Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-11-01
, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER L, 1879.
GENERAL.
storms at Cape May.

THE DANGER SIGNALS UP--wREoKs OF THE JOHN
SYDNEY MEDwAY, AND AUSTRIAN BRIG-FIvE
ACRES OF FIsH-sCENEs ON THE COAST IN AU-
TUMN.
Correspondence of the Commercially
CAPE MAY CRY, N. j. October 28.
We have had a most tempestuous time all
Thursday and Friday with the most disastrous
effects. probabilities" here put up his red dan
ger flag by day, and his red lights by night and on
those days it blew fearfully. The New York ship
John Sydney was totally lost with an assorted
cargo near Cape Henlopen, her crew, captain
and wife, twenty four in all, escaping in boats
to the land Our informant Mr. VIM, Ben
nett, Pilot added, $50 much for having
good boats on board" Ho also told us a foreign
| bar, (the MedlodJO was lost on the Hen and
Chickens Shoal, near Cape Heulopen and six Of
her crew lost their lives. The pilot boat 1urley
| picked up one of her boats with two men in it,
but one died after his rescue.
beautiful foreign brig ran plump ashore on
| our beach about quarter mile from the hotel,
in the height of the storm on Friday night at "
/ z. NJ No lives were lost, but she will be total
/ wreck. She is from Rio Tor New York, coffee
loaded, having 1850 bags aboard, worth $50, 900,
and not full cargo, either. The Cape May
| wreokers and Revenue cutter offered to pull her
off Saturday, but they resisted with knives, de-
sirIng to await the arrival Of the Underwriters
| agent VINO Is uBTb tO-uhY. Inc cutter
steamed down to Great Egg Harbor, forty
miles East of us and tOwed back
| a lighter schooner into which they are loading
her Coffee by means OF the wreekers surfboats
They have knocked a hole in her bulwarks and
| lower the bags into the boats and they 90 dane
| ing over the pillows to the schooner anchored
| of shore. The wreck is named the Ljepdbakdrbd
| and is an Austrian Her mate speaks English
/ and said the name means "hne lady in the
city," but sailor speaking French, said .'Liepa"
4 10 Epu1iaI,N al
Bakarka" is a city's name. The crew are a
| strange looking group; some are quite light,
/ with brown hair and boards, and some are very
/ dark, with glossy black hair, and crisp curly
black boards. Their language resembles Spanish,
but one OF the sailors says they work the ship in
| the Italian and Austrian tongues.
| Her own crew are stripping the sails and rig
| ging from the ship as il to abandon her to the
waves. II not injured she could be hauled into
| deep water and saved. She rolls and tumbles
now on her bed of sand as if she was anoat
| They had short allowance of food for fifteen
| days before striking her.
Some of our residents went off shore a mile
with a large gill net they have lately procured,
and caught ton of luscious swapping mackerel
| at one haul They were of again last Monday
/ and saw five acres of bony fish skimming the sea
| at once and surrounded a portion hoping to cap
| ture the big fish that follow and feed on them,
but caught none. The bony fish go right through
| the big meshes of this net. We asked our infor-
i mant, one of our permanent guests, merchant
/ and native here, for an abatement on the five
acres, but he would not discount fish. His story
| is true too. for shoals and shoals can be seen
| from the Atlantic pazzas, ehurning up the seas
surface in every direction as they hasten from
their pursuers, the swapping and spanish mack
| erel.
We had another wreck drift ashore four weeks
| ago, the schooner VIM. Wallace, of Great Egg
| Harbor cut down by the steamer Zodiac cast on
her side masts rolled out and crew taken off by
another vessel. She is stripped and has gone to
| pieces. JoHN McMAKIN.
John Doherty railroad employee was run
over and killed by train at SomerVille, Mass,
yesterday.
Additional details of the burning Of the steam
ship Missouri are at hand, and it appears that
seventy-nine persons lost their lives by the ter
ribe disaster.
The total number Of votes cast in Pennsylvan-
| ia for the constitutional amendment, making the
Office of State Treasurer elective, was 4S1 $40
| against tue amendment, 1893.
AT meeting of French Conservatives at Bor-
deaux last night, speeches were made fayoring q
restoration of the monarchy.
Emperor William has dissolved the Prussan
Parliament and ordered elections for new mem
bers of the Diet on the 18th of November