Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-27
Price Four Cents.
A Fearful Voyage

The Steamship Rexbur~h Castle Comes
 to Port Covered with Ice and with her
 Boats and her Hurricane Deck Demol-
 fHhed-startlfnR Barometer and Ther- mometer Records.
 From the New York Herald
 The steamship Roxburgh Castle. Captain Iurpin, belonging to Messrs. Stephens 6 Mawson, of Newcastle on-Tyne, left the port of Swansea, Wales, on the 9th of JanuarT. at seven o'clock in the evening, and arrived at Sandy Hook yesterday morning at half-past two. Her voyage was six days longer than 1t ought to have been under ordinary cir eumstances, and was undoubtedly one of the toughest and most periIous that has ever been made. Heavy storms were experiencei from the day of sailing almost to the moment of casting anchor, the wind varying from south to north-northeast and back again to southwest, with changes so sudden as to leave no room to doubt that it was veritsble cyclone. The cargo consisted chiefly of pig iron, steel. lead, sheepskins and tin. When she reached her wharf at the foot of Charl- ton street yesterday forenoon the Roxburgh Castle was an object of curiosity and wonder to hundreds of persons. Probably never be- fore did vessel enter this port so complete ly sheathed and rnantled in ice: from bow spirit to rudderpost and from vaterline to masthead. The white covering was heaped up at all conceivable points and in all conceivable angles. The masts and spars were cased in it; the shrouds were so loaded that they looked like lofty lattces of crystal The caps of what are called the lighthouses looked like miniature towers, with their high topping of frost. The spar deck was hidden from view, except in places where the crew had already cleared away part of it's thick covering. The hurricane deck was crushed in and large portion of it gone In the space underneath the forecastle there were CyroQ oat 0falaC k,,7a grotto. The whole appearance of the ship was fsntastically beautiful
 INA CYCLONE
 The statement of First Officer Berry is re. markedly thrilling. 'The second day of eur voyage" said he, i've got into cyclone and began shipping heavy seas. An iron beam on the hurricane deck was broken, one of the exhaust pipes was torn from its fastenines and the door of the bridged gangway was smashed. On the 8th, at quarter after six in the afternoon, another sea smashed the cutter and broke through the portion of the hurricane deck which had before been weak ened. On the 10th we shipped immense bod les of water, and on the 18th, st noon the wind increased At l o'clock there was a squall, the gale shifting in a moment from the south to the northwest, and the cabin funnel and ladder were swept by the board OA tue LASIe NHS snow, ana t1e IOfSSau was blown away. The sea broke the belly of the sforetopsail and split it into shreds At 1:SO another sea on the stArboard quarter crashed in & section of the hurricane deck sixty feet long. At 7:30 the starboard cutter was lifted out of it's checks and stove in, and the railing of the lower bridge was smashed The bulwarks of the upper bridge were broken, and the door of the chart room was knocked in More of the hurricane deck was swept away, extending from the bridge to the fore rigging. A huge seq was shipped at half-past nine on the 14th, smashing the bulwarks of the lower bridge on the port side and break ing the upper bridge raiings and stanchions. A life boat WAS knocked twenty feet from its ehocks and lodged on the cabin skylight, where, as it fell, it broke into pieces It car ried sway in its passage the steam whistle and the Ventilator of the engine room The same sea swept away another portion of the hurricane deck, loo feet in length We lost on that day two iron ladders and the verti- lators belonging on the fore side of the bridgs. On Tuesday, the 17th, e sea bearded ps about half past one, broke the wheel house windows and unshipPed the pinnacle, destroying the lamps and the compass"