Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-09-18
SUN MING UP RESULTS.
One Hundred Vessels Lost on the Della
ware Coast-Forty Seamen Drowned
in Plain View of the People ON the
Shore-An Italian Steamer Dashed to
Pieces Near Atlantic City.


Pieces Near Atlantic City.
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 town
and coast is a tossing billowy ocean
bearing wreckage on every wave.
Through the mist of spray, storm latter
ed sails and the naked masts 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
breakwater, wrecked the telegraph sta
ton, carried away the big fog-bell and
rushed shoreward, sweeping away the
steamboat pier and dashing the Ttal-
ian bark II Salvatore against the iron
government pier. The piers of Brown
& Co., and Luce Brothers, gave
way and were swept to sea. The
United States Marine Hospital was
dashed from it's moorIngs and sent SPIN
ming down the beach. The Lewes life
saving station, forty feet above high
water mark, was flooded and it's founda-
/ ton undermined. Hughevville, SUBJ
urb between the town and beach, was
submerged and lis 200 Inhabitants fed
for life, leaving all their possessions be-
hind.
| The first boat came ashore at A. M.
Then came another and another. The
life-saving ere v, reinforced by the Hen
lopen and Rehoboth crews, went to
| work and have labored almost un:eas-
| ingly ever since. The crew of eyery
| vessel that struck was taken off by these
| daring men, and not lie was lost among
! the scores Of men they handled. Follow
ing is complete list of the vessels that
came ashore: Italian bark IL Salvatore,
! American schooner Henry NJ. Clark,
! schOoners Alena Covert, Gertrude Sum-
mers, G.. +. Becker. E. & L. Bryan, Maud
! Leonard, Nina A. Reed, Novena, Charles
! 2. Stickney (total loss), Addie B. Bacon,
S. A.. Rudolph, A. & +. Hooper, Emily
R. Dryer, J. d. Robinson; American
| ship w. r. Grace, American barge
Timour, Danish bark Atalanta, American
| brig Richard J. Green American schoon-
er Maj. w. Fl. Tantum (total loss),
Nettie Champion, pilot boat. r. F. Bay
ard, barges Wallace and Tonawanda,
: and two others, names unknown. Also
vessel sunk off the Brown Shoals, all
the crew drowned but two who got
! ashore on raft. Another vessel in re-
gard to which there is a dispute rs to
! her being bark or three-masted
! schooner, as her topmasts only can he
! discovered, as she is sunk on the Shears
! Shoals. 1t is not known whether her
! crew escaped.
The total number of lives lost will
| probably exceed forty. Five of the
eight men who composed the crew of
! the E. & L. Bryan persisted where the
vessel struck on Brandywine Shoals.
The mate and two seamen caught spar
and drifted all right. At day break the
others discovered that one of the sail
ore was dead, his body still dashed to
picked up by tug and brought to
Lewes. There is great concern over
the crew of the pilot boat Ebe Tunnell.
She put to sea on Monday and
has not been heard from. Pilots
John Barnes, Lewis Bertrand and
James Rowland, Barry Hickman, son of
Harbeson hickman, and a crew of
eight men were on board. The New
Jersey pilot boat Edmunds was blown
across the bay and lies grounded on the
Jersey coast with her sails in tatters.
! New York pilot boat No. was driven
i in from the sea, but made anchorage
! fo1x tyr
| at RehobOth, and the coast for miles
down is reported to be strewn with
wrecks.
News comes from Rehoboth that the
surf is breaking over the Bright House
Beach. Surf Avenue is entirely washed
away and the Douglas House is sur
rounded by water and it's many inmates
are in great terror. Three vessels
| previously reported lost outside
the capes are the schooners Kate
E. Morse, Walter F. Parker and J. & T..
and German have come ashore as sur
vivors from these wrecks. They were
on raft from P. M. Monday to A. M.
/! yesterday. The other fifteen who COM
posed the crews of these schooners are
given UP for lost.
ATLANTIC Cry, N. j., Sept. 12.-Late
on Tuesday night the shrill whistle of q
steamer was heard above the roaring of
the surf. She had come ashore OPP
| posite Arkansas Avenue, and her sig
nails of distress were promptly re-
sponded to by the crew of the Atlantic
City Life-saving Station. They hurried
along the beach with their apparatus,
but the great waves made any
attempt at rescue impossible.
Capt. Bowen is of the opinion
that the steamer went to pieces during
the night, and that her crew persisted
! in the angry sea. Fire buckets and a
water cask were found on the beach this
morning, inscribed with the name
"Philadoux," and there is but little
doubt that they belonged to the Inflated
steamer.
Along the beach there are appear
ances OF wrecks at sea. The life-saving
people are keeping a sharp lookout for
| survivors