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Show Heavy Loss of Life Prevented by the Prompt and Energetic Actions of the to; One Vessel Badly Damaged, Her Boiler Palling Overboard. ' . . . '. . . '. - ' - ; : c. EJNGSTQN N. Y:, Oct. : 13. The night passenger steamer Adirondack of the People's line of Albany, and' j Saratoga of the Citizens' line of Troy ,collided near Glas- -. co, twelve miles north of the city at 1 :li o'clock this morning. ; : ; - . v , - Clarence 'Sherman of .Melrose, N, Y., an oiler on the Saratoga, was killed, and George Horton of New York City, clerk on the Adirondack, is missing. '. only by the coolness of the officers and crews of both boats was heavy loss of life prevented. The Adirondack, after the fog had cleared, was able to proceed pro-ceed to Albany. The Saratoga listed to ort and was towed to the , shore opposite Glasco, where she is anchored. - Capt. Brown of the Saratoga at once came to Kingston and arranged for wreckers to raise her sunken boiler, - " . ' Collision In Fog. The officers of the Saratoga say the collision was unavoidable. The Adirondack Adiron-dack was completely hidden by a heavv foe.- Without warning the Adirondack's Adiron-dack's lights suddenly loomed up in the fog and the crash followed. The taterooins of the port side of the Saratoga Sar-atoga "were crushed in. The boat swung away immediately, "after the collision, the Saratoga listed and about a dozen occupants of the staterooms were thrown into the almost ice-cold 1 waters of the Hudson river. -,- During. . the - confusion - following the accident it was impossible to keep track of their number or who they were. . .The collision occurred in a dense fog : TVfhich prevented the pilots of, either jjVoat from seeing the other. 'Both, it thought, missed their bearings. ?t The Saratoga sustained the greater " damage. The Adirondack was on her i way to Albany and the Saratoga was en route to New York. The Adirondack Adiron-dack tore off the port side of the Sar-. Sar-. a toga, which listed tr port and her boiler went overboard and sank. Sherman was killed instantly by flying fly-ing timbers. - Horton is supposed to " have been knocked overboard "and drowned. ' . ' v - ' - Passenger Rescued. Many rmssengers on the Saratoga were knocked down by the force of ythe collision, but the crews of both boats assisted in, rescuing- them, and later they were transferred to the City of. Troy, landed at Tivoli and sent to New York br train. The passengers on , , both boats Weame panic-stricken and -' " 1 - . " i 1 i'' i. i i i Officers Are Confused. ' . - - r - Second Pilot Lndwig of the Saratoga Sara-toga . was steering his vessel. Capt. Brown had been in charge, but left the pilot house to go below after passing Kingston. Capt. Brown is extrmeely 'nervous slid cannot give a connected account of the accident or what followed. The steamer Ontera of the Catskill night line came along soon after the accident and assisted in rescuing several sev-eral passengers who had been thrown' into the river. History of Two Boats. The Saratoga is an old boat, having been built in 1877. The vessel was 300 feet long, had accommodation for 550 passengers and was valued at $550,000. The Saratoga has had several accidents. She is a companion boat of the City of Troy and the two vessels have been making alternating, trips between New York and Troy. The Adirondack was launched in 1896 at a cost of x $1,000,000, and is one of the fastest boats on the Hudson. She is 412 feet long and has five decks, on one of which are 350 staterooms. The boat is modern in all. her appointments. |