New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-21
ADRIFT IN THE STORM.
THE OCEAN TUG E. c. yEIT COMES TO PORT
WITHOUT HER TOW.


A HAwsER PARTED AND THE BARK EGERIA DIS
APPEARED IN THE DARKNESS AND TEMPEST
THE vEIT FLOATING ICE-PALACE.
Clad in robe OF ice that choked and smothercd
her the ocean tug Z. c. Veit struggled into
port yesterday evening. She carried her ensign
union down, in mourning for her consort, the
bark Egeria, which she had left at tho mercy Of
the winds and waves far out at sea- The Neit
left this port on February for Nassau. n. p,
to tow tn, Fgeria to New-York The Egeria
a British bark bound from Leghorn to this port,
with cargo of Carrara marble. She left Leghorn
on November 1s, and on January 20 she was
buffeted by a heavy gale. She sprung her main
yard. lost her sails and her cargo was 50 badly
shifted that she was obliged to put into Nassau to
have the contents of the hold restOwed Her
agents feared to trust the bark again to the
wintry weather. as the rolling and pitching OF the
vessel might again s.ift her cargo. and hurl the
great blocks OF marble against her sides. They
sent for the tug X. c. Vet, and a week ago the
two vessels left Nassau in company.
The big tug towed the heavy bark as patiently
as n mule does a canalboat until Saturday night
last. when hurricane swept down upon the
vessels and sent them them sturrying along at the
rate OF ten knots an hour. Captain DICK
Moran, of the tug, and the navigator, captain
Taylor, TOOK turns dt tne WlIecl, one houi az
time. and managed to keep the vessels together
until Sunday night. Then west-northwest gale
came clustering along and tugged and wrenched
at the big S-inch hawser connecting the vessels
until at a. ~ it snapped and parted like whip
cord The hawser broke near the stern-bltts OF
the tug For fifteen minutes the crew OF the
Vet saw the lights of the Egeria, and then the
| glow of the lanterns went out in darkness
There were six fathoms of chain from the
bark TO the blight in the heavy hawser 10
haul in such a weight of iron and heavy rope
would have been impossible, and it is probable
tiat the crew Of the Egeria cut the chains after
the hawser had parted. The Egeria had her 1lo
and staysails set She was manned by crew OK
eleven men. commanded by Captain Kerr she
can be put under full sail 1t is probable that
she has ,yeathercd the storm. and that tugs going
eastward to-day may find her and tow her 10
port in safety. H.
The Egeria is a bark of s97 tons register Her
length is 165 feet She has thirty-iive feet oeaih
and q depth of hold of nineteen feet She was
built at IIopewelh Ncw-Brunswick, In 1871 one
is owned by George +. Smith.
The tug r. c. Net was reported from SANDY
Hook yesterday morning. She was then hylhs
SIGNALS of distress, and she had two lanterns up
as IL She had something else in tow besides a
fragment of hawser At o'clock size reacned
quarantine She came up the bay shrouded IN
ice Her slender stack-guys were ropes ot &c. drv
| ronr inches In diameter. She was aImored from
stem 10 stern with shining piltes OF Icr Twelve
inches thick. Her coat of cleaning whiTi CON,
| na,Icd her outlines and made her look ike q
| bantom shin Ii is probable that news or the
bark Egeria may be brought into port to-day