The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-30

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east wind and heavy southeast sea. We
rounded Cape Hatteras about O'Clock
that evening and struck "a very heavy
southeast sea with an increase in the
wind from the same direction.
con Sunday morning / was OF Cape
/ Fear, and then il was that the wind be-
gan to increase to a hurricane. knew
then that we had struck a storm, but
. determined 70 weather it until il became
so heavy that the ship would have to
turn to and face the sea.
PCT OUT TO SEA
Il ran the ship on her regular coarse
! as nearly as possible all day, but at six
! o'clock Sunday afternoon the sea became
so heavy that could do so no longer. I
/ then headed out TO sea, heading the ship
| to the storm and went out about
| fifty miles. The vessel heaved and rolled
! fearfully, but I was confident that she
| could weather the storm all right We
hove to from o'clock Sunday evening
until u o'clock on Monday morning, after
/ which time we ran in to make Charles
I ton, but the weather was so heavy
/ that I decided not try it and
made for the Martins Industry light
| ship. That was gone, too, and 1 found
| later that it had drifted some twelve or
more miles from where it had been an
chored and was located down somewhere
near the outer sea buoy The first light
saw was the Hunting's Island light,
which was yesterday afternoon. then
came on towards Tybee and reached there
some time before midnight last night
l would have come up the river then but
the range light at Tybee was gone, and 1
didn't know what other damage might be
done to the other lights and channel indi-
Gators up the river. On this account I
went back out little distance and wait
ed for daybreak before coming up to the
city"
NEVER LOST HOPE.
Capt. Foster says it is a mistake about
him ever losing hope or giving up the ship
as lost.
Gwen when the gale was at its high
est, ;" he said, II was still confident that
the ship was all right and that she would
pull through. was not once scared or
afraid as to the outcome, for if had been
l don't know what might have been the
result"
Capt. Foster was in the pilot house for
forty hours without leaving it. 1t was
all he could do to stay there. The water
beat in on all sides and he was thoroughly
drenched. Sometimes the vessel would
roll so far over that the floor of the pilot
house was almost perpendicular, and the
only way that he and the quartermaster
Gould ho5v
on to the railing for dear life. During all
that time while the captain was in the
pilot house he had nothing to eat buta
piece of hard tack.
EXPERIENCES OF THE PASSENGERS.
Capt. Foster said that there were no
meals at all cooked on board during the
storm, and in fact there was no necessity
for it. The passengers were Miss Julia
Carolan, Miss Mary Carolan, Mrs. J. J.
Carolan, Master James Carolan, Miss
Marie Carolan, Miss X. Lawler, p. H.
Newell, J. H. Bond and 7. H. Brown.
All the passengers were driven from
their staterooms by the water, which was
constantly pouring in and which it was
impossible to keep out. They collected in
the cabin when the storm first came on
and they remained there until it ended.
1t was impossible for them to sit down or
stand up, as every heave Of the ship
would throw them down. They gathered
upon the cabin floor, and there they re-
manned in fear and waiting, as they
thought, for the end to come.
Capt Foster did not see any of the pas
! sengers until the next morning, aud he
says every one of them told him that they
thought their time had come. When the
storm was at its hight they were momen-
tarily expecting the ship to go to the bot
tom. They were all ready and glad
! to be able 10 thank Capt. Eos
ter for having brought them safely
| through the terrible battle with the ele-
ments. There were hearty welcomes
when the ship arrived at her wharf yes
terday morning. The sisters and family
of Mr.. J. J. Carolan, agent of the Balti-
more line were aboard, and nothing was
too good for Capt. Foster when he
brought them all up safely.
WORST HE HAS EVER SEEN.
"That storm is the worst / have ever
| seen or ever expect to see,' said Capt
| Foster. 1T is the worst storm that has
blown off this coast in fifty years. Ihave
never heard of a worse gale on the coast
than this one within that time,
and during the twenty-six years
that I have been going to
sea know have never seen a worse
! one.
The barometer went down below 90
| and the wind must have blown at least
| SIS or 90miles an hour. Gusts crossed our
! bow so heavy that it seemed as if they
would almost carry the ship away. The
wind succeeded at least in wrenching the
iron doors on the lower deck entirely
away
''You may talk about the storm of 1881,
! but l saw that and it was not a circum-
stance as compared with this one. l be-
| lieve this one has done Just twice as
much damage as did that one, and know
that the gale was the worst 1 have ever
seen in all my 26 years experience.
SIGNS OF WRECKS IN THE SEA.
II saw no signs of any wrecks until
reached a point off Charleston. There
the water for some distance was literally
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