The sun., 1894-03-12
TUNNELS OF SPUN CLOUD.
THREE YANKEE WATERsPoUTs DEAD
WHITE AGAINST BLACK SKI

Usually These whir,.r. ere Bi.eh, s-t These
the Cesuii.n Prince Met OF Hsuerns
Seemed 20 Ne More v.por thsr water.
Capt David Coull OF the British steamship
Castilian Prince has been longing for q dozen
years or more TO get alonRlde Of . waterspout.
and. when found. like Capt. Cuttle. m Ak note
ont He has seen the regulation. balloon
shaped swirlers OF the sea In the Indian Ocean
and the Bay Of Blscay several miles OF. and
has made an effort to steam closer. but they
have always eluded him. On Saturday after
noon his longing was almost Rrati1ed.
The Castllian Prince was then on the inner
edge Of the Gulf Stream. OF Hatteras. bound
for this port from Havana There was fresh
breeze from the southeast and the SKY was
clouded TO all horizons. The skipper was on
the bridge when he observed about two miles
on the port hand. or shoreward. q Yankee
waterspout that soon made the foreigners he
had observed years before appear feeble and
unimpressive. The popularity OF this Hat
teras whirllgig was its snowy whiteness. It
came out Of black cloud like . slender tongue.
and descended on the sea as II II we're going to
lick It up It flashed the surface for . space Of
third Of . mile into ferment Then II began
to grow. much like q giant mushroom, - IL
cavorted down the coast
The Captain brought his glasses to bear on
Il and noted that Il was assuming the shape Of
top spinning along the sea II still retained
its snowy aspect He estimated that It was
about o mile and . half high and more than
half Q mile In diameter at its bulRing middle.
The Captain says the spout WAS moving south
ward apparently at the rate OF about ave knots
an hour. He was very anxious to get closer
view Of It and he says II the shin had be-
longed TO MIN he would have overhauled 10
and found out exactlyhow big 1t was and what
any watcrspout on this or any other coast.
Just after tho spout vanished ,I the northerly
e sa sse
iorHsrd into the inky sky from the bridge. two
Castiian Prince. The skipper recognized
them as members Of the same breed of Cau-
$S:s''f $s HSsRsf' that sa Si 'hs ''s
ssss .s msss to sooS s' 6G GG'ihasF = sE,%Sns
lie thought about the several thousand tons
%osInSt is on the oi shp and spell the the eSpSo
He had heard that the concpssion Of cannon
%.'h but nss ns have
the spout 4 il showed an inclination to swoop
travelling his way no wouldn't have been at All
eleven knots handlly. and. as the spouts were
making probably less than six. he could keep
lubt hnehu OF tnem OF run RlOnGhlUo huu mako
. careful study OF them for the benefit OF soi-
ence.
Of the nortSern hofiSon, looked not nniife a
bow. was ,errAtie and altoeether uni1ue:. 1t
and about q mile tall II resemb bled a sea
! serpsnt-or the ghost OF one-bitinR q piece
The skipper said it wiRCled Just like great
The spout on the starboard bow. passed
malesticRly to the southeast about three
duartsrs OF mile from the shin The course
ss ss sS % :tsss sSd M
men. nearly all OF whom were gazing wonder
1s q hS Srsss 4
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skipper noted It with much clrcumspec.
Ike nS hsaS +. q aSes
satisfied with. the. view he had OF it. he
does not see how he could have been much
HisS it. q1s Esp. ri hs M ss'1f
from the moment IL formed until It disap-
spout might have broken against the ships
steel sides. Il whirled ,astsrn. missing the
% %shiD By aboIt out afty yards. and about an hour
s IL. H ss Sss Ss. .s s6s sy
spout went By. Il was ike : tropiesi thunder
sshewsr: The Y rain % came & in aoods and the
cal cannonading.
The skipper says all the spouts he saw be-
The meteorological farmer. Elias Is. Dunn,
says the whiteness OF the spouts was probably
due to the vapor they drew down from the
clouds. He thinks they were not very solid
and not dangerous He says also that 1t 10
nnusual for a group OF waterspouts to form on
the American coast.
Can't; Coull says he 10 named after tho man
quite capable OF knocking out outrunning. or
lodging any giant waterspout anywhere. He
says he never heard OF q waterspout doing any
haru tn n ahin and IA laliayaa ha
spout could have been dissipatsd by q musEet
shot