Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-15
ROUGH WEATHER AT SEA.
FURIOUS GALES THAT SWEPT
THE CAROLINA COAST.

stormy Experience of the Schooner r.
Bowers-Other Casualties Reported
The Schooner Benz amin Courtney Col
Iides with the Three sisters on Cape
Lookout.
Capt. Thompson, OF the schooner Il.
Bowers, Of New Bedford, arrived in port
late yesterday afternoon and reported
heavy weather outside on Jan. s, 3 and 10.
Wednesday, Jan. 6, the Bowers left Dutch
Island Harbor, loaded with guano for sa-
vannah.
All day Friday the wind blew fresh
from the northeast, shifting to southeast.
BY s O'Clock at night 10 had increased TO a
gale. 1t kept getting stronger, and "a.
midnight it was bowling through the rig
ging perfect hurricane. AT that time
the schooner was about go miles northeast
OF Cape Hatteras. just about IL O'CLOCK
the hurricane veered suddenly from the
southeast around TO the southwest,
.Caueiug tremendous cross seas. Ihe
schooner was then running un-
der close reefed mainsah ana
f0resaH. Capt. Thompson drove MS
vessel into the westward, aud made
TOUR or FIVE knots am hour.
The cold was very severe, and the
sides and deck. Iuc hying spray tr0ze
almost the instant DC struck, and IL was
impossible 10 make or take IN sail. The
waves I4n high and swept the decks.
One OF The SINAI. boats, the buiwarks and
some Oi the cabin windows were stove,
aui the water casks and chain plate
were carried away. Until nearly day
light there was no let mp, and even all
nav Saturday the wind was almost gale
rom the southwest to west.
When oil Frying PAN shoals Capt.
Thompson ran up within half mile OF
sAe buoy, The first officer went al0ft
hut could see no sign Of the hghtship al
though the buoy seemed all right. Had
il not been in the day time the Bowers
would have been in great danger Of going
ashore on the shoals, as the captain
did not know that the hghtship mad
been carried away. During the
storm the Bowers was not IN
company with any other vessels and
Capt. Thompson does not report having
seen any in distress. He thinks that the
most OF the craft that got caught IN the
gale ran out 20 sea and will not get back
for several days unless they have fayora-
bic winds.
The steamer Wisteria left Charleston on
Tuesday with lightshIp in tow to re-
lace the Frying Pan Lightship.
= The schooner BEN amin Courtney, from
Boston, arrived st Charleston on Wednes-
day aa1 reported having run afoul OF the
schOonSs - a7.7s5(( 55sters, bound to Pbila-
delphia from Sav5sr ,ah. Capt Baker, OF
the Courtney, repofa d that at I O'Clock
on the morning OF JaSpl7, when about 80
miles from Cape LooA4n, his vessel got
into collision with +e Three Sisters,
which was running So il lie bis vessel
was sailing by the s-sIu, N5lose hauled.
The Benjamin Courtney struck the Three
Sisters on the starboard side near the fore
rigging, cutting down her rail and carry
ing away her fore-ugging and shrouds.
Capt. Bakers vessel lost her jibboom,
head gear and a cathead, had her stem
mashed and sustained other damage. The
Three Sisters lost an anchor with eight
cen fathOms OF chain, which was lowered
10 aid ia getting the vessels apart, and
which had TO be 'slipped."
The Courtney claimed to have 1.-The
right Of way" and that the other vessel
tried TO cross her bow. Capt. Baker re-
manned by the Three Sisters for several
hours, when both schOoners continued on
.<belrcourse.
n, courtney arrived off Cape Roman
on TIE Afternoon of Jan. 8, when she en-
c0untered a violent gale, in which she
lost her fOregaH and was driven nearly
across the Gulf Stream.