The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-15


end. Port Angeles and ClaIiarn hay nave
afforded q haven OF refuge for vessels 4
Their way 70 sea TIE ship Louisiana : al
Smith cove. and the bark Mercury would
have left Port Blakeley yesterday for San
Francisco. Il the weather signals had rot
been unfayoraole. The ship Eclipse. COM
ing 10 this port from San Francisco To-
Black Diamond coal, e anchored in Apple
Tree cove. The steamship Walia Waila
came n az So IN the morning from san
Francisco, with 100 tons OF freight, and a
big passenger list Ex-Alderrnan Snyd--.
one OF the passengers, was very seas!ck,
although the captain assured him that =
was nothing Of a storm compared 10 The
ones that he himself had experienced. II
was nothing e make i song about. he said.
The steamship Transit. returning from
Central Americz. came in early in the
afternoon and her captain said they had
had no trouble yesterday but three days
before. of Cape Flattery. they had gone
through A terrific STERN. The Al-Ki came
in later from Alaska. and also reported
heavy weather outside the Sound.
number OF sailing craft from up the
Sound are anchored At various points,
awaiting an abatement Of the storm.
ship Barely Misses the shoals.
South Bend. Dec 14.-Special.-The Flot-
beck. Capt. Junge. of Hamburg, came with
in a hairweadth OF going on Ocean beach
yesterday morning and sharing the fate
OF the Sra hhane. She was bound for Port
land in ballast from Santa Rosala, 10 load
wheat. She had taken A cargo OF merchan-
disc 10 the latter place from Hamburg
on Sunday of last week she took on a pi-
lot, Dan McVickar. off the mouth OF the
Columbia The wind vas in the southwest.
with every indication Of changing 10 the
northwest. The vessel was driven 10 the
northward. the pilot not keeping her far
cut at sea, a. he expected the wind 70
change and then cross the Columbia bar.
The wind did not change and the Flotbeck
was driven in shore by the heavy gale. So
close In were they that the captain and
crew had given up hope and made all posi-
HE preparations for battling with the
waves. Three rockets were sent up, as
sigma, OF distress TO the North Cove life
saving station. The pilot made for the en-
trance 70 Willapa harbor and by good for
tune the vessel came barely within the
whistling buoy on the bar and made the
bay in safety. Some of the sails were car
red away but no other damage was done.
Capt. Junge says 1t was the worst storm
he was ever In. Pilot McViokar says that
none but an iron vessel would have with
stood the strain. The F'lotbeck is the sec
ond vessel which has made this bay as a
harbor of refuge within year.
Great Fear for the StrathnevIs.
Port Townsend. Dec. 14.-As the days
pass by and no news of the disabled steam
er Strathnevis is received. general anx-
iety for her safety IS intensified During
the past week violent storms from the
south have been raging in the North Pa
ciic ocean for 1000 miles off shore, and eX-
perienced navigators say that the Strath-
nevis is in imminent danger of founder
ing. At best the southerly gales and cur
rents would speedily send the steamer to-
ward the dangerous islands of British
Columbia and Southeast Alaska. That the
gales were of unusual violence is evil
denced by the stories told by officers Of the
Norwegian steamer Aladdin, which ar
rived today from the Orient. She expert
enced a succession of gales from the south,
and at times il was all the Aladdin could
do while under full steam to retain steer
age through the tremendous seas.
The captain says the fate Of the disabled
vessel in the storm through which he
passed would be speedily settled by her
going to the bottom. His steamer passed
few miles north of the location where
the Strathnevis was when she signaled
the bark John CANDLES. The Aladdin did
not sight a era Fl of any description. That
gives hope that one or two of the search
ing steamers may have taken the Strath-
nevis after she drifted a few hundred miles
north.
The storm off the Washington and Van
couver island coasts for the past few days
has been unusually severe. The British
compelled 10 put into Clallam bay for safe
~. Old coasting sh!pmasters refuse 10 so
TO sea, and consequently there are dozen
vessels anchored on the south side of the
Straits of Fuca. Signals tonight Indicate
that the storm will continue for another
forty-eight hours, its center being about
the locality where the Strathnevis is sup
posed to be. Although there are ave
steamers securing the ocean for the dis
abled craft yet the opinion is fast gain
ing ground that she succumbed to the fury
of the storm.
shipping at a standstill-
Port Townsend. Dec. 1i,-Special.-A ter
rhe gale, accompanied by rain, has Pre-
vailed from the mouth of the Sound TO
Cape Flattery and beyond since o'clock
this moUning and the falling barometer
gives no indication of the storm abat!ng
tonight. In consequence all shipping here
abouts is at a standstill, and the Puget
Sound Tugboat Company, which has or
ders for seven vessels to be towed 10 sea
from various mill ports, Will move none
of them till the storm abates.
Portland, Dee. 1.-THE weather bureau
today issued the following bulletin;
storm of more than ordinary severity is
prevailing today over Washington and Or
egOn, especially TO the west of the Cas-
cades The weather bureau has issued
storm warnings and telegraphed TO all
ports that IL viii he dangerous for shipping
to leave port for the next twenty-four
hours Rain has fallen quite heavily, and
is vet falling. Gales OF forty miles an hour
and moro are prevailing along the Oregon
and Washington coasts.
Lowest Barometer in Two Years.
Whatcom. Dec. Special.-The weather
has been so stormy since the arrival or
the Philadelphia yesterday morning that
very few people have ventured out 10 the
vessel. and few of the officers or men have
been ashore. The barometer registered
% % today, which is the lowest point re-
corded in two years. 1t has been cold AMI
RAINY here. and on the mountains and
foothills and high points of the neigHbot-
ing islands some snow has fallen. At Mis-
sion Junction. 3 C.. there were two inches
Of snow yesterday. The Nooksack river
is raging. and the railroad and county
bridges at Everson are reported 20 be
IN danger.
snow for Climax.
As climax 10 the atmospheric disturb
ances. snow began to fall about 12;fl a m,
and within a few minutes the streets were
white With IL.
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