Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-01-05
RETURN OF THE CUNARDER
THE LONG DELAY CAUSED BY A
BROKEN SHAFT.
She Was Sighted In Midocean by
the Mahansett Last Monday
and Arrives at Ouaran-
tine Early This
Morning.
Safe at Home,


New York, Dec. 3l.-Capt. Duck. of
sighted off Fire island about > O'Clock
this morning. and arrived at quarantine
at daybrcak. a broken shaft wnS the
cause of the delayed passage. With the
exception of S.ormy weather no inconrcn-
fence was experienced.
New York, Doe. :iO-Capt. Duck, of
tn: steamship MnnhaSSrit. which arrived
from Bristol to-day, reports that on Dec
~ at ! 30 o'clock p. m. he spoke tn"
Cui:ardcr, tmhria. lying to with three
sea- anchors out. repairing her shaft She
expected to finish the repairs the next
day and wished tn be reported all we'll
The first mate was in charge of the
MaHha>Srtt at the time and the seaman $
eye, used to I'll sorts of weather, hard
cned to the scenes Of disaster and priva-
ton OF the SEA. mah.' ont that all was not
we'll with the black ship laying over 81"
lently against til" harkrncd Skc. She
lay to the north of tn" MnnhnsSrtt about
five miles out Of her course. but in Il mo-
nlent it was call all hands. and the bells
i'll the rooms of all the other officers
JlhEcd in Il moment. Capt. Duck and
Second Mate Ellis were on deck imne-
dlately. Their eyes were at the glass
and they. too, decided that all was not
well with the vessel. and began to grow
larger and to come nearer us the helm of
the Manlasctt wa> put down and the
sfea mship swung her nose around to the
south. The vessel in the distance lay
black and lonely. No friendly long ban
ncr of smoke rane rushing from her
smckr stacks. All looked forlorn and
bleak, deserted and disabled.
The ManhanSrtr. with some of the
northwest gale that WAS ut the time blow
ing for all it WAS worth, went hurrying
over the fvc-ilIilr course. soon the Man
hanSett came near enough to her to make
out her name and see those on board of
her. The men on the ManhanSrtt saw
that she was til" ('mhriH. and that Sh"
was undoubtedly under the weather.
Sh" did not look badly hurt. however.
She had no holes in her sides. no mast
gone, no Tapping sails hanging in ShrcdS.
no jury rul'lcr. There was no list to
her and Sh" looked just as il WAS after
ward learned to he true. merely laying to
to make repairs.
Quite Il fleet of steamships arrived at
this port last night and this morning"
Each arrival WAS scanned with great in
teirSt IN Tie hope that it might have the
oVcriu" lnhria in tow. Among these
was the steamship Lain. of the North
German Lloyd line. She passed about
SIX miles north OF the spot where the
tu1lar'icr was seen on Christmas even
ing. 1t wa> not. therefore. considered
remarkable fiat she did not see the miss
ing steamship. The Lain had IL very
tempeStuous voyage. SHE passed on the
way tn" dreaded Nahlr island. Other
vessels that reported early We're the Chi
cago City from BRISTOL Of the Bristol
City line. and the L"panto. Of the Will
son line from Hull. The last named was
tw"!ty-Scvrn days out and nearly Il
week overdue. There WAS also the Re-
gina. the tarmarthrnShirc and the
Ocean. AS all these steamships came
over the cours" taken by the tmhria.
great hopes were felt that one of these
vessels would have Il story to tell about
her. perhaps. and cover itself with glory
by having the hi. boat in tow. The lat
ter idea WAS diS>prlrI as soon as the
vessels We're reported.