The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-29
SMASH IN FOG AT THB HOOK.
KENTUCKY POKES HER NOsEINTO
EXETER CITY'S QUARTER.
Cattleship, Outbound, Has to Como Back
With Fifteen Foot Rent In Her Shell
which Penetrates the Shippers Cabin
Other Freighter Not DAMAGED

which Penetrates the Shippers Cabin
Other FreiEhter Not Damaged.
A crash, muffled by the quilting Of mist
that overspread everything seward from
the Hook, startled folks aboard a feet Of
liners at anchor, or cropping In and out Of
port, at $50 o'clock on Saturday evening.
Nobody ashore knew that anything had
happened in the gloom until late yes
terday morning, when the Bristol City
Line freighter Exeter City, which had sailed
for Bristol on Saturday afternoon, emerged
from the persistent fog, coming in with a
Jagged fifteen foot rent In her starboard
quarter. beginning foot or moro above
her water line and running up nearly to her
main deck. Plates below the water line
had been started and she was leaking so
badly that her pumps were still going as
che steamed to anchorage In the bay of
Clifton, Staten Island.
The Scandina wan American Line steam.
ship Kentucky. in from Copenhagen and
Shields with freight only, which had poked
her steel prov into the Exeter City, stea med
serenely up to her dock in Hoboken, her
skipper, Capt. Charles Staal. and her Sandy
Hook pilot conscious that they were not to
blame for the collision. There wore only
q few scratches on the Kentuoky's stem.
Capt Staal said that she was no more hurt
than she would have been II she had run
into a ship made Of cheese.
1t is possible to give only one official side
Of the story Of the mishap, az Capt King
Of the Exeter City refused TO talk to the
reporters who went down the bay In tug
to see him. 1t was learned from cattlemen
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her pilot about Eve minutes before she got
into trouble.
According to Capt. Staal and his pilot,
the Kentucky was trying to find q good
place to anchor and was going very slowly,
blowing her whistle at regular intervals,
when the Exeter City doomed up out OF
fog so thick, the pilot declared, that you
could almost out 1t with knife" The
Exeter City was not blowing her whistle.
or, II she was, neither Capt Staal nor the
pilot heard 1t. The hoarse footing Of many
other whistles Of vessels at anchor drifted
to the Kentucky.
4 did all could to prevent collision
when the Exeter City came out Of the fog
dead ahead" said Capt. Staal. but be-
fore my engines had begun to 60 full speed
astern my ship was deep into the star
board quarter Of the Exeter City. could
not help hitting her. We were Just outside
the bar. As soon as found by hailing the
Exeter City that she was not damage
below the water line came to anchor"
The Exeter City started to grope back to
port pnotless. But Capt. King thought
better Of It when he found that he was not
making enough water to endanger his ship,
and he came to anchor. The gap in his
quarter revealed in his cabin. which had
been smashed by the nose Of the Kentucky
upset chairs and broken furniture and
bottles. Several Of the ships frames were
brought into view. The outward curling
steel plates suggested the wings on the
heel Of Mercury.
The cattlemen aboard the Exeter City
said all hands had been we'll shaken up
by the collision and that the frightened
steers had caused trouble. It was said
by customs officer who had talked with
men aboard the Exeter City that several
cattle had been Killed In panic.
After Tightening hsf cargo the Exeter
City will 60 into drydock for repairs