Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-07
THE STORM AT SEA.
DISASTERS ON TIE DEEP.

f'nts tnteftathfd Iof t"c h"th'" o''''
Many Vessel. Ashore Rsush Experiences
or the United s,s,es steamer Dispatch.
Especial telegram to the Dlspatch.l
NORFOLK, VA. February 6.-Fears
are entertained for the safety Of the
schooner Anthea Godfrey. Captain Rig
gin, which sailed from New York last
Monday with cargo Of kainit for this
port, as the captain was known to
have bought some stools when last in
this city similar to those reported
washed ashore between Ocean View
and Lynnhaven. Captain Riggin was
accompanied on this trip by his wife
and children.
In addition to the steamers before
reported frozen up in the Albemarle
and Chesapeake canal, there are also
the steamer Keystone, frozen up in Cur
rituck sound, and the Meteor. with a
broken rudder-post, between here aud
Roanoke river in tow Of the Conoho and
Hamilton.
The steamship Roanoke, Of the Old
Dominion line, did not venture up
James river, but viii deliver her Rich
mond freight at West Point.
The steamer Luray is undoubtedly
frozen in at Smithfeld, as nothing can
be heard from her.
The steamer Helen Smith, with a
broken rudder and ashore between here
and the Albemarle and Chesapeake
canal locks, is reported to have been
capsized.
The Fredericksburg steamer Essex
is still in this port ice-bound, the Rap
pahannock river being closed.
The captain of the United States
steamer Dispatch reports that after
leaving New York on Tuesday he ex-
perienced the toughest weather that he
had ever seen on the coast Of this State.
The Dispatch was twenty miles out of
her bearings and within few miles of
Ktty-Hawk beach. The lead on be-
ing thrown only showed twenty-seven
feet of water, when she should have
been in water at least two hundred feet
deep. Had they continued on that
course five minutes longer the vessel
would have been beached. There are
some repairs to be made to her boilers.
She will remain at this yard until the
ice in the Potomac breaks. Her desti-
nation was to Washington, but owing
to the heavy weather she had to put in
here. Her cargo consists of dynamite,
torpedoes, and gun-wadding.
VESSELS ABANDONED AND CREWS
SAVED.
NEW YORK, February g. The
steamer William Burkitt arrived to-
day from Rio Janeiro. She brought
the crew OF the American brig Ada l..
White. eleven in all. picked up in an
open boat at sea. The brig had foun-
dered on the previous day. The Bur
kilt was covered with ice and bad hard
time to get to port.
Several coasters and fshing-yessels
are missing and supposed 10 be
lost in the heavy gales Of the
present week. The New England
coast is again lined with disabled
vessels, most of which will lie saved in
a damaged condition. and which have
come to grief principally through be-
coming manageable on account of
ice on the sEars and rigging. No loss
of life is reported by any of the wrecks
on the coast, hut frost-bitten sailors
abound. Several Of the fShiug-yessels
missing carried crews Of fourteen to
twenty men.
PORTLAND, Me-, February g.
Portland harbor is almost completely
frozen over. The sea is reported to be
skinned with ice along the shore as
far as Two Lights.
PORT JEFFERSON, l.. l., February
6.-The brig George W. Whitford,
from st. Andrews, West Indies, Janu-
airy 9th, with cocoanuts for New York,
picked up in the Gulf Stream fifteen
men Of the Norwegian bark
Catharina. Captain Jacob. The Whit
ford entered Long Island sound on
the night Of February Sd, during the
heavy snow.storm, and had her jb-
boom and forward rigging carried away.
She anchored off EatOn's Neck, and
drifted about seventeen miles, and is
now frozen in the ice on the sound off
Smithtown harbor. The vessel is
tight. The first mate-Stephen Hart
walked ashore on the ice to St. Johns
land for provisions. which gave out on
account Of the increased number in the
crew.
PENSACOLA. FLA, February g.
The schooner Dora Matthews arrived
to-day, bringing the master and crew
of the schooner Mary Monroe, aban-
doned January 18th in the neighbor-
hood Of Bermuda islands.
IN A DILAPIDATED CONDITION.
BosToN, February G.-The three
masted schooner D.. NJ. Anthony, OF
Taunton, from Norfolk, Va. for Bos-
ton, with pig-iron, was towed into this
harbor to-day in a dilapidated condi-
ton. Her fore and mizzenmast are
gone close to her deck her hull is CO.
yered with ice several inches thick
both anchors are gone, with chains at
tached all head-gear is carried away,
and broken spars and rigging lie about
ber deck covered with ice and firmly
frozen together. The only spar left
standing is about fifteen feet of mizzen-
mast.
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