Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-04-07
STEAMER IS
-. SlILLFAS:I
ON SHOALS
Seventeen Hundred PasSen.
GERS Aboard Stranded
Boat
Crew and Passengers Keep
ing Up Nerve IN
Trouble
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Lone Hill Life Saving Station, l.. l.
April I'm smashing, choppy sea
the trans shipping of ,722 passengers
on the stranded Princess Irene to
Prince Frederick Wilhelm was under
taken this afternoon in a surf boat
Anchor chains were still rafting
through hawse holes of Prince Fred
erick which anchored about little
O ffshore, when Captain Petersen OF
the Irene signalled for the life savers
to come along side and begin the
work of transfer The wind veered
into the northwest and this gave a
smooth sea to the leeward of the
Irene. Surf boats came bobbing along
side and approached the occommoda-
tion lader on the forward part of
the imprisoned liner, which lay roll.
in gon the sand keys. AS. the life
boat swung away wave slapped the
side of the boat sending a shower of
spray over the shipwrecked passen-
gers but beyond that no damage was
done and captains of the life saving
crews from Lonehill, Blue Point and
Point of Woods stations said that the
transfer should be effected without
accident.
Lone Hill Life Saving Station, L. L.,
April 7.-Trans shipment of passeng-
ers from Princess Irene was begun at
o'clock this afternoon when a surf
boat bearing Is women left the
Irene's lee side and headed away for
the relief ship, Prince Frederick Will
helm. The sea is rough but no ap-
prehension is fert TO rthe safety of
passengers as they are transferred
fro mthe Irene to the relief ship.
Lone Hill Life Station, l.. l.. April
THE giant North German Lloyd
liner Princess Irene was still lying
helpless in the gripping sands keys
today with her 1920 passengers still
aboard awaiting transfer to the
Prince Frederick Wilhelm which has
been sent to her assistance from New
York.
The stranded Irene rolls slightly in
the swelling sea and is deeper in the
sand than when she struck the shoal
in the fog yesterday morning. Breech-
es buoy connects the steamship with
the shore while three life saving
crews are standing by with life saw
ing boats on shore.
There is absolutely no fear for the
safety of the passengers who in fact
show no apprehension over their en-
forced stay on the shoal. Some of the
ocean voyagers played bridge whist
in the cabin while others attended
band concert.
Neither do steerags passengers
show any fear, =,
New York, April THE steamship
Prince Frederick Wilhelm left her
dock at Hoboken shortly before 8
o'clock to take off passengers of the
stranded steamship Princess Irene.
Captain Peterson sent wireless to
morning asking how many passengers
the Seneca and Mohawk could carry.
The Seneca wired back that she
could take about 600 passengers
aboard and the cutter Mohawk 400
passengers.
The same northwest wind picked up |
DUNG the morning kicking up lum-
by sea which washed about the
stranded Irene. The Lone Hill life .
saving station crew which is at the !
shore end of the breeches buoy, said
shortly after z o'clock that in their !
opinion i would be dangerous to re- !
move the passengers, as the weather |
was not as favorable as it was St !
sunrise. The sky was cloudy and |
a thick fog hung like cut<A1n off |
shore.
Boston, Mass, Apra The schoon-
er at anchor in lower harpor which a
couple of inbounA fishermen reported
as the overdue schooner ). Manchest-
er Haynes thirty-eight days out from
Brunswick, a., proved to be another
vessel while an all night search of
the bay for the missing Haynes which
was spoken off Georges last Saturday
was without result.
Fire Island, April THE attempt
to float the Princess Irene was re-
sumed at 11:1O o'clock this morning
when tugs began pulling away on the
stranded steamer.
Sayville, l.. l., April 7.-Plans for
the passengers of the Prin-
cess Irene, the stranded steamer,
were being shaped as the Prince Fred
erick Wilhelm approached from the
harbor on her mission of rescue. This
was indicated by wireless message
fro mthe Prince Frederick Wilhelm
sent as the former was steaming out
and which was picked up here.