Show TUGBOAT L LOAD OF D OF OF 4 DYNAMITE ADRIFT Vagrant Craft Craft- Was Making Making- for the B Brooklyn Bridge When Captured and Disaster Was Waa Averted NEW YORK Feb 23 Vessels Vessels groping through the storm in East river were threatened with a greater peril than grounding or simple collision but were In h happy py ignorance of it At midnight midnight midnight mid mid- night police headquarters was notified that the the h hulk lk of an old tugboat used for forthe tle the storage of dynamite by a firm of contractors contractors contractors con con- tractors who are blasting rock in the East river opposite Fortieth street had parted from it Its moorings In midstream and was helplessly drifting toward the Brooklyn Bridge The boat had been moored In the middie middle middle mid mid- dle die of the stream and during the da day there was displayed from It a red flag lag lagand and at night a red lantern Drifting ice broke the hawser hawser- Fireboats were sent out to pick up the drifting craft At a. a m. m the boat was found and towed to the foot of East Grand street Capt A. A J. J Keogh commanding the theLong theLong theLong Long Long- Island railroad ferryboat Rockaway Rockaway Rockaway way which left Long LonS' Island City at 1245 narrowly escaped a collision with the hulk lIe He was forced to make a sharp turn to avoid a collision |