The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-04
A TROPICAL CYCLONE.

] iWrecke0-A Town AInOsC OcetFOyeoi
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. The
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 hun.
dred frame buildings were blown down.
! More than hundred vessels were lost in
the harbor of Nassau alone, and many more
shared the same fate at the neighboring
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
lady, and three men were drowned. The
rest were saved almost by 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, Rosa De-
veaux and her child.
The schooner Select, from Grand 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-maSted 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
of the vessel, reached Nassau in the ships
boat. The sloOp Liberty was crushed to
pieces in the same place. Her crew were
saved. The slOop Handsome arrived at
Nassau from the Gays, having in tow the
SIOop Bob, disabled. The schooner Silver
Spray encountered the hurricane at Great
Harbor, L. l. The master of the vessel put
her ashore Oh Friday, the 18th 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 on these desolate spots, and to
bring to Nassau all whom the hurricane may
have spared.
Boston, Sept GA letter from st.
Pierre, Martinique, dated September s, re-
Ceived here, says: "On the night of the 4th
our harbor was completely swept by most
violent cyclone. Eighteen vessels were
wrecked. Only one in port was saved"
THE GALE ON THE LAKES.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Sept. 27.-The crew OF
Tic SCllOOllcI duucI Dlll lids
rived here. Captain Mullen says the YES
sci was leaking freely, and was nearly half
filled before going down, the heavy seas
causing her to founder. The crew of nine
men and the female cook took to
the. rigging at two o'clock Tuesday morn
ing, and remained till ten O'Clock, when
taken ashore by the Longpoint life-saving
crew. They lost everything except what
they wore, and some of them were about
exhausted. The Vanderbilt is in thirty feet
of water OH quicksand off Longpoint cut,
and with an ore cargo, will be total loss.
Nothing was done to the sch oOner John
Wesley, Ore-laden, ashore at Windmill point,
as there was too much sea. She is out six
feet, and all her cargo must be removed be-
fore she can be cleared.
The barge Arsenal broke loose from her
tow while off Grandeston, Mich, while a
heavy sea was running, and her crew was
saved with great difficulty. The schooner
Bay State was towed into Alpena, leaking
badly. The schooner Typo is ashore Oh
Amherst Island, and has been abandoned.
She was insured for S12, 600, and her cargo
Of wheat for S24, 900. The propeller Cones
tOga is ashore at Bots Blanc Island. A tug
and lighter have gone to her relief.