Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-05

l Rough Passages of the Arizona and the Arragon. The ocean steamers have had much that l is disagreeable and dangerous ts contend with during the last two or three weeks. 1 The following account of the experience of 1 the Arizona and Arragon during their last voyage to New York was given in the New York Her0ld
 THE ARIZONA s EXPERIENCE.
 tour of inspection on the Arizona yes- terday, under the guidance of Purser Cliff ford developed several instances in which the violence of the storm had expended it. self on the majestic vessel A door on the upper deck, leading to the officers quarters. had been smashed to finder wood by one of the heavy seas that broke over the ship and flooded some of the officers rooms below. One of the boats was washed away altogeth CT and another WAS considerably damaged, and the force of the water had twisted some of the iron guard rails out of all shape MT. Clifford said that during the fifteen years service he has seen in the Guion line he had never known such fearful weather. Between the Fist and the 26th he said it was impossi- ble to walk the deck with safety, and almost all the passengers remained below during that time. Chief Officer James Arnold was found in bed in his cabin with compound fracture of the right leg. He was engaged in the ful6lment of his duties on the hurri- cane deck, on the afternoon of the 23d, when an unusually large wave swept him to the deck below, where, coming in contact with the pump, his right leg was fractured. On the same day great sea broke over the bridge, on which at the time the captain and two seamen were standing. It lifted all three of their feet, carrying the two men to the deck, where they were knocked about and badly bruised before they recovered their feet. Captain Murray was more fortunate, as he escaped with a severe shaking.
 PASSENGERS STORY.
 Dr. J. Logan, of No Al East Fifteenth street, passenger by the Arizona When questioned by reporter yesterday he said
 T have just landed after making the rough est passage, I believe, that has ever been made. The first officer, who has been cross ing and recrossing the Atlantic for twenty years, says that he has never experienced previously such weather we have passed through. or anything like it. The captain says that he has seen cyclones on the Chinese seas upset large steamers and turn them over as though they were toy vessels, but that the force of these storms was not to be compared with the hurricanes met with during the voyage. The seq at times, if may so de- scribe it, appeared green with rage and white with passion. It formed into irregular noun tains that divided and subdivided and again reformed. Into the troughs or valleys be- tween these huge masses of water the ship would descend head foremost, with waves of foam upon her decks sweeping along in a vast torrent. The great waves that came rashing over her sides and fell on her deck sounded like the roar of artillery. Their size and force were appalling. Every moment we expected they would crash in through the sky lights One great wave struck and bulged in the side of the smoking room; the water burst in fhrr11Ub the and the shock rifphad the occupants across the room, drenching them to the skin. One vast wave broke in two skyights, bent the iron bars, wrenched part of the side railing from its fastening and washed away several barrels of oil and meat. At times the waves were so high that they reached halfway up the nasts, now and again sweeping over the bridge. One of the sails on the foremast was rent to ribbons and the huttering streamers remained for several days, as any one venturing to remove them must either have been blown or washed over- board Some of the sailors were so badly scared that they applied to the ships surgeon to place them on the sick list, thus seeking to escape the risks to which the performance of their duties exposed them. With these few exceptions the crew behaved admirably. The saloon passengers went through the trying ordeal with great fortitude.
 On "Wednesday evening, the 23d when the weather was simply terrible, a young man from the intermediate cabin rushed on deck and demanded that the boats should be launched, as the ship was sinking. At this time nearly all the steerage passengers de- spaifed of ever seeing land again, and but that there were seventy of them seasick there is no knowing what they might have done. As it was they made the steerage perfect bedlam with moans, cries and exclamations of terror One old man died from fright and exhaustion and was buried at sea Four children were born on the passage, one pre- naaturely. One little stranger was christened by the purser Arizona. The chief officers broken leg was put in splints by Dr. Mccoy, of Bellevue, and the saloon passengers show ed their approval of the faithful officers ser vices by presenting him with a purse Of e35.''
 THE ARRAGoN.
 The steamship Arragon, which arrived at the bar at six 8. ID. on Thursday but was de- tained owing to the fog, reached her dock yesterday morning Captain Cole reports that after leaving Malaga on the 9th ult., he had fair weather with chanQeable winds.