Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-09-19


horror ut the terrible tragedies OF the sea
that are doubtless being enacted this
moment within compass OF its vibrations.
"Yes, sir, the wind In still northeast"
said sen captain, muflled to the ears in
oilskin and with shiny sou'-wester, roll
log vita rain jamned over his ears" as he
addressed 6kzErrE AND JOURNAL core
spondent, ''and ID blowing gale. 1t is
tue sams AZ it was for the past 81 hours
and shows no signs of q change"
So it appeared. The weather was as
thick as a London fog, salt spray and
rain beating almost horizontally in ones
face and making respiration difficult.
With some difficulty the following COM
plete list OF all the vessels ashore, to the
moment OF writing has been gained:
Italian bark, II Salvatore, American
schooner Henry M. CLARK; British
schooner, Byron NJ; American schooners,
Alene Covert, Gertrude Summers, G.. Il.
Becker, n. u L. Bryan, Maud Leerard,
Nina A. Reed, Novena, Charles p. Stick
ney, total loss. Addie b. Bacon, s. A.
Rudolph, A. 4 Z. Hooper, ENTITY Il.
Dryer, j. ID. Robinson, American ship,
W. q. Grace; American, barge Timour;
Dauish bark, Atalanta; American brig,
Richard j. Green; American schooner,
Major W. II. Tantum, total loss; Nettie
Champion, pilot boat, L. Il. Bayard;
barges Wallace and Tonawanda and two
others, names unknown. Also O vessel
sunk oil the Brown shoals, all the crew
drowned out two who got ashore on
raft to-day. Another vessel also in re-
gard to which there is a dispute as to her
being bark or three masted schooner
as her topmasts only can be discovered
Rs she Is sunk on the Shears shoals. Ii
is not known whether her crew escaped
Last night the securest houses in the
city were shaken to their foundation by
the fury OF the gale. Nothing to equal
the present storm has been known for the
past 80 years
The slip W. +. Grace has her thres
mass cut away, spd che is now lying at
tbs Point Of Capes. ths is reported hoE
III dangerous position. fortunately
for her waen she was driven on the
narroR spit of saud referred to sue
worried her way up on the beach and re-.
NAMED imbed1ed ihsrs instead OF draft
ing across as her fats ut one time seemed
to be, when she would have bsen tot.l
wreck on the Hen aud Chicken shoals
bstween four and hvs miles to tae south
east. The other vessels beacned include
the coasters and the other vessels already
referred to
"A the prospects are at the moment of
writing fully half OF them will be total
wrecks, as the wind and waves are raging
with uncomfortable force, lifting and
humping the vessels with each incoming
sea. The pilot boat Thomas f.. Bayard,
which dragged her anchors early in the
day, is now in fairly safe condition,
beAched on the strand and will be easily
got of.
! No lives at all have been lost off Lewes
beach. This is remarkable in view of
the fact OF the large number Of vessels
come ashore here. The splendid record
OF life saving is due to the incsssAnt
labors of the crews of the three neigh
boring life stations under Captain Clam
| pitt OF Lswes station, Captain Salmons
of Henlopsn and Captain Truxton OF Re-
hoboth station.
The crews and their captains worked
most crsditsoly throughout tbs past AZ
hours. Captain Truxton in coming from
Rshoboth had most perilous and tedi-
Gus job in reaching Lswea beach. the
regular roadway was submerged by the
food aud the R9hoboth life saving crew
had to find their way here as bsst they
could. All proximate aid had of course
to be- centred mere as nswss has been, on
account OF the numerous vessels in thu
open roRdsteads, the chief point OF posi-
BILE danger, shlpwreck and loss OF life
The Lewss station has been o safe hRrbo
of refuge for numbers OF uutortunatt
sailors, and also SONS women, rescued
from the ships.
There are four coal barges sunk in tn,
bay above the BFsRkWater, near thu
Brown shoals All ths crews are los
but one, which was rescued by tug OF
steamer. The barges are from Philadal
phia bound to eastern ports. rhei
owners are not known. When the s,oru
. came on the tug Morse, which was tow
Ing them, left the bargsI at the point re
: feEred to, calculating it to bs the safes
nader the circumstances, and then LEI
, them to their fate. One OF the barge
was the Wallace and another tine iona
4 wanda. The names OF the other two ar
} not known.
/ The Vtrien House swarms with rel
, ugees from the sea, They are ever
nationality Italian, SWede, Dane, Eng
! lisa aud American. 1t is necessary |
3 serve lhs ltigs number o. gus9ts il tire
] or four successive sets OF tables at eRc
Z meal.
Great, red.faned thick vhiskered ma,
: iners SIT jsbbs-ing in different lsaga t2a
until the dining room LOOKS like poss
a bic refractory of tue Tower OF Babel. Nc
' u TIE United states at this moment cou
y sucn uoudescript sigut be witness c
y All the ppoe fellows appear to hsv7 g
g c4llent anpatitea no wonder, for illn
8 Hest Jadarson OF the Vlrdeu House sci
u no Inean table. About 80 sailOrme
\ lounge about the billiard room, lying i
. ali positions wLtching the mates o. tw
u OF tl4 .sel9 playing a mot seAmsnlis
< gtms OF pool. Large quaint ties OF sal
Ors' dunnaRs liz heRpsG mp IN one corn,
Il OF the room These are 6ita az
y goods rescued from the wrecked NJ
~ r4nded vessels Another large CROW
u swgrms 10 the front otliie room. He
the suius' Officers largely conPre9ar
s. MomentRfily messenger from the tel
70 graph oilos srriya and hands q bunch
y envelopes to the clerk. Names of ah
% masters are called ont or the long list
names III tho hotel registered is connt
70 ia the attempt to discover the owner
T. the telegram. The register names mu
= be scanned closely too for many OF Il
q names are foreign and are indicted in Il
40 not readily reclRnizLble italian, Germ,
O. ard Swedish oolicraphy, which it won
g take an Admirable Ufichton to decipha
~ A number OF the crews have GlseAd
= gone To PhiIalelpnis by train.
= At midnight quite a number of t
% vessels have still held to their anoho
y II il difficult, however, to discern Al
= thing in the darkress.
" The Telegraph building AT the Bref
ne Water has been battered down aud wash