Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1910 — TOWING IN DISABLED SHIP [ARTICLE]

TOWING IN DISABLED SHIP

German Steamship Erika Has Valuable Cargo In Tow. Boston, Feb. B.—The German steamship Erika Is headed for this port towing the disabled erman steamship Varzin, bound from Australia for this port, with a cargo of wool and other merchandise worth nearly $3,000,000. The Erika left New York a week ago. bound for Fayal Monday morning the Erika, with the Varsin astern, was sighted south of Nantucket by the steamship Columbia which sent a wireless message of the accident.