The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-02-18
LA GASCOGNE ARRIVES.
TIE FRENCH LINER REACHES NEW
YORR WITH AL SAFE.
FIRST SIGHTED OFF FIRE ISLAND
DeIirious JOY Manifested by the Anxious
Ones Who Were wai;inG-Ticr Delay
Due to a Broken Piston Rod.


dropped anchor at the bar just before mid
night. all well on board, and a sigh of re-
lief goes up from two continents. The
delay was due to n broken piston roo, ana
to the terrific gales which have swept the
north Atlantic for the past week or more
and brought disaster to many stanch
craft Captain Battledon and officers and
crew of Ia Gascogne brought the ship and
passengers through the gales and MADE
port without help. From the time they
left Havre, on January 25th, until yester-
day, they spoke no transatlantic steam
err and saw only a four-masted schooner,
the one which reported Mt St PIERRE Mi
quelon, y. s, as having seen a large
steamer or the banks apparently in dis
tress last Saturday.
The United Press tug. Dalzell, was the first
tug to reach la Gascogne. The disabled
steamer had left Fire island twenty-five
miles astern and was eight miles to the
eastward Of Sandy Hook lightship
IL was 9:f5 o'clock y. m. The big liner
was Iimping into port at half speed with
two big red lights, signals OF Distress at
the foremost.
story of the Trip.
The ting Law alongside half an hour and
the following story OF the trip vas OBJ
tanned:
The steamer LEFT Havre January 2eth-
On the fist day out }l9 miles were logged.
on the second DAY 407 miles, on the third
after travelling $50 miles the piston rod
broke and eighteen hours were spent IA
making repairs. When they were COM
pleted the ship steamed n nine miles an
hour making in al siXty-six miles on the
18th. on the 3oth. 3lst ana February lst.
2l5. 2l5 and 80 miles Gay were made
respectively.
On February u the piston rod broke
down again. The break %as more serious
this time. Sea anchors were pat out, and
for forty-one hours tie shio was hove tc,
making repairs. on ne An the Hrst severe
weather was experienced and the ship
was blown 100 miles out or her course.
On the 18th, the repairs having been com
pleted. l93 miles We're Travelled. TIL, ship
was then clear TO the northwarl OF the
track Of transatlantic s{aam,1S, and AS,
therefore, not seen by the many steam
ers which passed 5vr .he regular track
On February 9Th 100 miles we're made.
Struck by Il Cyclone.
on the 9TH the machinery broke down
for the third time. The heavy cyclone
struck on this day and the ship hove to
with sea anchors out all day. No Roadway
was made and owing to the motion of the
ship, repairs were difficult on the next
day the chief engineer, who had been at
his post day and night completed the re-
pairs and the ship proceeded l3l miles.
on the 9th, FOR the fourth time, the ma
chinery broke down and only seventy-four
miles were made.
on the 10th $50 miles were made and to-
day. 10 the great rejoicing OF all ON board,
Fire island was sighted aud The ship crcpt
up 10 her anchorage off the bar.
The United Press tug was received with &
cheer IL the anxious passengers. They
crowded TO the rail, yelled and clapped their
hands with all the enthusiasm of the
TTssa
any one on board and would not come to
the rail to talk. The passengers were more
obliging.
A Passenger Interviewed.
julius Matrigin. representative OF the
glove firm Of Perrin, FTerts a Co, Of Par
ris and New York, was interviewed over the
side OF the ship. He said:
we broke down from the third day out.
We did not become alarmed. as we did not
know very much about What was the mat
ter. The captain said it was all ri4ht and
we had confidence in him. our first eXpe-
rience with gales was On February an.
We had a terrible blow then and one OF the
boats was badly damaged"
"N as anything carried away"
"No, the ship stood it well. we had plen-
ty Of provisions and Jared first rate. We
were blown of our course ana spoke 70 no
steamers until yesterday, when We saw au
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other passengers said that they had been
given plenty to eat and except for the
number OF times the sun rose and st. thay
would not have known that anything was
wrong. All particulars Of the accidents 10
the machinery were x ut from the pass Fl
gers. but the daily bulletins Of Jne knots
made told the story.
Beyond the tcdiousncss OF the voyage, the
passengers positively suffered no incon-
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machinery occurred ON the third day If
was not Till the ninth day that the steamer
ran into bad weather and then the slow
time which she was making was only that
which some Of the ocean grcyho1n1s would
have made under similar circumstances for
the fastest and stanchcst steamers slow
down before such a gale, the IeutoNic ANA
Umbria being eases in point.
In fact from the time Ia GaseoBue struck
the cyclone. size WAS liJtle worse en- tH3h
II she was ia prime running order. Tar
Toutonic was two days or The iirhisnip be-
fore she could make sandy Hook; there
fore Ia Goscognc's whole delay 50 Tar as
IL would be an occasion OF alarm 10 he
passengers occurred before she encountered
bad weather, consequently they Were az 40
time fearful for their safety.
Anchored oH sandy Hook.
Tho Compagnio Generate Traus-Atlantique
..,,, The t1l. Louis Pulvcr down 10 the ship.
IA C;a.scogne did not accept aid of the COM
pany's tu... but proceeded under her own
steam to her anchorage OH the Sandy Hook
Ut-htship. The steamer looked very little
worse for wear after her protracted trip.
She was not iced up like most Of the other
steamers that have arrived since the biz
gard one of her boats was damaged. but
all the deck gear was IN place. There was
a feet OF seven tugs lowering around the
steamer lust before she dropped anchor.
They were the company's tugs and the tug
hcTr.ng representatives Of the different New
York city peppers. The United Press tug
led the others up the bay and was the first
to arrive at the battery.
The La Gascogne VAL start UP the bay
early in the morning, and the passengers
will be landed before noon.
The passengers all united in saying that
they were not alarmed and had a good time
aboard The ship was out sixteen days in
all and the coal and provisions held out
to the end.
Agent Forget Gets the News.
1t was 4:30 o'clock this afternoon when
Agent Forget of The CompaiEne Goncrca,e
Trans-Atlantiquc. first received word Of tho
probable sighting OF the Ia Case 81
There were about twenty persons in the o.
fee on Bowling Green at the time most of
tl:cm being friends ard relatives of those on
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