The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-21
BoREAL BLASTS
On the Lakes Doing Damage to Shipping
Accident. Reported from varIsu. Points.

PoRT HuRoS, MrcH., November 90
News from Sand Beach reports serious &C
cidents at the harbor. The steam barge
]. R. Whiting, with the sChooners Bahama
and Emma O, Hutchinson, in trying tc
make the harbor struck the lower reef and
went ashore, The Whiting worked oyel
the reef and sunk in twenty feet of water
The schooneB North Cape and W. B.
Ogden did heavy damage to each other
The Ogden dragged into the North Cape
and took her bowsprit, jib.boom, rail and
stanChion on the starboard side..
The Ogden damaged her rail and bul.
warks. Her main mast head and main
mizzen top mast are gone She slipped
both anchors and-arrived here this morn.
ing.
The schooner Col. Hathaway has ar.
rived. She slipped one anchor.
1t is reported that the lumber barges OF
the propeller salias' tow are on shore on
the reef with the Whiting. The Bahama
and Hutchinson are in bad position.
The schooner Yankee Blade left both
anchors and chains at Sand Beach.
The schooner Maumee Valley and an.
other schooner, name unknown, came
together and some damage was done.
The Valley had her rigging and davitts
carried away. The wind was southwest
till 5P. NJ, when 1t shifted nor.h, fresh
with snow. There were about three hun.
dre1 and three vessels of the point. Many
OF them tried TO make the harbor at about
the same time, when they all became tan.
gled and dragged into one another. Full
reports have not yet been received. The
schooner Libbie lost .her iib.boom
and bowsprit. At the harbor the tow
barge Dolphin and Mary Birckhead, OF the
propeller Cleveland's tow, went ashore lust
outside the river on the Canada side, last
night. The tug Mocking Bird pulled the
Birckhead of at 10 a. NJ, to-day. The
Dolphin is still on. The schooner Go.
shawk is at anchor tour miles from the
river.
CLEVELAND, O., November 2O.-One Of
the heaviest gales OF this season began
here at midnight. For several hours the
wind blew forty miles per hour and Is now
blowing hard. There is q light snow and
getting colder. The schooner Sumatra.
while being towed into the harbor about
10 o'clock last night, was struck by a sauall
when about thousand feet from the bier,
sheered around, and coming square across
the pier threatened 10 swamp the tug,
The tugmen les go the lines and the
schooner soon dtifted off the pier and
struck on the piles near the old passenger
depot. She was scuttled to prevent her
going to pieces.
The Sumatra was owned by the Cleye.
land transportation Company and valued
at about $4,000. She was bound here
with pig iron from Marquette.
The schooner Sascoe, which went ashore
at Fairpoint Tuesday afternoon, went 10
pieces this morning. No insurance.
DETRorT, November 20.-The tug ]. P.
CLARK was capsized in the river near Belle |
Isle, short distance above the city, BY |
the gale last evening, and the cook was
drowned. The=tug was valued at S5, 900. |
CHICAGO, November 20.-The schooner
Clara Parker went ashore Of Thirty-tiith |
street early this morning. If the wind
dies down she may yet be saved.
DETROIT, November 20.-A telegram
from Sand Beach states that the steam
barge Whiting and the schooners Bahama
and Hutchinson, with three tow barges,
The Prairie State, Lewis Wells and VIM.
Rayn, went on the reef about half mile
below there, last night. The Wells and
Prairie State have gone to pieces. Two
men named John Wood and VIM. Little, |
were found dead on the beach short dis.
lance below here. Six others are missing |
0swEGo, November 9O.-The gale OF |
wind and snow continues without cessa-
tiOn and the weather is colder.
The schooner Dominion, OF Picton,
which left this port yesterday for West
Point, dragged anchor last evening in the |
gale at South Bay Point. She then at
tempted to come back to this port, but |
owing to the binding snow storm went
ashore three miles above the harbor. The
crew we're saved.
The schooner Gerritt Smith, Of Oswego,
from Bay City, Mich, to this port, with
lumber, went ashore this evening between
the piers at Big Podus, Lake Ontario.
The crew were saved. Vessel uninsured.