was
/ drowned
| L was on the lower deck when the Mauch
Chunk struck u.s." he said. II rushed out on the
forward deck. bG: afraid to Jump off on
account of the paddles. The boat kept sinking
and the current forced me back under the COM
panionway among the horses and wagons An
old man was just ahead of me- I told him 10
| iohow along the engine room wall and dive
through stokehole. He did not know where