Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-02
ROUGH SEA KEEPS
STRANDED VESSEL.
AWAY FROM PORT
Waves and Wind During the
Night Shift Vessels Bow
$50 Feet Shoreward
By Assoeiafed Press

New York, .an. 2.-The Ameri :" n
troop transport Northern Pacific.
aground off Fire Island with 5000
troops. civilians and crew. was shift.
ca slightly during the night by the
: waves and tho wind. At a. m. to-
. day. with a rough sea RI I,ning and 4
moderate southv est breeze blowing,
her bcw had swung $50 feet sho e.
waid. Hithe-tc she had been lying
broadside to the beach. The weata :
er conditions at s o'clock were no.
considered Isorable to the transfer
of me troops.
vice-Admiral Gleaves to-day issued
the following statement:
The Northern Pacific is in no i'm
mediate danger, and until there is a
change of wind from the westward
no attempt will be made to trans
fer those on the ship. Such trans
fer. If it is made to-day. will prob
ably be to other ships standing by"
revised list of troops on board
was issu.2 y' sterday afternoc 7.
showing taal in the Army and Navy
personnel wee 2.4S0 officers aud
men and nurses. the latter numba--
i,.g seventeen ihe officers and ccsw
Of the Northern Pacific number alb ut
3 63"
The troops comprise the following:
Fifth Base Cemetery Sector. seven
teen officers 470 men.
Eighth -\nu ric. Trench Mortar
Battery. five officers. 155 men.
Casual officers, men and nursas.
fiIty-eight
Navy cas- ais, lwo.
Soldiers ShJ are bedridden. 269.
~, .
ptcial attention, Seventy-three Off {.
GERS and 1,402 men.
$50 there arc eight casual civil
ians. identitv not known here.
9fe naval authorities are takiI Z
every preclut m however. to gil !
the lives o. tn. ?.4N0 soldiers aboa i
the transports. ntiIly LOO Of when
are sick or NO nded.
After an unsuccessful attempt had
been made to-day to drag the Amer
lean transport Northern Pacific from
the sandbar on which she grounded
off Fire Island early Wednesday
morning, Navy officials here an
ncunced plans for removing the 2,4SO
troops to vessels standing by at ,
o'clock this afternoon, if weather
conditions were favorable.
Announcement that both the
wounded and well soldiers aboard the
stranded transport Northern Pacific
were being transferred both to res
cuing vessels and the shore in small
boats was made at 1890 o'clock to-
day by Brigadier General McManus,
of the port of embsrkation at Ho-
token.
Four more lifeboats filled with SOL
diers arrived from the Northern Pa
cific soon after while four other
beats, all belonging to the transport.
filled with members Of the crew, left
the ship for the outlying rescue yes
sells.
Stnte Man ON BOat
one of the first four ashore was
Lieutenant Joseph Logan Wilton,
whose home is in Pennsylvania. AS
soon as they We're landed, the soldiers
We're taken Immediately across the
narrow island to the fiotilla of small
boats waiting 10 carry them across
Great South bay to Bay Shore. seven
miles away. Meantime the lfeboats
and the coastguard boat returned
for more troops.
In Best OF Spirits
The first men to land declared the
stranded troops were in the best of
spirits. one said that when the
transport grounded early yesterday
morning the men thought they
reached Hoboken and went on deck to
look at the harbor. Some of the
troops did not know. he said, that the
Northern Pacific had gone ashore un-
til after breakfast. several hours
later.
While the troops were being loaded
into the lifeboats alongside. the
Northern Pacific's band was playing
lively airs.