The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-02-27
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
Items Of Interest from All Over the
Globe.

danger line at Cincinnati. At 2
o'clock on Feb. 15 the water had
reached 81 feet II inches and was
rising at the rate of about two
inches and half an hour.
In opening bids at the Navy De-
partment, Washington, for 600 tons
of nickel steel and Harveyized steel
armor, contrary to expectation there
were two bidders only, the Carnegie
Steel Company and the Bethlehem
Iron Works. The price asked for
nickel steel ranged from $525 to
$3.50 per ton, according to the shape
of the plate, and for Harveyized
steel the price was from 1915 to 1915
per ton.
Full particulars from Minnesota
of the proposed consolidation of the
spring wheat -four millers show that
it will be the most powerful trust
yet organized in America outside of
the Standard oil and steel beam com
bines, but its features are an i'm
provement on those of most trusts.
Pillsbury and other prominent men
are in the directory.
Advices from Sydney, New South
Wales, shows that there is deficit
of I'll 100000 in the annual budget,
and that great commercial depres-
sion prevails.
SHOCKING OCEAN DISASTER.
The Allan line steamer Pomeran-
ian, frehn Glasgow for New York, re-
turned to Greenock Feb. IL after
frightful experience. When about
100 miles out, during heavy storm,
everything above decks was swept
away by huge wave, which board
ed the vessel when nobody was pre-
pared for it. John Cook and John
Hamilton, second and fourth Off
GERS; James Pritchard and Fred
Westbury, stewards; Peter Mclean
and William Urquhart, seamen;
James and Lillian Gibson, Jane CAT
ferry and John Stewart, first cabin,
and David Forbes, second cabin,
were washed overheard and drown
ed. Captain Dalziel was dashed
against the bulwarks and so severely
hurt that he died next day. The
vessel then put about and started
back under command of the first
officer.
The Pomeranian encountered
boisterous weather Immediately after
leaving port. The 4th of February
dawned with a frightful gale raging
and a tremendously high sea run
ming. The matches were battened
down and covered with tarpaulins,
the ventilators turned to leeward
and every precaution dictated by
good seamanship had been taken to
prevent the water getting below.
Several heavy seas were shipped, but
they did no damage.
Suddenly tremendous sea reared
it's crest short distance ahead Of
the steamer as she plunged down
the wave and before she could rise
the sea came over the starboard bow
and tons of green water swept aft.
Almost at the same time the falling
wave astern came aboard. The re-
suit almost defes description. The
deck saloon, chart house, bridge and
boats were smashed to pieces and
partly washed overheard, the deck
was covered with an almost inextri-
cable mass of wreckage and the ut
most confusion reigned.
At first the full extent of the dis
aster was not known. The steamer
begin to pay off before the wind and
sea, and it was at once seen that the
quartermasters had been carried
overheard. Two sailors sprang to
} the wheel and soon put the steamer
on her course, and then it was found
that Captain Dalziel was missing.
He was last seen standing on the lee
side of the steamer aft of the saloon
, in conversation with saloon pas
senger named John Stewart. They
were both dashed against the deck
house and then carried with terrific
force and jammed beneath the after
steam winches. Captain Dalziel's
legs were broken and he sustained
internal injuries. He was carefully
removed to his room, but he died
the next morning. Stewards legs
were also broken, and he sustained
other injuries, from the effects OF
which he died in few hours.
When the sea boarded the steamer
every man about the deck who saw
it coming grabbed hold of the
, stanchions or of anything else con
venient, and it is due to this fact
that the loss of life was not much
larger. For the time the utmost con-
sternation prevailed, but this gave
way to feeling of sadness when it
was found that SO many lives had
been lost.
With Captain Dalziel fatally in
jured and unconscious in his cabin,
the command of the steamer devolv-
ed upon the first officer. When the
9 chartroom was carried away the
: charts, sextants, quadrants and, in
fact, everything essential to the navi
cation of the ship, went with it
The binnacle-box and the compass
on the bridge had also gone over
board, and had it not been that the
after compass remained it is doubt
full if the steamer would have reach,
ed port for many days yet.
The situation of affairs was terri
BILE. The first officer called the re-
naming officers of the steamer into
consultation, and it was decided tc
put about and return to Greenock
This was at once done, and without
, any instruments with which to take