The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-14
URANIUM STILL FAST
Tugs Unable to Pull Her Away ant
Steamship May Be Lost.

Halifax, Jan 14.-So firm and fast
is the steamer Uranium lodged on
the rocks near .Chebucto head, n.
S., where she ran aground in Sun
days fog, that no amount of straining
by a fleet of tugs pulled her a foot
toward liberty yesterday afternoon.
After three Intellectual attempts to
float her, one of which threatened to
land another vessel. the tug Scots
man, on the ledge beside her. Capt
Eustace decided he would have to
tighten the ship before she could be
eXtricated OF the $50 passengers
who were transshipped to rescue
craft, many left Halifax for their des-
tinations during the day Six hun
dred and fortythree examined by
United States immigration service
inspectors during the afternoon ex-
pected to leave late last night for
New York
The Uranium lies on an almost
even keel, with her forward bulkhead
in it than she had Sunday Capt.
Eustace believes that she will be
pulled off the rocks and will float
when she is freed, but some of those
working to extricate her are not GER
tain of this. Life belts and preser-
vers lie heaped on the Uranium s
deck, ready for instant use, for
should a. '-' shift and the sea
run strong, there is danger that she
might break in two. The cargo.
which Cape Eustace ordered removed
weighs about 400 tons.
1t was while playing a good Samar-
| itan of the seas that the Uranium
came to grief Capt Eutace said yes
terday. Bound from Rotterdam to New
| York, she turned out of her course on
Thursday to answer wireless call
for help. The message came from
the steamer Carthaginian; il said
that fire was raging aboard and that
she was beyond control. For three
| days the Uranium CROPPED through
the fog trying to find and succor the
! burning vessel; then the Cathaginian
sent word by wireless that the FIRE
was subdued. The Uranium retrac-
ed her track, reaching the entrance
to Halifax harbor in a dense fog. The
Egg Island buoy was sighted, but not
the intervening buoy and without
this to guide her the Uranium crash
| ed into Chebucto Head light.
The steamer is stuck bow on with
! II fathoms of water under her stern.
The bow plates are ripped open and
| No l hold is water filled. The yes
sells position is only few hundred
yards from the lighthouse at Chebuc-
to Head, where, the keeper declares,
he was blowing his fog horn when
the vessel struck. 1t was on the
same ledge, and not far from this
spot, that the steamer Atlantic of
the White Star line was lost in
April, 1873, at the sacrifice of 600
lives.
The rescue of the Uranium's pas
sengers was accomplished by life
boats from Chebucto Head and by
transfer to the government steamer
Lady Laurier, which was prompt to
reply to wireless signals. There was
no panic, Notwithstanding that most
OF the passengers were foreigners
and among the number we're many
women and children. There were
many thrills, but no serious accidents
and all of the passengers were land
ed at Halifax during the night.
The Uranium is 22 years old and
under four different owners has
| borne as many names. She was
christened the Avoca, later the San
Fernando. and then the Atlanta. The
/ Uranium steamship company, her
! present owner gave her the com
! pany's name. Four years ago she
was in a collision with the steamship
Nordenfels off Rotterdam, when she
was badly damaged and one of her
crew was killed.