New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-28

masses Everything was slippery with Ice
ard the scamen had TO work their way men
! by inch along the decks. On December 23 the
| snow was 80 deep that the sailors had TO quit
| following the sea, and were forced to do the
work of landlubberly snow shovelers. From that
time until Christmas day men were kept at
| work shovelling STOW off the ship. Then it began
10 rain and hail. till the deck looked Like Broad
way on a slushy day. And she shovelled her
way into port She was not so badly damaged
rs some other ships which came in, but her
rails and vcntators showed the effects OF tho
weather, being broken and bent in places lhcre
were forty-fve first, ffty-three second, ana 4ol
third" cabin passengers aboard. Third caoih
is the title applied by the polite FrenchInen TO
stecrage passengers
The bic white North German Lloyd steam
shin Fulda looking like United States snip
OF war, with her tawny smolSestacks, came INTO
| mort Yesterday twenty-four hours overdue. she,
TOO. had experienced terrific weather. and nom
December 8 until she arrived here she was con-
tinualy flooded. The FuldS came from the
! Mediterranean, and she had hardly passed rom
its oui.t waters into Atlantic Ocean when her
| handsome Prov met seas which seemed exceed
inrlv anxious to knock the chip off the shoulder
Of the big smoke -vollcying steamship. Inc port
/ lifcboat amdship must have been considered
chip. for wave rose from the sea and careened
over the deck Tie lifehoat careened with 1t IN
many fragments Other great waves also .. r9-'
at intervals to peer over the rail. Zach one
did damage of some kind. Rails were bents
ventiators were twisted. and the starboard
companion ladder was reduced to fragments
| So, altogether tho trip was not one oil p.e'Sutc
TO the seventy-eght cabin and 164 stcerase
pas,enccrs, who kept between decks during the
voyage None dared to go on deck. ief Il
monthfuI of fresh air was ACCOMPANIED by
buckctful or moro of salt water. which had the
unhappy quality of freezing readily. On christ
mas Day the storm was so terrific that the tulda
made only $50 miles in twenty-four hours, an
average OF less than miles an hour
Tie Nctherland- American steamship Rot'er-
dam came in coated with lee which hung from
her spars and sides IN great clcleS as II she hau
cor,c direct from the North Pole. All Of her Spars
were not covered with ice, because all oil her
-pars weren't there. Some Of them were carried
away Ly Il wave which also smashed numoer
f otber parts of the vessel, and succeeding waves
did more damage, until the ship looked as Ii Shc
had hren dra-.cd through the sea stern lOren'oSo
and keel M ON the second day out the heaVS
weather heaan, and the ship soon hau an Sl. @
Wanted Of IT, Lnc big wave spOu",u oNcl ~ Nv,
portrait and smashed me !iicoqaS tg ,nnened The
lie men Oh deck knew what had happeheu' nc ~.
. n,.>t instant ihey were tOundcrlna IN ICY waT'l
mn to their waists, while spars pieces OF tne
,.I and pnnks from the broken IIcpoaC WclU
h'r,,,ry .pout tire decks the water swept thGnl
aw,r When she shook herself clear oil tnc
nundaton she looked az If She hau Deen unue, ho"n
he fire Of great guns der loTTr rn sp"'a aonting oil
ripped ont OF the sockets and were hoaInis on
/ tn lecward few sicks hanging ,,s 10
the the davis nS'' showed where The ,o,l,b. life.
S en- ne[ nrcnchod ~c "A away Ivy lie big flood TIE up
p,arancn OF the snip when she arrlv'o In u i
TfNfaI f ftsr
;rhen he said that il had been the very roughe5l
voyage in mis- memory The ship was - coufi
7 plctelv covered with ice tnat she 'ooKeu a. - -
She were made Of glass blown mere anu ~ .ncio
;"to fantastic forms. Her foren2St was q
t,ncri1s = mas no longer, but looked like great
,ren Of ice Up to the lookout under tie lore lore
SSPIDt,hotso was d slapcess thing Of frosted
work. and the matches had been 50 compctelyy
covered with ice that they had 10 ne choppcu I'ro
= onnn pr-ritc the terrible weather. there were
,p accidents among her eighty-six cabin am
.r5 ,,,,rscc passengers. and the captain reporlcu
that tag Gniy 'SIci' ,hcb wls w,ivM npd@mic d
TN. steamship Denmark is another snip WhlcIi
contributed tale of stormy win that ID 3iew ra' AMI
,.,,.frIr eal. at roarcd They blew ana rotr'l
cSntinuallv for twenty days, which was the TINE TINE
re4uired for the ship to reach port She sailed
nom London on December :, ana ihet VIZ
i'ufi.vret. and northwest gales continnalY.
