Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-10-28
REMARKABLE CRUISE
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The captain decided that he would
try and save the vessel by using part
OF his cargo Of lumber and cement.
Under the supervision of Chief Engin.
Ger Law the crew were set to work
filling the holes In the bottom with the
cement, after a rude but heavy plank.
ing had first been nailed down near
them. On top Of this layer OF cement
another layer of planking was arrang-
ed and then some more cement, so
that the ships bottom rescmbled a
cement platform, except for the cross
pieces OF timber.
With the rough and slight aid Of the
native salvagers of Punta Arenas, the
work Of repairing the Cumbal suffi.
GENTLY TO float her was accomplished
late in March last, after the ship had
spent the greater part OF the South
American summer on the rocks In the
Magellan Straits. In the interim, the
crew went ashore in relays and traded
with the native Patagonians, who also
visited the frelGhter in their frail
canoes. All In all, the members of the
crew of the Cumbal had very pleas
ant summer Of 1.-THE summer which,
In the southland ends when ours be.
gins.
Starts for New York.
On March - the Cumbal started on
her eight thousand mile trip back to
New York, with every prospect Of 90.
ring to the bottom should the impro
viscd foundation in the hold give way
or spring a leak in heavy weather.
That this opinion was held by most OF
the crew was shown by their desertion
OF the ship when the Cumbal finally
reached Buenos Ayres, where further
repairs We're made because a slight
leak was found to have started In No.
| l hold. This was kept from assuming
serious dimensions by the constant
working OF the pumps.
When the native divers were at work
on the hull Of the steamship on the
rocks In Smythe's Passage they found
that a locomotive, slowed in No. 2
hold, had all but gone through the
ship. This huge piece Of machinery
had TO be raised before any work
could be done by the salvagers, as had
also a dynamo and an electric engine
which were also slowed in the same
hold as the locomotive.
The bulkheads Immediately aft OF
No. hold had been closed as soon as
the vessel struck and these prevented
the after holds in the ship being flood
cd, All of the cargo in the forward
holds was either lost or ruined, the
machinery alone remaining undamag'
ed except for the rustlng that followed
lis immersion when the Water poured
into the forward holds.
At Buenos Ayres, Captain Barry
'hipped a new crew, all of them fear
less Nova Scotans, and with them the
return triD was continued without fur,
Their mishap.
Captains Wife Plueky.
The pluckiest OF all on board the
freighter was Mrs. Barry; who had ac
companied her husband on a trip that
promised to be a delightful one. This
captains wife never for one moment
ost faith in her husbands ability tC
5ring the vessel safely to New York
ven with the novel conditions ex
lsting forward OF the bridge.
I'VE had plenty Of diversion while
We lay on the rocks for three months,
aid Chief Engineer Law to reporter
or the Evening Telegram to-day, al
he Cumbal lay In the basin OF Robins
Try docks. South Brooklyn, "Thos'
'atagonians were interesting fellows