Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — COLLISION AT SEA. [ARTICLE]

COLLISION AT SEA.

Tho little coasting schooner, John 8, Beacham, of Richmond, Va., was making good timo toward Now York, Monday morning, when, about twenty-five miles southeast from Sandy Hook, the schooner Peter C. Shultz loomed up on her bow. In tho midst of the heavy seas both vessol s wero aim >st unmanageable, and beforo either could sheer off, the Beacham, ladon to tho gunwale with coal, struck the Schultz head on in the quarter, just aft of tho mizzenmast. The Schultz was heavily laden with railroad ties. With a crash both of tho Beaeham’s masts went by the board, and her bowsprit, jibboom and rigging wero twisted ftff in a hopeless tangle. Both vessels were unmanageable wrecks, and wcratuwod into New York harbor.