The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-12-30
TEMPTESTUOUS
ATLANTIC,
THE NORDLAND'S VOYAGE.
Stormy Weather Encountered From One End
Of the Voyage TO the Other.
\ Broken Engine Shaft Adds TO the Fright
Of The Panicky Passengers.

QUEENSTOWN, Dec. H.-The voyage of
the steamer Nordland, which arrived to-
day. was tempestuous almost from the
hour of leaving Sandy Hook. The winds
blew almost a hurricane and the ship
had much difficulty in making Roadway
through the waves. Some of the pas
sengers were so apprehensive of danger
that they could not be induced to retire
at night and sat about the saloon, doz-
ing at intervals, and ready with their
clothes on to take to the boats in the
event of an accident, although the boats
could have lived only by a miracle OF
the terrible seas. The waves tossed their
icy foam on the decks until the lower
rigging was covered with CONCEALED frost
ing and the deck itself was like a skat-
ing pond. The only comfort or security
was in the cabins, and they remained
under cover throughout nearly all the
voyage.
The Nordland labored along success
fully until Thursday evening. 1t was a
bitter cold night and the passengers
| were cO~ngratulating themselves on the
gradually nearing end of their stormy
voyage. The steamer was in latitude
| 1892 and longitude 50:15, when at $40
in the evening a tremendous crash was
heard and the vessel 4uivered from end
to end. The passengers who were sit
ting up were tossed about like ninepins.
several of them being thrown to the
floor. Three terrific blows TeSOundcd
one after another as If the vessel was
being struck by Il gigantic hammer
which indeed was the fact. The fright
of some of the people was pitifui to be
hold. They rushed hither and 'thither,
delaying the officers in their efforts to
get at the cause and extent Of the
disaster.
Capt. Nickels knew well enough what
the sound meant and with a %reassuring
word to the passengers he FASTENED to
investigate personally. The engines
raced f~uriously while the broken shaft.
for that proved to he the danger.
seemed about to crush the skyligbt at
every conclusion. Water rushed into
the tube, menacing the strokehole and
the engine rooms, and the panic-stricken
passenger thought for a while that the
vessel was about to sink. Several m in
utes elapsed before the word was given
for the engines to stop. The Nordland
lay helpless, tossed by the gale and as
the water rushed in there seemed i'm
mint danger of sinking. The pumps
were manned and put to work. ever man
of the crew being summoned to duty.
For two hours continuously the pumps
were kept at work and the water pre-
vented from gaining on the vessel. The
excited passengers finding that they
were not in instant peril of being swal.
lowed up by the waves. regained courage
and patiently waited for a steamer 10
tow them into port.
At the time of the accident the NOrd.
land was four hundred miles west of
Queenstown. The crippled steamer was
sighted by the steamship Ohio, which
left Philadelphia on the day that the
Nordland left New York aud the needed
assistance was at once extended. The
voyage to Queenstown in tow was at
tended by much difficulty and the con,
t~inuous stormy weather made it neces-
sary to navigate with caution. but the
Nordland arrived without further acci.
dent. An examination showed that the
fracture of the shaft was six feet inside
the stern.
Through CONNECTION Delayed oar til" Great
Northern.
ST. PAUL. Dec. 21.-The recent heavy
snow in the eastern part OF the state OF
Washington has delayed operations to
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