New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-09
STORMS AND WRECKS AT SEA
EFFECTS OF SEVERE GALES.

EFFECTS OF SEVERE GALES.
UNUSUALLY HEAVY WEATHER THHoUGEOUT D2cEM
BrR-vFssELs DRIVEN PAR TO sEA-ExcoUN-
TEkING CONTINUOUS sTcRNs-wRECKs on TUE
COAST.
Further reports of recent severe gales at
sea were made by vessels which arrived at
this port yesterday. A bark was in the midst
Of tropical storm, with heavy thunder aid
lightning, the day after Christmas. Severe
weather and heavy seas were encountered by
several schOOners and other craft. The bark
Josie T. Marshall, which went ashore at
Amityyille, L. l., Thursday night, VII be
total wreck.
DANGERS OF SAILORS AND VESSEL;
DREASrHG NORTHwgSIERLY GALES ON TIE At
LANTIC-A TROPICAL STORM ~ MIDyINrER--
PERHOCs VOYAGES RECALLED-YESsELS A>HoRE
ON THE LONG ISLAND COAST.
Captains and crews of vessels from southern ports
on the Atlantic report unusually heavy weather off
the American coast during the month of December.
OF Capes Hatteras and Henry the gales Of tie last
month have been particularly severe. and
the number of disasters reported exceeds that
of any recent year. Several vessels reported at
this port yesterday add TO tho list Of encounters
with the winds and seas of the roa>t. All of these
caught in gales Of furious violence, escaping
with more OF less difficulty.
The samencss of the marine stories which for tho
past month have been giving landsmen some idea OF
the dangers of the deep, isYaried by the remarkable
experience of the bark Thomas Brooks. Captain
Peterson, which reported yesterday morning.
twenty-five days from Guantanamo The bark
sailed for New-Yorf December .. with an
assorted cargo and crew of fourteen men. Vari-
able winds were encountered from the date Of sail
ing up to Christmas day. The bark was then far
southeast of Cape Hatteras. On the evening Of De-
cember 26 gale set in from the west, which drove
her from her course and far ont to sea. On tho
afternoon of that day the sky grew dark. Clouds
were ma3sed in the west, which gradually over
spread the sky All the indications of south sea
storm were visible. The air grew many degrees
warmer than it had been much further south. At
$3.50 o'clock IL bad grown completely dark,
and soon afterward warm rain poured
down. The rainfall lasted for more than an hour,
the wind dying. out, leaving the sails of the bark
hanging wet and unruflied from the yards: When.
the rain ceased the clouds parted and flashes of
lightning lit up the sea for miles around. sreaks
of chain lightning played around the vessel, mo-
mentarily binding the crew, and rendering tho
bark's position extremely perilons. Between ta2
quarters of the sky. By midnight the storm was
over and the vessel was put upon her course for this
port She was after%aTd detained SIX cay DAYS OIL
terday without material damage; l.,
The schooner n. II. Burrows Captain TAYLOR has
been seventeen days making the trip from Whining.
ton Captain Taylor states that the trip was the
stormiest in his experience as sailor. The vessel
encountered heavy weather from the start Decent
ber "a she was driven by a northwest gale out into
the Gulf Stream, and was driven back
by an easterly -, gale which followed;
ChrIsmas night th1 ss9So9ef tbs %fS %fSos d
Guilty kept of Body Island. The Wednesday fol-
lowing she encountered another terrific northwesg
storm and was again driven 800 miles southeast OF
the cape making in all 600 miles that she was
forced out OF her by the fury OF the gales In
the second gale, which. Captain Taylor says, blew
with hurricane force, all sail had to be taken ln
and the schooner was compelled to drive for more
than twenty-five hours before the storm, under bare
TIE schooner Cecile, Captain Lee, sailed from
Surinanl, Dutch Gniana, December IL. She had
stormy passage after reaching 25o north latitude.
OF Hatteras the storms encountered were so violent
that the deck load of sugar in hogsheads washed
by the seas that swept over over In Inc vessel ana ana
fonnd necessary TO throw overheard tweLty-sx
hogsheads, the greater part of the deck load.
Captain Cleayes, Of the brgantine David
ports that he took the first bad Weather
the day he sailed and got the first fair weather the
day he made this port Ills voyage was marked ny
ward the force of the gales Increased Decen!Drr 20
the brigantine encountered storm from the south
east which drove h, on her hOmeward course with
nnwonted velocity tor twelve hours. On the neXt
day 1t shifted to the northwest. dead ahead, anu
lasted ifty-twO honrs, accompanied WIN ram aud
sa:l were blown from the yards. The SEA broke over
the vessel in hIge waves. and constantly threatened
TO wreck heT. December 2s the weather moderated
somewhat bTt unusually heavy weather was en-
cuuntered Until the arrival OF Tie Dr2anilIe at
Captain Parker, of the bark Josie 7. Marshall,
ashore opposite AIiityvilo, l.; l., returned tc The
beach Yesterday afternoon with the hope of securing
his clonGg, charts, book ctc., that we're left on
the vessel when the crew was rescued FRIDAY morn
ing by the llfe-saving crew. The bark VIII Prove q
total lOsa. and viii be broken ur coroner Ir@ston'
of AmifyyIllr, held an inquest yesterday Gn tho
body of tho drowned s-aL.an. Anlcrsb;, and
the body was buried, by tue captains direction, at
Amity VILE. Captain Parker SAYS that lnSi 1cioro
his vessel struck on tho bar scho1ncT paS't INN,
apparently trying hard to wear OF. The scanoner
seen by n. captain TaS IL AL pTpbaDH'N tne
Loretta Fish, which is ashore ut Budgebaiupton,
several miles east OF Fire I>lan S..' - ia"eh with
ing from the .Iolle +. Marshall were plek'd ny ~
fine crew from Liie-SaYing staten No. .; friday
aftcinoon They had nearly persisted i,om tli" cold.
The schooner Mary }. Russell arrived fIiiay Ilghs
from jacksonville, having on board the crew nt the
bark Matthew KlnnrT, from lernanliila i0r ihiI2-
oelphia. The captain Cf the Matthew kiilhr? re-
ported that he encountered se|cre gales I'ec-,1ber
> and 10, and that the waves swept over The deck.
washing Oft q portion of the deck load liecember
22 the vessel was leaking very mich ana tiien most
of the deck load was thrown overheard. mo
schooner was sighted January N latitude 81 20,
longitude 7Oa g. and took on the crew. ihOmas
A. Warren, one OF the crew Of the schooner, was
washed overheard oil the journey.
The schooner Victor Ping, which arrived jester
day from Rio Hache reported that tnerc were nesvv
gales during most of the passage The captain sig
nailed the schooner Hattie Bsli, for New York,
which short of PROVISIONS aud tnei. 49,. ,,...,
Four of the shpwrrcked crew OF the brig oawn
arrived Yesterday on tue bark Laura Emily.
A large cake of leo which was floating mp ~, last
River YESTERDAY struck the schooner vincenz0 Ficro
as she was entering the slip at Per NO 4o an Jam
aged her rudder and crushed her against t1c PIei.