The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-23
CUT away MASTS
To SAVE HIS SHIP
IN TERRIBLE GALE
Famous Bark, Battered TWEEN.
ty Days by Storm, Dis
mantled by Captain.

Lying on Tompkinsville. Staten Isl.
and. to-day 10 the bark Foohn Suey
Of the Texas OIL Company. which was
towed into port last night after hav.
Ing battled gales for twenty days.
All the ships topmasts are gone and
her battered upper work illustrates
forcibiy an experience that few sailors
70 through.
The Foohng Suey In . famous old
bark. but mover has she had . more
strenuous voyage. Tho bark wa
launched in the Clyde in 1855 by
Queen Victoria. whose autographed
photograph hangs In the captains
cabin. When the Sandwich Islands
came under the rule Of the United
States the Foohns suey hoistsd the
American Dag.
The bark. under Capt. Howard +.
Hayden. left Philadelphia Feb. 4 with
. cargo Of coal for New Orleans.
Hardly had she passed the virginia
Capes than she ran into heavy
weather. On the afternoon Of Feb.
the crew took In sail. The morn
Ing Of the 7th found the Foohng suey
close hauled.
BARK LisTEo TERRIBLY DUR.
ING THE HURRICANE.
I'VE made ourselves a. snug "a
possible." said Capt. Hayden to-day,
when We were hit by q hurricane
from the southeast. We went over
on our beam ends and hung on for
our very lives. The wind blew q
hundred miles an hour. The waves
rose seventy fest above Us.
The bark listed terribly. We went
over on the port or leeward side to
IN angle Of nifty degrees. II was i'm.
possible to stand. One Of our two
lifeboats was washed overheard and
that was no pleasant sensation. for
We had made up our minds We would
have to abandon ship.
solved to take . desperate chance 4
make the bark right itself. I ordere<
the crew to cut away the wire rigging
on the starboard or weather side, sC
that by cutting loose the topmasti
and yards the top weight would lei
the ship right itself. We were listet
over 20 far the yard ends were In thu
| water.
ToPMAsrs, WITH RiooiNo
CUT, 90 ~ THE Board.
After about two hours work tn,
stays were cut and then the topmast,
and yards began to 20. But tn,
masts and yards were still attache,
to the ship by the stays on tho Dor
side. The topmasts and yards wen
under the ship and dragged u owe
more than ever. We could hear tn
sticks scraping the ships bottom.
Tho coal shifted to the port side
| All the crew that could be spare,
was sent below to trim the cargo. w
worked all night and the next morn
Ing were favored by better weather
and the ship began to right hersel
q bit. We cut away the port stay
and freed ourselves Of the draggin
topmasts and yards.
. 1T was impossible TO Guide tn
ship. None OF us had any sleep an
the men would fall from exhaustion
We started 70 set up Jury rtY an
for two days labOred while the gale
swung around the compass. Then W
took observations and found ourselvs
just outside Of Noyfoik. Then "
were driven 70 the north and cas-
We ate hard tack. for the stove wa
listed over at such an angle tn
cook could not set u o warm bit,
Last Friday We found ourselves eai
, Of Nantucket shoals. I decided 4
make for Nartha's Vineyard or Ne
York. The sale drove us down of tn
Scotland Lightship and there q
/ Q tug" -
. Capt. HAYDEN and his crew q
much needS1 sleep to-day. When tn
Captain came ashore to make his n
port TO the agents he could hardl
walk