The No. 6H

THOMAS, District Judge.

On Saturday, February 24, 1900, two scows (herein called “B scows”) .were moored alongside the breakwater at Erie Basin with good and strong lines, which would have been quite equal to withstand the strains put -upon them by the tempestous weather that occurred on the following morning had not two other scows (herein called “H scows”), during the afternoon- and evening of the 24th, moored to the B scows, and a little later another scow, the Admiral, moored alongside the H scows. So five scows, lashed together, depended upon the lines of the B scows. When the scows were…