The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-10
MEMPHIS ARRIVED
80 HOURS LATE
SEVENTY-THREE PASSENGERS
ENCOUNTERED HEAVY GALES OFF
HATTERAS AND LOAFED.

Light Cargo and Heavy Winds
Caused the Ship to Roll to an Ex-
tent Exceedingly Alarming to the
Large Number of Passengers
AbOard-NO Serious Damage Was
Done Though Number Were
Frightened - Steamer Was Not
Heavily Loaded.
After encountering a terrific gale off
Hatteras, which delayed her passage
over thirty hours, the City of Memphis
steamed UP the Savannah river to her
mornings yesterday afternoon shortly
after o'clock with one of the largest
passenger lists she has carried in
long while, seventy-three passengers,
all told.
There was much rejoicing when the
news was spread about that the ship
had been sighted off Tybee and when
she was securely tied up quite q num-
Der were present to meet friends and
relatives. Half of the passengers
aboard were women and children,
and a large number of them were
Savannah people.
The Memphis was due to arrive in
Savannah at the latest at IL o'clock
Tuesday morning. but just before
reaching Cape Hatteras she encoun-
tered terrific head-on gales, and with
the large passenger list Capt.
Askins took no chances of subjecting
the Ship to a rough passage in going
around the cape. He accordingly or
dered engines slowed down and turned
into the teeth of the whistling wind.
Gale Encountered Sunday.
The gale was encountered Sunday
morning, and blew steadily through
out the day. With an unusually light
tonnage of freight aboard, the ship
was tossed about violently, and there
was much perturbation on the part of
the more timid passengers. The rolling
of the ship was greatly intensified by
the hight at which she stood out of
the water by reason of the light freight
aboard. At times the life boats would
swing so far downward as to touch
the water.
Mr.. Sam Crane, the well-known
newspaper man, who was one of the
passengers aboard, said that 1t was
the toughest experience he had ever
had. Il was not frightened he said,
''for 1 knew that the ship could wealth
er a much more serious gale than we
were encountering. OF course there
was much fear among the ladies and
children, many of them becoming
deathly sick from the constant roll
ing of the ship. 1 was under the i'm
preston that Capt. Askins turned the
steamer back and started towards
New York, but it afterwards appeared
that he merely turned so as to take
the best position in the face of the
high winds"
Vessel Not Damaged.
There was no damage to the vessel
other than the breaking of a few un-
secured pieces of croekery. The Of
usually rough, but that many such
similar gales, and even worse, had
been encountered off the same coast.
The passenger list was as follows:
Miss D. Crawford, Miss ]. G. Haines,
Mrs. c.. Ricter, Miss NJ. Mexican, Miss
H. E. Armstrong, M. Suticker, j. S.
Hammond, Mr.. and Mrs. M. E.
Donovan. C. E. Norton, ]. E. Van
Bergen, Miss Gaynor, Miss S john
son, L. Lippman, E. A. Engler, M.
G. Buckley, H. B. Cornell, A L.
Pickard, c. Holmes, Miss K. Garry,
Miss S. r. Parker, R. L. Kelly. ].
M. Robb, c. E. Romp, G. C. Man
ming, James West, w. M. Ryan, Miss
K. Zimmerman, Mrs. A. M. Will
liams Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Prankard,
j. w. Vreeland, Mr.. and Mrs. c.. l..
Rawson, Mrs. S. Boyd, Mrs. S. M.
Jordon, R. P. Durham, R. w. Dun
ham, Mrs. E. P. Simmons, Mrs Wis
sell, L. Lynch, F. Bowerman, w. j.
Hutchinson, w. S. Faber, G.. Guerro,
W. A. Gilbert, C. D. Davis, j. H.
Ferguson, Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Biggs,
Dr.. and Mrs. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs
Peterson, A. Sangree, S. Crane, M
Mattherson, ]. Linnehan, Mrs. E. A.
Bannister, Miss Grace Bannister, Mr..
and Mrs. H. B. Harrison, Mr. and
Mrs. j. L. Hart, Mrs. A. Davis, Miss
P. Van Buren,, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Lie
four, A. Tourtelotte, J. Tourtelotte.
E. r. Richardson, w. r. Radford
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