The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-28
MARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
Early Story Tells of Close Call of the
 President.


 New orleans. Oct. 27.-After mar row escape from losing his life in an early morning collision in which the lighthouse tender Magnolia, on which he was travelling. was so much dlsapleo that he had to abandon her, President Roosevelt is now safe on the revenue cutter Ivy. which is carrying him 10 the armored cruiser West Virginia.
 The President nor any member or his party was injured in the accident. Details of the accident are not com pIete. but immediately when 1t occur red hurry orders were received at PiIot-town, where the revenue cutter Ivy was lying. to proceed at once 10 the scene and take the President anu his party to sea. The Ivy passed IT. lot-town with the President on board at s:15 on her way to the West Vir- rinia. She was within an hour and half of reaching the cruisers slde.
 The first news of the accident reach- ed New Orleans by telepnohe at ah early hour this morning, coming Tn the shape of an appeal for help from cap tain Rose of the United Fruit com panv's steamer Esparta, which was the vessel reported in collision with the Magnolia. Captain Rose gave no de- tails except that the boats had strucK each other, that the President was un- injured, and that the Esparta might have to take him on board and carry him to the mouth of the river. The message came from Nairn, La, near which point the accident occurred.
 The Magnolia left here at 6:3O last night and the Esparta was due to ar rive today at Chalmette. The weather was fine. with comparatively little wind on the river. In his report Captain Rose gave no detail of the accident, but said that the Magnolia was ashore. Inn mediately upon the receipt of the news, communication was opened with tug owners here, and the powerful tugs wilmot and B. D. Wood left New Or leans shortly after o'clock this morn ing with orders to go at full speed to the scene of the accident.
 Meantime, however. the Presidents marty had managed to get In communi- cation with the lower part of the river where it was known the revenue cutter Ivy was lying. At 1 o'clock the op- orator at Pilot-town was rung up by .Maior CraighiI with orders that the Ivy should be sent to Sixty-Mile Point with all possible speed. The Ivy got immediately under way and covered the forty miles distance in rapid time.
 President Roosevelt, Secretary Loeb and Surgeon Rixey, with their baggage. were at once transferred and the Ivy proceeded down the river. At S;l5 the Ivy passed Pilot-town on her return, signalling that the President and party were on board and that all were well.
 The cruiser West Virginia was lying a mile and a half of the pass and the Ivy was expected to reach her side at 9:45 o'clock The West Virginia is equipped with wireless telegraph and has been in communication with the wireless station here. The fact of the Presidents transfer to the cruiser will he reported immediately he is safe on board.
 At o'clock the Ivy with the Presi- dential party reached Port Eads with President Roosevelt and his party on deck. The cutter did not stop. but i'm mediately passed out into the gulf. The West Virginia was in plain sight. The cutter quickly covered the distance senarating the two vessels and as the Ivy approached a Presidential salute sounded from the warship. The mat ter of the transfer after the Ivy reach cd the big ships side was a matter of hut a few moments. the weather being fine and clear with little sea cunning Al e.4O o'clock the President stepped on board the West Virginia safe and sound after his strenuous experience here and on hi strip down the river. The west Virginia had lifted her anchor and before 10 o'clock had started on her tourney up the coast.
 The lighthouse tender Ivy returned from the sea after putting President Roosevelt on board, and stopped at PiIot-towB. Those on bostd reported that the West Virginia had sailed at 'IO:O5. They said that the President was in excellent spirits and unshaken by the accident. At the time of the accident at II o'clock. the. President.