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Show HOLE TORN IN THE SIDE OF STEAMSHIP NEW YORK, ' Nov. 24. Fourteen hundred Italian steerage passengers returning re-turning to Italy on the Veloce Line steamship Nord America were thrown Into excitement yesterday when the ship was rammed by a New Tork. New Haven & Hartford railroad float in the harbor of Liberty Island. The float struck the steamship about forty feet from the stern and two feet above the water line, tearing a hole twenty feet long and six feet high In her plates and making it Impossible for the vessel to continue her voyage without extensive repairs. At the moment of the collision many of the steerage passengers were on the eide of the ship toward the approaching approach-ing float. When the crash came and the Nord America heeled over alarmingly, alarm-ingly, many of the passengers were greatly frightened and the crew had much difficulty in reassuring them. After the Nord America regained an even keel and the passengers were quieted the vessel returned to her pier. The float, which had apparently suf fered but little in the collision, continued con-tinued on its course. |