, 1890-01-30
.PERILS OF THE OCEAN
Rough Weather Experienced
on the Atlantic.
STEAMERS SHOW HARD USAGE.
Much Damage Reported-Gales on
the Coast of EuglRnd-Many
Lives Lost

! New YonK, Jan. 6-Sinc European
steamers which arrived to-day report the
most severe weather ever experienced on
the Atlantic. All of them show evi-
denCes OF rough usage, all the decks and
upper works being badly battered.
Several soamen were badly injured dur
ing the voyages.
The steamer Sorrento, from Hamburg,
had about the hardest time. Every
thing movable and all the boats were
washed away. Sixty tons of cargo had
/ to be thrown oycrboird.
| The steamship America, of the North
German Lloyd line had her boats
smashed, the cabin skylight stove in,
| the cabin flooted with water and great
dam0gc done. one stcerage passenger
died nt sea. Captain Kahlman was
knocked down ana badly hurt by huge
wave.
The Moth German Lloyd steamer
Saalo reports sccing two icebcrgs. The
vessel was coated with ice and snow,
and Captain Richter says the voyage
was one of the most severe he ever
made.
DAMAGE To SHIPPING IN ENdLAsD.
lsoNUpNt Jtlls Aif kAtN0 'biAhAlAANH
wi h increasing strength and velocity
in the southern portion Of England and
Wales to-day Menai strait in Wales
has been rendered impossible by the
fury OF the guile. Many sailors have been
swep, overheard and drowned.
The ship lrrx, bound for Rio .Janiro,
was wrecked oil the Needles. Several of
the crow were drowned. The survivors
clung to the rigging all day Saturday
and part of Sunday 1t was impossible
to send life boat to the rescue, MS no
boat could live in the turbulent sea. :
lifeline was finally shot across the YES
sell and in this way the men were safely
landed.
Cnptain McMickan, of the Cunarder
Umbria, from New York, reports that
the passage was the toughest that the
vessel ever experienced. Some passcn.
gers were injured by Leing thrown upon
the decks,
The bark Janet Crown has returned to
Plymouth. She reports that two of her
crew were washed overheard and
drowned, and many injured.
The steamer Yorkshire, at Liverpool.
from Baltimore, was Hooded, and her
bridges were destroyed, and she sus-
tanned other damage. Three seamen
were blown from the rigging, and two
were drowned.
The damage to property by the storm
is general. The river Shannon IN Ire
land and number OF rivers in Wales
have overiioweL their banks, flooding
the adjoining country.
The Paris express boat, between
Dieppe and New Haven, is seventeen
hours overdue, and fears are entertained
for Its safety.
An usrRECEnESTED HURRICANE.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 26.--Thc hurricane
now prevailing is of unprecedented Sc
verify. The sea has caused much dam
age to the town. A number of small
crafts have been swamped. The out
ward bound line steamers report fearful
weather In the Irish channel. Tho bark
Sidlaw encountered a hurricane for ten
days and lost her first mate by drown
ing.
THIRrY-FvE SAILORS DROWNED.
I.oYpos, Jan. ?7.-The British shin
Loeb Roidart from Pisagua for Hamburg
Is ashore nt Cattantsoo2n, Holland
Thirty OF her crew were washed over
board after she struck and all persisted.
Tho British ship Janet Cowan, before
reported having returned to Plymouth
in distress, lost number Of sails when
oil tho Isle of Wight Thursday, and five
of her crew were also lost. Although
the ship was dismastsd, the remainder
of her crew succeeded In navigating her |
to Plymouth.
The United States ship Enterpriso.
having ON board the remains oil Mr.. |
pendleton, lato United States minister !
to Germany, sailed from dartmouth for |
New York Yesterday, but was compelled |
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