The sun., 1903-06-05
DEUTSCHLAND AGROUND IN FOG
WIRELESS MESSAGE OUT OF THE
HAZE AT SANDY HOOK.
TUGS Go Down to Pull Her on at High
water This MorninE--she Was Invisible
After Passing Quarantine--A Banner
List OF $50 Cabin Passengers.

The crack steamship Deutschland Of the
Hamburg American Line which left her pier
little after O'Clock yesterday afternoon
with 75O cabin passengers aboard, vanished
from sight in the haze after passing Quaran-
tine. but reported by wireless telegraph
Il little later that shS was aground just
beyond the point Of Sandy Hook.
The ship was advertised to sail at o'clock.
but owing to the presence Of many dis
tinguished passengers on board and host
Of friends on the pier to say farewell and
throw flowers there was some delay.
When the ship did get away, she had to
feel her way slowly through the fog and
smoke. 1t was high water at 3l5 O'Clock at
the Hook. 1t was 4:40 O'Clock when the
Deutschland got out OF the main channel and
poked her nose into the mud near buoy 8.
At the junction Of the main and Gedney
channels.
The Deutschland draws 20 feet of water.
About one-fourth of her length went into
the mud.
Emil l.. Boas, general manager Of the
Hamburg American Line, first heard Of the
mishap at $50 o'clock last night when
he received the following message through
the Postal Telegraph Company from Capt.
BaTCIOE, COIDIuduOeT VI Illc beuu0CIIldllu.
Deutschland fast aground since 4:4o p NJ
porth side Gedney Channel. alongside inner
buoy No S. Send tugs to assist at / A. Nj.
By what route the message had come
over Mr.. Boas did not know. He tele-
graphed to Supt. Schuck OF the Hoboken
pier and Supt. Sch1ck left Hoboken at II
o'clock last night W ith the tugs Gilkinson
and Cogan Of the Hudson Tow Boat Com
pany and the Shohola of the Erie Railroad.
1t was high water of the Hook at 3:3s
O'Clock this morning.
THE thick smoke and the fog Mr..
Poas said, were undoubtedly the cause
Of the ships going aground. She will get
of all right in tho morning when the tide
rises"
1t was conjectured in the absence OF
definite information that the Deutschland
worked her Slaby-Arco wireless apparatus.
hoping that the kronprinz Wilhelm, now
in port. would pick up the message.
The kronprinz did not get 1t. and aboard
her it was thought that the De Forest
station at Atlantic Highlands or at Coney
Island, which can pick up Slaby -Arco
waves, had forwarded the message TO MIR.
Boas over the Postal wires. The Postal 8
main office could not tell.
The Deutschland has on board 75o first
and second cabin passengers and q large
number In tho steerage. So far as the
passenger list is concerned this is her
banner sailing for this season. Among
the passengers arc:
Mrs. j. Ogden Armour. Prof. Felix Adler.
A. Cass Garfield, Arturo de Brieard. Consul
General Of Colombia at this port; General and
Mrs. +. CollaIo. Jaroslav Kocian, the violinlst:
EAnnaHd IN ina nm
Heink. Charles II, steinway. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick 7. 6teinvay. Mrs. G. @. Williams.
Mrs. Henry Willard and Charles T. Yerkes.
Nine. Nordica Is supposed to be aboard
although her name was not on the passenger
list
Mrs. j. Ogden Armour said at the pier
yesterday afternoon that her daughter
Lolita. who was treated by DR.. Lorenz.
for congenital hip disease. had been COM
pletely cured,
Lolita" added Mrs Armour, plays out
Of doors every day now. runs up and down
stairs without help, and is perfectly well
child
DR.. Lorenz is still at the Armour nome
In Chicago.
Nine. Schumann-H -Heink didn't 20 away
without saying how she loves America.
Il would stay here all the time,' she
said. III my children were not being edu
Gated in Europe. The youngest, you know,
Is named George Washington"
The Count and Countess Giuseppe della
Gherardesca sailed ON the Deutschland
because Of the illness Of the Countess's
grandmother, Mrs. Fisher. who is in Flor
ence. They had planned to remain in this
country until the end Of June in order to
attend the marriage OF the Countess's
father, Henry A. C. Taylor, to Miss Jose
nbipa Tobpeon