The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-26
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

The Fleet of SchoOners Now in Port
the Largest for This Season in Re-
cent Years-OH Being shipped
North via COastwise Steamers.
Matters of Interest to shippers
md Mariners.
The feet of schooners now in port
is the largest of this season in recent
years. At the Seaboard Air Line
terminals the lumber slip is we'll filled,
and the stock of lumber there is rap
idly disappearing into the holds of
vessels. At the Plant System are also
many schooners loading the yellow
pine. Many are also at the Central's
wharves above the city Unless all
signs fail, March will be a record
breaker for Savannah's exports of lum-
Der.
Fuel oil cargoes from Texas continue
to arrive at Marcus Hook and Phila-
delphia The steamship Paraguay ar
rived at the former port last week with
100000 gallons in bulk, and the tug
Imperator towed to Point Breeze on
Saturday barge S. o. No. 81, with $780,
I 900 gallons in bulk Within few weeks
a dozen vessels will arrive at Marcus
Hook and Philadelphia, with Texas oil
in bulk.
I There can be no recovery under the
general maritime law for damages due
to negligence resulting in death on the
high seas, according to a decision by
Judge Townsend of the United States
ri ~ nf IL, z,tft
brought to recover damages because of
the French steamship La Bourgogne
disaster The La Bourgogne it will be
remembered, collided with the British
ship Cromartyshire on July 4, 1898, and
several hundred passengers were
drowned. Many suits were brought.
showing cowardice and incompetence on
the part of those in charge of the YES
sell but, despite these facts, the COM
plants were dismissed by Judge Town
send. Appeals will be taken to the
court of last resort.
Capt. w. Garry of the Spanish steam
ship Ea, and his crew of q men, have
been taken to Philadelphia by the Old
Dominion Liner Princess Anne. His
ship. with a broken back, lies on a
sand spit nine miles south by east
from Cape Lookout light, on the North
Carolina coast.
The Ea left Fernandina March 10 for
Bilboa, Spain, with a cargo of phos-
plate rock and rosip. Saturday morn
ing, March Is, while feeling the way
in thick fog, the ship brought up
standing on the sand bank. No sea
was running at the time and the wind
was light. That night at full tide the
captain tried to back her off, but failed.
Sunday a gale came up and drove
the vessel further on the bar. A heavy
sea broke over the ship with terrific
force and she began breaking up. BY
daylight her backbone was broken and
she parted in the middle. The same
day the Wilmington IN. CO towboat
Alexander came along and tried to go
to the Eas assistance but could not
get alongside. The revenue cutter AL
gonquin appeared. but had to stand off
because of the heavy sea. Sunday
night the tug and cutter both ran out
to sea, but returned again Monday
noon.
BY this time the Ea's people were in
a bad plight. The water tanks were
broken and their stores were all water
soaked, and they had nothing to eat.
When the cutter and tug reappeared
Capt. Garry signalled for help. Neither
vessel was able to do anything for
their relief, as the sea was still break
ing heavily over the sand spit. The
Ea's lifeboats had all been carried
away but they had one small boat left
Capt. Garry ordered this launched and
it put off Tuesday with IA men, who
were taken aboard the Algonquin. The
cutter then sent a lifeboat off to the
stranded ship and took off the cap
tain and the rest of the crew. They
were taken to Wilmington. n. c., by
the Algonquin. and from there went to
Philadelphia on the Old Dominion ship.
New Orleans, March 25.-The Nor
wegian steamer Alabama, Capt.
Gjimre, from Bocas del Toro, with fruit,
went ashore this morning during a
thick fog outside of the west jetty.
The British steamship Monarch,
Capt Williams, from New Orleans for
Cape Town. with horses in proceeding
to sea. ran ashore on the west side of
the jetty below the pilot station. The
agents of each of the vessels have sent
tug boats to her assistance.
The Morgan Line steamer El Cid,
Capt Baker, from New York, in COM
ing up the river this morning ran
aground near Fort st. Philip, so miles
below the city A tug boat has gone
to her assistance.
Passengers by Steamships.