THE CUZCO'S ROUGH PASSAGE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7389, 15 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE CUZCO'S ROUGH PASSAGE.

Just twenty-four hours late, the Cuzco arrived at Plymouth on Christmas Day, after a very unpleasant experience, from Gibraltar, which was left last Friday night. Off Cape St. Vincent the Cuzco fell in with a fierce gale from the north-west -with tremendous seas and hurricane squalls. The ship rolled heavily; a quantity of her rail was swept away, whilst a similar fate overtook one of the awnings. In the vicinity of Cape Finisterre the wind veered to the south-west, and raged with redoubled vigour. A huge wave broke on board and four of the sailors "were hurled into the scuppers. A seaman named Bryan had his thigh fractured, whilst Calder, the boatswain's mate, had his loot tadly sprained. The other men were bruised about the ribs and back. Next day Walter Stirrup, of Bolton, a third-class passenger, had his shoulder dislocated 'through being thrown to the deck, whilst one of the stewards, named Widner, fell from, the bridge and was picked up in an unconscious condition. So not only the city men, whose mail was late, but passengers and crew as well, constituted a Cuss-co of their own.