The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-23
FOUGHT THEIR WAY.
Three Ships Run Into q Very
Fierce Storm
IN CROSSING THE ATLANTIC.
The Quartcrmastcr of the Drittanic
is Swept OvcrDoard-.Thc Lain and
Wcrra, of the North German Line,
Experience the Toughest Weather
Ever Enc0untcrcI.-TriDulations of
tho Passengers.

tho Passengers.
NEW ioRx. Nov. 222.-The White Star
line steamer Brittanic arrived at her
dock here yesterday morning after one
oil the toughest voyages the vessel has
experienced in her seventeen years
buticting the waves OF the Atlantic. She
left Liverpool on the llth inst, when q
terrific gale was sweeping around the
British coast and playing havoc with
shipping. She Immediately ran into q
boiling sen that sent mighty volumes Of
water over the vessel. Tho crew were
compelled to cling to ropes to keep from
being swept overheard. One tremcnd'
GUS sea boarded the vessel, swept over
the deck and carried with it Quarter.
master Thomas Mckenzie, who, in 20.
ing over the rail, gave piercing shrek
OF despair. lle disappeared in the
angry waters and was seen no more. In
such sea nothing could be done for
him. The Brittanic continued to Ell.
counter very rough weather during the
greater part OF the voyage, and for the
most part the passengers were unable
10 20 upon deck.
Tho time oi the voyage was DAYS,
hours and minutes, covering 2,7yl
miles.
TWO OTTER SHIPS L: DISTRESS.
Two Nordaeutsclicr Lloyd steam
ships, the Lain and the Vera, reached
New York yesterday from Southamp.
ton within eight hours OF each other.
Both had TO fight their way out OF
southampton harbor in the midst OF Il
southwest gale that was sweeping the
English channel and strewing wrecks
all along the English coast. The Lain
proved herself the spccdcr vessel, ior
she left southampton more than four
teen hours after the Werra and she
crossed Sandy Hook bar seven hours
and eight minutes ahead OF the latter
steamship.
There was not dry plank on the
decks OF either vessel during the entire
voyage, and the passengers OF both
were not allowed to come on deck until
the day before entering this port.
Three passengers, one In the stecragc
and two III the second cabin, were
slightly injured on the Lahn, and one
steerage passenger died OF heart disease.
No one was hurt on the Vera, though
there were four deaths on the voyage
IRON natural causes. The vessels
escaped injury and gave good proof OF
their scaworthiness.
COULDN'T LAND TIE rILor.
Pilot L. Penny was at the wheel and
when the vessel reached the English
pilot station the waves were so high
that he could not be taken off and he
had to make the entire voyage. He will
60 back OIL the Lain.
1t was was twenty minutes past eight
q. IN. OF November !, when the Wcrra
passed the Needles, and from that time
until tho afternoon OF November Is,
she was fairly buried by the immense
seas. The first death was on November
-, when Francesca Nlikcslia, Russian
immigrant girl seventeen years old died
OF pneumonia. The body was buried in
the ocean the same night.
Officers on the bridge were drencheil
by the waves, and the water, striking
the big tunnels, ran down to the
furnaces and thickly corrugated them
with salt. Joseph IIussa, twcnty-siy
years old, died on November Is, OF
Bright's disease.
Mrs. Kunigunde Ifimbeler, sixty-one
years old, died OF heart disease on
November 10, and Dorothca Melules
tiity-three years old, died the same day
OF apoplexy.
THE LAuS's TRIP.
The Lain lett Southampton at ten
minutes 10 II o'clock OH the evening OF
November II, and is supposed TO have
passed the other vessel that day. The
l.ahn's experience was practically the
same as the Wcrra's. Her English
pilot, W. Bourjcr, was on board when
She reached New York. Like Pilot
Penny. he had made free, though
rough voyage. Two of the Iahn's sec.
ond class passengers were hurled against
the cabin wall on November 10 and their
heads bruised. One OF tho steesage
passengers suffered dislocation of his
lett hip.