The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-11
ARRIVAL OF THE uMBRIA.
The Captains Account of Her Trip
Fourteen PeOnIc ReScueL.

Fourteen People Rescued.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-The Cunarder Um-
bria, Captain Dutton, which sailed from
Liverpool Feb. 2, reached quarantine at
word of La Gasccgne.
Shortly after noon to-day the monster
ocean greyhound steamed past quarantine,
her shlouds and part of her bulk incrusted
in ice and glistening like myriads of dia-
monds. Huge iccles hung from her shrouds
both fore and aft. From the topmost edge
OF the bridge to the deck was one mass of
Glittering ice, and the lifeboats, davits ana
taft rails were covered with it.
1t was during the only spell of good
weather on the vessels voyage that she
was enabled to rescue fourteen persons who
were adrift in water-logged helpless bark.
Speaking of the rescue, Captain Dutton
said to-day: I'VE had a fairly good voy-
age after leaving Queenstown until we
struck the blizzard outside the Hook yes
terday. OF course the weather was bad and
we had heavy seas, but / have had far
worse voyages 1t was at 12:15 a. m. on
Feb. 6 we picked up the captain and crew
of the French bark Jean Baptiste. II was
made to me that a White Star line freight
er, supposed TO be the Cevic, had been
sighted The captain Of the Ceyic is an Old
let him know who we We're. The Cevic was
off our port side. The signals we sent up
were seen by the French bark, which was
over on our starboard side about five miles
away. 1t was not particularly cold, but
there bT wssterv was sweI lo"sTbe Tbe distressed @
crew was displaying red lights
to show that the vessel was out
three men went up into the mizzen rigging
with torches The bark was water-logged
A boat with five men, in command of sec
ond 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 BaptSte. 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"
wac from Halifax to Cork, laden with
deals Captain Lebot said he was the sole
owner of the bark and that she was not
eijsh and they will be cared for by the
French consul in this city.
Cartain Dutton describes the rest of the
vovare as follows: After making the adj
dtion to our passenger list by taking on
the Frenchmen our voyage was without
rough blizzard and heavy seas outside the
Hook yesterday afternoon. At o'clock yes
terday afternoon. during the height OF the
storm and while passing the Georgia
shoals, two hundred miles east of Sandy
Hook, we sighted a four-masted schooner
at anchor, riding very heavily She had
flag up and no sails set. The matter was
reported to me, but by that time we had
lost sight of her through the snow and
haze. / had the vessel put about and ran
down close to her. She had nothing flying
then: there were men on deck and steam
escaping from a donkey engine forward.
We laid to half hour, waiting for some
signal, but got none, It was showing, the
weather was cold and the sea too heavy 70
run the risk of lowering a boat to merely
make an investigation when no distress
signals were displayed. Just as we steamed
of ann a in
a very unusual place for a schooner of that
character right in the course of the ocean
steamers. Then we came on to harbor and
experienced the worst weather of the whole
trip. getting most of the ice that is on the
decks from that time on We had to come
very slowly to avoid getting more than we
did and keep in working condition, the
headway. We passed the lightship at 955
a. m. and reached quarantine before noon
to-day.
CAPTAIN Dutton was not worn out by any
means but he had been constantly awake
and alert since 2:15 o'clock yesterday morn
ing He had not heard of the fact that La
Gascogne was so much overdue, and when
asked for opinion as to her fate said
1T think she has broken down somewhere
and that she will probably turn up. Where
she may now be would be the merest con-
lecture. / remember that about twelve
wears ago the City of Brussels broke down
She sailed into Liverpool and almost TO her
dock before sighted She had for twenty
six DAYS sailed without sighting q yes
sci that could help her that was near
enough to recognize her and report seeing
her There was one thing in her favor too
that La Gascogne has not. The City of
Brussels had four masts for sails. while
since La Gascogne has been remodeled, she
has but two. She would have hard work
making any headway with them in the
weather she must have encountered -