New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-13
FARRAGUT COMING HERE
Struggling North, Expects to Get
In This Afternoon.

Conveyed by the United States battleship
Iowa and in no immediate danger. the GRIP
! pied steamer Admiral Farragut is strug-
Cling northward, hoping to drop anchor
in New York Harbor this afternoon.
| II friendly wind and seas are constant
the Admiral Farragut will probably make
/ port. her captain believes as she was l''
miles south Of Sandy Hook and MAKING
six knots an hour at dusk last night
| Ocean-going tugs left here 10 aid her.
Am proceeding az Eve knots an hour
for shallow water, conveyed by L 3 Z.
Iowa" read the first OF two messages re-
ceived by wireless here last night from
| Captain 4 Nader. of the Admiral Farra-
gut. If wind and seas keep from SOUTH
west will proceed north toward New YORK
keeping stern seas Cannot use anchors.
Too thick 70 attempt 10 get In chesapeake
Esy. Ship perfectly tight Have COLLISION
bulkhead reinforced
The second message received by the
American Mail Steamship COMPANY own
eys Of the Admiral Farragut, contained the
welcome news that the ship was holding
her own against the seas not leaking, and
expected TO make port here AT o'clock
this afternoon.
The steamer Meri5s was built IN Phila-
dephia in 1915 She is 40 feet long. OF 90
feet beam and gross tonnage OF 6@1
She left Proareso. Yucatan, OF May s,
calling at Havana, and leaving the latter
port on Tuesday.
According to reports received here yes
terday. she carried few Americans. the
greater part OF her passenger complement
being Mexican and Cuban merchants and
refugees from Mexico.
II was said al the Ward Line Office yes
terday that no advance passenger list OF
the Merida had been sent 10 New YORK
Among those who had booked return
pas ge on the Merida were Philip Lynch.
Mt and Mrs Robert Wright. Anna Wright
and William White. the latter being on his
way from Havana 10 his home in Canada
The Bishop Of Yucatan is said 10 have
been passenger
A cable message from Havana was re-
ceived last night in the Wadorf-Astoria
congratulating one carrero on his escape
from death on the Merida.
The Farragut Is owned by the American
Mail Steamship Company. of which r. A.
c. Smith is president. and chartered to the
CIutcU rIu!l NpiHPdHS Loi Its SCI ~" "o'
tween Philadelphia and Port Antonio. ia
rnaica. She was built in Philadelphia in
1885, is 2so feet long. 81 feet beam and has
a gross tonnage of 2,lO4. She has eccomo-
dations for about seventy passengers. and
carries crew of hfty-f1ve.
The Merida had general cargo from
Mexico and Havana. the greater part of
which consisted of pineapples The Far
ragut had general cargo. made up Chiefly
OF manufactured goods, for Jamaica.
Captain Leyland, marine superintendent
OF the Ola Dominion Line, was called up
las, night on the long distance telephone at
O'Clock frcm Norfolk by Captain Boaz,
Of the steamship Hamilton. The Hamilton
had landed the Merids's passengers and
crew AT Norfolk at 80 p. m, he said. Cap
tain Boaz reported that thirty-four first cabin
passengers Of the Merida. twenty-five Sec
ond cabin and 30 members Of the crew
took passage on the Old Dominion liner
Princess Anne. which left Norfolk for this
city at p. m. and is due here this after
noon. Captain BoaZ said the remainder Of
the passengers and crew of the Merida
elected TO spend the night at hotels and
would leave for New York by train this
morning
The Hamilton. according 10 her master,
until $50 a. m. three hours after the
Merida had gone down. The transfer OF
the Meridas passengers and crew. he said.
was made by boats from the Farragut. the
battleship Iowa and the Hamilton