The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-01
RRIGHiPUL fXPLRIbNCE.


fed Steamship Passengers-The Alters
Trip,
NEw YonK, Dec. Sl.-oaptain Boyer,
of the steamship spaarndam, of the
Observation-Disclosures line, from Rot.
terdam, reports that on Decembsr97 his
ship encountered heavy gale accom-
panied by Tremendous Oeas. The wind
blew with such force and the seas we're
go high tnat he hove the ship TO, and for
Blk hours laid with the vessels head to
the wind, while great seas swept the
deck from stem to stern. The steamer
rolled and pitched, laboIing heavily
and sleet and rain driven ecross the sea
in blindingsqualls made 1t impossible
for the officers TO do more than keep the
vessels head 10 the sea and hold on,
praying for an abatement OF the storm.
None OF the passengers could come on
deck. The 2T5 sieeFage passengers, in
an agony OF terror, were gathered in tho
steerage, crowdeda about steam radiator,
for it was bitterly cold. The cabin pas.
sengers in the saloon waited tney knew
not what as the ship rolled and pitched
as if every plunge would carry her down
into the icy Weters. One greSt lurch
that the steamer gave sent every one
from his feet ami dashed twenty people
in the steerage against the hot radiator
with force which broke bones and dis
located limbs.
PASSENGERS HURT.
The cries of the injured, the roar OF
the waves and winds, all mingled in a
pandemonium OF sounds, in which the
hosrss shouts Of the officers on deck civ.
ing commands and fighting for the life
Of the ship and OF the passengers com.
mitted to their charge were drowned.
Soon after the ship was hove to her
main and nizZsn topmast went by the
board, After elk hours the storm mod
crate and the steamer was able to pro-
ceed on her course.
When sho arrived here yesterday she
presented q stoYm-tossed and bedragg!ed
appearance. Her lighthouses were
smashed, her main aud miEzen topInasts
gone and her standing and running rig
Ring twisted as If it had been put through
rope. walk. The names Of those most
severely injured by being thrown against
the steerage radiator were Rebecca Solo
menson, Pauline solomenson, Israel
Solomenson and Masss COlley. Israel
Solomenson suffered a. fracture Of the
collar bone, and Pauline Solomenson
had her arm broken. The others sus.
tanned severe bruises and contusions.
OTHER HIPKRIRScEs.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Aller came III yesterday from Bremen
badly battered by the storm she had en-
countered. Her ttauuchngss and sea.
worthinsss stood her in good stead, and
she was not obliged to lie TO during the
storm. 1t caught her just below the
Grand Banks on the day alter Christ.
mas, and she ploughed her way through
great Beas and bign winds until she ran
out OF the storm. Two. thirds OF the en-.
tire Crockery on board the ship was
smashed by her pitching and rolling,
and a stoker who imprudently went on
deck was washed overheard and
drowned.
The steamship WerksndRm came into
port from Amsterdam alter hard voy.
age. She was struck by the storm al the
same time as the other vessels. A steer.
ago passenger named SsVora Rosa was
injured by being thrown down by the
rolling and and pitching OF the ship. For
some reason she made an affidavit that
she was not injured much, aud that is
was not the company's fault that she
was injured at all.
The bark st. Catherine, which put TO
sea from this port on December y, en-
countered the gale on Saturday last. She
was too far south to get the full force Of
II, but got enough to carry away her
main topmast, main topgdllant topmast
and miZzen topmast. Sue was 250 miles
east OF Sandy Hook when the gale struck
her, coming from the northeast. Yes
terday the St, Catherine returned to port
to repair damages before proceeding on
her voyage to Melbourne.
Tugs have been sent out to look for
the ship Walter II. Wilson, which was
reported of Fire Island WhilO tho storm
waa raging on Friday aud again on Sum
day. She was from Calcutta for this
port, apd why she has not come in is a
mystery. The BreuGh steamship La
Bretagne arrived yesterday, having es-
capped the worst OF the storm.