New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-21

bound for Bombay with five hundred troops on
badly damaged.
The New-York grounded while approaching
Cherbourg at go o'clock this morning in a fog
The sea was smooth and the tide was rising and
an hour and half after she grounded the yes
sci was foated without assistance Her bottom
damaged and there was water in the holds.
but she was able to proceed. The passengers,
who were asleep. hardly felt the shock
on the voyage up the Channel a dense fog
prevailed. When Off Hurst Castle. England.
the Assaye suddenly appeared. and it was found
impossible to avoid a collision. The New-Yorl's
bow crashed into the Assaye's starboard bow.
tearing a great gap in that vessel. The New
York's bowsprit and hgurehead were carried
away. and the latter was smashed into frag-
ments
There was great excitement. but no panic on
either vessel The boats Of the Assaye were
lowered and the troops were mustered. but the
bulkhead Of the troopship saved her Both YES
sells were able to enter southampton. and the
New-York was docked at 4:3O O'Clock for tenn
porary repairs. Nobody was injured. Il will
be impossible to estimate the damage. to the
New-York until she has been put into drydocE
It Is believed that both vessels have been seri-
ousy injured. Another troopship will replace
the Assaye.
James Sellers. passenger on the New-York.
says that at 1:3O O'Clock this afternoon while
he was at luncheon. there was a grating noise.
followed by a tremendous shock Every one
n, says. ran to the deck The NETWORKS bow
was firmly fixed In the side OF the Assaye. Mr..
Sellers was close enough 10 observe the re-
snarkable discipline on board the t~oopship.
There was no sign Of confusion. and while the
boats were being prepared for launching the
soldiers were mustered with the precision Of an
ordinary drill. Mr.. Sellers added
As the vessels parted we saw a gaping hole
in the Assaye ten feet wide. and sticking our
stem were a portmantau and other pOrta bic
property. There was no panic on our boat. Had
we struck the Assaye aHAdsnips she would have
sunk.
Among the passengers on the New-York were
William Nelson Cromwell counsel for the Panama
Canal Company; Miss Vera Margolies. who was
pianist for Nine Patti in her concert tour OF this
country; Bernard ROlt. who wrote the score for
"Glittering Gloria; the Countess Pappenheim and
and Miss Dorothy l. HigginsOn. daughters of Rear
Admiral Francis J. Hgginson; Miss Frelinhuyseu
Valentine A. BlaCque OF No. 16 East Thirty-ninth-
ST. and X. Dorsey Lorraine MOhun.
The New-YOrk is steel twin steamer be-
longing to the International Mercantile Marine
Company. Her length is 525 feet; beam. s33 feet.
and depth, 2 feet, and her tonnage. 4.643 She
launched in July Of 1855. in Glasgow. By J. &
Scot @. Thomson. She reftted last year and
considered Of the most seawOrthy boats
of the line
The New-York. formerly the British steamer City
Of New-York. built Glasgow In 1855 bv J. O.;
Thomson She was one OF the first passenger
steamers to use the double screw. American colors
hOisted her IN this port in 1898.
The steamer has been in many accidents since
she hoated the American fag. She into the
steamship OelandO. near Nantucket, Mass. on
June ~ 1875. went ashore in the lower BAY in OC-
tOber OF the same year. and In heavy fog April
-. 1895. ran her nose six feet into the mud near
West Banks. while coming into port
on May -. 1880. she dropped propeller with ten
feet Of shaft twenty-five feet in diameter. while
about twelve hundred miles out from Southampton.
and on September . Of the year the starbOard