A WONDERFUL FEAT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1016, 12 October 1882, Page 1

A WONDERFUL FEAT.

Captain Burrows of the steamer Rio Grande (says the New York Herald) has accomplished a feat which seafaring men say is not only brilliant and unusua’, but unprecedented. When his steamer was discovered to be on fire a short time ago, at sea, ninety miles beyond the Delaware breakwater, he overhauled an Italian barque, the Beppine, and successfully and safely, and without the slightest panic, transferred his ninety-seven passengers to her, navigated the burning vessel to a shoal near the breakwater, and sank her to the deck beams. This was the only means of putting nut the fire, which was iu the Isold of the ship among 800 bales of cotton- It was impossible to reach the fire, on the Rio Grande, or to successfully battle with it in the usual way by pouring water through the hatches. To completely submerge all of the steamer below the main deck batches was the only resource. To accomplish this without serious injury to the steamer was no easy task. But Captain Burrows managed it, in twentyfour hours more he had extinguished the flames, pumped out, and raised the ship, and was once again ready to start the engines and steam for New York. At ihc Delaware breakwater the Rio Grande again overhauled the Italian barqu?, ru-transferred the passengers to the steamer, and resumed the voyage to New York, with the steamer as sound as a dollar, and no other injury except that to the cargo.