Hadden v. The J. H. Rutter

On the night of the 18th December, 1887, at about 11 o’clock, the steam-tug J. II. Eutter left Barclay street, with two loaded car-iloats in tow, both lashe'd upon the port side, bound for Sixty-Eighth street, North river. When off Forty-Second street they were struck by a sudden squall, with a high wind from the northward or north-west, and thick snow. The Eutter was unable to keep her tow headed up river, though using all her force, and in going up they continued to drift towards the New York shore, until she found herself approaching the long pier at the foot of Fifty-Fifth street,…