The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-22
Wireless Telegraphy Fails to
Reach the Ship
On Which the German Emper-
Or's Brother is Coming.
WEATHER is THICK
Wind Blowing 60 Miles an Hour
Off Nantucket.
Programme Seems Likely to BE
Completely Upset.

New York, Feb. 22.-No word had
been received of the Kron Prinz VIII
helm up to this 2:15 this afternoon. AS
it will take some hours for the vessel
to reach her dock from Sandy Hook, it
was believed that today's programme
for the reception of Prince Henry would
have to be abandoned.
New York, Feb. 22.-The Kron Prinz
wilhelm with Prince Henry on board
has no. yet been reported. Wireless
telegraph stations have been endeavor-
ing since early morning to reach the
ship, but no signals have been received.
The weather outside the Hook is thick.
Word has been received here from
Nantucket that the wind is blowing 60
miles an hour at that point and that
UP to 6 o'clock this morning the Kron
Prinz Wilhelm had not been spoken
When the Kron Prinz Wilhelm was
sighted by the Lucania she was about
1850 miles out of Sandy Hook If the
Kron Prinz is making a speed of p
knots per hour she would be off Nam
tuclet about o'clock this afternoon;
off Fire island about $50 p. m. and at
Sandy Hook at IL o'clock tonight.
EVERYTHING IN READINESS.
Although no word has been received
from the Kron Prinz Wilhelm up to IL
o'clock everything was in readiness for
his reception, in spite of the storm. Ad-
miral Evans squadron, lying off
Tompkinsville. prepared to celebrate
- oil fn
in the reception of the royal visitor.
awoke after a tempestuous night during
which there was no cessation of the
storm of sleet and rain to find the sky
overcast with dark threatening clouds
and the wind shrieking through the rig
ging of the ships. There is an ice pack
about the four warships anchored off
Tompkinsville, rendering communica-
tion between ships and shore impossible
except by signal During the last "a
hours shore leave was denied to all but
officers. Those who spent the night in
the city returning to Staten Island this
morning found it impossible to reach
their ships. a steam launch from the
Illinois, the flagship of Rear Admiral
Evans, with a number of officers on
board, got caught in the ice while at
tempting to return to the ship and was
went to the rescue and towed the launch
to the landing.
The officers are still on Staten Is
land. Two launches from the Olympia,
while on their way to the landing at
TOmpkinsvi1le to take aboard officers,
were caught in the ice between Staple
ton and Tompkinsville. The crews con-
sisted of an engineer. a deck hand and
the captain of the launch
The boats were held fast in the ice
for several hours, but finally made the
landing at Tompkinsville. No launch
was able to reach the warships this
morning. and many officers are await
ing a chance to get back to their ships.
The order issued to the squadron to
full dress ships at o'clock this
morning must have been countermand-
ed, as the vessels were only in partial
holiday attire. On the flagship Illinois
the An erican flag was displayed at the
bow, another big American flag flew
from the foremast and third from the
mainnast. The Prussian flag, in honor
of Prince Henry, was displayed aft the
house near the stern. while the stars
and stripes flew from the stern. The
three other war ships were similarly
decorat ted, with the exception that they
did not fly the Prussian colors.
The wind was blowing hard from the
northeast and the ice was packed in
great masses along the shore. At the
man-o'-war landing the ice was three
or four feet thick, and only a powerful
tug could effect passage.
No word had been received from the
steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm. and even
If she had been within a few miles of
the harbor, the fact could not have
been known at the quarantine station,
or to the fleet lying a few miles to the
northward, for there was not a tele-
graph or telephone line working in that
part of Staten Island. On shore there
was a scene of desolation. \ heavy
mantle of wet snow covered the hill
sides and in every direction trees were
blown down and had made the streets
I'm paSsable, even to pedestrians. Troll
ley wires and telegraph and telephone
wires had snapped from their poles and
with the fall of the branches of trees
formed an ice-covered tangle every