,,,n- .b. p.,~cd the Banks. stc got into "A sllc-
cc..., ~ heavy gales. which blew with hurricane
torre violent squalls struck the ship AT Ire,
water Tho mcrcilcss cold roe, IN" Wa,cl i, d,
II e,rrck l.r and she WAS covered with lee RON
lsc.l 10 main truck. Her lalis were pduS
damaged, and other parts oil her ueoN were III
I1. steamship Brunei from Gibraltar, December
- got along without much trouDic' eNlcrly' lily i
/ nnl" moderate weather until she reared the
. .n,-t vhon she suddenly experienced a success
7 .i,n ~ terrific westerly gales. with hleh seas
She stopped at Herruda ior coal haVlhT run run . oto
of that rather necessary material. Then she
J. .+arfeI acain and got some more weather. 10
hcraln, extremely cold then, and she cot enough
. 80 IN Lor t. make her captains fortune II 10
hqd orlv happened IN summer;
/ The Rod y Line steamship Caracas sailed from
Venezuelan ports siN dayS aso ana @ [an touob, i%,
/ trcnical Weather into snow and gales SnS lousui
/ hor way a.ai"st north and northwest gales ana
hirb scas with furious snowsqualls all the way
aong the coast, and her officers and crew ieit
as II they had been taking RUSSIAN phtn VI
u1usnal DIMENSIONS and of protractcd duration
Tho British steamship Trinidad also received
IN u0pen~ant shock aii"r leaving i"rlluua' ,n omc
/ dircctlv into high seaS and heavy. cold north
west gne-. She had thirty cahin PASSENGERS @
on board. and an anti-t'mperance cargo oi l''of
The schooner Annie f. Rickerson ont nineteen
DAYS from Petit Goavc, arrived here Ve>ter aH ana
rrnortcl that she had gales and nigh seas all the
CIV and that for nineteen days she was north
a. IIattora~. beaten back ard forth by tr'm'n
dous Gales Sue lacked hsr s'arhoari anchor:
which old Mr. Neptune took from her for one ot
his bal.r mcrm"n to play WITH. 20
The British steamship Olympia. from st. lago
December ., had c)utIauation oi sfons hofu'-
cry gale, and heavy head seas
There was considerable floating lee in the Lover
Pa, las night clu-inc some trouble to naviSa lon
Tho Statcn Island ferry boats eNDrrI@ncrd dllh-
cnlty in making the trip between 1t. George ami
Ills civ and wcrr frequently compelled to slow
I thcir engines The lee is the first OF IN" season.
/ lin nii'cials Of the Cunarl Line saY that they
have no doubt that tho Umhria's delay is due 70
iIn breaking down of her engines. The rate of
reinsurance pail on the tmhrias cargo is 10
/ ~. incoe U,"WiEm. >.
London Dee ?7.-Thcre is anxiety at Iloyd'55
over the non-arrval in Ncw-forH Of the Cnnard
steamer I,rhra. which sailed from Liverpool on
/ p.rpY,lrr = for Queenstown. sailing from Queens
Town fer Ncw-Yorll on December IS. The I'M
bria has therefore been ont from Queenstown
| ahout nine DAYS, which is at least two davs in
| .>coes Of what was expected. The great storms
on tbc A+,a~tc may. it ia thought have detained
! 10 yc.sn without involving any accident, but
tbn ornrchcnsion felt is serious that rcinsuring
las 9lr,ady begun. The tmlra arrived IN l.iv-
|. .-,-li on llpnpnIllnr q