Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — FERRY GOES TO THE BOTTOM. [ARTICLE]

FERRY GOES TO THE BOTTOM.

Colllalon at New York Pier Throw* Feepie into Water. The ferryboat Northfield, with 600 passengers aboard, was sunk Friday night in East river at the foot of Coenties slip, where it had drifted after a cpllision with the Mauch Chunk. How many persons perished is not known, and until reports of those missing from home come in it will be impossible even to estimate the loss of life. Eye witnesses of the disaster tell widely different stories regarding the fatalities, some insisting at least 100 were drowned, others holding thirty or forty as a more correct estimate of the victims, while the most conservative declare the fatalities numbered only one or two. A number of persons who were injured were taken to hospitals, while others were able to make their way to their homes. It is known that one young man perished in an attempt to leap ashore. His name is not known. David Van Nane and George H. Coppers, reported missing, are believed among the victims.