AN ATLANTIC HURRICANE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 689, 10 February 1881, Page 2

AN ATLANTIC HURRICANE.

The steamship City of Brussels, of the - Inman.Line, which arrived ln.JJew..Yorlt - . . on October 10th, experienced 'terrible' wether during her.■ voyage. > She''left Liverpoolon the : lst, and on the morning, of tho 9th the vessel'was caught in a hurricane, which, althogh lasting but,a. few hours, was of, such violence that the captain -said that in all his experience he had never known such another. It had' been blowing alittle hard on the evening "f the.Bth,.and.at..nne.j)'clnQ.k ; ,'o.n iW morning; of the 9th the wind rose with a sudden roar which will never he forgotten hy those who heard it. .', The.anjp:wa.s;n))t tossed, hut hurled about on the waves, ■ which'wore running mountains high, aricT which broke over, her with frightful fury;. The passengens were panic stricken as th'6>' : vessel rose up on-the foaming mountaiftr ; or plunged.again into the'."deep as if she i were new cptqina: up again. The greater ;' number of tile cabin passengeraordwded tha saloon, and .there was not a soul in that saloon that thought,-the ship could Instil) such a hurricane, and they pre* pared for the end, Men.'"and women cried aloud and wrung their hands in ; an •i«'iny qf dispair, Two or three ladies fainted and strong-hearted men, with faces as pale as death, were'uttering,what they though would he their last prayer. Hu* bands, and wives, and brothers.,'and' sisters were emhraoirig each other,: ex- ■ pooling in a moment to be parted for over. And as the fury of thehurripane increased the panio. became greater, Many-were almost speechless with, fright.' When "the storm began to subside;,the' terror-stricken passengers. came to,their senses/audi most nf them, with, tears in their eyes, offered-, up vprayers of thank« fiilnes for their merciful *pr«sery»tion. There was another scene in) the steerage, where 700 passenger*, of nearly'ever|:

fit ft 7 8re rU9hin » aboUt alld J ing. hurled meroileaaly about thoir quarters, screaming and howling in des- £?' P ra y era a "d oaths mingling in strange contrast. Every' now and then ' h «rush for the deck, and it was 'J h [faultythat tho officers could >eW. : , If they had once made then' waji up jhey must have been washed ovorboard; Every officer, from the'clipam downward, WMUn!inin]imailli that they had pnsaed through the most awfu hurricane they had ever experif»?.ed,and that throughthat.terrible Lu. he ship had behaved admirably. Apart trow the hurricane, one of the officers States that dunng.neatly the whole voy--Bge,.tn9 weather had been unusually rousjh for the. time of the year. With the exceptmn.fa slight injury to a sailor, who was hurt by being hurled auainst a »P»r, no casualty was ropnrted