Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-03-10 | Page 5 | Horsley's Thrilling Experience

HORSLEYS THRILLING EXPERIENCE Missionary Was on the Teutonic When Its Danger Was Great Among the passengers who reached Now York on March 1st on the steamer Teutonic was Harry Horsley the wellknown Salt Laker who has been serving a mission abroad but who had been called home by the sudden Illness of his wife she having suffered a paralytic para-lytic stroke The vessel had a very narrow escape from going to the bottom bot-tom March 3rd 1 nt 920 a in The steamer was going along at tho her usual rate of speed said Mr Hors hey when suddenly the bow of the big ship clipped Into the water with a lurch that caused a panic I never expected that the ship would reach the shore Imagine a wall of water Which appeared ap-peared to us to be at least 100 feet In height coming squarely at you with a force that seemed Impossible for anything any-thing made by man to resist It was an aw ul sight and rails and stanchions of the port side of the bridge were snapped asunder twirled and twisted as If they had been made of malleable wire The water reached at least sixty feet from the level of the sea and the wonder is that no one was washed overboard As It was the accidents were comparatively few A Danish emigrant by the name of Mlchaelson received re-ceived Injuries such as to cause the amputation am-putation of his left foot and there was also a man whose Jaw was fractured The passengers showed how grateful they were for their safety and how much they sympathized with Michael son by making up a purse of about 600 for him There was general congratulation con-gratulation when the ship righted and went once more on her course and we all felt extremely thankful when land came Into view It Is believed by some that the big wall of water was caused by an earthquake A trip across the Atlantic now is not of the most pleasant as the weather weath-er at times Is extremely cold and the crew and passengers suffer at times from that fact When 1 left New York a ship had Just come In from Antwerp In a very bad condition and 104 days had been consumed In making the Voyage Voy-age