The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-28
THE CREW WAS SAVED.
THE STEAMSHIP NACOOCHEE
ASHORE OFF POINT LOOKOUT.

4 Storm-No Passengers Believed TO
! Have Been on Board - The Vessel
Well Omcered and Heavily Loaded
with Cotton as a General Cargo-The
Chattahoochee and Mars Put into
Hampton Roads-Nothing Heard of
the Shawmut Since Her Sailing-The
City of Savannahs Safe Arrival in
Boston.
An Associated Press dispatch to the
MORNING NEWS from Beaufort, N. c., last
night, stated that the steamship Nacoochee
Is ashore twenty-five miles from Point Look
out. The crew was saved.
The Nacoochee sailed from Savannah
Friday morning, Nov. %, at $50 O'Clock,
and was due in New York Sunday night.
Her cargo consisted of 2, s5S bales cotton, 90
bales domestics, 93l barrels rosin, 160 bar
rels spirits turpenune, 6,0OO feet lumber, 2S
bales hides, 5 turtles IA boxes fish, 1881
crates oranges, 151 crates vegetables, 1891
tons pig iron, 81 bales sponge, and 800 pack
ages merchandise.
AGENT ANDERSON DOUBTS IT.
c. G. Anderson, the companys agent,
was seen at his residence late last night He
was not inclined to believe the dispatch.
lie did not know whether the vessel had any
passengers on board or not, but did not think
she had any. He was unable to give any
information as to the value of the vessel or
ofthe cargo. He said that he had received
no news of the vessel. and he had no reason
to believe that there was anything the mat
ter with her. No information could be OBJ
iained from the comp1nys office.
A FULL COMPLEMENT OF OFFICERS.
The Nacoochee had full complement of
officers. She was commanded by Capt.
Theodore Catherine, who was transferred
from the Chattahoochee, of which he was
first officer, to relieve Capt. Kempton, who
had been in command of the Nacoochee
since she was built.
The Nacoochee was the youngest ship of
the Ocean Steamship fleet. She was built
by Roach at Chester, Pa, in 1882, and is a
sister vessel to the Chattahoochee and the
Tallahassee. She was 1850 tons burthen.
Her length was 2S0 feet
THE YOUNGEST OF THE FLEET.
She made her first trip TO Savannah in
Jan, 1888 In model, strength, speed and
appointments she was considered to be I'M
equaled in the coastwise trade.
General Manager Sorrsl in New York,
and it was impossible last night to get any
estimate of the value of the vessel or the
loss to the company in event she is wrecked.
THE JOHNS HOPKINS VOYAGE.
The steamship Johus Hopkins. Capt.
Foster, from Baltimore, arrived yester
day after having ran before one
of the severest gales that has ever
been experienced on the Atlantic coast.
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the way down although she kept consider
ably ahead of the center of the storm. The
salt from the ocean spray covered her
sInokestack and her bulwark gates were
stove in from the force of the gale, but no
other damage was done.
The steamship William Crane sailed from
here Saturday last for Baltimore, and was
reported arrived there yesterday with her
maintopmast gone
The greatest anxiety was felt for the
Chattahoochee, which sailed from Savan-
nah Tuesday, Nov. 20, a week ago yester-
day. The first announcement Of the yes
sells being overdue was made in Mondays
MORNING NEWS Since then great anxiety
was felt for her safety, and numerous in
auirIes were made at the agents office.
PUT INTO HAMPTON ROADS.
Yesterday afternoon Agent Anderson re-
ceiyed a telegram from r. Y. Walker, the
company's agent in New York, stating
that the Chattahoochee arrived yesterday
morning in Hampton roads and was an
chored OFF Newport News, Va. The steam
ship Mars, which sailed last Wednesday, is
also in Hampton roads. The dispatch did
not state whether there was any damage to
the vessels, and did not give the cause of
their putting into the roads They were
doubtless driven in by the storm which has
prevailed on the coast for week.
No apprehensions are felt at the office for
fafx - tlRnx lie har iC m Hf
however. that they encountered the same
storm which The British steamship Par
THAN, which, arriving at Charleston on
Saturday, reported.
The City of Savannah sailed for Boston
on the same day that the Chattahoochee left
for New York, but telegram from Boston
received at the Office of the company last
night announced her cafe arrival at 4
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. 1t is very
likely that either one Of the three steamers
effected the rescue from ths wreck eff Hat
teras reported by the Parthian.
PROBABLY SHORT OF COAL.
The only cause assigned for the Chatta-
hoochee and Mars putting into Hampton
road by shipping men is that with the sue
cession of heavy gales and the off-shore
winds they were driven off to sea- and being
unable to make Roadway in the teeth of the
storm, their supply Of coal was exhausted
and they were compelled to put into the
nearest port for coal.
THE SHAwMUT OVERDUE.
The Shawmut followed the Chattahoochee
and Mars last Thursday, and nothing has
been heard from her since. A Charleston
steamer has been due in New York for sew
eral days, but no report from her has been
had.
The lightship off Hatteras was driven
from its anchorage in one of the gales, and
the United States steamer Wistaria, with
relief lightship, was dispatched from
Charleston on Monday TO replace IL.
The gale of Nov. % must have
extended considerably TO the southwark as
the Norwegian steamship Stanford, which
was due here Monday from Buefelds,
Nicaragua, with fruit, has not arrived.
The schooner Ellen A. Swift from Abaco,
with fruit, is also overdue. She has been
expected a couple Of days, and it is very
probable that both have encountered the
storm and have been driven before it.
Some anxiety is felt for the schooner
Charmer, Capt. Frank Daboll, which sailed
from New York on Nov. II. She was
spoken last Wednesday by the fishing
schooner Gertrude Summers, which arrived
here Saturday, but the Charmer has not
been reported.
THE CITY OF SAvANNAH's TRIP.
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