New-York tribune., 1908-12-09
TWO GO DOWN IN TUG
FIREN4N .SUIRLED Up
THROUGH TENTILATOR.
Transfer Ferryboat Rams Craft off
Battery Wal-Fire Rescued
from leu Watcr.

At the bottom of the harbor, floating in the
icy water which fills the galley and engine room
Of the tug Anthracite, are the bodies IF Edward
Hallenbach, the cook, and Edward Garven, the
engineer who were trapped and drowned yes
terday afternoon about o'clock In less time
than it takes to tell it. The big ferryboat Mary
land. which transfers the Colonial and Federal
expresses of the New Haven road from Mott
Haven around to the Pennsylvania tracks in
Jersey City. rammed the Anthracite only few
feet off the Battery wall Without warning one
two boats met and then there was only one
Persons hurrying through Battery Park knew
nothing of the fatal accident until they saw
harbOr craft speeding TO the rescue
There We're seven men on the Anthracite. the
crew of six and Robert W. Morrell son of George
M. Morreu, president of the George NJ. MorreT
Towing Company. OF No. 1 Broadway. which
owned the tug. All were saved except the cook
and the engineer
August Peterson. one of the fremen who was
in the freroom when the crash came was caught
in the swirl of water. slammed up against a fur
mace, carried over TO the ventiIator opening and
forced up and spit out into the air by the arti-
fetal geyser. Young Morrer was pulled through
the window Of the pilot house by Captain
George B. Gibbs. Edward Roach. another fire
man. and John BeIby. deckhand, we're on the
aft deck. The impact butted both of them into
the water, and each grabbed the floating ice
chest. Roach hung and pulled clear Of
the watery vortex as the tug backed under;
but Belby lost his hold. sank and picked up
he came to the surface.
There many boats about at the time,
and all. with changing bells and shreking
whistles sWarmed to the rescue. The tug j r.
Reynolds and the steam lighter COmpOrt won
the race. the Comport picking up two Of the
survivors and the Reynolds three. They were
landed at Pier A Immediately, where warmth,
dry clothes and stimulants were provided and
then all bundled off in ambulanCes to the
Hudson Street Hospital
The Maryland was rounding the Battery with
the cars of the Colonial Express on board. full
of passengers tug with barge was coming
down the North River, and the big float slowed
up TO permit the tow to pass Then she started
forward at fair speed, but the tug and barge
had hidden from Captain George Tunnard's view
the little tug Anthracite which had come TO
stop in her path waiting to pull up alongside
Pier \. Before the Maryland could reverse she
had rammed the tug astern the starboard
quarter. ripping her wide open. One moment
and the Anthracite had stuck her bow in the
air and sunk out of sight, all except the top Of
her mast and the tip of her black funnel, like
man seized with the cramps. The big float
passed
Peterson. who is a big, outstanding, boyish
looking young Swede smiled in a deprecatory
way when asked how it was he got up through
the tugs ventilator which is only slightly wider
than an ordinary mans body The surgeon
was dressing the scaded places on his chest,
neck and arms at the time, he stood up in
the back room of the harbor police station
Pier a.
81 hear a fearful smash" he said "Someding
hit US aII right, l knew, but before 1 move the
water it came like Niagara in tru de hull. First
it smash me against furnace, den, swish. over TO
de ventiIator. AS l go by see, tink de engi-
neer swirl round. and den bang! bang! up
against roof over engine I found myself in
ventilator. and den up up de water pump and L
am outside swimming Too bad: engineer one
fine fellah"
Edward Roach. the other fireman. had gone
ont on deck while the Anthracite waiting to
make the pier to get a breath of air. leaving
Peterson alone in the freroom He ana Belby,
the deckhand were standing back near the
stern when the Maryland plOughed into 1t. I
was in the water before l knew it, said Roach
THE tugs iceboX was loose at the stern and
noated Both OF US grabbed IT, but Belby lost
his hold. I spun around with it in the vortex
like a pinwheel"
The 1reboat New Yorker and the police boat
Patrol both of them stationed near the scene OF
the collision put out to help in the work OF
rescue. but found that the Reynolds and the
Corport had done all the work there was to do.
John German. quartermaster of the government
ferrvboat Ellis Island witnessed the whole af-
fair from the deck Of the latter vessel
Il don't think the whole work OF rescue TOOK
more than three minutes" he said The Ellis
Isls nd was within a stones throw OF the scene.
and the sinking of the tug. from our boat ap-
peared to be almost instantaneous. There was
n crash a kissing of steam the water struck
the fires 81 the tug; sort Of hole in the water
for an instant as the tug vanished then res
cues"
So "a sv md delightful! Spencers Toric ey eglasses
Mil IInld -frrn Ruards Now 81 Maiden lans.-AdyL.