McCaffrey v. Clara & Reliance

Brown, District Judge.,

At about 8:80 Á.M. on October 20, 1891, as the steam-tug Clara, with the canal-boat George Adams lashed to her port side,'was proceeding up the East river in the strength of the flood-.tide, the- canal-boat, when off Corlear’s Hook, came in collision with the steam-barge Reliance, loaded with coal, which was coming down the river and rounding Corlear’s Hook near the shore. The Reliance was loaded deeply .by the head, and on passing from the slack-water near-tae shore into the strong flood-tide, which sets from Jackson-Street pier ;towar,ds Williamsburgh, she was swung…