TERRIBLE ATLANTIC GALES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 459, 2 April 1890, Page 4

TERRIBLE ATLANTIC GALES.

VESSELS ARRIVING IN ENGLAND HAD AWFUL EXPERIENCES.

Liverpool, January 22. Major Mackue, a passenger on the Gallia from Neiv York, being interviewed, said that after lea\’ing port January 12tli the ship encountered a succession of heavy gales. A huge sea came aboard right aft and dropped down upon the deck, smashing the saloon _ coin-panion-Avay and flooding the cabins to the depth of three feet. The consternation of the passengers, suddenly aroused from sleep, was awful. They were dashed about by the rushing water like loose logs. Magrue stood on one of the tables for more than an hour till the water had subsided.

The captain says that the great ivave tvas over one hundred feet high, and, had another sea like it struck the ship, she must have foundered. He had never seen one like it in thirty-five years’ seafaring. The main deck was a wreck, five boats n r ere carried aivay and two ivere sto\ T e in. The bulivark rails fore and aft ivere carried aivay, and the little that remained was twisted like a corkscrew. The stanchions in the main saloon which support the upper deck Ai’ere bent double, and the mouldings and glass-racks ivere knocked to pieces. The roof of the smoking cabin and the fore and main hatches ivere also stove in. London, Jan. 27. The Cunard Line steamer Cephalonia, from Boston for Liverpool, encountered a gale that ivas so severe that the passengers ivere kept beloiv for t.wo days. The third engineer was throivn to the deck by a iva\'e,and one of his armsivas broken and he sustained other injuries. The British steamer Ne3smore, at Liverpool, from Baltimore, had a narrow escape from destruction. On January 13th site ran into an iceberg, but fortunately escaped with no other injury than some damage to her bows.

The Allan Line steamer Manitoban, from Boston for Glasgow, reports having experienced very heavy weather,during ivhich she ivas severely damaged throughout. Seas boarded her, carrying away her after deck and flooding the saloon. Three hundred of the cattle she had on board ivere either killed or swept overboard.