A WARSHIP IN A CYCLONE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 394, 17 August 1889, Page 3

A WARSHIP IN A CYCLONE.

j V * t , , . . . . . Tii^l. Cunard steamer- -JSbrtoia* inpm Hew Yor.k, brings "intelligericVof, the , arrival' aj> on the 25th" May of t&e United* Spates crufae'r 'Yantic, , in "a 'tiey rifely ]>$<'t : '? tered condition, with * masts * gotle; st^ahi'.. 'lti&n-ch and three jolly boats lost, bow&pritj' ; b'rolsen', deckhodses smashed; rails' carried aiway^and cabins flooded 1 with water\ifo a- • 'depth of 'several feet.; ' In addition, t.Welve-'* members -of the crew, were in" hospital r •^suffering from .injuries received' by being.,, by falling spars, or Itnpcked dovVn;.; on deck by the heavy' seas which thervessd, had shipped during a i cyclone experienced' 'in the' Atlantic oh the 22hd andt ?3rdf May, •when irr lat. 38W.,. i long;! 58 '.On'lihe . night Of'"the 2nd May the 'laun'qh and ISfo. ' I 1I 1 cutter were icarr'ied ' away, babin !< 'balk- • head smashed, cabin floqde'd, and the ship . •thrown 'on her 'beam-ends, -five seamen being swept, -along ' the deck , by.a heavy sea, and dashed, against the bulwarks I ,'' 'sustafn'ihg-'yseS'ere injuries. ' Tons ' 'of- waiter -^dt . helow 'int{6 i th'e. engine room and e.xt^ngui&fie'd l tHe 'fires', and'the'tireVn^n wpre'testix-'drownedy ' On the night of the'^23rd three'; mote 'Wero da shed -to pieces and lihe Cabins 4^aW.. ■ -fldo'dda, destroying all the officers' clotftefc" and bed,ding. - Captain Rockwell," Seating ' „that the' vessel w«uld founder, iyMeva to cut away the masts.and fehe fSremsfet was" ' first, cut f away arid ■camp down on the porir sid'e^' Krihging^ the*'mai^ atid" librimasi} Vith J 'it, and' smashing in their fall twelve *£eet df ' ' 'theJ'UuWarß^nd seriously injariil^ s^ven l 'df ' jl v 'tlie 6i'ew..i .Ihe vessel vvas then;bein^ v^w'eplr < " -foi-e'a'ndjaft by tremendous sfehs^ •$&& ;the- • 'seaman 'had to' be tied tb'-th'ejpumps tfeK ' 'eiiia'ble them .to work -them-. '" j^veivbually* the'^crew' succeeded in gel^ing/jkihe water ,fronj the "engine-room, and^&ie Ifires were •re-carted. -The weather "^ub^sequßntly moderated, and New York was m'Wife^ ' Mays.iater in safety. .' f< •« p \ • * s ;