The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-05
TUSSLES WITH FIERCE SEAS.
zLL THE zEBUs ON THE FREIeH1ER
HANKOW WENT oVERBOxRD.

The Taornius Loses Her Main-sst aus
Her Passengers GO to Prayers - TIE
Eib. Bombardes With Bis Hsiisto-es.
The long old-iashioned. rakish ireighter
Hapkow dropped anchor Just below the statue
OF Liberty yesterday. after finishing the long
est and stormiest voyage in the memory of her
grizzled British skipper Capt. West She left
Yokohama eighty days ago. touching there
after at Hiogo. Shanghai. foochow, Hong
Kong and Singapore. She steam ed sluggish
ly through the Pacific. the China Sea. the To-
dian Ocean. the Gull VI Alden. the Red Sea, the
Ruez Canal. and the Mediterranean. and had
ideal weather except on one night. when
norther stirred up the pillows in the blue Ital-
ian sea.
Capt. West was anxious to have a pleasant
voyage. because he had as passengers ten
zebu bulls. fourteen East Indian ponies three
Indian elephants. and four cassowaries con
signed to the Barnum \ Bailey show The
Zebus were confined In pens on the main deck.
forward. with tho ponies. Two OF the ele-
plants. a big male and a female. were chained
below deck. and their pachy jerm Atous hope
full. Billy 500 pound infant had the liberty
OF curtained cabin on tho main dock.
The Haukow passed Glib as the veteran
shippers call the rock Of Gibraltar, on Jan. II.
The sacred bulls and the elephants enjoyed
the eastern edge Of the Gulf Stream, on Jan.
%. 1hon the barometer tumbled down to
~ so and the wind came waillng out Of the
southeast. IL shifted to south and then to west
and northwest. bringing down with 1t a touch
Of Labrador temperature which made the
sS6ms shvs Of wlna nSWsa Of ths e
plants and the dismal believing OF the sacred
bulls. all day on Jan. ~. 49,,
West thinks. might have overwhelmed the
ship il she had been deply laden.
Sho rolled and pitched and strained as only
ancient freighters can, plunglng her nose deep
In the trmn,t Nnd shippinaS tons S on green sSa
brought S her head to to the wind. Fierce squalls
HIT her every now and then and drove her into
At noon on Tuesday last tho steam steering
gear gave way, and while the ship was wal
lowing in the seas the hand gear was ship
sst sa spu until 5so g. IN tho Old iasiionsi
way. by a wheel on tho after deck. Four men
The hand gear gave way. and again the
freighter drifted into tho trough ut the mercy
The crests we're smoothed down somewhat
by oil dripped from bags over bow and stern.
The rudder was lashed hard down with tackle
the ships head to the wind. When a giant
wave impended the engines we're stoppr9 alto,
gether. and the ship was allowed to ride the
The gale was ut its worst between I and \
o'clock on Wednesday morning. The sacred
bulls had become 50 benum bed and exhausted
IaShyae ey w trSmpsteS sRriy and his parents
In the hold respon 1ed with thunderous bass.
The wind alone blew the cattle pens apart.
aud the sacred bulls and the ponies were sent
tumblng about the forward deck. Several
seas came aboard over the starb0ard bow IN
against 61iaarss and deck fixtures and Killed.
Several ponies were washed into the sea.
fSa as ponies were oithss KILLED or s-lspt
pns S INC and was throw overheard.
The elephants are IN charge OF three rnst
waters an WI" more than The beasts lid. Billy.
the infant Is only eight months old.
The IaS% IL bs EEsnnssFsfh The
series oi gales that nearly knocked out the
Hankow, and steamed into port with her main.
on Jan. II with lEi steerage passenger
She got mixed W with The t %oi;n, Of
She lay to twonty eight hours with her bow
dipping into the riot OF waters. Tho seas were
ssHss on bcs sssr 6e amid
ships. on the starboard side. at A. ~ smash-
Sn one Il me ana .sn NE %a
like giant Hail. while Can't. Koch and his on
GERS looked helplessly on from the bridge.
1t broke skyights, ripped the lee rigging
apart, and made such a racket tina, all the i'm.
migrants became panic stricken. Most OF the
Helt.ysI ed Of Of the support OF the lee rigging
the mainmest began TO topple to windwart.
ana tno panic on tHo snlp rs sne ileeltu HsaNliy
under tho leverage OF the leaning mast was
complete. Wave after wave rolled over the
weather rail while the Immigrants shrieked
Uficers sent into the s.eeragc succeeded In
quieting the passengers somewhat But when
the must snapped and crashed over the side
there was n repetition OF the panic. The boom
went BY the board with the mast, leaving tho
The ship righted, and, after the wrockage
was cleared away. she stood on her course,
getting in without further mlshap. Steward
HuDenet. while going from the galley 20 the
Captains room when the mast broke of. WAS
thrown down the cabin companionwRy anu
He was unconscious four days, and the
ships doctor did not know yesterday whether
The North German Lloyd steamship Elbe,
which sailed from Bremen on Jan. 23, arrived
yesterday having taken a long southerly
course to avoid the frosty northwesters.
bufrsted by the same gales in which the TaOr-
m ma lost her III ainmast, shipped lots OF water,
and passed through an unusually severe hail
storm. but was not damaged
this time really as big as hons eggs" aud
made a great racket on The steel decks, The
Elbe's passengers signed Testimonial AK
pressing their Rrateiulness to the Captain for
bringing them safely through tie TEMPEST and
complmenting him on his seamAnshlp..
There are Hlteen steamships. including the
UmhTiA OF the Cunard line. the AdIiatic "f the
White Star line, La lascogneo OF the French
line the PennlAnd OF the lied Star line the
ThingValla Of tine ThinRyalla line. and the ii.
III. Meier Of the North German Lloyd line,
overdue from twenty -four houTs TO four days,
Antwerp Her usual winter passage is twelve
daya Every one OF the fifteen belRted vessels
doubtless met the storm which blew along
the transatlantic lane oftraVeL