The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-16
FROM WATER FRONT
wRECKAGE SIGHTED ALONG THE
COAST FROM SCHOONER
SCH. CLARK REPORTS WRECK.
SAW PINE PLANK AND OTHER
EVIDENCES OF LOSSES.

stenmboatmen Say snnGs Are Too
Numerous for Safe Navigation Up
River-SteaIner Katie i'm Trouble.
Matters of Interest to Seamen.
Capt. Goodwin of the schooner Flea
ger w Clark probably witnessed the
taking off of the crew of the schooner
s. B. Marts by Capt Sheppard of the
schooner Arthur McArd!e, an account
of which has appeared in the Morning
News. The Clark is bound for some
port south of Savannah, and the ac-
count of wreckage seen along the
coast was sent up by a tug. The re-
port follows:
Schooner Eleazer W. Clark sailed
from Portland Nov. Z, bound for Phil
adelphla. On Sunday at 2 a. m. she
hove to thirty miles east of Absecon.
Heavy northeast gale a. m blowing
hurricane force. Kept of and ran
before gale under bare poles. Monday
Q0th) all day passing through hard,
pine timber and plank. Latitude $500;
longitude, 70 40, sighted a black wreck
with one mast standing flying Amer
lean ensign. union down Hauled up
for her and saw a three -masted schoon-
er take crew off. Wreck had been a
four-masted schooner. Everything gone
at deck but mainmast and bowsprit.
Two hours later, eighteen miles
VS. w. of above, sighted another four
ma sted schooner. Hove to under close
reefed mizzen. with distress signals
flying. Ran down for her and hove to
close under her lea. Night coming on,
was unable to get her name. Torched
her. but go no response, so decided she
was abandoned and kept on course for
Southern port. Capt. Goodwin.
The steamboat Katy is being repair
ed at her dock, foot of Abercorn street.
Charles Gross is doing the work. Some
time ago the Katy had holes stove in
her bow by snags as reported, several
miles up the river. She was beached
and partly repaired, and afterwards
brought to her dock. Recent snagging
of river boats has aroused an interest
among steamboatment as to when the
government will send the new boat
Tugaloo out on an expedition. The I'M
derstanding is she has not yet been
completed. She has for weeks been
tied up opposite the foot of Barnard
street. Discussing the condition of the
river yesterday an old river man said
much work awaits the snag boat
Many points are hazardous to naviga-
ton, and early attention will please the
boat men.
BY direction of Judge Mcpherson the
jury in the case of Selig Kahanar
against the International Navigation
Company to recover $4,000 damages
for being deprived of his family's So
ciety by the defendant, has returned a
verdict at Philadelphia in favor of the
defendant. The plaintiff alleged that
his wife and two children were taken
from him soon after coming to this
country from Roumania and shipped
to their native land without cause.
The witnesses for the defense testified
that Kahaner's son had a skin dis
ease, and that the Navigation Com
pany was acting under orders from
the government in transporting the
family back to Roumania.
The Swedish ship Fidelio, bound from
Marcus Hook for Stockholm, with a
cargo Of refined petroleum. and the
schooner George M. Grant, bound from
Baltimore for New Bedford, have both
been compelled to abandon their voy-
ages because of unseaworthiness, hav-
ing sprung serious leaks. The Fidelio
was towed into the Delaware Break
water, after having been a week out,
by the tug Doane and the Grant was
also picked up off the breakwater, with
nine feet of water in her hold, and
towed to Philadelphia