Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-01-15
PASSENGERS ARE
SAFELY LANDED
Nearly Nine Hundred on Steam
er as She Goes on Ledge
GREAT HOLE TORN IN HULL

Enort is MADE to Get Women and
Children First Into Lick oats
Uranium Strikes Off Shebucto Head
Halifax, Jan 14-Wives were
torn from the arms of their husbands
and children forcibly separated from
lear stricken parents in the rescue
Of the $50 passengers of the steam
ship Uranium, bound from Rotterdam
to this port and to New York from
Halifax, which drove up on the jagged
ledge off Chebucto Head Sunday.
Terrified passengers, swarming
from the steerage when the rush of
water through the rent in the steam
er's bow tilted the ships length to
stern at an alarming angle, resisted
the efforts Of the ships officers to get
the women and children first into the
lifeboats.
In spite of the chaos of hysterical
mothers and frenzied fathers, hus-
bands and wives, the work of rescue
was accomplished and every passen-
ger borne over the waves in the ships
boats and in the surfbOats of the
shore ifesavers to the fleet Of local
craft which answered the first call of
Distress
The swapping Of the hawser Of an
anchor, heaved Immediately after the
liner struck, knocked down and Sc
verely injured several of the crew,
including the quartermaster. These
men were brought to the hospital here
last night.
Not life was lost, and although
the craft was awash inside and still
clinging to the rocky spur which drove
in her bow plates, Captain Eustace
refused to quit her, and will remain
aboard until all hope of saving the
vessel is gone.
The government steamer Lady
Laurier and the steamer Bridgewater,
to which the passengers were trans
ferred from the wreck, arrived here
last night.
The Uranium was riding in through
stiff storm of sleet and rain and was
in the midst of a fog bank when she
struck the ledge, about a fourth Of a
mile from the Chebucto Head light
station.
Most of the passengers were be-
tween decks when the crash came
and quick work on the part of the Of
ficers for time kept all below.
The steamers bow drove upon the
rooly bO1o al
feet long below the water line.
The rush of sea water filled the
first compartment within few sec
onds after the shock and before all
the bulkheads could be closed the
brine had swept astern and was rapid
ly filling the stern when stemmed by
the compartment doors.
Signals of distress were hoisted
and lifeboats unlimbered, and forty
five minutes after she struck, the
Duncan Cove life stations crew were
alongside in surfboats.
AS the ship settled astern the pas
sengers could no longer be kept be
low, and swarmed to the decks Hun
dreds of them could understand nc
word of the officers, and scenes OF
the widest excitement prevailed.
1t was not until they were partly
the sight Of the life savers standing
by that any semblance Of order could
be gained.
The steamers wireless call for aid
was caught at the Camperdown sta
ton and word was flashed from there
to this city.
G.. H: Harvey, marine and fisher
les agent, was warned and in turf
notified R. Holland, the Chebuctc
lighthouse keeper, and the neares
life saving stations.
The government steamer Lady Lau
rier was caught outside by wireless
and with a feet of other local Graf
fastened to the rescue.
The engines of the Uranium wer
stopped when it became apparent tina
no effort of theirs could free the line
and all attention directed to the lif
boats.
C.. H. Harvey, while in communi
cation with Captain Eustace by wire
less, ordered him to put Off the pas
sengers at once, and when the Her
ring Cove life savers reached tn
liners side the work of transferrin
them was started.
1t was then that frightened men an
women fought against separation fror
relatives. The order of women an
children first was met by a storm c
objection, and it became necessary
wre5t women from husbands an
children from parents.
The fate of separated mothers an
children and husbands and wives o
the Titanic seemed to be uppermos
in the minds of the passengers. Al
though the rain and sleet was falling
there was really no rough water.
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