Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
A CYCLONE.

A Cyclone In the Bahamas Causes serious
Disasters 60 Shipping Many Vesses
Wrecked-A Town Almost Destroyed
and Seventy Lives Lost.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-The steamship
City of Alexandria, which has arrived from
Havana, brings the following news Of the
terrible hurricane at Nassau, Sept. 8. In
storm broke at about one o'clock on that
day. All the wharf property of the city
was destroyed, as well as the sponge ex-
change and the market. About one hum
dred frame buildings were blown down.
More than a hundred vessels were lost in
the harbor of Nassau alone, and many more
shared the same fate at the neighborlng
islands. The only vessels in the harbor OF
Nassau that escaped destruction were her
Majesty's surveying vessels Sparrow-Hawk
and Richmond. About seventy lives were
lost.
Among the vessels that were lost were the
brig Peerless; the schooners Milisa Trask,
of Bangor, Me-; Mary Jane and Elizabeth,
of Baltimore, Md; Hestor and Cornucopia,
Belle of the Bay, Pioneer, Flight. Resolute,
Enchantress, Chance, General Whitfield,
Lady Hennessy, Trial, Speedwell, Neva,
Maud, Rescue, Bell, Pride, Gays and Vic
tor; the bark Eliza White, the sloops Pros
per, Royal Exchange, Defiance, Phantom,
Eva, Sun, Shamrock, Nimble, Mary Ellen,
Nonsuch, Hennie, John Byron, Island
Queen, Anna and Liberty
The mail-boat Carleton, Captain Dorsett,
which left Nassau with seventeen passen-
gers on the 4th, for Inagua, was also
wrecked On Saturday and twelve Of her pas
sengers drowned.
On the Victor were Charles Mech, a
lady, and several passengers. Mech, the
1oIv and fhrao y,oy, vu,aro 1roy,paI Tho
rest were saved almost by a miracle. All
on board the Monteagle were lost, while on
the Carleton, which was driven by the gale
on the reef north of Elenthern and totally
wrecked, the death-list includes Rev. and
Mrs. j. S. j. Higgs, w. A. Anderson, wife
and daughter, Nancy Simons and her two
children, Elizabeth Colebrooke, r. So De-
yeaux and her child.
The schooner Select, from Granu BAHIA
ma, has not since been heard of. The fish
ing-smack Whipple is supposed to have
foundered, as the bodies of two of her crew
have drifted to Long Bay keys. The crews
of most of the vessels lost were saved. The
American three-nasted schooner Melissa
Trask, chartered to obtain a cargo
of salt for New York, was
driven ashore at Norman's Cay, Ship
Channel Gays. Captain Trask, master
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boat. The sloop Liberty was crushed to
pieces in the anne place. Her crew were
saved. The sloop Handsome arrived at
Nassau from the Gays, having in tow the
sloop Bob, disabled. The schooner Silver
Spray encountered the hurricane at Great
Harbor, L. !. The master of the vessel put
her ashore on Friday, the 9TH INST, but She
was got off on the Sunday following with
out damage.
Sad accounts of disaster have been re-
ceived from the out islands. The schooner
Beauregard, belonging to Brown & Mus
grove, chartered to carry wood to Cay
Lobos, was sunk in a whirlwind in four
fathoms of water. The crew were saved.
The Government has dispatched the
schooner Wanderer to proceed to the ship
channel and other bays to render succor and
relief to any mariners who may have been
wrecked OH these desolate spots, and to
bring to Nassau all whom the hurricane may
have spared.
BosroN, Sept. GA letter from ST.
Pierre, Martinique, dated September 8, re-
ceived here, says: Con the night of the 4tl
our harbor was completely swept by a most
violent cyclone. Eighteen vessels were
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