Show rr t H O O R D i y II IN GRET DANGER r New York Nm hUnt hun hundred dyed dred Italian an It passengers re t to ItAly on th line N rH w were re n eJ t ment today n the ship waS rai by R a New York York New Ha Haep volt ep Hartford r i In the harbor of Liberty The float struck the steamship abolt fort forty tee ee from the and two feet above abC the Water line lIOE tearing n a hole twenty feet long Iong and ix feet hIgh In her plates and making it for the vessel essel t to contInue her without repairs At t the moment of the many of the steerage passengers were on th the side of the ship toward the approaching float th the crash came and the Nord AmerIca h over many m hy of ti pa pas seng frIghtened and nd t e dif dle difficulty In rea su ing then When rhen th the cOllision ion occurred c u ed the Nord was going down own the upper bay J with a full head of steam She had ha left lefther her pIer at the loot of W West st Thirty fourth street at oclo As she was the S of Liberty Cap Captain tain tam Raffo saw on his starboard bow I the heavy heay steel tt B at with a dozen freight cars aboard directly toward hint r According to Captain Raffo state stute statement t mente ment he thought the captain OT r the float intended oo to pass under his tem stern and kept on his c cOurse urse but the float came on at full futI speed and t k the I steamship a After the Nord America regained an even k keel el and the p passengers ss were quieted the vessel essel returned to hr hI The float which had apparently suf suffered but In t e lU tinned on itS The Nord America vIl have to be bet t dOCked arid and and cannot re her trip for s sometime |