Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-12
Terrible Experiences OF Four Ves-
sells Now in New York Port.
They Battle HeroieaIly With the Most
Severe Hurricanes Ever EncOun-
tered on the Atlantic.
The Elects of Their struggles Are Plain to Be
Seen as They Lie In POrt-Their
Captains StoresI.
OCEAN EXPERIENCES.

Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Another chap
ter in the history of the hurricane,
cyclones and terrific storms at sea is
added to-day by the arrival at this port OF
four big vessels that show all the effects
of the terrific battles with the old ocean
in some of its angriest moods. The Mount
Stuart, one of the finest ships that ever
left Glasgow, sailed on August l from
Rochefort in ballast for this port. The
first thirty days of passage of the Mount
Stuart was as duh and uninteresting as a
trip across the Atlantic ocean can be. On
August 81, however, hurricane met the
ship, and for eight hours the big ship was
tossed sabout like chip and buried by
mountainous seas until it seemed to the
sixty men who formed her crew that she
would
NEVER STRUGGLE To THE SURFACE
again. The Mount Stuart was sailing
along in latitude AZ, longitude 5S, when
the weather glass in the captain s cabin
indicated that q storm of unusual
severity was somewhere in the neighbor-
hood, although out of sight of the naked
eye, and the most powerful glasses on
ship. The sky was comparatively clear,
the horizon was twisting and turning in
rather peculiar manner, and the sea.
as the cloud spread overhead, began to
boil and ohurn as if at the approach of
some terrible force. Everything aboard
ship had been made taut. Suddenly a
jet black line appeared along the horizon
and began to mount with incredible
swiftness until the sky was as black as
INK. Suddenly hurricane broke at the
ship, and the vessel lay down in the bed
of the ssething sea until the foam was
bubbIing along the rail- Blast followed
blast and still the ship failed to move,
and it seemed to the
HoRROR-sTRICKEN MEN
on deck as If she must go to the bottom
AT last, and little by little, the vessel
righted herself, and just in time to meet
a tremendous wave which broke over the
bows with roar like Niaga ara. The
men were washed off their feet and only
saved from going over the rail by life
lines about their waists. A big ships
boat, torn from its laohlngs went down
deck as il propelled by electricity, and in
company with hencoop went over the
rail into the bed OF foam astern. The
jib blew away leaving only few shreds
of tattersd canvas clInging to the stay,
and with the report like the crack of q
pistol, the mizzsn top sails followed suit
The immense seas swept the decks fore
and aft, and tons and tons of water fell
on deck until it seemed as If the ship
must founder. The four men at the
wheel could do nothing to keep the yes
sci g head to the seas. To save their
lives they left the whizzing spokes and
abandoned the ship to the
FURY OF THE GALE.
She was tossed about, sometimes
standing on her beam ends The fore
top mast soon went by the board, and
Few minutes later the main topmast
snapped like a match, but was held by
stays. 1t swung in the air like pendu-
lum of Il clock. The winds tore the
sails from their lsshings, and the rum
BILE of the heavy canvas as it thrashed
the masts and yards seemed fitting music
for the inferno of the storm as it walked
the decks below.
The storm subsidized after eight hours,
then the ship, a wreck of her former
self, stood on an even keel.
The Loeb RAMA, from Liverpool, on
the same day was struggling wit b hur-
ricane off Sable Island, and parted after
five hours with its unwelcome visitor, at
a cost of almost all Its sails.
The bark Constance, of Barbados for
this city met hurricane August 20, and
for four hours battled with the terrific
seas and gale that blew from
EVERY POINT OF THE COMPASS.
She managed to weather the gale with
out injury, but the captain states that it
was the worst storm he ever encountered
on the Atlantic ocean.
The same hurricane, August 81, was
met by the bark Falmouth. For twenty
four hours the ship labored IN the heavy
sea with every prospect OF founderiug.
She managed to weather the gale, how
ever, and put in here last night with her
decks stripped as a result OF her meeting
with an Atlantic hurricane.