The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-28
The Steamship Noordland lowed
Into Queenstown.
\ TEMPESTU0Us VOYAGE.
Battling with Wind and Wave from
Time Of Leaving Port.
Her Shaft Was Broken Thursday-she Lay
Helpless and Tossed by the Gale
Panic-Stricken Passengers-The
Pumps Going for Hours.

QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 27.-The steamer
NoordIand arrived here today with a
broken shaft. The Noordland's voyage
was tempestuous almost from the hour OF
leaving Sandy Hook. The winds blew
almost hurricane and the ship had
much difficulty in making her way
through the waves. Some passengers
were so apprehensive of danger that they
could not be induced to retire st night
and sat about the saloon doing at inter-
walls. and ready, with their clothes on, to
take boats in the event of accident. The
waves tossed their icy foam on the decks
until the lower rigging itself was like
skating pond. Captain Buckles, his Off
GERS and crew, spared no pains to secure
the safety of the ship and the sailors
never shirked an order, however perilous
and painful.
The Noordland labored along success
fully until Thursday evening. 1t was a
bitter cold night and the passengers were
graduating themselves on gradually
nearing the end of their stormy voyage.
The steamer was in latitude 1852 west
longitude 5O.15 when, at twenty minutes
past nine In the evening, q tremendous
crash was heard and the vessel quivered
from end to end. The passengers who
were. sitting up were tossed about like
ninepins, several of them being thrown
to the floor. Three terrible blows re-
sounded, one after another, as il the yes
sci was being struck by gigantic ham
mer, which indeed was a fact
The fright of some of the people was
frightful to behold. They rushed hither
and thither delaying officers in their eff
forts to get at the cause and extent of the
disaster. Captain Bickles knew well
enough what the sound meant, and with
reassuring words to the passengers he
fastened to investigate personally. Tho
engines raced furiously, while the broken
shaft seemed about to crush the ship at
every conclusion. Water rushed into the
tube menacing the stocking hold and en-
CINE room. The stricken passengers
thought for while that the vessel was
about to sink.
Several minutes elapsed before word
was given for the engines to stop. The
Noordland lay HELPLESS, tossed by the
gale, and as the water rushed in there
seemed imminent danger of sinking. The
pumps were manned and put to work,
every man Of the crew being summoned
to duty. For twenty-four hours contin-
uously the pumps were kept at work and
the water prevented from gaining on the
vessel. The excited pasSen gers, finding
that they were not IN instant peril Of
being swallowed up by the waves, re-
gained their courage and patiently waited
for the steamer to take them into port.
At the time of the accident the Noord-
land was 400 miles west of Queenstown.
The crippled steamer was sighted by the
steamship Ohio. which left Philadelphia
on the same day that the Noordland left
New York. and the needed assistance was
at once extended. The voyage to Queens
town in tow was attended by much diff
Guilty, and continuous stormy weather
made it necessary to navigate with eau
ton, but the Noordland arrived without
further accident.