, 1889-02-14
Strange Voyage Of an Absn-
d0ned Ship.
Across the Sea Unguided and
Safe in Port.
ssrsngs Story Of the W. l. whits's wan.
Asrinss for Ten lGosshs without
Navigation OF Grew.

OF tradition, and her WAndertngs have
been The source Of dread 10 the men who
70 upon the sea in ships. Yesterday che
landed hieh and dry 10 The harbor OF
6tornawxy, In the island Of Lewis, and
the wonderful romance which William
Black locates Ia that place coutains moth.
ing strupger than the story Of the voyage
Of the w. L. White without master.
II 10 unprecedented. There must be =
6rst time 10 the record OF any series OF
similar events, aod the story which We
tbe great ship for nearly year, here and
there. on the stormy Atlantic, fitting In
and out OF the channels Of commerce, like
Q bat among the branches of tree at
night, and 1t last making port 1000 miles
away from the city whence IL started.
The great lumber schooner w. j. White
was abandoned at sea on TuesdIy. March
raging. The vessel had started for New
York on February 30, laden with valu-
able cargo Of lumber. which she had taken
on at Boboy, Ga. She was under the com.
nand Of Captain Whitmore, and had
crew OF eight or nine men. Tho blizzard
caught her o6 Absecom Light on Monday.
March IL, and the elements gave her
sussle that her officers thought would send
her 70 the b,ttom. Very likely she would
lumber will not sink.
But With the millions of gallons of
water that sweep over her she became
speedily ster.logged and therefore help.
lssa. Captain WnitmOre could do nothing
With her, and be expected every moment
shat she would be turned upsidedowp in
the trough Of the sea. So he gave the
NOT bs executed fully, because there was
only one boat that had survived the battle
OF the storm.
In this the captain and the crew took
refuge, and for I, ur days struggling
against wind aud sea they expected every
moment would be their last. The cold
was great and they were scantiiy clad.
food nor water. A drag was put out be-
hind the boat, and weak and suffering ~
they were they were able 10 keep the boats
head TO the sea.
On the morning of the 18th, when
about seventy miles southeast Of Cape May
the ship Record, Captain Forbes, from CAL
cutts. hove in sight and picked up the
captain and the crew, who we're 90 thor
oughly exhausted and frostbitten that
they had 10 be lifted TO the dsck Of the
Record.
But what had become of the schooner
which had been abandonedf She was q
big one, and with her load Of lumber and
in her watarlogged condition she was AZ
much of Q menace to vessels on tho sea as
though her cargo was solid rock.
hv drifting southerly some ninety miles.
and she VA fifst seen on the morning al
Mnrch 10
Thar aha djsan,eared. and. thouuh
.ant.;n. cf vessels we're warnsd In no IN
the Iookous for har sha vas drifting and
sailiug aboot in phantom waters, SD to
really entered the ruif Stream. and on the
she WA carried $40 miles In a northeast-
srlv direction. and on March 81 the out
Iook of one Of the ocean iiners sav her
black null in the distapce. iust Of the
Ns-forndlana hanks With that br;af
revelatiop Of herself she disappeared AGAIN.
Bnt NOW the captains of ali the Ocean
craft we're aware that somevhere in the
channels Of commerce. ,here lurked the
possibiiitv OF danger like that described
in tue traditions Of the phantom ship.
But the vessel had struck a new chr.
rant and NJ vhsr ewes - of ss;iors s~.;n hs.
held her she va 400 miles east Of the
nc;nt vhere aha vas Last .een That last
sioht vas made on Apr,i II.
Aftsr this yevelation the weasel AGAIN
5;ss o,,earsS ;,.to ths shsdss and vas rot
seen pntil the mornino Of Nav O. 57,
miles northeast of the point last .esn. di.
rectly ia midocean and about due east from
New Newtoueaisnd. M 49," "'' ''' '"'' ''0"'
On May 80 she began to a sirt with the
cspssins of these steamsh,ps saw her on
thst day. but sbe vas long WAYS Of. and
thpv Wsrr reioiced thereat.
Alter this bri.f filtration The bead,ess
.ehencer sbowed her sides In two trarsat.
iantic steamships for an instant and then