News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
TALES Of THE SEA.
Steamship Erin Probably
Lost.
All Arriving Steamers Report the
Fearful Gales on the Atlantic.
A Freezing Hurricane Raging at Chatham
Lighthouse in Distress ON the Coast
of Ireland

A dispatch to the New York Maritime Ex-
change Jan. %, said that the steamer Creole
had picked up the Erin's lifeboat in lat. 40
deg, Ion. SO deg, or about 100 miles north
west of the Azores.
Mr.. +. w. Il. Hurst, the agent of the Ma
tional line, said Il am inclined to think that
something has happened to the Erin, though
hesitate to believe that the ship has gone
down. If we lose her, she will be the first
ship our line has ever lost at sea. We carry
our own risks, and if the Erin has gone down
she is total loss to us. The ship is worth
perhaps, 100000, and the cargo about an
equal sum. The Erin was commanded by
Capt. Tyson, a very careful man, with fine
record. She had on board crew of 81 men,
] believe, and 1G catttlemen."
The overdue steamship Servia arrived at
New York, Jan. 2. She never made slower
voyage or a more tempestOus one. From
the time she left Queenstown at 1 O'Clock on
the afternoon of Jan. -, she had a daily fight
with fierce and lofty seas and westerly gales.
From noon on Friday until noon OH Satur-
day the Servia made only 142 miles. She was
decorated with frozen spray dashed over her
by the local gale when she steamed up to her
pier. The wind at quarantine was so strong
that the mail boat was unable to take off the
Servia'S mail.
The Servia passed, when about 900 miles
out of Queenstown, lot of bullocks. They
may have come from some cattle ship other
than the Erin, which apparently was wrecked
much farther west
The steamship Venezuela, from La Guayra.
passed on Monday, the 10th, about $50 miles
off the South Carolina coast, waterlogged
three-masted schooner. The seas were sweep
ing across her and only her mainmast was
standing.
Capt. Jurgensen of the steamer Sorrento,
which arrived at Halifax, Jan. %, had his
hand broken by being knocked down by
wave which swept over the vessel.
Tba Ham bur A mir off
from Hamburg, Jan. 5, and Havre, Jan. 7,
for New York, which put in at Halifax, Jan.
%, has % cabin and 225 steerage passengers
and 1000 tons of cargo on board, besides Ger
man and French mails.
During the voyage the vessel experienced
succession of fearful gales. On the 14th and
10th the wind blew with hurricane force, &C
companied by very heavy sea. The deck
was under water all the time. At noon Oh
the 18th it blew another hurricane, with, II
anything, a worse sea than before. This
lasted till noon the next day, but by the use
of oil bags, which were hung over the bows
for - hours, the steamer was enabled to
weather the storm all right although outside
of the charmed circle of the oil the ocean was
like q boiling caldrOn. The waves would
rush on furiousy to the oil, and then break
and pass harmlessly under the ship.
A dispatch from Chatham, Mass, Jan. %,
saws there is freezing northwest hurricane
raging there.
it is feared the fleet of vessels which pass
ed north have been blown off to the gulf
stream, as only one, big fOur-master, has
worked back to an anchorage.
The five-masted schooner Gov. Ames,
bound south, was wide off at sunset, Jan. 81,
and apparently going out south channel,
evidently expecting the wind would shift to
easterly. She would probably take the gale
southeast of Nantucket, and will have a
rough time getting back under the Jersey
coast.
No vessels of any kind have attempted to
pass north, or to go over the shoals, as ire
mendous sea is running, except directly
under the lee of the land.
The FaStnet lighthouse on the coast of Ire
land is displaying flags of distress, but no
vessel has been able to approach it in several
DAYS