The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-11

Traffic Reaching Iormal Oondi-
tions on Interstate Railways.
SHIPWRB0KBD MARINES ARRIVE

The Steamer Umbria Brings to New York
the Crew of an Abandoned French Bark.
Still No News of La Gascogne from In-
coming Vessels.
New YORK, Feb. 1t.-Shortly after noon
yesterday the monster ocean greyhound
steamer Cmbria passed quarantine, bring
ing with her three of the survivors of the
wrecked steamer Elbe. They are Eugene
Schlegel of Furst, Germany on his way to
this country for the first time with his sis
ter Emma, who was lost with the ship;
Jan Vevera of Cleveland, O., and Carl
Hoffman, of Grand Island, Neb., whose
wife and child We're among the lost. The
vessels shrouds and part of her hulk were
encrusted in ice nearly foot thick glisten-
ing like myriads of tiny diamonds. Huge
icicles hung from her shrouds both fore
and aft. From the topmost edge of the
bridge to the deck was one mass of glitter
ing ice and the lifeboats davits and taft
rails were covered with it. 1t was during
the only spell of good weather on the YES
sells voyage that she was enabled to rescue
fourteen persons who were adrift in q
waterlogged, helpless bark.
Speaking of the rescue, Captain Dutton
said last night 1--WE had fairly good
voyage after leaving Queenstown, until
we struck the blizzard outside the hook
/ on Friday. OF course the weather was bad
and we had heavy seas, but have had far
worse voyages.
"It was at 1915 a. m. on Feb 6 that we
picked up the captain and crew of the
French bark Jean Baptiste. The dis
tressed crew was displaying red lights to
/ show that the vessel was out of control,
and we made toward her Three men went
up into the mizzen rigging with torches.
The bark was waterlogged A boat with
| five men, in command of Second Officer
Hogg was lowered When our boat
reached the distressed vessel the men found
that the crew had launched two boats and
were loading all of their effects. Captain
LebOt and his son were the last to leave
the Jean Baptiste. They came away in
our boat. The rest of the crew came to us
in their own boats, and said they had
brought all their personal effects with
them"
None of the barks crew can speak En-
glish, and they are being cared for by the
French consul in this city.
| Captain Dutton said he had seen moth
ing of the steamer La Gascogne, but thinks
it likely that her machinery is broken, and
| GndU 5ne Is WORKING under SAL.
The Red Star steamship Rhynland also
arrived yesterday after most tempestu-
GUS voyage. She saw nothing of the over
due La Gascogne on the trip. Other yes
sells arriving at this and other ports yes
terday give similar reports.
One of the French transatlantic steam
ers is anchored outside the bar, bound in.
1t is probably La Normandie, a sister ship
of La Gascogne.
The weather in this city has moderated
considerably. The lowest temperature here
for the past twenty-four hours was IA degs.
below zero, and the highest was 12 degs
above. The weather promises to continue
fair here now, with stationary te1hpera-
ture during the next few days. The storm
which is now forming off the west gulf
coast will probablynot strike this city at all
Reports from different sections show that
the railroad blockade that has existed
throughout the country is at an end at
least so far as the eastern and middle
states are concerned. In nearly every sec
tion trains are running on schedule time,
and the famine that threatened populous
centers will be ayerted.