AN ATLANTIC HURRICANE.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2154, 20 January 1881, Page 3

AN ATLANTIC HURRICANE.

The steamship City of Brussels, of the Inman Line, which arrived in New York on October 16th, experienced terrible weather during her voyage. She left Liverpool on the Ist, and on the morning of the 9th the vessel was caught in a hurricane, which, although lasting but a few hours, was of suck violence that the captain said that in all his experience he had never known such another. It had been blowing a little hard on the evening of the Bth, and at one o'clock on the morning of the 9th the wind rose with a sudden roar which will never be forgotten by those who heard it. The ship was not toaied, but hurled about on the waves, which were running mountains high, and which broke over her with frightful fury. The passengers were panic stricken as the vessel rose up on the foaming mountains or plunged again into tho deep as if she were never coming up again. The greater number of the cabin passengers crowded the saloon, and there was not a soul in that saloon that thought the ship could last in such a hurricane, and they prepared for the end. Men and women cried aloud and wrung their hands in an agony of ce»pair. Two or three ladies fainted, and strong-hearted men, with faces as pale as death, were nttering what they thought would be their last prayer, h nsbands and wives, and brothers and sis'iers, and friends were embracing each other, expecting in a moment to be parted for ever. And as tho fury of the hurricane increased the panic became greater. Many were almost speechless with fright. When the Btorm began to 3ubside, the terror-stricken passengers came to their senses, and most of them, with tears in their eyes, offered up' prayers of thankfulness for their merciful preservation. There was another scene in the steerage—7oo passengers, of nearly every nationality, rushing about and being hurled mercilessly about their quarters, screaming and howling in despair, prayers and oaths mingling in strange contrast. Every now and then they made a rush for tho deck, and it was with greit difficulty that tho officers could keep them below. If they had once made their way up they must have been washed overboard, Every officer, from the captiin downward, was unanimous in saying that they had passed through the most awful hurricane that they had ever experienced, and that through that terrible hoar the ship had behaved admirably. Apart from the hurricane, one of the officers states that, during nearly the whole voyage, the weather had bean unusually rough for tho time of the yoar. With the exception of a slight injury to a sailor, who was hurt by being hurled against a spar, no casualty was reported.