Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-21
THREE GRAVES IN THE SEA.
The Captain, First Nate and Third Nate
Of th5 Steamer Europa Washed
OVERHEARD.
Ths Scene at Night-Eff0Fts Made by
the Second Nate and Crew to Save
their Comrades.
the New York Herald. ]

From the New York Herald
When the terror Of a storm seizes /
the passengers and crew of a vessel |
at sea, the widest excitement of hu-
man dread and fear creates conster- |
nation and dismay. Bad as it is |
when the heavens lend all their dis !
turbed elements to rock the ship to /
pieces byday,
THE SCENE MUST BE TERRIBLE
at night, when, beneath a starIess !
sky and amid bowling, raging winds, |
hundreds Of persons lock themselves |
together within the limits Of a few
yards Of space awaiting the sentence |
OF Him who rules the winds and the |
waves for life or death. Such a night /
was it on the 4th inst, when the |
steamship Europa had been out from
Glasgow, bound for this port, seven |
days, and was Overtaken by a gale /
that brought
DEATH TO THREE STRONG MEN,
officers Of the ship, who were swept |
into eternity while attending to their /
duty. From the day the Europa left 4
her port westerly winds prevailed for /
the most Of the time during the first |
seven days; but on the evening of the |
9TH, about nine O'Clock, heavy gale 4
set in, ald the ship was obliged to 1
steady at her best in perfect deluge
Of rising waves, which
HAMMERED THE VESSEL ROUGHLY.
The gale had scarcely set in when the
double reef main and mizzen tOpsails
were swept away, and then the wind
began signing mOurnfully, abating in
its furious vigOr for awhile. But sud
denly the most piercing shrek Of wind
and sea tore through the ship, and in
a second, like a thunder clap, the force
of a thousand maddened pillows rolled
against the vessel, and in the swell of
the sea, on its declining after the
shock, the captain and first and third
mates, who, when the gale struck,
were standing together on the star
board side of the bridge,
WERE WASHED OVERHEARD.
The names of the dead are CAPTAIN
Mcdonald, William Davis, first mate,
and Henry II. Waller, third mate. |
The safety of the ship now depended
upon the skill of the second mate, G.
S. Finlsy, who, having heard the
crash which was caused by the tear
ing away of the bridge, went on deck,
and learning from the watch the fate
of his captain and two associate Off
GERS, stopped the ship. For ten min.
utes all hands peered anXiOusly into
the fOaming waters, in which the ship
lay trembling, As il about to break up
in every beam, and the life-bOa was
in second making search for the lost
rf4s h hfI. Lra Of IL 4
comrades on the deck rOared louder
than did
THE ANGRY WIND AND WAVES.
calling for a response that was never
to be uttered. 1t was plain that the
death struggle was over and that
among the thousands whose last rest
ing place is beneath the waves Of the
Atlantic three more We're to be num-
bered. All efforts to find the bodies
having been abandoned and the ship
falling of in the trough of the sea, the
voyage was continued. Within a few |
hours, sometime about midnight, the
FURY OF THE GALE ABATED,
as il satisfied with the work it had
done. Next morning dawned upon a /
more even eXpanse of ocean, and the
winds now only mOaned with a mel
anchOly and fitful wall as if painting | {
after the recent terrible effort. The
following Monday there was a stiff
gale EenOugh-cOming north snOrth-
We5t-but this, too, after a while sub
sided, and from that time out the /
during the voyage was pleas
ant. As may be easily imagined the
passengers, having heard of the deaths
that had occurred, and having seen
The wreck caused by the storm, were /
THANKFUL FOR DELIVERANCE
rom imminent peril of their lives. !
Some days before arriving at this port !
the cabin, intermediate and steerage :
passengers, by way of expressing
their appreciation of how much thew
owed to the excellent seamenship dis
played by Mr.. Finlay under ciTcum-
stances the most trying and difficult.
made up purse Of sOvereigns with {
which they presented him. :
SIMILAR ACCIDENTS.
1t is very seldom Indeed that ship :
is deprived Of all her officers at one :
time, yet such case has occurred be-
fore the accident to the Europa. A :
great many years ago the Black Ball :
packet ship Columbia, Capt. RathbOn, }
was on her voyage from New York :
to Liverpool, when one night just as !
the midnight watches were being !
changed, and all of the officers were
on deck, she was popped by a very :
heavy sea, which swept all of them ! n
overheard, carrying away also The !
mizen mast OF the ship. In this case
there was not a soul left on board who !
understood navigation, although she :
was full OF passengers. The sailors ;
cleared away the wreck, and cared
for the safety Of the ship, 80 far as I
handling her was concerned, and q
kept her jogging along to the east
ward, and had they behaved them
selves would have obtained much 3
credit and a liberal reward from the /
underwriters, but, relieved from the
restraint of their officers, they amused
themselves by pillaging and in treat.
Ing the. passengers, and were con- I
signed to prison on the arrival Of the I
ship at Liverpool, which port she
reached under the charge of the mate
Of an English brig which fell in with !
the ship a few days after the accident.
luckily, 10 the case of the Europa, I
)ne officer was left who appears to !
have been fully equal to the trying
in which he was placed,
and to have been nObly aided by the
,rew.
King George Of Greece addressed a
note Of thanks to United States I
TuckeTman, for the elaborate I
report made BY the latter on the sub