The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-21
,lrpe White WaterSpeutS
( AGAINST a Black Sky.
.,Il, They are Black, But These Appar.
'' .ntly Had More |apOr than Water.

.psl1Snlp N"'''A ~
,,.p longing for a doz On years or
.,,s to get alongside of a water
ANT and when found, like Capt.
a,ale make a note ont. He has
,.r the regulation, balloons shaped
.s;rlers of the sea in the Indian
"ssu and the Bay of Biscay several
saes off, aud has made an effort to
ss.m closer, but they have always
,Inded him On Saturday afternoon
i. longing was almost gratified.
Tue Castilian Prince was then on
NE inner edge of the Gulf Stream,
N Hatteras, bound for this port
hmm Havana There was q fresh
I,psza from the southeast and the
Az was clouied to all horizon. The
kipper was on the bridge when he
Iheryed about two miles on the
nt hand, or shoreward, Yankee
t,terspout that soon made the
Enegners he had observed years
lsfore appear feeble and nnimpres
i've. The popularity of this Hat
xrg whirlieig was its snowy white
tp;s. Ii came out of a black cloud
Ike a slender tongue, and descended
the sea as if it were going TO
tck itup Ii lashed the surface for
space Of a third of mile into a
Eament Then it began to grow,
puch like a giant mushroom, as il
a7orted down the coast
The captain brought his glasses
bear on il and noted that 1t was
cunning he shape of top spin
lirg along the sea. 1t still retained
\. snowy aspect. He estimated
hat il was about mile and half
kigh and more than half a mile in
iianeter at its bullying middle.
Iha cap ain says the spout was
moving southwark apparently at
the rate Of about five knots an hour
He was very anxious to get a closer
view Of 1t, and he says if the ship
had belonged TO him he would have
overhauled it and found out exactly
how big it was and what made it 40
While. He thinks he can outsail
any wa!erspout off this or any other
coast
Just after the spout vanished the
lorherly sky suddenly became pitch
black and the barometer began to
tumble The skipp + prepared for
nasty blow While he was look
ing forward into the inky sky from
|lne bridge two white visions arose,
|one'off each bow Of the Castilian
Prince. TIE skipper recognized
'aem as members Of the same breed
Of Caucasian waters pouts that the
spectral lnshore monster belonged
%, and, for the first time, he feared
nat he might get a little closer tc
he rotat ny columns than might be
!ood for the steamship. He
thought about the several Thousand
IONS OF sugar in the hold, and hoped
ae spouts wouldn't fall on the shiE
End spoil the cargo. He had hear(
aa the conclusion of cannot
would smash a waterspout, but h
uan't have a cannon. However
mere was musket aboard, and thi
sA made ready to shoot into tn
spout If ii showed an incl nation t.
"OUop down on the ship
Inc skipper says that if tn
pouts had been travelling his wa.
ue wouldn't have been at all con
Vs'aed about them. His ship Cal
make eleven knots handily, and, a
ae 'spouts were making probabl,
"" than six, he could keep jas
'asaa CT them or run alongside am
careful study OF JneM ~
~s benefit of science.
oae of the spouts, on the mic
sgat blackness of the norther
s;v,'lz'n, looking not unlike a whit
p"af OF marble. The other, o
~eport bow, was cratic and altt
s ,I., unique. 1t was of uniforI
, thNAaess from top to bottom an
,v'ul a mile tall. 1t resembled
he; ssrpent-or the ghost of one
l,.'l.aig a piece out of a cloud an
,l lung the sea with its tail. TT
s ,pper said it wiggled just like
me snOut On tho aoahoard hn