Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-01-19
DOWN TO DEATH.
B City Of Columbus 0as Day Out
from Boston
etrikes a dangerous Reef or the
Coast,
Falls on Her Side and at 0nes Fills
With Water.
% any of the Passengers are Saved
y by Life Saving Crews,
.But Ore Hundred and Nineteen are
Swept Away,
Khile Some are Frozen STIFF Wait
p ing for Relief.
Tic GalIantry and Self Sacrifice OF
the Captain.
A Young Revenue Officers Heroic
Attempts
To Save Those Freezing and
Drowning Around Him.
A Young Revenue 0fficsr's Heroic
Attempts
To Save Those Freezing and
Drowning Around Him.

PoSruS, January 1S.-A dispatch from
New Bedford, Mass, TO +. w. Nickerson
& Scp, says: The steamer City Of Colum-
bvs is ashore on Devils Bridye," of
Gray Head. Is fast breaking up. About Que
hundr, lives are lost will leave on the
cary train in the morning. Saved by the
cutter Dexter.
(Slgnsil S Z WSIGHT, Master"
= The City OF Columbus left Boston at three
O'Clock yesterday afternoon for Savannah.
New BKpFoEp, Mass, Jsnuary 1S.-The
following is Captain WrighEs state
ment: TIE City Of Columbus left Boston
-. 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon carrying
eighty passengers and crew Of torty-iye.
AtS45a. NJ. Friday, Gray Head light being
soulA, hall EAST the vessel struck, on the
outside Of DEVILS BIidge buoy. The wind
-~tSs blowing at gale west by north. The
vsssei Immediately filed and keelsd over,
the water breaking in and flooding the
port side. The saloon passengers, except q
few women and children, all came on deck,
nearly all wearing life p-eservers. All the
,bosts cleared away but were swsmped.
d msjority Of the passengers were washed
Overheard. Seven passengers left the yes-
sel on life raft and about forty more took
ITO the rigging. At IL so this morning the
Gay Head life boat put of and took seven
persons, and another life boat put OF be-
tween u and O'Clock. The revenue cut
ter Dexter came along about 1880 and sent
of two boats. Twsnty-one persons, one Of
&bom was dead, were placed on board the
Ue1ter, and after all the persons were
fnken from the vessel the Dexter proceeded
i New Bedford. Three persons died
asEer going aboard the Dexter The
names Of the saved are Horace Water
house, Bath, Maine; John White,
Fxince Edwards Islsnk; F. Fairbanks,
Gorham, Me-; Thos. O'Leary, fireman; +. s.
Bhggs, Boston; Fuber Hanson, Boston; A.
a Pittman, Brooklynn, steward; S. +.
,tisht, Boston; Capt. G. d. Whitcomb,
Hudson, Mass; II. W. Farnsworth, Town
send, Mass; Geo. W. Farnsworth, Town
send, Mass; John l. Cook, Portland, Me-;
n. W. Jedmsn, Lawrence, Mass; Eugene
McGana, alias Mccarthy, SomerSiew,
Mass; II. A. Phillips, first assistant en-
gineer; John Madden, Charlottetown,
Prince Edwards Island; l. 4. Hammond,
Goldsboro, Me-; Four dead bodies we're
p>nsht to this city on the Dexter.
One is not identified. Two are
identified as Helen Brooks, of Northboro,
Mass, and G. Fred Chandler, Of Hyde
Park. Another is supposed to be, from 8
casd found in his pocket, q member Of the
.srn of c. F. Richardson & Co., Clinton
Market, Boston. one passenger lost was
n. J. Morton, lately connected with the
Boston Globe, who was going South for his
health. The ledges on which the City Of
Columbus struck is considered by ma
riners one Of the most dangerous on the
coast. The ledges consist of formation OF
vuu1nerged rocks constituting 4 double
ledge, the outer strata Of which is called
uThs DEVILS Back Both ledges being
called 'The DEVILS Bridge" The ledges
are abreast of Gray Head light on the main
r.,a and extend q little to the south.
Tas outer ledge Of Devils Back" is about
,;eht miles from the main land. On either
side of the outer ledge Is very deep water.
The upper part Of the ledge is formed Ike
ths cable of a house, so that q Tessel strik-
Ing Il diagonalIy would naturally keel over
ON ber beam ends, The course Of vessels
a around Gay Head to pass by the outer
edge on the south.
EBoston dispatch says the City Of Co.
lumbus had eighty drst-class and twenty
two steersgs passengers, about one-third OF
whom were ladies, children and crew OF
forty.fye. About forty men took refuge
- the rigging, where they remained until
1880 A. NJ, when q hfs-boat put on from
!. Cav Head aud took away seven, one OF
tshom died soon afterwards. short
NV after noon another lie
boat put of 10 the distressed
vessel and meantime the revenue cutter
n.ster came along and sent Off two boats.
twenty one were taken from the wreck
and placed aboard the Dexter, fur Of
,vhcm died afterwards. After all the per-
.on. on the wreck were taken of, the DeI-
,sr sailed for this port where shs arrived
th,, evening. The total number OF persons
.avsa is thirty. five. Five dead bodies have
!, h,,n recovered and one hundred and nine-
t.sn souls are unsccounted for. Seventeen
~ the saved and four of the dead were
brought here. and six supposed to be living
and one dead are at Gray Head. The names
of those at the latter place are unknown
Following is full list Of the lost;
WIN. w. WRIGHT and wife, Boston.
Es RAND, lawyer, and wife, RoSoury'
Tx. HALE, produce merchant, Boston,
LEVI LAWRENCE, rssidsnes unknown
aEORGE II. KELLOGG, residence un-
Known. .,
lance unknown.
MRS d. r. SMALL, Southampton Mass
MISS BEACH, residence unknown
MRS. 6IBAN, rsndencs unknown.
OsCARIADIGI, Turkish Consul General
Al MORTON, Boston Globe, Boston
HELEN BROOKS, Northboro, Mass.
MR. and MRS. @. A. RAND and son'
SRs HENRY sLADE. Chelsea Mass.
n BELYI, wife and TO children
residepss unknown.