The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-01-13
Uranium Held Fast in Grip
of Rocky Shore Below
Halifax-88o Passengers
All Transferred to Other
Vessels by Surf Boats
and Are Landed Safely
CALM RESTORED BY
OFFICERS AND CREW
Accident Is Due to Thick
Weather - Captain and
His Men Remain Aboard
and Hope to Have No Diff
ficulty in Floating Liner

HALIFAX, n. S, Jan 12.-The
steamer Uranium of the Uranium
Steamship company. bound from Rot
terdam for Halifax and New York.
stranded on a reef during thick weather
near the Chebucto headlight station,
nine miles below Halifax. at II o'clock
today. and tonight still is held fast in
the grip OF the rocky shore
Her $50 passengers. 100 in the cabin
and the rest in the steerage, were
taken of the ship by the government
steamer Lady Laurier and small fleet
of harbor craft. and were landed safely
in Halifax tonight
NO LIFE LOST IN TRANSFER
Although surf boats had to be used
IN transferring the hundreds Of pas
sengers TO the rescue boats, the work
was safely accomplished and not life
was lost.
Captain Eustace and his crew. re-
rnained aboard ship. which is hanging
by her bow on the reef. The captain
hopes TO get the steamer off at low
water late tonight The escape of a
vessel from such predicament gener-
ally is made at high water. but the
captain believes the weight OF the
Nsfter part of the steamer will gradu-
ally drag the Uranium free as the tide
goes down.
ALARM AMONG PASSENGERS
There was much alarm. especially
among the steerage passengers, when
the ship struck. but the officers and
sailors soon succeeded in restoring
calm.
The rescue boats arrived at .. m,
and the transfer of the Uranium's pas
sengers was begun at once. Three
surf boats from the life saving station
and the life boats of the Uranium were
used. The Lady Laurier took women
and children first and then the men
were transferred to the Bridgewater.
STEAMER STRIKES HEAD ON
The steamer struck head on when the
tide was half high. and late in the
afternoon her bow was six feet out of
water under her amidships and II faith
oms at the stern The plates at the
bow are ripped open and No. 1 hold was
Hooded.
The weather. continued heavy tonight
and wrecking steamers are standing by
the Uranium to rescue the crew should
necessity arise.
TOUCHING REUNION SCENES
The last of the rescue ships, the
steamer Lady I.aurier, reached Halifax
about 10 o'clock tonight and in. less
than an hour her 600 passengers
women and children-were safe on
shore. Some excitement followed as
the women sought their husbands. the
children their fathers and sisters their
brothers. The masculine passengers
were all on shore before them and
there were many affecting scenes with
in the immigration buildings when the
AFeparated families were united.
The steamer was far out of her
course when she struck. She did not
have pilot on board.
At midnight the wind had shifted
and was blowing a gale from the north.
kicking UP a big sea and making the
position OF the stranded liner more
perilous.
Ships Feel Storms Fury
LONDON, Jan 12.-The United King
dom was swept saturday and Sunday
by heavy gales and snowstorms. There
have been many wrecks of small craft.
and coast shipping has been damaged.
> Vessels arriving in port today felt the
full fury Of the storm, and some Of
them are badly SCARED.
The Danish steamer Gkoch has been
wrecked off Girdleness, Scotland, with
the loss of seven lives.
In the north Of England the storm
was Of terrific severity. lasting SO
hours. There was a continuous snow
fall in the Newcastle district. Tele-
graph and telephone wires are down in
all directions.
wAYFARER IN DISTRESS
The steamer Mauretania was held
alongside the landing stage at Liver
pool until 800 o'clock tonight. when
she sailed direct for New York
The steamer Celtic from New York
January 4, which arrived at Queens
town this afternoon, reports having ex-
iperienced terrific weather. The gale
Awas so violent on Friday and Saturday
THAT the passengers we're forbidden on
the promenade deck. The Celtic at
a. m. Friday spoke the British steamer
v.svfarer from Liverpool. January >.
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