The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-28
OCEANS WRATH.
Woful Tidings of Disaster
Coming In.
HAVOC AT SUMNER RESORTS.
The Irsn Collier Allentown on the
Pilgrim Coast-Ihe storm
in Canada

CoHAssEr. Mass. Nov. 27.-It IS re-
| ported here that the Philadelphia
steam collier Allentown has foundered
of this port. There seems to be little
doubt that the steamer was sunk on
some of the ledges directly outside
this port. At 2:50 p. m. Sunday a
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 on Sandy beach. marks upon
which indicated conelusively that the
wrecked vessel must have been the
Allentown. Several life preseryers
and some other wreckage was stamped
with her name.
The Allentown cleared from Phiia-
delphia on the 2ist instant for Salem.
Mass, with i660 tons of coal. She
was commanded by Captain 0diorne,
and had crew of Ismen. The vessel
was one of the Philadelphia & Read
ing Coal & Iron Company's line of col
liers.
All day long wreckage OF various de-
scriptions has been coming ashore
along the beaches, more particularly
at Dandy cove. Huge timbers, sparS,
cabin furniture, fine inside furnish
ings, chairs, life preservers and other
articles appertaining to steamers
outfit, and many of them stamped
with the word Allentown, have been
seen in the breakers off the shore and
found scattered along the water front.
This wreckage tells too plainly that
the fine iron steamer Allentown has
been broken cp on one OF the huge
sunken ledges of this port, always
terror 10 mariners.
Capt. Nathan A. Treat, one of Co
hasset'f oldest seafaring men, and
from whom the frs. inilmation of the
disaster came. said in his opinion the
vessel had foundered either on the sea
ledges or on the 'grampus, which
are long sunken ledges lying about
three miles from the nearest point of
the mainland. If such is the case the
vessel must have gone down with all
on board within very few minutes
after striking.
Since the early reports of the sup
posed catastrophe many of the yillag-
ers have been seen, and they say they
distinctly heard the steamers whistle
shortly after noon ON SUNDAY, repeated
at brief intervals for an hour or more
as ii signalling for assistance or
pilot Ii was so thick at the time that
nothing could be seen at so great dis
tance from shore, and even If any OBJ
servations could have been made no
boat could live in the tremendous sea
then prevailing.
The schooner Lesano, before report
ed as stranded on Pleasant Beach. has
gone TO pieces. Her deck was lifted
clear off the vessel and piled in a con-
fused mass on the beach beside the
hull of another schooner. Summer
cottages and similar structures on the
water front are wrecked and their
ruins hne the beach. Many OF the
beautiful drives TO the summer resi-
dences are washed away or badly gut
ted and covered with wreckage.
The greatest damage to land and
property is along Crescent Beach, be-
tween Green hill and Gun rock. Along
this stretch is line OF from 20 10 40
small summer cottages averaging in
size 20x30 feet. There is not a 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 property on
this beach will reach many thousands
of dollars.
At the Hotel Nantasket the covered
promenade connecting it with the
Rockland cafe was partly destroyed
by the wind.
The roadbed of the Nantasket beach
branch of the Old Colonly railroad is
entirely washed out, from the Hotel
Standish to point half mile North
west OF the Ocean house.
The wrecked brig Alice is rapidly
breaking up, and has been stripped
/ of everything portable.