The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-17
TWO MORE IN THE STORM.
The ChattahOOChoG and the Macon
Weather the Gale Without Damage.

rba Cbattahooohee Struck Forty to
FIFTY Mile Blow and Reached Port
twelve Hours Late-The Macon Had
the Gale Several Hours Longer and
was Twenty-Four Hours Late.
wreck of the Julia A. Trubee Re-
norted-Neither Vessel Was Dam
aeed By the Encounter With the
storm.
The Chattahoochee, from New York,
reached her dock about o'clock yester-
dav afternoon, twelve hours overdue
Like the City of Augusta, which came
ont of New York two days before her,
she met with strong southeast gale,
which shifted to the southwest, and made
italmost impossible for her to make any
Roadway.
The Chattahoochee struck the gale
soon after leaving New York She left
port Friday afternoon, and Capt. Savage
saws that a strong gale from the southeast
began to blow before midnight that night.
Il seems that the storm had Travelled
some distance north, as the Chattahoo-
chez met it before she had passed the
mouth of the Delaware.
A FORTY TO FIFTY-MILE GALE.
While these old mariners who have
sailed the seas for years speak of a storm
of this kind very lightly as if it were
nothing more than a gale, it seems that
Can't. Savage got his full share of the
blow From Friday at midnight he had
a pretty steady blow until or 0 O'Clock
the next morning, the wind velocity, he
Judges, being from forty to fifty miles.
The wind for him was almost a head
wind from the start, blowing first from
the southeast and then from the south
west and he didn't have to turn out to
sea to face itN He was head to the wind
hesays, with a very heavy sea for about
eight hours, but the blow was not a very
severe one and there was no damage
whatever to the ship. The waves washed
over the deck with q great deal of force,
but everything was cOrked up so tight
that little or none of the water got into
the cabin or the hold.
The cabin was scarcely dampened and
the cargo was not wet at all. The SHIFT
ing of the wind from the southeast to the
southwest held the Chattahoochee back
so that she could make little head
way, and this was responsible for the
twelve hours delay
Capt. Savage's barometer went to 1890,
being just two hundredths higher than
that reported by Capt. Daggett, who APP
preached much nearer the center of the
storm. Storms seem to be pursuing Capt.
Savage with a vengeance, but he came
out OF this one without scar.
THE MACoN's TRIP,
The City of Macon came in some three
hours before the ChatCahoochee. reaching
her dock about II O'Clock in the morning
The Macon met the storm Friday night
about 10 o'clock, she being somewhat fur
Their advanced than the ChattahoOchee.
The indications of the storm and the
falling barometer were noticed off the
Delaware coast and the Macon was steered
out to sea. She was head to the gale for
about twelve hours, during which time no
Roadway whatever was made. The Macon
arrived in port about twenty-four hours
overdue. She was not damaged materi-
ally by her contact with the gale. Neither
Of the ships had a very full list of pas
sengers.
The Macon reports that on Oct. 13, at
D. m, 20 miles northeast by east from
Frying Pan lightship, the schooner Julia
A Trubee of Bridgeport, Conn, was
boarded and found abandoned and filed
with water Her three masts were found
standing, but her rudder was broken and
her deck load had shifted to starboard.
The Julia A. Trubee, Capt. Hansen, sailed
from Savannah Oct. 6, for New York
with a cargo of lumber shipped by Cooney,
Eckstein & Co.
The Macon also took mail from the
Frying Pan lightship. The captain of
the lightship reports the heaviest gale
seen in that quarter for years, and said
that his houses were stove in and one of
his boats lost.