Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-14

A Big Ship Foundered OF the Beach
at Barnegat.

BARSEaAr, N. j., Sept. IA big ship on her
beam ends and completely at the mercy of the
gale was seen by Capt. ]. H. Ridgeway, keeper
OF the Barnegat hfe-saving station, last evening
about three miles off shore from the station.
She continued to drift in slowly and at mid
night struck heavily. No one could be seen on
board. The sea was running tremendously
high and it was impossible to launch the life
boat.
Vessels Abandoned at Sea.
New YORK, Sept. 1.-THE pilot boat David
Carl, No. 4, which reached Tompkinsville from
cruise yesterday, brought the captain and
crew of the German bark Erna, abandoned in a
sinking condition so miles south of Sandy Hook
The steamer Old Dominion, which arrived hero
yesterday, when 80 miles off FeDwick island
sighted the three-masted schooner Robert Nc
Farland, dismasted and water logged in
the trough of the sea. The Old Dominion
towed her to Delaware Rreakwater She was
bound from Kennebec Me-, to Philadelphia
with ice. Such heavy sea was running that it
was har work to get a hawser aboard. The
Mcfarland crew consisted Of twelve men be-
sides the captain, who had his wife aboard as a
passenger
Thirty-six Hours Without Food.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Chas. Kresler, his wife
and two grown daughters, who had
been imprisoned in their dwelling on
the Hoboken meadows, were rescued yes
terday. They had been confined to the second
story OF their small house for two days. and
had been without food for thirty-six hours
The water was three feet above the first floor
and the prisoners were assisted out through
the window.
Losses of Life aud Property.
LEwEs, DEL, Sept. 1+.-Twenty-nine of the
thirty cottages at Point Pleasant were washed
away by the storm and the occupants forced to
take to boats to escape.
The town Of Milton and Slaughter's Beach
were also partially submerged. The number
of lives lost here is variously estimated at from
one to four score None of these estimates is
based upon facts being merely supposition
founded on extravagan. rumors heard on
every street corner. A careful computation of
the number of lives lost within a radius of
eight miles of Lewes, which is the center of
destruction, foots up forty-three. The actual
list may, however, foot up twice this number
The damage to shipping within a radius of
ten miles OF the Breakwater, which it was at
first feared would exceed $4,000, 900, it is now
thought will fall below two millions.
Six Of the Crew Drowned.
Boston. Sept. 14.-Bark Catarina X. r., from
Pensacola for Swansea, was abandoned in a
sinking condition on the 18th. The captain
and five men were drowned. The memaining
seven men were rescued and landed here by the
steamer Dana.
The Crew Saved.
VINEYARD HAVEN, MASS, Sept H. - The
schooner reported sunk near Pollock Rip is the
Sarah d. Simmons of Philadelphia, East
Blue Hill. Maine, for New York, with paving
stone. She sprnng leak the 18th instant
and sank almost instantly. The captain and
crew got aboard the Pollock Rip Light-ship in
safety and we're taken off by schooner Isabel
Alberto from Rockland for New York and
landed here.
A Steamer Reported Ashore.
NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 1.-THE wrecking
steamer Rescue has gone down to the coast to
an unknown steamer reported ashore at Curri-
tuck light house.