The Portland daily press., 1875-03-06
MARINE DISASTERS.
The Wreck of the Giovanni.
Fifteen Lives Lost.

BOSTON, March 5-The vessel ashore of
Cape Cod, north of Highland, proves to be the
Italian bark Giovanni, from Palermo for Bos-
ton. She is total loss and every person on
board, sixteen in all, persisted with the excep-
ton of the steward. At sunset Thursday night
the steward and carpenter got on plank and
tried to reach the shore. The former was
seved but the latter sank in the surf. At III
o'clock her main and miZzen masts went by
the board, tearing up her deck, and half an
hour later her cargo began washing ashore.
At daylight this morning two men were dis
covered on planks between the vessel and the
shore, and five more were clinging to the fore
top, which still remains standing. One after
the other they released their hold and dropped
into the sea. No earthly arm could save them.
The life saving station men made every effort
in their power to save their lives, but it was OF
no avail. Bombs with which these stations
are provided being utterly worthless, nc
shot could be thrown to the vessel, though only
400 yards from the shore. She is fast breaking
up. This is the most melancholy disaster thai
has occurred on this coast since the ship Peru
Wan, an East Indian was lost with the entire
crew in the same locality few years ago.
Later.
The italian bark Giovanni. wrecked on Cape
Cod will be total loss and but very little of
the cargo will will be saved. Hundreds of mer
and boys are on the beach picking up remnants
Oh tue cargo WaSueu dSuoIo. ....
Ssamen Lost Overheard.
GLOUCESTER, March 5-Schooner Mary
Daniels. Capt. Oscer, arrived from Georges to
day. with loss of James Hines, one of hel
crew, March 3D., after leaving the Bank for
home his "souwester" was found on deck and
he is supposed to have been knocked overheard
by the fore boom. He belonged in Gloucester.
Pierce Howard. one of the crew of the scboon-
er Eldorado was washed overheard and drown
ed, on the 18th ult.. on the passage from New
foundland, it being SO rough and windy no
assistance could be rendered him. He belong
ed in Liverpool and was 81 years OF age.
Other Disasters. ..s-. ~
At an early hour yesterday morning six OF
seven vessels were discovered ashore between
Sandy Neck Light and Sandwich, names not
yet ascertaned Fishing sehooners Annie
Frye and Hattie Collins, both owned by the
Union Wharf Company of Provincetown, went
ashore on Lovelps Island, Boston harbOr, yes
terday. One of them is full of water. Steam
er VIM. Lawrence arrived at Norfolk yesterday
from Boston. She shipped heavy sea on the
Sd inst, carrying away seven staterooms and
washing the cargo overheard, and received 9TH
er damages. She proceeds to Baltimore.
A Fortress Monroe despatch says the British
bark Evelyn, from Baltimore, arrived at the
Capes Thursday noon, leaky. The crew re-
The water gained on them six inches an hour
with both pumps going. At 10 p. M the vessel
was abandoned 20 miles southeast Of the
Capes, with eight feet Of water in the hold.
The crew were taken off by the schooner III.
Hickman for New York, and brought to Fort
ress Monroe.
Much anxiety is felt for the safety of the
fishing schooner Sarah Fl. Cressy of GlouceS-
ter, on a trip to the Grand Banks. She has
been absent upwards of ten weeks. SIX weeks
ago she was spoken, and there has been no It'd
ings of her since. The prospects of her return
are very small. She has crew of II men,and
is owned by Leighton q Co.
Loss of n Maine Vessel.
NEW YORK March 5.-The Pequot has been
wrecked of the east of Mooslc. The only yes
sci of the name in the register is ship of 1913
tons, built in Biddeford, Maine, in 1872 and
own ed in Newcastle,
Twenty Lives Lest IN Attempting 10 Save
ship.
special from St Johns, Newfoundland, to
the Tribune, says the ship Violetta, from France
to ST. Pierre, laden with salt and sugar, was
abandoned in the ice Tuesdry last, in St Mary's
bay. The captain and crew were saved Peo-
pie from shore went to save the ship, but
northeast gale scattered the ice and twenty of
them we're lost and twenty five of them are
missing.