Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-18

Foundered In n Gale-ThrillinRS story
OF q Citizen of Savannah who was
Saved - Rescued After PeFtlouB
Battling with the Waves.

that Mr.. h. J. Fear, of the firm of P. d.
Ward & Co., of Savannah, was among the
saved from the wreck Of the steamer Ba-
hama, lost In gale on her voyage from
Ponce, Porto Rico, to New York. The full
particulars Of the terrible disaster are pub
lished in the New York papers. From the
Herald we extract the following statement
made by Mr.. Fear of his experience. Mr..
Fear will be home to-day, having left New
York Thursday night.
The Herald gives the following account
under the head Of
A SURVIVORS, NARRATIVE.
Mr.. H. j. Fear, of Savannah, &C., the
only cabin passenger, with the exception OF
Mr. Scott, saved from the wreck, was found
at the Sturtevant House by Herald reporter
last night. He gave the following narrative
of bis shipwreck and his rescue:
1--WE raised our anchor at six o'clock on
Saturday evening, the 4th of February, off
st. Johns Island, Porto Rico. We had
favorable winds until the afternoon OF
Thursday. AT shutdown of that day was
on deck in the chart room; Mr.. Scott was
with me also, and | said to the Captain,
That is a rather peculiar shutdown, Captain,
is 1t noi? he said yes, / think we shall
have little dirty weather. However, we
did not think very much of that, and we re-
NAMED talking in the chart room until about
ten O'Clock. l then said to Mr.. Scott that |
thought l would go to bed. About half
past ten l retired After l had turned into
my berth and / suppose had woke up after
my FIRST sleep, l hsd hold of the brass rod
that was over my berth, for the ship was
lurching a little; l think 1t was about twelve
o'clock, when l heard water coming in
some where, for my stateroom door was
partly OPEN and the stewards were pump
ing, but l did not think so verv much of
that and l went to sleep again. About two
O'Clock l woke up, for the boat gave little
bit Of list on the starboard side. Immedi-
ately after that l heard 8 good deal of talk
ing, but still remained quietly in my berth
until about three O'Clock, and ! remember
felt littne disposed to go off into doze,
when heard some one near my stateroom,
which was No. TO- The person proved to
bethe steward. ] said, What is the natter
He said something about some water
coming in. Before he had done spesking l
heard Mr.. Sutton che prisoner) say: The
stsrboard bulwark, two lifebOats, and the
side of the house are gone in imme-
diately Jumped out OF my berth, put n my
boots and ny pants. As l was going on
deck Mr. Scott said to me that the Captain
wanted me. While he was saying this the
boat gave another tremendous ]urch, but l
went back to get my coat. Ga nv return
the Captain said to me, 'You had better be
up here, all ready 1t was blowing very
hard just then, and lost my cap overheard.
I went to my steteroom again and got nv
hat, but had DO sooner reached the deck
than the hat followed the cap and went
right out to sea.
ROLLING IN THE TROUGH OF THE SEA.
"The boat by this time was settling on
the starooard side, the fires were put cut,
the vessel rolled in the trough of the sea
and the waves seemed TO me to be running
from fifty to sixty feet high. There was no
use staying any longer by the ship. and
wooden boat !Ias got out and the Cap ain
with seventeen men got into he. They
started first and got about three hundred
Yards away from the vessel on the port
bow, when q wave went over her and the
boat was swamped. Just before this we
had got out another boat, which was q me-
tallic boat, containing thirteen OF US, IN
Guiding the first and second mates. The
boat was thirteen feet long, but we
could only use ten feel OF it for stow
ing away thirteen men. We were, there
fore, very low in the water, not being more
than five or six inches above 1t. We saw
the Captains boat swamped as we were in
fl our be az, but It was no use iu trying to
90 to her, or we could not rescue them; the
sea vas too heavy, and they would only
hays drowned US. We went due east for
some time, and then The wind shifted and
we vent to the southeast, where we sighted
a bark. but she passed Us, evidently not
seeing us. That was about twelve o'clock
on he next day. About half past two
o'clerk we thought we cav steamer, and
somawhere about three O'Clock the steamar
seemed to be about two miles from Us.
TIE RESCUE.
1--WE rugged an oar, and stuck coat on it
as a sign Of distress, and we all shouted as
men never did shout before, think, ship
ahoyn In about an hour we saw the steam
er lower its ensign, and then we knew that
that they had seen US. They bore down 10
MS, and we found the steamer to be the
Glenmorag, of the Allan Line, from Glas-
Cow, and, after being on the water thir-
teen hours, we were taken on board. Il
felt good, can tell you. When we got on
board we found that we had been picked up
almost by an accident. Mr.. Stuart, the
second officer Of the steamer, said that a
short time before we were sighted he had
come on deck, and he thought that
he heard a peculiar noise, and went
to the capstan near the ventilation pipes
and listened. He heard a rumbling, pecrl-
liar shout, but concluded it was a roar OF
the sea. He looked out on the ocean aud
saw what he supposed was whale; but on
looking again he was persuaded 1t was not.
He then said to the Captain, Isn't that a
boat out there?' upon which the Captain
replied, "A boat how would a boat get
there = The Captain turned his glass on
the object and saw that it was boat. When
that was seen they lost no time In trying to
pick US up, aud that is why l am here. You
see me in a new suit Of clothes, for have
had to buy everything this evening. had
nothing to wear when l came on shore but
what left the beat with. The Captain of
the steamer gave me an old coat. But the
first thug did when l got ashore was to