Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1903 — BELATED STEAMSHIP ARRIVES. [ARTICLE]

BELATED STEAMSHIP ARRIVES.

Owners of I)inabl:d Atlantic Liner St. Louis Arc Denounced. The steamship St. Louis, over six (lays late, arrived at its dock nt New York Snturdny morning crowded witli angry, mutinous and indignant passengers, dozens of them declaring their intention of suing tiie International Steamship Company for sending out the vessel in n crippled condition. The hundreds of passengers iu the first and sccoud cabins held meetings of protest while the disabled steamer, with boilers leaking, was crawling along from Cherbourg toward New York, fighting heavy seas, and dehouueed the company anil the ship’s officers, declnrding the company iind knowingly placed their lives in jeopardy by sending out the vessel when they knew it to be in n dangerous condition. At one time the passengers demanded of the captain that lie transfer them to" some passing liner, but, although two liners were sighted, the passengers were not transferred. They nlso demanded to be put nshore nt Halifax, but the captnin declined nnd brought them on to New York. There was no accident of any kind nt nny time, nnd although heavy weather wns encountered practically aH of the delay, it U said, wns canned by Inability to get up steam in the defective boilers. . * .