People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — CRASHES INTO A SHIP. [ARTICLE]

CRASHES INTO A SHIP.

Steamer Fulton Stares a Hole in the British Craft Austria. Mobile, Ala.. March 14.—The Norwegian steamship Fulton, Capt. Jacobson, from Boeas del Toro, collided with the British ship Austria yesterday just off the mouth of the Mobile river. The Fulton was coming up the channel and the Austria going down. The former was under good headway, and when Gfy yards of the Austria swerved from her course and crashed into the Austria’s port, damaging the sailing ship several thousand dollars and staving a large hole in-Tier iron port. The steamer careenikl and began to settle slowly, tout 'ififit as the boats’weiv about to be Juwiired the vessel righted and was finlllly got under control.