Show Strange Things Happen to Vessels a at t Sea During Storms and in in Accidents During a hurricane in the Caribbean Caribbean bean in 1900 1906 a British tramp steamer the was caught by what her crew described as a tidal Udal wave They said it must have been nearly feet high and that the big steamer was carried carried car car- ried reed on its summit like a chip in ina a mill race At last she stopped with a bump and when daylight came she was in a pine forest more more than yards from the beach reports a writ writer r In London Answers Magazine A dock was dug around her and anda a canal to the sea She was re re- re floated and went under her own steam to Galveston where she was repaired In the following February February ary she delivered her cargo safely in London Extraordinary things happen at sea but perhaps nothing harder to believe than the fate of the large wooden schooner Fred B B. B Taylor She was run down by a a steamer inthe in inthe inthe the Atlantic and cut in two Her crew was saved The bow half hail drifted to Delaware bay on the American coast the stern came ashore on Ascension island miles away One more s story ory almost equally I strange The British steamship D Mercedes laden with iron ore was off Newfoundland when caught In Ina a severe severe electric storm The whole 0 ocean was like an endless stretch h of prairie fires and balls of electric electrio fire hissed and exploded In all directions directions di dt among the vessels vessel's masts and rigging A heavy gale sprang up and the heavily laden ship wa was badly damaged As the gale died out the fireballs fireballs fire fire- balls appeared again great com which hung in big globes globe from the masts and stays an and turned night Into day By their light repairs were effected which enabled the vessel to reach port |