Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-27
PERILs OF THE SEA.
Terrific Gales-TWO Vessels Completely
Disabled, and Several Others
Roughly Handled by the
Wild Waves.
Particulars Of the Loss Of the steamer
CarOline-EIardships Endured by,
and Fortunate Rescue Of, Her
Passengers and Crew.

New YORK, November 2e. - The
steamship Baltic, from Liverpool, ar
rived this morning, having had remark
ably rough passage. She brought with
her the captain and crew Of the ship As
syria, of New Castle, England, which
was waterlogged and abandoned on the
nineteenth instant During a heavy
gale a ship, (which proved to be the
Assyria was sighted off the port bow
with her maintOpmast gone and flying
signal of distress. The course Of the
steamer was at once altered, and in
about an hour the disabled vessel was
reached, when it was found to
be waterlogged and completely help
less. Arrangements were Immediately
made TO rescue the crew of the ship,
which was finally accomplished, after
great difficulty and danger, by volunteer
boat crews from the steamer. The par
ty rescued numbered nineteen. At the
instance of Charles Sumner, who was q
passenger on the Baltic, a collection was
taken up among the passengers for the
benefit of the rescued crew and the
officers and men who were saved with
them.
The steamer Egypt arrived yesterday.
She encountered a heavy gale on the
eighteenth, and the waves, which broke
over the deck, poured down into the
cabin, setting everything afloat. The
water ON the saloon deck was over two
feet in depth. During the gale the steam
tunnels and ventilators were swept
away, and such was the force of the
waves that the iron pumping apparatus
was twisted so as to be practically use
less. Two of her hfeboats were smashed,
one of them being completely demol-
ished.
The steamer Europa, from Glasgow
on the ninth, reports encountering on
the eighteenth terrific hurricane, with
the sea fesrfully high, ana the ship Ia
boring heavily and shipping large guam
titles of water. She hove to seventeen
hours, having split her sails. On the
twenty-tirst she passed a large steam
ship bound west, with the loss of her
foremast, boats, etc.
The steamship Caroline, Captain Nor
gan, from Baltimore for Liverpool, Oc-
tOber 26th, was found in sinking con-
ditiOn by the bark Magnus Ilagabeter.
The captain and his wife and twenty
five men were brought to this port.
The Herald furnishes the following
account of the loss of the steamer Caro-
line: She left Baltimore October 28th
for Queenstown, and encountered a ter
rife westerly gale November 4th, the
ship scudding before it under all steam,
but shipping heavy seas, which broke
up the engineers and mates houses, STAY
ing in the front galley, washing all the
berths down on the starboard side and
filling the stoke-hole. At noon the wind
veered suddenly TO the northward, blow
ing hurricane, with a tremendous sea,
the ship careening against her port
helm and filling her fOredeek with wa
ter, which ran down on her boilers. At
two o'clock in the afternoon her star
board fires went out, and at three o'clock
the fires were also extinguished, the
donkey-engine being unable to work the
pumps, all hands were set TO work at
eight o'clock in the evening to bailing
with buckets. The water gaining on
them, at eleven o'clock they began to
throw the cargo overheard, as the last
means Of keeping the ship afoat. AT
midnight ten feet Of water was in the
hold, and pumping, bailing and the
throwing Of the cargo overheard eOntin-
ued until there was fourteen feet. All
hopes Of safety being despaired OF, the
crew complained of exhaustion and
asked the captain to take to the boats
He told them that the half-sunken ship
was better than an open boat, and they
work. The water gained
to five feet in the bold aud nine in the !
engine-rOOm, and the crew We're still
cargo when the bark Magnus
LagabetOr hove in sight and answered !
the signals of distress, took the crew on
board and brought the men TO New
York.