The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-13
PUTINT0 PORT.F0R COAL.
THE CHATTAHo6CHEE REPORTED
AT NEWCASTLE, DEL.

The city of Birmingham Passes
Through the Storm-A Broken Boom
laid a Few Smashed Glass the Only
Damage. Sustained Passengers
Haye a Lively Time of 1.-THE Signal
Bureaus Report OF the Storm.
The Ocean Steamship Company's offfcs
was besiegsd with inquiries yesterday con
cerring the Chattahoo chez. Nothing was
heard Of the vessel until last night when
her arrival at Newcastle, Del, short of coal,
was bulletined. General Manager Sorrel
photographed the Chattahoochee's arrival at
. Newcastle from New York. His telegram
to the company's Office here said that all of
: thscompany's vessels are snug. Newcastle
is fifty miles from Philadelphia and is a
coaling station.
The vessels safe arrival at Newcastle
relieved the suspense of those who had
friends on board. When the City of Biz
.nlingham failed to report the ChatJaheochee
tire anxiety for her safety increased. Her
departure from Newcastle was not reported
and the Associated Press dispatches do not
say whether she was damaged or not Some
Of her passengers went on by rail TO New
York.
THE BIRMNGHAa's TRIP.
The City OF Birmingham arrived at her
wharf yesterday morning shortly after
o'clock, slightly damaged by the storm she
encountered, six hours after leaving New
York. Several panes of glass in the sky
light were smashed in and the main boom
was split
The Birmingham left New York at 4
o'clock Monday afternoon, and encountered
the storm about 10 o'clock that night. The
steamer vas tossed to and fro
moving farther into the teeth
of the gale all the time.
The stormed ragged all of Monday night and
all of Tuesday, and the Birmingham did
not get out of it until after II O'Clock Tues
day night. The pitching and rolling of the
vessel was decidedly unpleasant for the
passengers, AMI the most Of them remained
In their berths during the time the storm
was raging. There were thirty-one passen-
gers aboard.
PASSENGERS STORY.
Mr.. z. Castleberry of Atlanta, Ia relating
his experience, said: "When the officers
found that they had got into a storm, a
heavy northeaster was sweeping the spray
over the steamers decks. The vessel beg IN
TO rise upon the waves and fail to the
trough of the sea, throwing the passengers
who had retired about in their berths, and
pitching those who were in the saloon from
in their berths, where the most of the pas
sengers remained until the storm abated
Ia the smoking room were a number OF
gentlemen, who had to retire in short order
TO ESCAPE the waves. The water dashed
into the room and wet everything in it,"
Emile Newman, Esq, said that it was
one OF the worst storms he was ever in
lie praised the manner in which the vessel
was handled.
LADY PASSENGERS EXPERIENCE.
Mrs. Kenon of Macon, with three other
ladies' from Macon, were passengers on the
Birmingham They stopped at the Mar
shall house. Mrs Keaon's description of
the storm is very vivid. II was in a fear.
ful gale on the City of Rome, over from
Europe, one tine" she said, "when people
were fearing lest they would be swallowed
up by the waves, but that storm did not
compare with the storm which the City of
birmingham encountered Monday night.
tuesday and part of Tuesday night The
passengers all retired soon after the storm
ret 10, and but few of them came out
OF their rooms until Wednesday morning.
AS for myself, did not get sick, and Tues
DAY came out OF my room to look about
but everything looked SO dismal that had
TO go back. Water was dripping from
every part Of the vessel nearly The chan
deliers were beaded with water. and the
carpe were sobby. 1 saw two or three
gentlemen sitting off in corner, holding
on to tho side Of the vessel, but they did noC
remain ut long. My companions occupied
the berth below me, but | never saw them
or heard # m them until Wednesday
morning, when they came out, looking
very pale.n
Mrs. Renon said that she and her friends
We're returning from an extended trip
through the north, and they had mos de-
Aghtful time and they were net prepared
~. Tue e&pe.ie-ce Which they had on their
return home.
THE VESSEL EXAMINED.
Capt Burg remained with the Birmine
ram at her dock all of yesterday evening ex-
aiming the vessel. He came up to the
Screven House with his officers last night.
III speaking Of the trip to some friends he
SAID that 1t was the severest he had expert
enceu IN the last seventeen years.
Inc City of Augusta was sighted NVednes-
day morning about o'clock. about thirty
miles south Of Hatteras and she was appa-
rentiy faring well. Nothing was seen of
Inc Chatt&hoochee, which is reported at
New Castle. The Birmingham passed Hat
teras about o'clock
The signal observers here saw that the
storm has not changed, apparently, since
night before last. The conditions surround
ing II, they say, are unchanged, except that
tue WIND has decreased slightly Ia velocity
u is now northeasterly from Portland to
Aew York, northerly along the Jersey
coast, and northwesterly along the D5la.
ware and Virginia coasts, the velocity
varying from twenty to forty miles an
hour. 1t is raining from Portland to Nor
Iolx, the heaviest fall being Ia inches in
New York