The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-28

To he washed from bed BY a bolSte-ous
wave an. dashed frons its Wet arms with
rude strength against = hard deck is an
experience few women wouid wish for and
none would desire 20 have repeated. The
wife OF Capt Reed. OF the ship Berlin had
such an encounter wiki a fierce rider OF
the sea. and an occasional twinge from
broken arm reminds her Of the event
That she lived through the storm which
treated her so roughly was providential
TIE fran woman yet remains 20 tell the
story. while the staunch tirnbers which
surrounded her on the night Of January
= Asss, are floating. gn2ried and cracked,
On the bosom OF the Atlantic. The cabin
and bunk IN which she lay were crushed %
splnters, and every inanimate surround
ing was carried away. bat the woman,
dazed and bleeding. was reclaimed from
the nenaish waves by a husband whose
presence Of mind, tried by many a year
On the hazardous ocean did not desert him
IN the supreme moment
Tie ship Berlin was lowed in yesterday
from Pert Townsend by the tug Tyee.
her fore topgallant mast was missing and
as absence 4 once suggested a marine dis
asfer Such proved TO be the case. for the
mast, while not lost had been taken down
because Of a strain received during
Storm or I1e Atlantic coast on January \
1897. and before the Berlin leaves here
her foremost and rigging vii be removed
and chaaeed.
III home y ri Of the Berlin l. Bath. Me.
She arrived al Port Townsend s-veral days
ago from China. where she had gone from
New YORK, Capt. Reed modestly told yes
terday thrilling sea story " len aeco u =
very satisfactorily for the Berlin's need Of
new f1remast. Il was almost providen-
tai that the Berlin did not need also a
new captain, and the captain a new wife.
for the escape OF both from the storm OF
January was almost mary elous,
Capt Reed is q small man with bright
eyes and red cheeks. He WAS seen as he
ttlSiHs Yesterday with the gigantic
Capt. L. NJ Garrison. against when he
doomed up IKE a trim sloop alongside a
three-masted schooner.
we were three days out from New
York" he said. when we were caught By
a furious storm. As we dashed on in a
binding spray the decks were swept fore
and aft by mountainous waves. Ny wife
WAS with me on the voyage. and had al
ready retired when the storm broke
As night wore on the gale increased in
violence and the waves ran higher. About
midnight the crisis came. A huge wave
struck the ship with all it's foaming might
and We keeled over. almost buried beneath
the mass of water. I heard a crash OF
timbers. and when the vessel righted II
was found that the cabin had been stove
in on the starboard side and absolutely
EALteu OF contents MY WIG was
washed from her bed and was dashed to
the deck with a broken arm.
For four days the blow continued, and
during that time my wife lived in the
.wheelhouse. IL was very cold. and as all
the bedding had been swept away the
ships flags and some sailors clothing
were used for covering. / was enough OF
surgeon TO set my wife's arm. and she
has since recovered its use. When the
storm passed the ship was repaired as far
as possible. but the foremost has since
shown evidence Of the strain 10 which IL
was put"
Capt. Garrison has the contract for load
ing the Berlin with 1850 tons OF coal for
San Francisco, from the Oregon Improve
ment bunkers. and also for putting in a
new foremost and rigging. The absence
OF the fore topgallant mast OF the Berlin
caused much speculation on the water yes
terday. as the ship was lowed up the har-
Dor. This is pronounced by the old sea
dogs. "for-to- gallen-mus," with the ac-
cent on gal"