The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-10
TEUTONIo SAFE IN PORT.
She Laid on New York - Hours
Owing to the storm.

She Laid on New York 2S Hours
Owing TO the storm.
New York, Feb 9.-The White star
steamer Teutonic. about which great anx-
iety prevailed, owing to her unusual long
voyage. arrived of Sandy Hook at $50
p. m. on the evening of Feb. Z, within
three miles Of the lightship, but hauled
off shore owing to the terrible blizzard
then prevailing. Capt. Cameron ran his
vessel seventy miles southeast for more
sea room. The vessel was detained in all
2S hours outside Of the bar.
While running in toward the Long Island
shore, about five miles south Of Long
Beach, L. l.. at ? o'clock on the afternoon
of Feb. 8, she signaled a small fishing ves-
sci showing a signal OF distress. The YES
sci was approached with caution, because
Of the high seas and excessive cold. Life
boat No. l was cleared from the chocks
and swung out to leeward with a crew
of four men and the fourth officer in
charge. The boat was safely launched
and cleared from the side Of the steamer.
Then the crew tugged manfully at the
oars, but failed to get to the distressed
vessel after struggling for an hour, dur
ing which the boats crew suffered from
the intense cold, which was further aug
mented by the spray, which dashed over
the side Of the small craft, forming in
stantly into ice. The fourth officer suf-
fered most being obliged to remain COM
paratively inactive, while his crew were
exercised at the oars. At $3.50 o'clock the
boat returned to the steamer unsuccess-
full, and was hoisted on board. Capt
Cameron then steered the Teutonic to the
windward of the unfortunate vessel and
dropped down alongside, affording partial
lee for the suffering fishermen, who launch
ed dories and were successfully hauled on
board, where they were soon made com
Portable. The ma 4es - the rescued men
are Capt. John Erickson c. H. Godfrey
C. II. Thompson, Nels Nelson, Oscar Kelly,
s. Peterson, j. +. Carben. J. Fred Ander-
son and Harry Larsen. The vessel proved
TO be the fishing schooner Jessie Reeves
of New York, owned by George T. Moon
OF Fulton market. The vessel was aban-
doned and soon left astern as the huge
steamer again hauled off the dangerous
coast.
The Teutonic left Queenstown Jan. 81,
with the wind southeast, fresh to moder-
ate, the sky overcast and the sea running
with a long high swell, which continued
throughout the next day. increasing to a
fresh gale on Feb 2, with squally weather.
Feb. 3 the gale moderated, but the sea
continued high, with a northerly swell.
On the Attn the wind shifted to southwest
and northwest, moderated with a confused
swell and high head seas.
On the 9Th the wind was east-southeast
to west in lat. Al &C. and long 90 A, in
creasing to a whole easterly gale and
westerly hurricane, with an extremely
high head sea. This day the steamer
made but 1886 knots.
On the 9Th the wind was west-north-
west, with strong gales, with a heavy
snow and hail, squalls and high head
seas. This days run was only 22S knots.
A terrible gale continued during the
next day. Only 240 knots were made and
at noon the steamer was 1856 knots from
the Sandy Hook light vessel A tremend-
Gus blizzard prevailing during the past
two days warned Capt. Cameron of the
danger of approaching the coast. The
vessel was not forced at her usual speed,
and when within three miles of the light
ship it was deemed best to run off to sea.
Snow and sleet came down with driving
force, end the high gales and prevailing
thick weather rendered 1t impossible to
approach too close to the entrance to the
port. At 7:04 p. m. Of the Sth the Teu-
tonic anchored on the bar to await the
morning tide. The tides at the entrance
to the harbor have been extremely low
for several days. All of the passengers
speak in highest praise of the able sea-
manship displayed by Capt. Cameron in
the management of the steamer through
out the whole voyage of extremely bad
weather. No great damage was done to
the vessel.
Capt. Cameron says he saw nothing of
La Gascogne, and can offer no conjecture
on her detention