Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-17
SWATH OF THE BLIZZARD.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE ON THE
 CHESAPEAKE.

An Appalling Record That is Not Yet
 Complete-Over 100 Yes els Known to
 Have Been wrecked-Tales of Suffer.
 ing and Death.
 BALTIMORE, March 17-News of the dam age done down the bay by the storm is com Ing in slowly, but every bay and river vesse. arriving in port brings a report of some new wreck. From the various returns we sum- marize as follows: The oyster pungy Vineyard went ashore in Chester river Mon- day night, and the crew of six men were drowned. Twenty-one vessels are ashore in Cockrell's creek, off the mouth of the Great Wicomic river, Northumberland county, Va, including large two masted schooner. Six are ashore of Gwynn's Island, Matthews county, Va, and two in Jackson,s creek, Middlesex county, Va
 The schooners Harriet Ann and Edward Cobb, and bugeye and @ sloop are ashore of Persimmon Point, in the Magothy river The pungy Cleveland, @ schooner, a sloop and four bugeyes are ashore in Bodkin creek A police sloop is ashore in Patuxent river.
 The steamers Fred Avon and the Wenonah report a vast number of vessels of all char acters of build ashore The oyster sloop Lavinia North was capsi1ed in Hills Point harbor, and Capt North and James Thomas were drowned
 About twenty vessels were driven ashore The pungy Eastern Light was lost in tne great Annames essex river and ix men drowned Four bugeyes and two sloops were totally wrecked in that river near the Eastern Lighl. The southern bank of the Great Annamessex Is lined with vessels, some capsized and others lying upon the sands.
 It is reported that twenty-eigh boats can- sized in Chincotiague bay, and that the bodies of fifteen sailors have been washed ashore there.
 The schooners William F. Hines and Annie E. Rogers broke their cables in Eastern tav and dashed together in collision Tho Hin, was sunk and has gone to pieces At Tangie sound the damage is heavy to the shipping, and the loss of seamea is placed at fourteen
 The estimate Of 10J made two days ago Of the number of vessels in distress on the Chess peake bay was far too small Returns come in slowly, but they show an unequaled and h wholesale damage from the storm The HsC continually increases The loss around Son. erset county was great, especially in An namessex river. An unknown schooner was sighted on Monday. She had flying as a sig nal of distress bed quilt She had a crew of five or six men. The cutter attempted to reach the schooner, but could not do it on ac- count of the prevailing hurricane Other unsuccessful attempts were made during Tuesday. The vessel was finally reached on Wednesday. Her crew was found frozen stiff and dead. There are number of sunken boats in Muddy creek, a branch of the river, and number of the dredgers perished.
 More than half the vessels in the harbor at Crisfield were blown ashore, cap ized or sunk, and the damage cannot be estimated until they are gotten ashore Some are total wrecks. One of the vessls was the pungy Leading Breeze. Three of her crew are sup posed to have been drowned in the forepeak They were seen on the pungy Sunday, and have net since been heard from
 Ten boats were driven ashore at Oxford The Ida arrived at Crisfield yesterday with 6 boy and four terribly frostlitten sailors They belongen to the boat Mary c. Ward which had foundered on Smiths island. The men had been lashed to the rigging three days when rescued. The boy died shortly after ward. It will be 6 week before the full re ports are in, but those so far received show an unparalleled record of death and disaster on the Chesapeake