The sun., 1888-11-29
RETURN OF TIE PILOT BOATS
They Rode Safely Through the Hurricane
Though n Hasn't Been Reported Yet.

They Rode Safely Through the Hurricane,
Though n Hasn't Been Reported Yet.
The log book OF every ocean steamer that
arrived yesterday showed q record OF tho late
hurricane and their skippers each had0 story
to toll Of their experience Capt. eager OF the
steamer Louisiana from New Orleans, had to
heave his vessel to for thirty hours OIL Cape
Hatteras on account OF the tremendously heavy
sea. Capt. Platt OF the Seminole. from Charles
ton. reports that the Frying Pan Shoal Light
ship has gone adrift. The Dutch steamship
Edam was out in the hurricane. but Capt
Bokker, upon his arrival yesterday said that
the ship had behaved admirably. and sustained
no damage to speak Of
Pilot Frank Kelly, belonging to the Charlotte
Webb mo. 81, came in from sea last night He
was out in the hurricane, and his graphic de-
scripton Of tho pilot boats experience is inter-
esting. There was a time during the blow, u
he said, when none OF US expected to get
back to New York. Pilots Charles Hammer.
James Heines. william Smith. and Henry
Nichols were on board when the gale first
struck US on Saturday night about twenty
miles southeast of Absecon. The barometer
hard right away. and we hove the boat to on
the tack under Mon
day we had to take in the storm trysail. 1t
was blowing live hurricane then. and under
lee yawl under the sea, while, to windward the
big combers we're rolling down toward U.S.
Once In awhile a big sea would come aboard
and threaten to swamp us. 1t was the hardest
blow ever saw. and the sea was tremendous" T"
:. Pilot Kelly boarded the steamship Ailsa on
and brought her into, port yesterday. She left
Fortune Island on Nov. p. and Capt Morris
told he that during The
and with a drag out to windward. Tho Ailsn
shifted her cargo during the blow and came in
VA" tbriliine h story tor was told to Sun reporter
last night by Cornelius J. Madigan, boat keeper
Of the pilot boat Commodore A. L. Bateman.
She left Staten Island about ten days ago with
Charles l. Samson. and i. b. Brady, The lat
shp Cy fI ON
in longitude go 80 west, latitude 40e 40 north.
Boatkeeper Madigan was heading the boat for
night Fierce snow squalls came from the
northeast. and So 70 get plenty OF sea room,
ran n9 @ss By tSe ofe we sn
q donble-reefed foresail and the head Of her
One boarded the Bsismsn to sindxard and and
broke the lashings of the weather yawl. At
the peril OF their lives the crew lashed her
down again with tho staysail sheet, and thus
The pilot boats Pet and James F. Loubat.
alter It The " Washington no AZ has las not : t been
heard from since the blow.
Pilot Shea Of the Lily mo. ~. who brought
boat had hard time In the gale. but no ser-
GUS damage was done. The Werra's passen-
gers had fearfulv rough experience On her
second day out the steamer ran into nor'-
wester that lasted twenty-four hours. On Sun
day part OF her bridge was swept away,
The steamship Ocean. which sailed from
Bremen on Nov. I. reached the bar last night.
Statements had been printed that she was
overdue. On NOV. 10 she experienced q full
hurricane. and there was a tremendous sea
flooding the ship with water. The starboard
lfeboat was smashed
pany said yesterday that the passengers and
crew OF the steamship Nacoochee, from Savan-
southeast of Cape Fear Light were safe. Tho
wrecking steamer Rescue left Norfolk on Tues
day afternoon. and the |. J. Merritt. with a sea
barge in tow. left Staten Island for tho Nacoo-
chez yesterday.