The evening world., 1911-04-06

Lawn reached the Growing group OF
yesseIs anchored about the listed and
helpless liner. Viewed from the Wind
sweet beach. her manoeuvres made It
plain that. like the Seneca, she ex-
pected TO stand close alongside the
Princess Irene. Shortly before s o'clock
the big tug John j.. Tlmmons also
came steaming M, after a wonderfully
fast run from this haroor.
PLAINLY the officers and the crew had
tho passengers under perfect control,
FOE there were no visible evidences o.
excitement upon the ships slante1
dedAn. The steerase passengers could
lie seen massed forward. all looking
wistfuHy toward the mainland, but
there were no signs OF rising panic
about their movements.
Grounded In Fog.
Biundering her way along through
the early morning .oe. the big liner. In
bound. stuck her nose into the bottom
ana there she has stayed ever since
hsrd and fast aground. while tugs.
coast guard crews and a Government
ship raced TO her In the expectation
that there might be l~ife-saving and,
possibly, a big salvage job TO do.
A. frst Il seemed sho was 20 escape the
fate that has come to so many staunch
ships that fouled themselves In times
gone by on that treacherous sand reef
beyond Great South Bay. that has come
10 be known as the ocean cemetery OF
Long Island. The early circumstances
were in her favor. She was feeling her
way along at half speed. hunting for the
channel she had lost. when she struck.
So soft was the shock that she appar-
emily took no damage TO her null plates.
and many OF her LOO odd passengers
knew nothing OF the accident until they
got up for breakfast.
The easterly storm which had been
pilins the sea upon the beach for forty
eight hours was fortunately abatcd.
and the wind. which veered to the
west late last night, was gentle. After
the hrst furry OF alarm. Captain Won
Letten Petersen. a veteran OF the At
lantic service. was able TO report by
wireless TO the New York Offices tina
his chip was lying easily and not leak
ing. He predicted confidently that she
would float, probably unaided. at high
Tide and added that he expected TO
dock her before dark. There had
been no panic OF any sort. he said. and
all aboard were well and calm. What
he said pbout the absence OF any panic
was true. hut his prediction for a
speedy release proved overly hopeful.
Held Fast In Sand.
Tit thick fog which followed in the
wake of forty-eight hours OF persistent
rain was responsible for the accident.
This fog thickened Just after the Prin-
zess Irene bore on Fire Island light,
wrilch Is FIX miles west OF where the
s~tranding occurred. The navigating Of
ficer believed he was standing several
miles of shore until n gentle bump and
a slow. gritty grinding OF san along the
keel told him Of his mistake. TIT ship
halted gently. then swung around In the
tide wash until her stern stood straight
out to sea. and there she stayed.
She was coming from Mediterranean
ports with 2s5 cabin passengers and
i.4s5 immigrants. mostly Italians and
Greeks. In her steerage. She left Glib.
raitar on March 81 and Genoa three
days earlier.
Afternoon found the ship still hard
fast. She was lying with her bow point
ed to the northwest md a considerable
list TO port. Her en- gines were backing
steadily. yet the life savers knew
that her nose must he sinking n little
deeper In the lo5-lolly ali the time.
They figured that her bow vas In six
feet OF sand then, n they thought It
would take a lot OF pulling by high
powered wrecking tugs TO 10Y her.
The Lone Hin l~ife-savers we're stu
standing alongside In their non-slnkable
boat. They were preparing to rig q
whip from the stranded liner to the
shore In order that the mail might be
brought to land In case the work OF
floating the Princess proved a prolonged
job.
Nobody at all from the ship had
reached land. but one OF the lfe-savers
picked up or the beach a card. which
had evidently been noated adrif, in the
hope that II would reach Fire Island
II was a calling card OF Mrs. Monroe +
Ellis. and on II in pencil was writer
also these names:
"Ars. Annie s. wey, No. a w~
Twenty-eighth street. New York.
Mrs. Taft. Pen Yam"
Presumably these were passenger
seeking TO communicate with thei
friends.
Alarm Quickly Given.
Just before O'Clock to-day a l~lfeguar,
from Lone Hill caught the outline of .
big ship looming through the mists les
than half q mile off shore and In tn,
immediate vicinity of the bar. KNOWING
that any ship OF draught that ha.
strayed that far of ther track would b.
In difficulties soon the guard ran 10
the station and gave the alarm.
Five minutes later Capt. Goddard an,
Ills crew OF ten men had launched
non-sinkable lifeboat and were hghtlnj
their way through a stubborn surf to
ward the halted ship, She had swun,
about then. and her nose pointed di
rectly toward land. with a slight lis
TO port.
The small craft was soon swallowed u
N the fog. but IN half an hour a sig
nal fiared from the ships side telllnl
the watchers on land that the life
savers had got safely aboard the Prin
cess Irene.
BY this time the Hfe-Eavarg fro,