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Show STEMS COLLI off sanun lights Liner Brazos, With Big Hole in Her Side, Returns to New York. NEW YORK, an. 22.-The New York & Porto Bico steamship Brazos, with 171 passengers and a crew of 130 on board, arrived at her pier in Brooklyn Brook-lyn at 9 o'clock tonight with a jagged hoi a in her starboard side, after a collision col-lision late today twenty-three miles southeast of Scotland light with the coasting steamer Suffolk of tba Coastwise Coast-wise Transportation company of Boston. The Suffolk also returned to port and anchored off quarantine. The Brazos came to port under her own steam, and officials of the company said tonight that repairs probably would be completed so she could sail again for feau Juan, Porto Kico, on Monday. Mon-day. Captain H. W. Barstow expressed the belief that he oould have made San Juan easily without turning back, but thought it'best to take no chances with so large a passenger list and so many men in the crew. Steaming along slowlw in ft dense fog at 3:45 o 'clock "this afternoon, persons aboard the Brazos were startled by the shriek of a whistle near-by. Five minutes min-utes later the black hulk of the Sufr folk loomed up and she crashed head-on into the Brazos's side. The coasting vessel, undamaged so far as Captain Barstow could see, steered off and stood by until informed that the Brazos need- ed no assistance, There was no panic on th Brazos. After an examination of his ship, Captain Barstow announced to the passengers pas-sengers that he had decided to return to New York as a measure of precaution. precau-tion. The rent in the Brazos 's si le was above the water lino, but if severe storms had been encountered on the ;oy- '. age some difficulty might have been experienced, ex-perienced, it was feared. The Brazos left New York at noon today. She carried 27,0U0 harrefc of freight. Her tonnage is 6399 gross. The Suffolk is a vessel of 4 7 IS tons. |