Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-09
MANY VESSELS WRECKED.
The Storms Frightful Havoc Near
Norfolk.
VIRGINIA BEACH sTREwN WITH wREcKs-sAILoRs
LOST IN THE RAGING sEAs-scoREs OF
scHooNERs SWEPT ASHORE IN THE aALE-THE
HIGHEST TIDES ON RECORD.


LOST IN THE RAGING sEAs-scoREs OF
scHooNERs SWEPT ASHORE IN THE oALE-THE
HIGHEST TIDES ON RECORD.
A Norfolk special to the Baltimore American.
April 8, says: Information from Virginia Beach
says the four-masted schooner Bergman F.
Poole, of Providence, for Baltimore, is ashore
near Sea Tack station. The crew, consisting of
ten men, were rescued The schooner Emma
+. Hart. from Nassau, for Boston, is ashore five
miles south of Cape Henry. The crew were
rescued by the life-saving station of Sea Tack
An unknown schooner. with both masts gone.
is ashore two and half miles south of Sea
Tack station. OF her crew of five there is said
to be
ONLY ONE SURVIVOR.
The life-saving crew could not reach her, being
cut off by the inlet. The roof of the Princess
Anne hotel is damaged The schooner An
drew johnson, of Baltimore, for Rio with
flour, is ashore at York river. An unknown
schooner is ashore off Old Point The steamer
Chatham from Boston, reports having passed
two miles northwest by north from Cape Henry
lighthouse the boom of a schooner moored to
wreckage. The New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk railroad tug reports an unknown
schooner on Willoughby point, with the seas
breaking over her. The schooner North
ampton, IN Cherry Stone creek with her crew
OF four men, was blown out into the bay Sat-
urday night, and
ALL ON BOARD LOST.
The schooner w. P Davis is beached on
Craney Island and the schooner Chas H. Sim
nickson is ashore at Ocean View. The schooner
Hester A. Waters is ashore at Nansemond river,
and the schooner George W. Covington has
gone to pieces at the mouth of Nansemond
river The schooner Eva Osborne, Pig Point,
and the schooner James 5. Watson is ashore at
Western Branch. The schooners Emily n. Bur-
ton and the Rising Sun were thrown up high
and dry near West Norfolk. The schooner
Godfrey is ashore and breaking up in Nanse-
mond river; the schooner Carrie May is ashore
at Western Branch. An unknown schooner,
with masts only visible, is sunk off Ocean View.
Two unknown vessels are ashore south of Smith
field creek. The long wharf at SewelPs Point
ID entirely swept away. Another unknown
schooner is ashore between Pig Point and
Craney Island. The moat at Fort Monroe is
filled with water
FOUR MEN dashed TO THE RIGGING.
The Old Dominion steamship Guyandotte re-
ports that when 20 miles off the Virginia capes
attempted to secure the crew of four men
lashed to the rigging of an unknown schooner,
but were unsuccessful. The men were so ex-
hausted that they could not help themselves
and must have soon after persisted The
IL.
loading coal at Lambert's Point, are badly dam
aged. The schooner Fairwood Suffolk, of Sails
bury, Md, Is ashore in Nansemond river, and
the schooners John w. Covington and Hester
A. Waters foundered in Hampton Roads. The
crews hoated ashore on wreckage Two I'M
known schooners are ashore in York river. The
schooner Petrol is sunk off Hampton Bar club
house. Many buildings at Ocean View were
blown down. The steam tug Ida is ashore at
Portsmouth; the schooner Watchful ashore at
Pillner's Point.
DAMAGE AT PORTSMOUTH.
The front of the naval hospital grounds was
seriously washed and damaged. Several local
bridges in Portsmouth were carried away The
Western Branch drawbridge is gone. Large
portions of the trestle work of the Seaboard
and Roanoke railroad and Atlantic and Dan
vile railroad bridges throughout the county
have been washed away.
The Christian church in Berkely was blown to
pieces, and many houses were unroofed and
otherwise injured The schooners Annie T.
Clark Robert Healy and Mary A. Irving are
ashore above Berkely flats. The schooner Anna
is sunk off the fats. The total damage in Nor
folk and vicinity will aggregate
TWO MILLION DOLLARS.
All the wharves along the Nansemond river
have been washed away. The store of W. Will
Hanson, at Sleepy Hall, that county, was de-
molished, and Clerk Woodward drowned. Cap
tain Elijah ]. Berche and two sons, of Ports
mouth, are reported drowned in James river
from their vessel The schooner G. W. Cow
ington, Captain E. ". Travers, while anchored
in Hampton Roads Saturday night, bound to
to Baltimore with load of lumber consigned
to r. I. Walters Il Son, was struck by gale of
wind from the northeast and parted her cable.
She was driven down on the schooner H. A.
Walters, lying near, and had her bowsprit car
ried away, and the vessel was stove in forward.
She filled in half an hour and capsiZed both
masts being washed out. The crew remained
ON the wreck from 9 o'clock Saturday night
to 10 o'clock Sunday morning. After the decks
broke up the captain and crew dashed them
selves to pieces of the deck timbers and were
carried ashore at Pig Point. All were saved in
good condition with the exception of one man,
namt unknown, who was badly crushed. The
captain noted protest