The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-11
ON 1. SOUND STEAMER
 IN CRAVE PERIL
Tennesse Rammed By Coal Laden Schooner And Is
 Badly Damaged.

New York. Oct.g 1-The sweet little cherub that sitsfup. aloft looking af- ter folk a1oat was on. the job on Sat urday night, according to the unani- nous sentiment of 24O passengers of the Bay State Line steamship Ten nessee who were landed here yester- day by the steamship Concord of the Colonial Line. It was a marvel Capt. George B. Enos of the Tennessee said, that no one was killed when the three rRasted coal laden schooner Samuel S. Thorp rammeds the Sound liner south of Watch Hill, making a rent more than forty feet long in her >starboard side above the water line and chisel1ing shaped slash half through her heavy guard for ward anidships-
 Only one. man was seriously injur- ed, and he will get well. He is Rob- ert Heating of Woodhaven, Conn.,, and is in the French Hospital
 Sound Placid as Mill Pond.''
 The Sound was placid mill pond, as the skipper of the Tennes See put it, quoting from the home1y sea siniles that all good shippers have at their tongues end, and the night was dark but clear, when the side lights of a schooner appeared dead ahead. Capt, Enos said his pilot made an effort to clear the schooner and thought he had succeeded when tn eVessel suddenly swerVed toward him. She had been running free, with the wind about on the port quar- ter. She brought up and headed to- ward the Tennessee and the pilot put his helm hard over in a supreme eff fort to dodge the impending blow from the coal carrier.
 No Sound skipper likes to be hit by any sailing craft, but if he is going to catch it he prefers something less for midable than a collier. Exactly how the Thorp managed to smash into the Tennessee may not be known until the report of her skipper, Capt. Pierce, is available. The impression aboard the Tennessee is that he may have feared to pass between the Concord which was on one side of the Ten nessee and, like her, bound for this city, perhaps suspecting that he might get into trouble with one or the other of the steam craft. He. had plenty room to clear both ships, but he may have thought otherwise, and knowing that the sailing vessel has the right of way, left it to the Tennessee to clear him. Whatever the point of view of Capt. Pierce may have been, the man at the wheel of the Thorp sent her catacornered into the port side of the Tennessee.
 The impact, reused everybody who was asleep aboard the Tennessee, in cluding score of folk. men, women and children, who were in the state rooms on the upper deck The jib-. boom and bowsprit of the Thorp, steeying more thansthose of the usual fore and after, raked the upper deck like the giant spear of knight in a tourney.
 Seven Staterooms Smashed.
 In an instant what had been the frames of, seven staterooms on the port side were reduced to matchwood. Where the staterooms had been there was frameless air. Two. other state rooms were wrecked.
 The miracle was that there were no casualties. Passengers who had run from staterooms out of the zone of peril when they got glimpse of the wreckage and the great gap in the side of the superstructure of the ship decided offhand that many had been killed. For moment there were screaming and shouting. Then Capt. Enos and his officers and the crew brought order out of tumu1t by as- surances of the ships safety.
 The skipper was far from convinc- ed that the steel hull of his ship had. not been stove in He had no time to philosophize about this. His first thought was to insureN the safety of
 
 Concord for help. The skipper of the Concord did not need wireless. He had heard the crash and had headed right away to the Tennessee. There after the incidents of the shipwreck were as smNothly conducted <as they might have been ~pn a movie stage. The Concord slid peacefully, in the placid sea alongside the Tennessee, a gangplank was stretched from gang way to gangway and all hands walked calmly aboard the Concord,
 Then Capt. Enos made certain that the hull of the Tennessee was 1tanch and headed for New York. She docked at the foot of Peck Slip, East River, just handi1y as if she were shipshape- It will cost about $5,00O to fix her up.
 MT. Keating was hurt internally. He was crushed in his stateroom.S Half dozen other passengers were slightly injured. but did not go to the hospi- tai.
 The Thorp, which was bound from Newport News to Newburyport, was lowed into New London with loss of bowsprit and jibboom and her bow badly smashed.
 1 PIMPLY? WE'LL.