The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-14

came the nerve TacSIng beAoWIng ana
screaming Of the terrified animals as
they strove maGly TO keep their feet.
Hoarse shouts came up from the lower
decks, where the cowboys were en-
deavoring to help their charges. Now
and then there was i crash as an AMI
NAL was flung bodily out of its stall
across the deck, where ii smashed stalls
and set other animals loose. Each time
the ship rolled [ set my teeth, for each
swing seemed about TO plunge Us into
the boiling black abyss below. Often
my heart seemed TO stand still, and l
waited for the moment when our de-
voted band would be hurled into eter-
nifty.
Present half-a-dozen of us descended
to the stokehold in order to send ashes
up to the deck to be spread under the
hoofs of the struggling animals. Out
of that sitting hole bucketful after
bucketful was hoisted until the deck
was strewn with debris. But the heat
of the stokehold and the unusual labor
caused the amateur stokers to slcken,
and, exhausted and nauseated, we climb
ed to the deck again and lay there gasp
ing.
With morning the storm grew worse.
At nine o clock Captain Raicieh deter
mined to heave the ship to, but the
plan had to be abandoned, owing to
stress of weather The steamer was
compelled to head directly into the
wind, which eddied in dizzy concentric
circles around larger circumference.
Ny diary contains the following notes
jotted down on the afternoon of Oeto-
Der LIST, written mainly in shorthand
while | lay i'll in my bunk
'Good heavensl Another such day
and night as we have been having and
| believe | shall become insane. Buff
feted and tossed about like a feather,
careening, rolling, and pitching, the
Siam seems ready to take her final
plunge. Just now a great wave lifted
the bow until it seemed the vessel would
stand straight upon her stern; the stern
went down and threw us up again with
a terrific lift. A wave strikes the bow
and races the full length of the vessel,
tearing everything lose it can rip from
its fastenings. 1t is sickening. I am
writing this in the very midst, the CEN
ter, of the worst kind of storm one can
encounter at sea. The men are shout
ing and cursing, the animals paving
and uttering plaintive sounds.
eve don t know where we are. We
know we are heading northeast to get
away from ragged reefs which lie to
the north of Luzon. We are steaming
directly in the face of the typhoon and
make no progress. The barometer has
fallen twelve points since noon. May
Heaven have mercy on usi
81 a. M, October 2nd.-What terri
BILE sights l have witnessed during this
awful timel The storm increased every
hour of the night, the barometer going
down from 50 to 80, disclosing the fact
that we were heading directly toward
the centre of the typhoon. We have
rolled so heavily that the rail goes I'M
der at each dip. The men remained
at their posts in the stable division,
striving to keep the animals from
plunging out of their stalls from sheer
terror. A return lurch, and down go
score-a mass of maddened, screaming
brutes. From every pa Of the ship
whistle-signals are heard calling for
help. None can be Offered, and there
the poor beasts lie piled up on each
other, sliding upon their sides and backs
from one side of the ship to the other,
tearing strips of flesh from their bodies,
causing them to gfoan piteously in their
helplessress. The ship is tossed every
way, up and down, side to side. Heavy
seas break across the decks.
"Crash! There goes the cowboys
clubhouse on the poop deck It is
flooded, and the men S belongings are
sweeping into the sea. The water is
pouring down into our cabins. De-
struction everywhere, Another crash