The Portland daily press., 1878-10-26
MORE WRECKS.
Two Steamers Lost Off Hatteras.
Their Passengers and Crews
Saved.
Another Steamer Missing.

The B odies of the Crew ofthe A 8 Davis
Recovered.
CAPE HENRY, Oct. 25-Six more bodies were
washed ashore last night from the lost of the
A. S. Davis. All the bodies from the wreck
has now been found and buried.
Steamer Ashore at Passport
EAsTPoET, Oct. 25-Steamer Spray running
between Eastport and Lubec got aground and
8 filling, and probably badly damaged.
Further Particulars of the Loss of the
Express.
BALTIMORE, Oct 25.-No further important
particulars regarding the loss of the steamer
Express. Capt. Barker, Quartermaster
Douglass, the clerk and one passenger, are the
only persons positively known to have been
saved.
The agent of the steamer Express is of the
opinion that the number of passengers did not
exceed seven. These with the officers and
crew would make twenty sonls on board.
The Express was built in 1S4l, in New York,
and has since been engaged in carrying passen-
gers and freghls to various points along the
bay. In 1873 it was rebuilt at the cost of
$4,000, and put in the best order. She was
200 feet long, 25 feet beam, 6O2 tons. Last
winter she was thoroughly 0verhauled and
repaired, and went into the Washington and
Potomac river route, and was owned by the
Potomac Transportation Company. The
value of the vessel and cargo is estimated at
$4,000. The vessel was uninsured. The cargo
was principally miscellaneous merchandise
and insured. There are various rumOrs of
other disasters. Over twenty oyster vessels are
around in TOwinger sound.
Steamer Louise arrived this morning bring
ing nine of the crew and one passenger of the
last steamer Express, rescued by steamer
Shirley. The total passengers lost are ten; six
female and one infant and three men.
Tho DnnOnt also arrived. bringing two
colored deck hands picked up Wednesday
morning from floating raft BY three masted
schooner and transferred to the tug, m akin e
Is known to be saved and 16 missing, some of
whom may have been rescued
Another Steamer Missing.
Steamer Matilda which sailed from Fred
ercksburg for Baltimore, Monday, it is feared
lost She had crew of Is and dozen of
passengers. None of the arrivals report any
traces which leads to conclusion that she bad
not reached Bay when the gale prevailed and
is aground in Rappahanock river.
Steamer Mary Washington left this morning
in search of the Matilda.
Twenty Oyster Vessels Ashore.
Over twenty oyster schooners are aground in
Tangier sound.
Two Steamships Founder i'm the Gale
Their Passengers and Crews Saved.
NEW YORK. Oct 25.-The steamship City
OF Houston which left this city on the 10Th for
Galveston foundered off Frying Pan Shoals
during the gale on the 23d inst. The passen-
gers and crew we're rescued by the Margaret of
this port and are safe in Fernandina, Fla. The
1915 tons burden, 2S5 feet in length, SO ia
feet wide, with hold depth of 10 feet. She
was build ia Chester. Pa, in 1871, and was
owned by G. Fl. Mallory & Co., of this city.
NORFOLK, Oct. 25.-The steamer Charles
W. Lord from Havana with tobacco, sugar and
molasses bound to New York encountered a
hurricane off Frying Pan Shoals Tuesday
night, during which she had her bow stove in
and head gear injured. Wednesday morning
spoke schooner FL. w. Drew of Belfast from
New York to st. Johns River, Fla, having on
board the crew and passengers Of the steamer
General Barnes, from Havana to New York,
which foundered that morning off Cape
Hatteras. The Barnes is a total loss, but the
passengers and crew are saved, and remained
on board the schooner Drew.
A Barge Sunk and Four Lives Lost.
PouGHKEEPsIE, Oct. 25.-News is received
Of the sinking, opposite Yonkers today. of the
barge Van Schonk of Troy, in tow of the pro-
she went down head first. Capt. Maybee, bis
wife and two children were drowned.
A Sea Captain Lost Overheard.
NEW YORK, Oct 25.-The bark Gen. Caul-
field arrived tonight from New Castle and
reports having lost Capt. Prentice overheard in
the gale of October 9th.
Foundered at Ser.
ST. JOHN, N. B., Oct ga private cable
despatch states that the bark Mary E. Good
win foundered at sea. The crew were landed
at Antwerp. She was bound from Carthagena
to Philadelphia
Wreck of n Long Island schooner-Two
Lives Lost.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct % "A despatch from
Absecom says the schooner reported ashore on
Peck's Beach, four miles south of Great Egg
harbor, is the schooner Samuel Clark of Green
Point, L. l.. Capt. Charles Brock, bound to
New York with lumber. The schooner rolled
over at sea, got waterlogged and came ashore,
and is now breaking up. The mate and one
seaman were drowned. Nearly all the crew
were hurt by falling spars. The mates body
was recovered. He leaves wife and family in
New York.
Miscellaneous.
Brig Favorite of New Haven arrived at New
York yesterday, and had to cut away topmasts
in the gale of the 21st instant lost sails, etc.
The wrecked schooner Eta A. Simpson
was off Cape Pogue yesterday morning adrift.
The steamer Providence of the Fall River
line is at anchor off Hammond's flats near
New York, with her upper steam toe damaged.
She will repair and remain over a trip
Bark Free Trade, Port Blakely for Sydney
N. S. We; was picked up abandoned Thursday
in the Straits of Juan de Fuca,
Schooner Lizzie Deckers, Havana for New
York. has put into Key West after being
ashore.
Brig Long reach is ashore on Joe Flogger,
with foremost gone.