New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-13
NEw.YORKERS SPEND A WRETCHED DAY.
INCOMING STEAMERS HAVE ROUGH EXPERT
ENCEs-REPA1RING THE WIRES.

ENCEs-REPAIRI NC THE WIRES.
NewYorkcrs spent miserable day yesterday AT
o'clock in the morning the wind howled through
the streets at the rate of twenty four miles hour,
sending the rain at such an angle that umbrellas were
Of little use and people who without waterproof
coats had TO submit TO complete drenching.
A number OF weather beaten transatlantic and
coastinr steamers arrived here yesterday, and all had
practically the experience to relate about the
hurricane The Tcutonic reached the bar on Wednes-
day night several hours behind the City OF NewYork.
She could not get pilot and lay at anchor until
Yesterday morning. The pilOtboat A. NJ. Lawrence
went on station early in tho morning, and sent
pilot on board the White Star liner which arrived
at her pier about II a. m. The officers Of the Teutonc
saw that the weather was favorable until Wednesday
noon. when the wind drove at fearful rate and the
sea ran high. The steamer however, rode the storm
in splendid style A heavy fog fell and continued
until the Teutonic arrived at Quarantine.
The Roanoke was sixty hours the passage from
Norfolk her ordinary being twenty-five to twenty
four hours. On Monday at 10 a. m, eighteen miles
from Cape Henry she encountered the gale and had to
slow down to four miles an hour The steamer
seemed to be about fifty miles from the centre Of
the gale from that time until p. N. the following
day.
The steamer Hammonla to the bar at 4: 80
a. M She encountered westerly winds 10 the New
foundand Banks and after that fresh easterly winds
land, from Antwerp; the Guthel, from Bremen the
Roanoke from Norfolk; the Elder, the Basil and
Lassee and the England.
The steamers that overdue are the City Of
Columbia OF the Ward Line; the Bermuda, and the
Bombay from Gibraltar The Columbia EFT Havana
on Thursday Of last week, and due here on Mon
day. some apprehension felt yesterday about
her She had a fair complement Of passengers and a
large cargo. The Columbia built nine years ago
| he was a
| on wednesday and the Bombay Monday. No full
rugged ships put out Of this port yesterday. Many
ships are overdue, but far as could be learned,
there was no fear 10 their safety. The steamers
that arrived yesterday reported that they did not
strike the gale until they got into American waters.
The pilotboats that out yesterday are
| Hope No. / America, No. 81 Washington. No. %
Ambrose Snow, No. IL; T. S. Nagus, No. l, and the
David Cornell No. 4. Nobody seemed to be afraid
| about these plotboats. Tho outgoing steamers yes
| teriay were the Tallahassee, the Rotterdam, the
! GelleIt and the Atlanta.
| A dispatch to the Maritime Exchange yesterday
said that the big william h. Grace had gone
| ashore of Cape IIenlopen at the entrance of Della
ware Bay. The Grace left this port about wear ago
! for san Francisco and Havre, loaded deeply with
| wheat, and is on her return trip.
| The revenue boat Manhattan went through the
anchorage grounds twice yesterday and found all
vessels in the lower bay riding the waves TO two
anchors. Several were out Of anchorage grounds but
II was unsafe to attempt to get them back. heavy
gale AMI a terrible sea were met with both time.
some steamers had some difficulty in making thclt
| trips The Pilgrim, Of the Fan River Line. which
should have left Newport Tuesday night, had to put
back and stay there until yesterday morning. She
started al 10 O'Clock and reached here the same houi
last evening The Providence got in yesterday al
0 a. m, being late on her departure from Fa River
u was reported yesterday that steamer was OF
lstJpng Stones Reef near Ciy Island but nqu r.,
among steamboat men failed 10 prove tho truth o
tho rumor. In fact. the captain Of the Cy OF spring
field. which reached here at O'Clock yesterday, MIN
hours late said that no steamer was seen on The rec
When he passed. az about H. 30 o'clock. The CON
Itncnial which Thought 10 be- tLH boat ashore wa
seen by the officers OF the CITY OF Springfield. rdn.
safely at anchor IN COW BAY. along with the city o
Richmond, Metropolitan, RoSedale and several othe