St. Paul daily globe., 1888-11-28
It Is Told Too Plainly by
Wreekage Along the At
lantic Coast.
Natives ofNantasket Emulate
the Example OF the Old
Bahamians.
They Strip Stranded Craft Of
Everything Portable and
Sigh For More.
Signal Service Officials Pre-
diet a Sequel Of Sundays
Disastrous Storm.

COHASSET, Mass, Nov. 27.-All day
long wreckage of various descriptions
has been coming ashore along the
beaches, more particularly at Sandy
cove. Huge timbers, spars. cabin fur
niture, fine inside furnishings, chairs.
life preServers and other articles apper
tanning to a steamers outfit, and many
of them stamped with the word ''Allen-
town" have been seen in the breakers
off shore and found scattered along the
plainly that the steamer Allentown
the Philadelphia steam collier-has been
broken up on one of the huge Sunken
Iedges of this port, always a terror
to mariners. Capt. Nathaniel W. Treat,
one of CohaSSett'S oldest Sea-faring
men, and from whom the first intima-
tion of the disaster came, said that i'll
his opinion the vessel had foundered,
either on Sea ledgeS or the grampus,
which are long sunken ledgeS lying
about three miles from the nearest
point of the main land. Ii such is the
with all Oh board within a very few
minutes after striking. Since the early
reports of the supposed catastrophe
many of the villagers have been seen.
and they say that they distinctly heard
a steamers whistle shortly after noon
on Sunday repeated at brief intervals
for an hour or more as il
SIGNALING FOR ASSISTANCE,
or pilot. 1t was so thick at til time
that nothing could be seen at SO great a
distance from the shore. and even if
any observation could have been made
no boat could live in the tremendous
sea then prevailing. The schooner
Lasanoa, before reported as stranded
Her deck was lifted clear off the vessel
and piled in confused mass on the
beach beside the hull of another schoon-
er. Summer cottages and similar
structures on the water front are
wrecked, and their ruins line the beach.
Many of the beautiful drives to the
summer residences are washed away or
badly quilted and covered with @reckage.
The greatest damage to land property is
along Crescent beach, between Green
hill and Gun rock. Along this stretch
is line of from twenty to thirty small
summer cottages, averaging in size
about twenty by thirty 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 sew
eral feet. The total loss to property on
this beach will reach many thousand
dollars. At the Atlantic house the
damage by water to carpets and ceilings
is estimated at $1,000. About Damon's
pavilion, at the head OF Nantasket Long
beach, the shore is
- STREWN WITH WRECKAGE
from the schoOners III. G. Higgins0n and
Matte E. Eaton. The HigginSon is
rapidly going to pieces. Her maStS,
however, are still standing, and it is
hoped that the forcmaSt at least will re-
main upright until low water tomorrow
morning, Waen an attempt will be made
to remove the body of l.. Brems, the
steward, which remains laShed to the
fOretop. This morning Mrs. BremS Wis
tied the scene and was prostrated by
the spectacle of the dead body of her
husband lashed othe rigging of a vessel
which, in all probability, will go to
pieces before the body can be reached.
At the Hotel NantaSket the covered
promenade connecting it with the Rock
land cafe was partly destroyed by the
wind. The road bed of the NantaSket
beach branch of the Old Colony rail-
road is entirely washed out from 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 port
able, including her miscellaneous and
somewhat damaged cargo, which was
appropriated by the residents of the