New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-12
BIG WAVES HIT UMBRIA
ONE STAGGERS PATPICTA
heamen Injured on Cunarder-Cap.
tolns Cabin Wrecked T7cice.

with everything forward smashed. several Of her
ere" injured ard her passengers tired and sea
SIGN the Jhloria came into port yesterday more
'hHh Gay lete a week ego yesterday hugo
wave ooaTdeG her over the port bow, as the pas
sensers weTa at luncheon. and smashed in the cor
"ef OF the deckhouse, wrecked the captains room
and flooded the cabin. As II swept through the
cabln and chartroom, ii ripped out Captain Ste
Nehss bunk and. sweeping the chrenometer, sex
tant and compass down the main stairway. dis
ulouted them among the terrified passengers.
Luckily the Umbria carries duplicate instruments,
and the officers were not embarrassed. Many Of
the passengers did not know Of these auxiliary in
struments and thought that the officers made port
by dead reckoning.
Two days later another mountainous wave
climbed over the bows OF the UmbrIa. ripped out
another portion OF the captains cabin and carried
away the big tRrpaulin and wooden braces thai
covered the hole made by the first wave.
When the first big struck the Umbria on
Monday # knocked James Heay. n seaman, down
a companionway. Three Of his ribs were broken
Wednesday four more seanen were injured. Two,
named Roberts and Lemly, with two others We're
working forward when the wave boarded the
steamer They were picked up like straws and
swept for over hundred feet along the port side
OF the main deck. About midsh!ps Roberts and
Lemly struck against The butts there, and the
other two men piled Up top Of them -Four
OF Lemly's ribs broken and Roberts's thigh
dslocated and his face and body badly bruised.
They were attended by Or. J. P. Nunan Casey. the
ships surgeon.
Captain Stevens had ett the cabin Just before the
wave demolished II. The front OF the cabin was
beaten in as though il made Of wet cardboard.
and the deck beams started so that the water
drained through into the saloon. SO great was the
force Of the wave that the portfolios and the
buIIs-eyes Of thIcl, plate glass were smashed in a
hundred pieces. Tarpaulins were again stretched
over the openings but third wave tore them
away again the same afternoon
So rough VAS tho weather Thursday that the
Umbria logged only 272 knots. and tho day before
when the big waves hammered her. 30. During
the rest OF the voyage her speed was about 400
knots q day. ., ,.,
wind and weather the Patricia, fifteen days from
Hamburg reached HobOkou yes erday with the
same tale of distress from NeW year Fay 10 me
9th the Patricia met storm allSr S.4II-l - On on
ranied by hurricanes. Last Monday, the same day
that the first big Comber pounded the Umorla, the
Patricia the Flemish Cap, when IS known
as the Devils Hole She ran into one Of the big
waves which have been damaging the transatlantic
boats for the last month so and was swept from
done beyond the upsetting Of a fe" stewards and
seamen who not seriously hurt, The Patricia
Tnent shook the water off her decks and rode the
following wave like duck - J.,
DR.. J.. ". Francis one Of the passengers was IN
the smoking room at the time
The gale had been letting up n little. and We
had tegun to think that II would soon blow Itself
out" ne said. About clock on Monday night
there were only five in the smoking room. one o.,
US had just stood UP to light cigar. when there
knocked him the length Of the compartment. After
the first rGCoil the steamer staggered ahead INT"
another that threw her back qUyerinE i was
The sensation Was Ike thar when the eTnergercS
brake Is suddenly applied on train going NJ full
passengers were too sick at the time to care what
happened and were IN their cabins.