New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-11
TEARS
SOUND STEAMER
WITH BOWSPRIT
Drives Timber Through :
Staterooms by Heads of
Sleeping Passengers.

The steamboat Tennessee, Of the Bay
State Line, participant in one Of
those inexplicable accidents Of the sea.
came to her berth yesterday az Pier 10,
East River, with a badly ripped super
structure on the port side. where the
bow Of a three-masted schooner, the
Samuel 8. Thorp, ploughed into her at
1880 p. m. on Saturday in Long Island
Sound, off Watch Hill.
One passenger, seriously injured IN
the back, lies in the French Hospital,
in Thirty-fourth Street, and five others
who had minor bruises went to their
homes in this city when they landed
from the Colonial Line steamboat Con-
cord, which took them aboard In mid
Sound soon after the collision.
officers of the Tennessee, as well as
the frightened travellers, who were
reused from sleep by the intrusion of
the schooner, were puzzled yesterday
over two things-the miracle of escape
from death and serious injury of all
on board and the cause of such col
lision. The night was clear. and the
steamboat, heavily laden with freight
staterooms, left Providence stimuli
taneously with the steamboat Concord.
Robert j. Noble, general manager Of
the Bay State Line, says the Concord
and Tennessee were abeam off Fisher
Island when the schooner was first
sighted Her course lay between the
two passenger carriers, and it was as
sume6 that she would take care Of
herself and come through. The sailing
lights were plainly visible on the three
vessels. The schooner vas running
free before a northwest wind, but sud
denly she bore over to the Tennessee.
The big bowsprit plunged into the
steamer near the wheelhouse and
ripped up seven staterooms that shell
tered about fifteen sleeping passengers.
Two more rooms were shattered before
the big stick broke off and, dangling
from its headgear, went on with the
schooner.
Everybody was reused by the crash
and the heeling over of the Tennessee.
Captain George B. Enos, master OF the
damaged boat, soon saw that she was
seaworthy, and instructed his officers to
calm the frightened passengers, whose
shrieks gave rise 70 the bellet tnat
many had been seriously injured.
A call for help was promptly sent out
by wireless and several vessels re-
sponded. The Concord, less than half
mile away, came over and made fast 70
the Tennessee. Although the pas
senrers could have remained aboard
the damaged vessel with safety, Cap
tain Enos thought II wiser to transfer
them TO the Concord. The steamboats,
were lashed together. and the TRANSFER
was made within half an hour.
The schooner was picked up by the
rug Mohican and towed TO New London
for repairs. She was bound from Perth
Amboy for Newburyport, Mass. The
Concord landed the Tennessee's pas
sengers IN this city at $3.50 a. m. yes
terday, and the injured vessel came IN
later. landing the baggage. The dam
age to the Tennessee is estimated at
about $4,000.
The crash recalls a sidewiping that
occurred of the Brazilian coast many
wears ago in broad daylight, when a
Steamship out Of Southampton, bound
for Rio dc Janeiro, hit another vessel
Of the came line, northbound from
Buenos Ayres. Both had tho bread At
lantic TO manpuvre in; both had OBJ
served each other coming for half an
hour; nevertheless they scraped SIDES
and passed on TO their respective des-
tinations.