La Lorraine

The colliding vessels,

both passenger craft of well-known lines, were scheduled to sail from New York at the same hour, 10 a. m., and each thought it sailed on time. The Lorraine’s pier was on the Manhattan side of North River; the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm started from a pier relatively downstream and on the New Jersey side.

*437Lorraine straightened on her course first, and was proceeding to sea, on the Manhattan side of mid-river, when the Wilhelm was plainly visible more than half a mile below, backing across stream, and blowing three whistles. Those in charge of the Wilhelm had seen Lorraine and…