Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-05
TALL OF THE STA.
Tho Atlantic Steamer WtstctHland
Meets With a Mishap 10 Mid
0eean..k Rough Voyage,
n Attempting 20 Make W leAt Time
She pluwa ilough Sea and Her
Upper Dett N Smashed IN.
Five penpiA ara Kilted ASIA olhern ieiufud
1he rtip - sinnaiariJ taiaoAS
Ona ffumth start

Nav Yonb, Dee, Ia conversation
with n sopoft,r, frauola T. Thurman,
business man ~ No, 20 DurAnd street,
Newark, told story which din0re IN
sever material points with that told by
lha officers Of the steamer Wcsternlsnd.
lie said was accompanied
by my con, twelve years OF
age, aud from tho nrat ID
seemed that al wore doomed tn have a
tough voyage, We were for twelve hOufe
on tAnd.hank nj the mouth ~ tho river
hnuldt Fur two days hulufo the acct.
dent occurred We We're pitched aud toss
I'd by the wlndh ara waves on tn ur
day the wind hcVamn rome.
ihi.R awful We wero nndor
The poop deck with lot "
Rte,rapo passengers Tho weasel pilohvd
aud tnesed 10 alarmlngis that We ulang 10
anything % prevent belng thrown about
The tpeed " the vessel never oboe
hlaCkeued aud u seemed ia pitch right
into thr waves, like n locomotive into a
nnOw bank. Tho htuamur never once
rode thu waves, hut plunged through
them, and Il Was the common tall amnnH
She pAsetngeta that the oapiRlu was Try
ing 20 make up Tor the twenty ono hunrH
WI MflN 'llAhlNNA w AN' FNNlNN - WNH
nhOrtly aftprnuun when Emile DroDOh, a
sailor, came down TO whore I VIVA aud
pAid ia Waa thankful tu ba bot % lie
was worn out Ia tat on tic anchor
chain TO ihkn short rest Ito waH inst
| irliihR my hoy aud myself that he wNH
/ tired, wbVu we ~ "a opn h overhead,
ntouoh waa thrown pgalnst The ehain
by the blow, hls htonut beinR nearly torn
cut
MnN Frank, q u'ohrr bpy, who said he
! NAA going to tvu bii HiHlnrln philaatlphlt,
wae etuck hy hthm which entered ~
| ME- eide aud pushed his ipttunua ont
through bis eluihlng w front
Thor0 was 4 Frouch boy, who was ace
| c0mplnipd hY hN mAthnr 0ud younger
| brother Ito was kilod nv helng ihrsNn
anautt the SIDE " tho yunaal, wa
eisteon years " aye.
should hnya said that iusi before tho
big WRNa cRm0 which hnpNhed ~ lAe
duet, thNin were $50 dhtinNt
waves, when tho yepenl'H SCREW
whltlad around ~ suNh "a rats
as TO convey tho impression Chat y
thousand boiler mHturB weru at W0fk IN
the y, nhol'a bottom | iouk iny son W
my arms inst before ihe ilnhl crash, kiated
him goodbye nd said that w0 must pre-
para TO die, II almost made no give WAY
when he said h1hun ! Will noyor NO,
mama again y
The next moment ho WAS torn from my
htma, shall never forget Tie scene,
iouDd my uun lying un tho DICK picked
him 80 llo was lltUe bruised,
hut NOT Otherwise hurt, W.
went on deck and saw tho captain order
\ lhg The MrrGhapp oitaftd away II Whl
he frat TINE hti Htut hin tlhCb We Lad
lott Bholdt river, ana n was Bis nral ap
peareuob On deck during the hceyi
hiouui
"MIaht br NOS have been on deck Will,
you were awafP'
No, beoaut0 II was common tax among
The pasbenRra who we've unable 90 hlcel
that The cgptein nrYui pa W. hlH appear
auoo, bat Tot everything 10 hiN otHers.
Five dead bodies lay IN q row on
table 81 Tho tuieCastio
ono man WHa smashed nN " wan
hofrhln hght, II wac unlp after the 40
oident ihat tho yepnui'e bpfed wag 80
dHeed and fur The frst tlnH tOo Wtninfi
inud fudp thp Wayta md GrAAgd pllehlEl
~ abo had been doing
No man could prhylDt disaster llk
that, said ono ~ Tho ufltria yeslerdhy
Nor eau no tell, n0 matter what pa ck
pffloRe0 may be, Why two Hnol
wnpra ba those which smashed VI
viii hon1timuf come together, Tho 80
0ldrnt was dcpefpble one, ana N ~
GREETED ~ none more Than The niilgefs o
tho Ftefel, pnly Que NJ whom rn kntua
dutY At thu timo was q rtopnd ollleer,