The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-08-29

Particulars have been received Of an
adventure which the British bark Cash
mere had whilst on voyage from Pts
aqua to New York. After rounding The
Horn she ran into an iceberg, 1uanti-
ties Of broken ice falling on the YES
sells deck. Captain Thompson gives tfe
following account Of the affair: We ret
sail on Jaunary I'd. and rounded the
Cape on February 2Sth. AS we came on
the easteriy side we ran into thin mist
and met few small icebergs. didn't
worry much about the ice. nccause |
had been round the Horn twenty times
and had seen lots Of 4. mat day
young Swede fell overheard, and
though we hove to and lowcred the
boats, we failed to pick him up. The Ice
became more plentiful as we moved
along and in couple OF DAYS We ran
across more bergs than ! ever saw In
the Southern seas before. March LIST,
we were about 300 miles Of the Fsalk-
land islands. At that time, with the
extra lookout and the watch nleIt, we
crashed into berg at 10 o'clock al
night. The bowsprlt is in two sections,
composed of hollow steel. "a inches In
diameter at the base. The forward
section Of the bowsprit was just tele-
scoped into the other part, and then
the whole thing was iabbed right into
the forward bulkheal and clean
through to the nold. On deck, beams
were broken and the tirabcrs werc
ripped up. The tee was broken away
with the force of the collision, and ii
came tumbling down on the forward
deck in massive chunks until II was
piled high above the bulwarks and the
vessel looked as II she was n turtle
back. The deck slopes back COED
deal toward the stern and pieces OF
ice rolled down off the heaps and slid
right along the alleys on the pors and
starboard sides until they struck the
stern rail and careened over into the
water. The sailors who were as,eep In
the deckhouse grabbed tneir clothes
and seaboots, and rushed out. One Of
them, known only as Dutch Albert,
was struck by one Of these pieces OF
ice. The wind coming around the berg
formed sort Of eddy, and drove Us
against 1t second time, but the inF
pact then was light, and we suffered
no injury. We sheered off bit with the
rebound, and had chance to size upp
the berg. 1t was easily three timeAs
higher than the truck Of our maiiF-
mast. That would leave II about eight
hundred feet above the water. AS soon,
as we got clear, had soundings made
and the pumps examined; we made no
water, though some of our plates We're.
sprained. Our collision bulkheads held
out in great shape. We floundered
aronnd in a region of icebergs for eight
days. on March 9th, in the afternoon,
1t began to rain; saw deliverance
near, for rain in that section Is usu-
ally followed by southwest wind.
Sure enough the wind came up. and
we made Rio Janeiro on May 2Sth, and
made New York, our port OF destina-
ton, without mishap, in July.
The Cashmere used to run to San
Francisco, some years ago, being then
in the Fernie Line, and commanded by
Captain Lyons. On one voyage she was
chartered to carry a cargo Of wheat at
five pounds ton. Old timers remem-
Der how, after she was loaded and the
surveyors had been on board, the cap
tain filled all his staterooms and every
space he could find with bags Of wheat,
and so made q number more Of five-
pound notes for her owners.