Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-01-28
THE RAGING DEP.
EXPERIENCES OF A STEAMSHIP ON
THE ATLANTIC.
Effect of shipping INDUSTRIOUS wave~
Five Passengers KnoC- ked Senseless and
Bleeding-Res cuing q Ship
wrecked Crew.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-The Hamburg
American packet-steamer Suevia arrived
Friday, incased in ice from stem to stern,
and her starboard deck covered with tar
paulin-cloths. The deck under the cloths
was a mass of wreckage. The steamer had
been through the toughest and most adj
venturous voyage she has made since
she has been ahoat and it will cost
good deal of money to put her IN ship
shape order again. The steamer had Is cabin
and 116 Storage passengers aboard, and a
big cargo of miscellaneous merchandise IN
the hold. She struck bad weather almost
Immediately after she left port, and the pas
seugers had a rough time of it. Sunday
morning half dozen cabin passengers were
in the smoking-room watching the terrific
gale when a wave that looked twice
as big as the most tremendous
of its predecessors struck the steamer
on the starboard. 1t fell as
if 50 much solid iron had been hurled at the
vessel The wave smashed all the starboard-
deck doors to flinders in an instant The
skylight of the engine-room was wrecked
and a deluge of water poured into the caolns
and rushed down all the stalrcaseS. Inc
smokers were knocked down as if struck by
a tornado, and five of them were washed out
on the deck like logs of wood The kitchen
was destroyed and the cook and steward
knocked senselesS.
When the wave receded the officers and
crew hurried forward to study the damage.
Five of the passengers were found jammed
against the side of the smoking-ca bin, sense
less and bleeding The ships doctor dressed
their wounds. Everything in the cabin was
ahoat The balustrade of the saloon was
torn from its fastening, and the
floor of the boiler-room was covered
with water Twisted bits Of iron, shat
tered plate-glaSs, and splintered wood work
we're scattered everywhere. The crew
nailed rough boards over the broken doors
and stretched tarpaulins over the wrecked
skylight. The storm lasted until Monday
afternoon.
Ats o'clock in the morning of WedneS-
day following the lookout shouted that he
saw flaming torches through the darkness.
They were signals of distress. Capt
Franzen bore down toward them
till he made out the outline
of dismantled fishing schooner.
The life-boat was lowered in jiffy. Eight
sailors and the coxswain leaped into it and
pulled for the wreck. Eleven half-frozen
sailors stood upon the deck of the wreck and
shouted for joy as the boat shot up alongside.
The wreck proved to be that of a Gloucester
fishing schooner. Eleven members OF the
crew We're safely rescued, but in an
exhausted condition. The schooner was
wrecked by the same storm that
damaged the Suevia. One man, Peter
Treasher, went overheard with the wreckage
and was lost. The remaining eleven chung
to the wreck for three days and nights with
out food or water. Two steamers passed
them without paying any attention to then
signals of distress, and they had given up all
hope of rescue when the lights of the Suevia
were seen bearing down upon them Tbs
rescued men were kindly cared for by the
officers of the Suevia, and they were for
warded to their homes in Gloucester, Mass.