Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-27

down The last message received from
that pl. q stated that the highest wind
ever experienced by the observer there
was raging.
DISASTROUS TO SHIPPING.
NswYoRK, Nov. &c One OF the worst
disasters which has ever occurred to
herges IN the vicinity CT New York
happened about o'clock Sunday morning
in lower bay. Out of q d .eE Of fifteen
bsrges only three we're ssved. All the
rest went to the bottom with
thsiF. heavy csrgoes, which consisted OF
sza6E On nearly every barge there we're
women and children, and although ss ye!
il Is not known that any were lost, 1t Is
little short of miraculous that anybody on
board escaped alive. Captain Veddar OF
the A. C. Hsnnegan told q reporter
A THRILLING STORY
OF the disaster that befell them.
1--WE hsd not been out twenty minutes"
be said, 'ihefore I Hist ed We hsd ros
come. Several of the captains Of barges
did not wan. &c 60, but Captain Fsgsn Of
the tug Bordentown insisted. The wind
WAS from the north west, nearly north. I
vas on the font end Of my barge, which
wss in the second tier ard right behind
VIC 4IOkSANS pAOlSs IO0AS 5CO DIss BSaS
sweeping over tbe barge In front OF me
every minute. We seemed to Jump six or
eight feet out Of the water ct every
bound, and every foet advanced things
go. worse. All the women and children
were down In their CABINS asleep and {
dreaming that we were in any trouble.
About 10 O'Clock We all said that unless
something was done every boat would go
down. Tim We commenced swinging
lights and shouting st the tops CT Our
voices to the Bordentown to turn about
and run back to Bergen Point. After q
long time che responded and things be,
came easier. II she had continued her
course ard gone back to Bergen Point
not boat would have been lost, but inst
as we were beginning TO think we were
all right again the B0rdentoWn suddenly
swung her heEd
BACK TO THE OLD COURSE
and made straish: for New York. In less
than no time the Title Hughes in front
OF ms hsd ION after ton Of water
dumped On her from the heavy
seas. Finally she plunged her nose
right down into tee waves and dove
straight to the cotton. I knew then It
was scramble for life. l rushed down
into my cabin. MY wife was sound
asleep and 80 Was my nine. yeSr-ola boy
1 had them Gu; in q moment and hurried
them on deck. All my wife was able to
put On over her night clothes WAS 81 Old
wrapper. The boy had nothing on but
his night clothes. TIE first thing l saw
when got on deck with Them WAS the
lights OF the tug heading straight for Us.
Every minute CT 50 ne go! 6 dousing
from the sees which were
WASHING OVER Us.
The tug was soon alongside. How I
got my wifa sUd child on board her
hardly know. she was pitching and Jump
ing eight or ten feet Gu. Ct the water and
the tug was not much stesdier. / stayed
behind to try to ssve the barge. l WAS
afraid OF the bosis ahead Of me diving
under sDd pulling me down with them
l got an axe and Was scrsmblir g forward
to cut the lashings to the Florence Moore.
At th8. moment her stern shot up in the
air and disappeared beneath the waves.
AS she went down the lsshings to my
barge snapped or she would certainly
have dragged me down with her. The
captain and pc pie on the Hughes. which
was the first to so down, had escaped to
the Moore, aud when the Moore went
down they and the Moore's people got TO
the Ocean Queen. While this WAS going
on the tug which had rescued my wife
and child had been going from barge to
bsrge and taking people eff. Women
and children ell over the feet were now
awake and on deck, and their
sBRIgKs AND CRIES
seemed all round you IS though hundreds
OF people were struggling in the waves in
syery direction. The tug was soon
crowded with hslf-drsssed women and
This tug proved to be the
Willis, which had helped to tow the feet