The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-27
Terrible Pate Of Fifteen Men On a
Ship at Sea.
EFFORTS TO SAVE THEN
HEROIC CONDUCT OF CREW OF A
STEAMER.
Lifeboats Launched But Swamped By
the Mountainous Waves, and the
Rsscuers Barely Escaped With
Their, Own Lives-The Nornmore's
Tempestous Voyage.

Chicago, Dec. ga special to the
Times Herald from Norfolk, Va. says:
News has just been brought to the city
Of the loss of an unknown ship and her
crew of fifteen in the terrible storm of
Saturday night.
With her great steel bows bent and
twisted by murderous seas. two pro-
peller blades gone and steel life boats
transformed by giant waves SO that
they resembled- the figure 49," the over
due Johnston liner Noranmore, a 10, 600
ton vessel, the largest tramp boat
afioat, arrived in port tonight, twenty
three days out from Liverpool. after
encountering a hurricane of tremen-
dous proportions and one that nearly
sent the big ship to the bottom of the
ocean.
Captain Richardson brought the first
news of the loss of bark in mid
ocean with fifteen souls; of the almost
unequailed heroism on the part of n
boats crew from his ship, in an at
tempt to save the lives on the sinking
ship, and how in the hurricane and
darkness his own men narrowly es-
capped death.
Was a Terrible Voyage.
The Noranmore. had tempestuous
voyage all the way over and last Sat-
urday night was struck by the same
storm that sent the ArioSto on HatteraS
reef and twenty-one men to their death.
1t was about O'Clock in the evening,
the waves running mountain high, and
the wind blowing a hurricane, that
lights were seen i'll the distance and
above the fury of the storm came hu-
man cries for help.
The Noranmore had only ballast
aboard, and big ship as she was, tossed
like a feather, the seas making. clean
breaches over her. She, however, bore
down on the distressed ship and could
see that it was a bark already awash,
all masts gone, the crew waving lam
terms. and frantically begging to be
saved. A crew from the Noranmore vol
unteered to man life boat and in the
height of the storm, a steel boat was
launched.
The cries Of the imperilled ones were
now piteous, but the life boat lad hard
ly left the Noranmore when a tremen-
dous wave overturned it, and the
would-be rescuers were precipitated
into the sea. They fortunately wore
life belts, and managed to right the
boat. Lines had by this time been
thrown them, and they were dragged
through the waves to the Noranmore.
The Ship Disappears.
A second attempt was made to rescue
those aboard the bark, but she had dis
appeared in the darkness and storm
Although in imminent peril himself
Captain Richardson stood by until
morning and then steamed to where he
had seen the bark, but she had sunk
with all on board.
No wreckage could be seen, and it
was impossible to learn her name and
destination. She appeared to have had
three masts and evidently had been
loaded with a bulky cargo The bark
was a vessel of probably 1000 tons The
storm continued with undated fury,
and the Noranmore had to change her
course several times, finally heading
for Norfolk.
Captain Richardson said in all his
experience he never encountered such
a storm. The big ship sustained Sc
we're damage and will have to be repair
ed here. The waves at times complete.
~ engulfed his ship and swept every
thing movable from the decks Sew
eral of the sailors were tossed about
and sustained injuries.