The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-14
WIND AND WAVES.
Storm May Have Settled Fate
of the Strathnevis.
SNOW pLow IN THE CASCADES
Arrival Of the silver How-shfp Buck-
fngham In the storm-Ihe oc"s'a
Mil Damaged,

There were people uao said Seattle had
n great storm yesfeTSay-p o. toe a
Ter front. too. who ought 70 knoS WEsal
storms are. r,s1e the weather sharp, o.
Ac5aFlv known as Director George ; sans
hurry knew better. Tfe sat - Ms COY
room n the %ew York building all Gay.
and said the storm was not 10 - COM
pared with that % Thanksgi Wing GAY 'Ff'el
he took a trip 70 Tacoma tbs stststileht
could not help but produce "A smile. 50 ne
fer hack on his figures for support These
figures showed that the sind, nortn
wind. bisw yesterday az n velocity o. tniF-
~ miles. which was pretty htEn. ne r.
juctanfly admitted. bat IA palhation sara
we often had winds 81 from thirty - tfi'r-
fy-six miles an hour on the Sound, ana 70
particllar embarrassment TO shipping was
experienced 50 that yesterday 1as not
much OF q blow after all. according 70 me
weather sharp Why. On Thanksgiving
dsg Il blew a. the rate Of thirty-four niles
an hour for Hge minutes. and az the rate
of forty miles so- two minutes. The max
Mum velocity Is calculated ny FIVE minGtos
duration. ana forty miles an hour : FsGh-
oapd extreme yelocitv.
Bat AZ Salisbury sal that there had uf'-
douisfedly beer oad weather outside. hls
reports showed great depression OF van
coaver island. aud for two or three days
past there had evidently been rough times
OF kfif4 NOtf& III the tAF@ttEs am tt@ 4tHaNA
blown signals 90 mariners announcing TINS
fact.
IL was declared 10 DC the worst storm or
the season hy chose who do not have
figures - -efcv 70. and YET no damage Was
done along the water front or among tie
vessels here 20 amount 10 anything The
rail on 2uaonz's aost next Ia the abroad
track was dashed away and a few Foiin-
ties were made AZ other improperly pro-
tected points. and that was about all, eX-
ceuf that the 81 boomer Lena Sweazey, end
one or two sfher vessels. thought Il well
10 wait an hour or So before being toHed
out
In regard to the vessels that were
kncsn 10 be out on the Pacific. however,
the fear ~ their meeting with the storm
and suffering Disaster was general IL
Was believed shat she disabled Strath-
nevis would never bc able 10 weather ~.
n she wouia be In the storms track. and
II began again 10 be- wondered whether
Capt. wyman had been so ill-adyised
10 try 70 return 20 this port in the
schooner Eiwood so late in the season.
An Imaginary >hlpwreck.
There was what appeared TO he real
story of shipwreck. The tug Sea Lion
at dusk brought In "A British bark with
her mizzen topmasts missing-a sure in
dicaiion that she had felt the force OF the
STERN. what her name was nobody on
The water front knew. and the reporter
who rowed out to her anchorage In the
dark and a downpour Of rain was trhe
disappointed In possible story Of marine
disaster. She proved to be the Silver How,
ls7 days out from Liverpool to Victoria.
one OF Balfour. Guthrie * Co.'S ships
and jolly Capt Dougall and his wife. In
their cosy cabin. laughed heartily when
asked about their mshaps
why. We have been In this ship twenty
years" said Mrs. Dougan, and we have
never bad an accident; never ran aground
or lost a mast In all that time
and whore have you been. captain
in the last twenty years? oh that's
too much TO ask man II would take
me too long TO tell Ask me where we
haven't been. and can answer you quick.
We have been pretty nearly everywhere
that sailing vessels Of this size run 10.
and. as my wife says. have had no thrill
Ing adventures. Have We Mrs y p
'No. Why. my youngest boy. when NC
were last IN Liverpool said 70 me:
Mother have YOU never been shipwrecked
on a desert lsland? and when ! replied
No, he seemed 20 be disappointed. He
said. why. [ have read OF a man who
was shlpwrecked and had 90 Eve on
desert island FOR four years"
But hos did you lose your mizzen top
mast captAin?
EVE didn't lose H. We took II down 20
replace IL with a good Washington fir
spar. / was never here before, hut they
tell me vouc sticks are good ones. We
have had too much rain since We have
been tn the sound That's an We aave to
complain Of"
What cargo wilt YOU take captain"
Wheat from here and salmon from the
Fraser. l believe"
II may have struck Capt Dougau.
stranger. that Seattle was having a heavy
rainfall It has struck others. who are
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