Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-10-10
TerrOrs Of the Cyclone.


the primitive books then 10 use .o in.
distinct idea of rotary storms, water
spouts and other startling freaks Of na-
ture incident to the ocean but the
vivid description Of Brooklyn clergy.
man, Rev. r. Dewitt T.lm.ge, who,
with q party, underwent the phenome-
nal experience Of being forty hours in
. September cyclone in the Northern
Atlantic, has Impressed u with the be-
lief that We do not, after all, know
much about rotary storms. Dr.. Tai
mage was . passenger on board the
steamship Greece, which arrived at
New York some days ago, and in the
course Of detailed story Of his ex.
perience Of the voyage from Liverpool
he states that during the Saturday
previous the weather had been rough,
and the sea heavy, but the vessel went
on r"pidiy, and, except to novices, the
motion was exhilarat!ng and pleasant.
Just before 10 o'clock in the even.
ing, there was crash like the booming
of battery. The sails of the ship
were torn into ribbons, and even those
that we're then reefed were torn into
tatters. In fact, it seemed as if a
squall had suddenly struck the ship,
but it did not require tut a moment
to discover that the noble craft Was in
a cyclone. The vessel was now. every
minute or so, on its beam ends,
aud would right imperceptibly, and
anon the PROV would pitch forward
and downward, and it would seem as If
it wculd never come up. The engine
would be heard at long intervals, CO.
ing puff, puff, scarcely audible - and
then would seem to stop altogether.
The steamer was going but two miles
an hour. The machinery had failed
three times before. II it failed for a
minute now, to the bottom tho ship
must go. The storm reached its great
est height at one o'clock in the morn
ing. The sea, which had been break.
ing over the ship stove in the skylights,
and the cabin and state rooms being
knee deep in water, with more coming
in. Everybody on board. those be-
longing to the vessel Us we'll III passen-
gers, gave up the ship. " 1t was only
u matter Of time," and the Greece was
to 90 under. The Storage passengers,
500 in number, broke out in prayers.
groans: struggles, shrieks, curses, indie
scribable. The cabin passengers we've
equally dcmonstrativc.
Human nature and Temperament came
out as never before. Some were calm,
some scared, some curhing, more pray
ing, more asking others to pray. The
ship appeared more like an egg-sbcll
than anything else, and was und-r the
lashing, angry waters more than half the
time. From 10 o'clock Saturday eveu-
ing to S o'clock Sunday afternoon this
storm and its scene lasted, with varia-
tions and aggravatious, to correctly de-
scribe which pen would fail. When
the storm had perccptibly lessened and
danger was passed, fervid prayer went
up to heaven, giving blessings for deliv-
crance-and never did prayer for those
at sea sound so sweet to human ears or
50 comforting. BY Monday tho ship
got out Of tho cyclone, when it waa
found that among other accidents, seams
as wide as ones finger were made in
the sides Of the ship.
This rotary storm was Of limited cx.
tent, about fifty miles in circumference,
and the Greece was almost the only
outward-bound steamer that encounter.
ed it; and, according to all reports, il
was the severest storm that has ragged on
the ocean plane Of the European-Am.
erican passage for twenty-five years.
Its location was about nine hundred
miles from New York, of Halifax. On
the arrival of tho Greece at New York
the passengers held a meeting, and
thanked the officers and crew for the
skilliuI manner in which the ship was
handled under the trying circumstan-
ces Boston Daily Globe.