THE ETRURIA IN A STORM.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7263, 24 January 1889, Page 4

THE ETRURIA IN A STORM.

On the last outward trip of the Cunard •Mamship _truria across the Atlantic she encountered a terrific storm, and had a tnimajn killed, two others seriously injured, and a passenger's head cut open. The Etruria reached New York on Sunday, 18th November, at 6 p.m., having left Qoeenstown on Sunday, the llth, __aa weather prevailing, with 224 saloon, (ft M-tei-oed—te, and 463 steerage passengers. Daring the night the wind got up, and. throughout Monday a terrible storm raged. Many huge seas were shipped, ana the passengers were not allowed to •how above deck. A sailor named Joseph Wonnald was caught by an immense wave —bile passing along the saloon deck, and dashed against the walls of the cabin with such violence that he sustained fatal lateen—; injuries, and died after sixteen Umn of suffering. The poor fellow's body waa committed to the deep on the following evening, but the funeral was very sparsely attended, as the sea was still _fe_ Other casualties occurred daring Monday- gale. A steerage passenger had his head cut open, and subsequent storms disabled two sailors named M—phyand Nntt, oneof whom was washed »e_<— «_ the taffrail with such force •s to lay his cheek wide open. Thepas-•O-gen of all classes agreed ia stating ti|g* the voyage had been a terrible one. It was the slowest trip the —truria has made. She made but 259 miles one day, «ad encountered head seas right along. {tattf9g the greater part of the voyage Ktrceiy a person appeared in the saloon. A collection taken np in the smoking-■OO-ufor-he dead man's wife and children •man—led to —_, and a further sum of £20 Jot tbe same object was netted by a CPAC«rt given in the saloon on Saturday even-log. Worn—ld was over fifty years of «ge_ and had been in the Cunii__ Com--litt_y> service for seventeen yearn. His eon, aged about twenty-two, is engaged in tta eng-Be-zoom of the ___■—.