Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-05 | Page 2 | Fear Ship Has Gone to Bottom

FEAR SHIP HAS HS I GONE TO BOff BOTTOM MI Vessel Veel M May Have HIv Turned Turtle Off Columbia Golumbia River FIERCE STORM ON PACIFIC f WAS IH Ix CHARGE OP OF TUG WHEW A Aws 4 Ore Dee 4 The fate of the th British ship Nelion a steel teI l vessel bound to Queenstown Que with whet wheat h t re reported reported ported early today toca aa a having turned turtle last Jut night and d gone pile to the bot bet bottom bottom tom torn with her crew CAW of men me cannot te toe known until tomorrow By that tUne time site he will mil probably have been sighted if U still afloat If the t tu tugs 3 which wJ institute a search earch fall fail to tol und hod l nd her eIe be will doubtless be given ea I up as ne lost The tugboat people think she if Is still aUll safe ate but there is le for the gravest fears te r The sailed U Nov K i for tor Eng Sag land Jand with a train grain n cargo She encountered th gated gales which w prevailed early in Sn the Ute week and ed on Monday evening was waa sighted apted off 0 o the Ute river in a a disabled dl condition Tuesday Tae day morning she he was waa picked up by the tugs tup and The returned to port ort tor for fuel the tAe starting north with the Nelson eleon when a heavy pie gale came up At last hut t night during the height of the storm Morna the steel cable parted and nd the lights of or the Nelson suddenly disappeared leading to the belief beller that she had bad The tug searched all night and nd unil unU noon to today today today day but not the slightest trace of or the ship was WILlI found Notwithstanding this Captain Bailey of the tug tag tu believes the Nelson is Ii safe ate and that she will show how up tomorrow H He thinks t she has baa made for tor Puget Sound Souna while others are inclined to the belief that Captain of the Nel Net Nelson son will Wilt make for tor the Columbia The Th Nelson carries men all aU told