Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11
PASSENGER PANIC
AS ships collide
Ten Persons Hurt When
Tennessee and Thorp
Crash Near New York
IRON HULL OF
STEAMER SAVES HER

NEW YORK. oct. ii.-Ten persons
were injured and $50 passengers pan
ic-stricken late Saturday night when
the Bay state liner Tennessee collid-
cd with the schooner Samuel $. lhorp
of Fishers Island. Wireless calls
brought the Concord of the Colonial
Line to the rescue. and the passen-
/ gers who were frightened were trans
ferred to the vessel.
! A roll of the sea lifted the schooner
and her 400 tons of dead weight cargo
as she hit the Tennessee. The sohoon-
er's stem shattered a fourteen-inch-
timber rail with an iron sheathing.
This took the blow that would have
rent the steamships hull had the sail
ing vessel been tumbling down the
sea.
The schooners bowsprit side-swip-
ed nine staterooms, all of which We're
occupied, ripped the deck supports
tout as ii they had been made OF match
wood. and hurled pine berths and
their occupants with splintered parti.
tions far into the saloon in the mid
die Of the boat.
Ten Persons Injured.
Ten persons were injured. Two Of
these were hurried to the French
Hospital as soon as the passengers
arrived here on the steamship Con
cord, of the Colonial Line. which took
them from the Tennessee
Edward Davis, twenty-five. an
amusement agent No. 1852 West
Third street. Coney Island: injuries
to left thigh. back and left arm; taken
10 his home
Robert Kathine. hfty-four. Wood
Haven. l.. l., internal injuries. re-
moved to French Hospital; condition
serious.
James Heating, paint salesman, No.
I 454 Fifty-hrst street, Brooklyn cut
AID Commissions of both legs taken to
his home.
Miss Mary LAURA. nineteen, of No
IT 515 West 134th street, cuts on face
Il abdomen and legs; taken to he. home
=, Jack Russell. theatrical performer
e 10. 10 Amboy street, Brooklyn, con
lie tusions on back and cuts on right leg
" French Hospital.
if Samuel Taner. twenty-one. multi
1t graph operator. No. 2649 West thir'
30 street, Coney Island, COMMISSIONS o
81 left leg; taken to his home.
Hull Not Denied.
" After the Tennessee had reached he
g pier az Peck Slip the East River, eN
W animation showed that her iron hui
az was not even dented. It was scrape
m bit under the heavy guard rail 70
G. three feet below the water line. AboV
he was the gaping hold extending up
IT. the boat deck. latticed with twistC
TO steam pipes and dangling strips
lsuperstructure.
os Most of those aboard retired earl
al and the Tennessee was off Isabel
d Blake Beach. on Fishers Island. NAL
~ ing for the Race. the entrance TO Lon
- Island Sound. when the accident o.
> Cured Captain George Enos had lie
the pilot house twenty minutes befol
and was getting into bed. Mate Dan
iel Reilly had retired. Those in d
pilot house were Pilot John Anderso
and Quartermaster Hans Larsen.
III was cloudy and a black night, bl
u there was no fog.
Anderson said today he suddenly sd
the schooner dead ahead and reaching
v, the eastward under the northwest VIII
M M He did not see her lights until she W
ns almost on top of the Tennessee,
~ said. Then he instantly threw I
NC steamships wheel over to port. but
an was too late 10 avert the crash.
Nc Schooner Coal-laden.
me The Thorp, wooden three mast
~ $50 feet long and $40 tons. built thirt
ad four years ago. was loaded with s.
coal from Newport News for Newbm
he port, Mass
an. She struck the Tennessee at the pc
nv freight opening just aft of the stea
90 ships forward quarter. The schoone
ri. bowsprit raked over boxes of drygo'
ak. and n heap of bags of leather. and II
rse ripped out the nine staterooms abo
together with the women's washroo
Everyone on board the Tennessee "
+. awakened by the crash and fully NJ
~ Of the passengers were thrown ir
ne their berths. They fled into the sale
a in nichtclothes.