Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-28
TIE GREAT STORM.
LOSS OF THE STEAMER ALLEN.
TOWN AND HER CREW.
Terrible Destruction Done All Along
the Coast-Twenty-Six Lives
Lost-Etc.
isrscAL DrzrArcHrs TO THE EsooaD-umos. ]

port. There seems to be little doubt that
The steamer was sunk on some of the
ledges directly outside this port At about
2P. NJ. on Sunday number of people at
the village heard the sound of steamers
whistle. and last night an immense amount
OF drift and wreckage came ashore at
Sandy Cove and Sandy Beach, the marks
upon which indicated conclusively that the
wrecked vessel must have been the Allen
town. Several lfe-preservers and some
other wreckage was stamped with her
/, name.
The Allentown cleared from Philadel-
phia on the 2lst instant for Salem, Mass,
with 1850 tons of coal She was com
manded by Captain Odiorne, and had a
crew OF eighteen men. The vessel is one
OF the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
! Iron Companys line of colliers.
| THE SAD STORY OF THE BEACH.
| CoHAssET, November 27th.-P. M.-All
day long wrecksge of various descriptions
has been coming ashore along the beaches
huge tlmbers spars, cabin furniture. fine
inside furnishings, chairs, life-preseryers
and other articles appertaining to steam
| ers outht-and many of them stamped
| Allentown have been seen In the break
ers off the shore and found scattered along
| the water front.
| This wreckage tells too plainly that the
| fine iron steamer Allentown has been
| Droken up on one of the huge sunken
| ledges OF this port, always terror to mar
| lners. Captain Nathaniel W. Treat, one of
Cohasset's Oldest seafaring men, and from
wnom the flrst intimation of the disaster
was learned. said the vessel had foundered
| eltner on the Sea Ledges or ON the Grampus,
winch are long sunken ledges lying about
three miles from the nearest point of the
mainland. If this was the case, the vessel
! must have gone down with all on board
within very few minutes after striking.
Since the early reports of the supposed
catastrophe, many of the villagers have
been seen and they say they distinctly
heard the steamers whistles shortly after
| noon on Sunday and repeated at intervals
OF an hour or more as if signaling for
assistance or pilot. 1t was so thick at the
time that nothing could be seen at so great
distance from the shore, and even if any
observation could have been made no boat
could live in so tremendous sea.
DESTRUCTION AND DISASTER EvERywHERr.
The schooner Lasano, before reported
| stranded on Pleasant Beach, has gone to
pieces. Her deck was lifted clear off the
vessel and piled in a confused mass ON the
beach beside the hull of another schooner.
Summer cottages and similar structures on
the water front are wrecked, and ruins
| line the beaches.
Many of the beautiful drives to summer
residences are washed away or covered with
wreckage.
Great damage has been done to land prop
| erty along Crescent Beach, between Green
Hill and Gun Rock. Along this stretch is
line OF from twenty to thirty small cot
tages, averaging in size about 20 by 80
| feet. There is not single one of these
that does not bear marks of the terrible
| force OF the storm. Some of them were
lifted from their foundations and carried
back several feet The total loss to prop
erty on this beach will reach MANY thou
sands of dollars.
AT the Hotel Nantasket the covered prom
enade connecting it with the Rockland
Cafe was partly destroyed by the wind.
The road-beo of the Nantasket Beach
branch of the Old Colony Railroad is en-
tlrely washed out from the Hotel Standish
to point half a mile southwest of the
Ocean House.
The wrecked brig Alice is breaking ND
ana has been stripped of everything port
able
TwENTY-sIX VICTIMS OF THE GALE.
BosToN, November 27th-The record of
lives lost in the Massachusetts coast gale
which is still raging, thus far numbers
| twenty-six, wis.,: Fifteen from the schooner
Edward f. Norton, wrecked off Scituate;
three from the schooner H. G. Higginson,
now going to pieces on the rocks off Hull:
! two Captain and Mate) from the steamer
Bertha +. Walker. off Pemberton; two sea-
men washed overheard off Nova Scotia
| from the steamer Carol, Just arrived; three
from the British yacht Avalon, now ashore
/, on Spectacle Island, in Boston harbor: the
COOK on the schooner Oliver DYER, washed
| overheard off Newcastle, N. H.
Sixty vessels are total losses, or were
badly damaged, on the coast.
VESSEL SHOWS UP.
New YORK, November 27th-The steam
ship Chattahooche, from Savannah, for
which grave fears were felt, put into New
port News for coal yesterday. She reports
heavy weather, but was not damaged.
THE HIGHEST WATER EVER KNOWN.
Sag HARBoR u. I.), November 27th.-
Half of this village was inundated yester-
day. The Nassau House, the principal
hotel, has been unable to serve its guests
with meals since Sunday, the kitchen being
under water.
More than half mile OF the Long
Island Railroad track in this village was
| washed out.
For the first time within the memory of
\ the inhabitants the tide-water from the At
| lantic reached Peconic Bay. The heavy
seas and high tides forced channel
| through the outer beach to Shinnecock Bay.
| and caused The bay to rise over six feet and
the tide to flow through the canal to Pc.
comic Bay.
LIKE THE LAST BLIZZARD.
NEW YORK, November 27th.-The Signal
Service reports the gale as duplicating the
blizzard of last winter in its movements
both storms being central of Cape Hatteras
at the beginning, and both moving in the
same direction and seemingly with the
same speed.
ANXIETY ABOUT STEAMER.
NORFOLK (Va.) November 27th.-The
| steamer Allegheny, which left Boston last
"Wednesday, is missing. Much anxiety is
felt as to her whereabouts.
A BARKENTINE SUNK.
PROVIDENCE, November 27th.-The bark
entine Alexander Campbell, from Portland
to Philadelphia, with paving stones. was
sunk seven miles from Block Island to- dav.
The crew landed here tonight
OVERDUE VESSELS ARRIVING.
BosToN, November 27th.-All the over
due steamers have arrived save the collier
Allentown. No hope is entertained of her
safety. This evening additional wreckape
bearing the name of Allentown was driven
ashore at Cohasset Beach.
sToRM-BEATEN VESSELS.
New YORK, November 27th.-The steam
ers Hans and Kurt. Arizona, Gallia and
Wyanoke were the only vessels to reach
port to-day. AL report having been caught
in the burricsne, but so far as known The
first-named is the only one that sustained
damage, and that is about the decks.
THE DAMAGE ALONG THE JERSEY COAST.
ATLANTIC CRY IN. J.l, November 9TH
The storm has abated, and the sun is now
shining brightly. A survey of the situa-
ton shows that no such destruction te
property on this beach has been known
since the incorporation of the city. Hun
dreds of propelty-owners from Philadelphia
and other localities have come down, fear
ing that their property would be swept
away last night The tide receded to-day.
and the sea, under the influence Of the
northwest wind, was beaten down; but the
result-especially in the lower portions of
the city-is one of almost complete de-
struction.
The work of the waves was Quick and
complete, and individual losses are numer-
| Gus. 1n the Excursion House district the