The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-13
Many of the Sailors Rescued BY Unceasing Ef'
forts of the Life-Saying Stations, but
Many Others Find Watery Graves.
Frantic Efforts of Several Thousand Peo.
pie to Escape from Atlantic City.
Railway Communication Restored with Phil
adelphia-How che Big Ocean Steamers
Fared in Their Contest with the Storm.
Wrecked Vessels Strcwn All Along the Shore
Suffering and Loss Of Life.

Wrecked Vessels strcwn All Along the Shore
Suffering and Loss of Life.
LEwEs, Del. Sept. 12.-No language can
picture the terrible scene along the coast.
The wind Is blowing with almost hurricane
fierceness. driving the rain with force
that cuts like hail. The half-mile reach
of sand between the town and coast is a
tossing. billowy ocean. bearing wreckage
on every wave. Through the mist ofspray,
storm-tattered sails and the naked nlasts of
scores of deserted and dismantled vessels
can be dimly seen. Since Monday night
the storm has ragged without abatement.
Yesterdays dawn showed hundred vessels
which had sought the refuge of the break
water. The refuge was insufficient. BY IL
o'clock the sea broke over the )reakwater
wrecked the telegraph station, carried
away the big fog bell and rushed shore
ward. sweeping away the steamboat pier
and dashing the Italian bark FL Saliva
tori against the iron government pier.
The piers of Brown a. Co. and Leuce Bros.
gave way and were swept to sea. The
United States Marine hospital was dashed
from its moorings and sent spinning down
the beach. The Lewes life-saving station.
forty feet above high-water mark. was
Huhegrove, a suburb between the town
and beach, was submerged, and its 200 in
habitants lied for life, leaving all their pos
sessions behind.
The first boat came ashore at A. NJ.
Then came another. and another. The
life-savipg station crew. reinforced by the
Henlopen and Rehoboth crews. went to
work, and have labored almost unceasing-
" ever since. The crew of every vessel
that struck was taken off by those daring
mon md mo fa 40 lnSf nr1an lae.
scores of men they handled. Many vessels
could not be reached, however. The total
number of lives lost at this point will prob
ably exceed forty. Five of the eight men
Bryan perished where the vessel struck.
on Brandywine shoals. The mate and two
seamen caught spar and dIlfted all night.
AT daybreak the Others discovered that
one of the sailors was dead. his body still
lashed to the spar. The two survivors
were picked up by tug and brought TO
Lewes.
News comes from Rehoboth that the surf
is breaking over the Bright House porch;
that Surf avenue is entirely washed away,
and the Douglas House is surrounded by
water. and its inmates are In great terror.
Three vessels were wrecked outside the
capes. Two men alone, colored man and
q German, have come ashore as survivors
from these wrecks. They were on araft from
p. NJ. Monday to A. NJ. yesterday. The
other fifteen who composed the crews of
these schooners are given up for lost.
The crew of the tug A. L: Luckenbach.
which had lain alongside of the schooner
Kate Z. Morse all night. succeeded. this
morning. in taking the crew off the latter
vessel, nine In number, and afterwards
brought them to this place. The schooner
was blown on Hawks Nest shoal about r.
NJ. Monday. Sept. o. The crew took to the
rigging. where they remained clinging to the
ropes for nearly forty hours. The men were
nearly exhausted when rescued, and could
not have lasted much longer. 1t was inn
possible for the tug to approach the strand
ed schooner nearer than twenty yards, and
the men in the rigging were directed to
jump overheard. AS aman struck the water
q rope would be thrown him and he would
be lifted on board the tug. After getting
all on board the Luckenbach brought them
to this place, where they were landed with
the assistance of the life-saving crew.
Shortly after the Morse went on the shoal.
o schooner supposed to be the Walter +.
Parker also grounded within thirty yards
of the Morse. She soon broke up and those
on the Morse saw her crew drown one by
one. The Morse is a total loss.