Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-21
MARINE NEWS.

The revenue cutter Perry, also ran in
on account of the weather-bound up.
Doors and other portions Of Sch'r
Breed are coming ashore at the HarbOr.
The schr. LOttie Wolf came into the
Harbor on the morning of the 18th for a
lee.
The schr. Edwin Harmon had her
iib-boom taken out of her Wednesday by
one of the Cleveland tugs.
Capt A. G. Thayer says the lake
during the blow, has been two feet higher
than at any time for ten years.
"A long list of disaster may be expect
ed as a result of the terrible storm of last
Wednesday night and Thursday.
Owing to the bad weather and the
continued decline in grain freights, many
vessels are going into Winter quarters.
Some sixty barges are reported to
have left the river on Tuesday night, and
"a others left Pigeon Bay the same time.
The steam barge Fletcher now at the
Harbor, will go to Cleveland to 60 into
Winter quarters, as soon as the blow is
over.
"A whole section of the A. & P. Auto
matte railway, was blown down by the
gale. The same is true of the Humphrey
lime kiln way.
The bottom of the dredge Ashtabula,
lying under water and covered with sand,
was raised by the surf and driven upon
the beach near Fort Hill.
The schr. Vance, with ore from Esca-
naba, ran aground last Sunday on Peache
Island, Detroit River. She succeeded in
getting off on Monday without damage.
A sailor by the name of Mitchell, Of
Cleveland, was lost overheard from the
barge, Star of Hope, Of Ashtabula, on her
last trip down. The barge is now at To
ledO.
Capt Cheney, of the Harbor light,
made his way through the breaking surf
to the light house before dark on Thurs
day evening, enveloped in rubber suit
with the intention of spending the night
as he had most of the previous one. The
surf breaking on the end of the piers,
was carried in such quantities over the
lantern as to very sensibly make things
shiver.
The Schr. C. G. Breed, with a cargo
of a, 600 bushels of wheat from Detroit to
Buffalo, capsized and foundered when
nearly opposite of Ashtabula, in the heavy
gale of last week Friday. Captain Rose
and his crew of seven men are all suppos-
ed to be lost with the exception of Frank
Davis, who was at the wheel at the time,
and who was picked up by the propeller
Milwaukee after being in the water nearly
thirteen hours.
The schr David Vance arrived in
Cleveland last Tuesday; after dischsrg-
ing her cargo of 1900 tons of ore, she will
load with coal for Milwaukee at S1.3O
per ton, and where she will go into Win
ter quarters. She was off Cleveland last
Monday night in that terrific southwest
storm, shifted her deck-load lost her
small boat, and experienced very disa-
greeable night Capt L. R. Vance has
bought home in Iowa where he is to re-
move and go into the mercantile business.
The schr. Gold Hunter that went
ashore in the storm of the 9TH inst. in
Thunder Bay, lake Huron, had among
her crew three sailors from Ashtabula,
viz: Arthur johnson, John Cox, John
Baptist and Arthur Baker. They in COM
pany with the officers and crew launched
the yawl and succeeded in reaching the
Michigan shore in about an hour and
half after the vessel struck, and found
shelter in shanty occupied by party of
wood cutters, who robbed the unfortu-
nate sailors of nearly all of their extra
clothing. One of the sailors was robbed
of his only coat and hat. The tug For
est City, with steam pump came to the
assistance of the schr., but after working
eight hours another gale came up from
the eastward and the tug was obliged to
seek shelter, leaving the schr. with the
steam pump, on board. The Gold Hunt
er went to pieces during the night, but it
is expected the steam pump can be recOv-
cred without much damage The schr.
had cargo of 452 tons of ore and was
bound to Cleveland. Her Ashtabula sail
ors have returned home.
ARRIVED.
Nov. 13. Sch'r Ontario, light from
Cleveland.
Nov. 10. Prop Fletcher, ore from
Nov. 10. sch'r Cape Horn, lumber
from East Saginaw; Sch'r Havana, ore
and pig iron from Escanaba.
CLEARED.
Nov. Is. Sch'r Ontario, coal for Ham
ilton.
Nov. II. Prop. Townsend, light for
Cleveland.
Nov. 10. Prop. Fletcher light for
Cleveland.
THE BOLD, BAD COLONEL.