Show r EXCURSION 1TUGGOEST j r D WN IN A STORM yb A Score of Persons Are Doubtless Doubt-less Drowned r 1 I TIMELY AID SAVES A GREAT MANY LIVES 1I 1 I 5AD JSXDIKG OF A DAYS SPORT JVEAR X1SW YORK k 7 heavy Sea and a Strong Wind 1 3 z d Caused the Trouble Tux Was i Overloaded and Top Heavy and the IanicStrickcn Passengers Hart aincli to do With Causing the Disaster y New York June 24The tug James D Nichol with sixtythree excursionists and a crew of ten or twelve sank at about 1 oclock this afternoon tlneo miles off the highlands Fiftyfour of those on board have been accounted for the rest were probably drowned The tug left Fifth street and East I River at 730 this morning for the fishing grounds She had it Is said a license i 1 to carry nttythree passengers but sixty three tickets were sold There was a bar and a lunch counter on board whose attendants at-tendants with the crew made the total f number on board seventyfive The tug reached the banks ou time but fishing was poor and the sea too rough for com fort and about noon she started back I t When about three miles east of the highlands and about four miles south of Scotland light ship the waves began fS break heavily over her starboard rail I iO dodge the water and wind the pas sengers began to run around to the port Side and to climb on top of the deck house The boat careened alarmingly to port and water swept over the railhe terrorstricken men rushed back to star t board and the tug swung deeply down on f thai side At the same moment heavy h > breakers struck the boat In quick suc l sue stuck pluckily to his post rnd sounded the r whistle in a prolonged scream for help Even as he did so the tug filled with the water that poured into her from both j sides and sank out of sight in the water the went down like a stone carrying to many of the passengers with her I i t The water choked the cry of the whls tie but not before it had oeen heard and heeded The Clyde steamer Algonquin a mile away heard it and swung around to go A to the rescue The tugs Wallace B Flint f R J Moran and Governor also hurried toward the spot i The Algonquin picked up ten men one of whom died a few minutes later The f tugs rescued the others who remained afloat Some few had life belts on but k most of them were clinging to bits of 1 wreckage A life raft supported a dozen and the top of the pilot house as many more I Captain S C Platt of the Algonquin said that while a stiff breese was blowing there was no sudden squall There was a big sea on The Algonquin brought those she hal picked up to the city The living dispersed t dis-persed to their homes and the dead body + which has not been identified was sent to the morgue All were people bearing German names f Some of the tugs not wishing to ccme to the city transferred the men they had saved to other tugs The Sayres l brought up thirtyfour survivors and S landed them on the cast side The C E Evarts brought up two bodies and several sev-eral survivors The Governor is sup posed to have landed several in Brooklyn Altogether fiftyfour out of the seventy live have been accounted for Three of them were dead The officers of the Flint have for some unknown reason denied de-nied having rescued any of the men or knowing anything about the matter John A Magele who was rescued by the Algonquin Al-gonquin says he vas caught under the awning of the tug when it sank He managed man-aged to crawl out and ileze a table which kept him afloat Finding his chum Frank Gaiser In the water he let him have the table which would not support two and c started to swim Soon after he was picked up but Gaiser has not been seen since The Algonquin arrived at her t t dock at pier 29 foot of Roosvelt street l t about 5 oclock She had on board nine of the survivors surviv-ors Of the Nichols and the body of one of the victims Captain Platt of the Algonquin when interviewed concerning the accident said The tug was about sinking when first sighted by the Algonquin There was a m heavy sea on aid a good deal of wind i from the northeast My attention was f first called to the tug by the blowing bf its whistle She was then rolling from side to side and suddenly turned over and went down almost instantly The passengers appeared to be demoralized demoral-ized and ran about the deck wildly and i it iis the boat swayed to one side they rushed to the other The tug appeared top heavy and as though she was overloaded over-loaded I ordered a life boat lowered immediately immedi-ately and sent It in charge of Chief Officer Offi-cer Rich to the scene of the disaster but i before it had arrived the tug had sunk out of sight Officer Rich succeeded In rescuing nine of the survivors and also took on board the life boat the body of a man which he found in a derelct boat I belonging to the tug The dead man was all tangled up with fish lines and the L boat was full of water though right side up Soon the tugs Flint Moran Governor Gover-nor SaTes and Evarts arrived at the scene and they also succeeded in picking r up many of the survivors as well as i come of the dead bodies f The names of those saved and landed + by the Algonquin are Edward Cape Charles Deuzinger Charlies Glockmer George E Pitt B L Wood John Magele Charles Elber hart Jerome Curton and James Gilmore It A few hours after sinking the tug was t pretty well broken up and the wreckage began to come ashore Before dark the entire beach was strewn with 1L Forty J three lunch baskets were washed up Nobodies f No-bodies have come ashore |