The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-28
NEWS OF DEATH AND DISASTER.
Maine Vessels Heavy Sufferers In the
Great Gale.
A Deer Isle Crew Take Refuge or
Pollock Rip Lightshlp,
Their Vessel, the VIM. o. cargIlI, Co.
ing Down Three Miles Away.

BOSTON, Sept. 2b.-Ine schooner Harris
Messer, from Baltimore, reports she was
hailed from the Pallock Rip light shin this
morning by the captain of the schooner
VIM. d. Cargill. of Deer Isle, Me-, who con-
veyed the information that his vessel
foundered yesterday during the gale three
miles east southeast of the light ship. The
crew are safe on the light ship.
Dragging Ashore.
GLOUCESTER, Mass. Sept. ga des-
patch to the Mutual Fishing Insurance Com
pany reports the schooner Enala G. dragging
her anchors and going ashore during the gale
at Great Point, Nantucket. The prospects
for floating: her are favorable. She was
built at Boothbay in 1869, owned by Capt.
Frank Carroll and engaged in seining.
Beaten to Death.
CHATHAM, Mass, Sept. 27.-The schooner
Elma, of st. Johns, with cargo of lime, is
on fire. She was anchored off the bars this
morning. The crew while hauling in the
main sheet discovered the dead and bruised
body sof the. steward, who had been
washed down there and pounded to death by
blocks and tackle, and remained there un-
discovered over four hours. He was young
man and leaves widowed mother and
others in family dependent on him. After
getting the wreckage partly cleared they
found the water had got into the cargo of
lime, and the cargo was on fire. By batten-
ing everything down snug, they partly
smothered the fire and managed to keep
aboard sntll the arrival Of the relief crew.
Maine Mariners PeriIs.
BOSTON, Sept. 27.-rhe clearing weather
at p. m. yesterday showed at Chatham,
three-masted schooner being driven by the
gale across Chatham bay. She was soon
stranded in the breakers on the west side of
the flats about quarter of mile south of
the northwest buoy.
The crew of the life saving station boarded
the vessel and took off the crew. The vessel
which is the II. A. Dewitt, of Bath, Maine,
Captain Henderson. from Hoboken for Au-
gusta, Maine, with coal, is full of water. She
lost chains, anchors and sails.
With favorable weather the vessel may be
saved, if her cargo can be lightened Cap.
tain Henderson reports that many vessels
among the feet and in the bay have had
trouble and that there will be many reports
OF damage from them. The barge John
Watts rode out the gale all right. The
wrecked schooner is owned by Moore 81 Co.,
Boston, New York and Bath. 1t is proba-
PIE that the immense fleet of vessels SO long
detained VIII get around the cape today
Schooner Eddie Pierce, captain Angus
Holmes, from Eastport for New York with
sardlnes, was abandoned yesterday IA miles
OF Cape Cod. The schooner had been badly
damaged in the gale. Her cargo had shifted.
She became unmanageable and it was de-
cided to abandon her. The crew hoisted sig
nails OF distress which were seen and re-
sponded to by the steamer Bavarian. While
the Bavarian's boats were ON the way to the
schooner Captain Holmes, who became ex-
nausted, fell from the rigging into the water
and was drowned. The crew were taken off
In safety and brought to Boston. The value
OF the cargo was $4,000. Captain Holmes
was 90 years old, belonged in Eastport and
leaves a family.
Captain Lawler, of the pilot boat Hesper.
brought into Boston harbor this morning
steamer Marmion from Jamaica. The He's.
per reports that at o'clock yesterday after
noon, when about 40 miles east of Boston
light she picked up the crew, four in number,
Qf schooner Hattie l.. Curtis, from Bangcx-
for Boston, with a cafg6-6f humber. The
Curtis had been two weeks on the passage
and In the heavy gale of yesterday she
sprung aleak and became eunmanageable. At
one o'clock the crew, with the exception of
Luke Boeden, the steward. abandoned the
vessel as she was fast going to pieces. The
crew took to raft made from the deckload
OF lumber and managed to float on il until
rescued by the pilot boat. The steward who
refused to leave the wreck was washed over
board and drowned.
The steamer New Brunswick, which ar
rived at Boston last night, from Annapolis.
n. D., had very tempestuous passage. Dur-
ing yesterdays gale tremendous sea struck
the steamer staving in her bulwarks and
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Sept. 27.-Schooner
Valparaiso, Tyler, master, Of Deer Isle, Me-,
Wnlle lying off Jerry's Point, Newcastle. RI
l., during the storm of yesterday, dragged
both anchors. The crew were taken of by
Jerry's Point Life Saving crew and landed
at the station. The schooner brought up
clear clear OF the rocks. She was boarded by the
llfe saving crew this forenoon who found
her .windlass broken and the vessel leaking
slightly. Her crew got her underway and
on the vovaoa ~