Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-13
Two Hundred Men, Women and Children
Fleeing for their Lives.

THE GREAT STORM.
Two Hundred Men, Women and Children
Fleeing for their Lives.
LEwEs Del.), September 12th.-No Ian
guage can picture the terrible scene along
the coast. The wind is blowing almost
hurricane, driving the rain with force
that cuts like hail. The halfInile beach of
sand between the town and the coast is a
tossing ocean, bearing wreckage on every
wave. Through the mist of spray some
tattered sails and the naked masts of
score of deserted, dismantled vessels are
dimly seen.
Since Monday night the storm has ragged
without abatement. Yesterdays dawn
showed one hundred vessels which had
sought the refuge of the breakwater. The
refuge was insufficient. By IL o'clock the
sea broke over the break and wrecked
the telegraph-s,ation, carried away the big
fog-b bell, and rushed shoreward, sweeping
away the steamboat pier. The piers OF
Brown & Co. aud Lace Bros. gave way and
were swept into the sea. The United States
Marine Hospital was dashed from its moor
ings and sent spinning down the beach.
The Jones Life Saving Station. forty feet
above high-wa mark, was flooded and
the foundation undermined. Hugheville,
a suburb between the town and the beach,
was submerged, and its two hundred in
habitants fed for life, leaving all their pos
sessions behind.
The first boat came ashore at A. NJ then
came another and another. The life saving
crew, reinforced by the Henlopen and Re-
hoboth crews, went to work and have
labored almost increasingly ever since tt
crews on every vessel that struck were
taken of by these daring men and not a
life was lost among the scores of men they
handled. In all twenty seven vessels came
ashore here. A vessel sunk off the Brown
shoals. All of the crew were drowned but
two, who got ashore on a raft Another
vessel was sunk on Shears shoals. 1t is
not known whether the crew escaped
The total number of lives lost will prob
ably reach forty. Five of the eight men
who composed the crew of the e. and L.
Bryan perished when the vessel struck on
the Brandywine shoals. The mate and two
seamen caught spar and drifted all night.
AT daybreak the others discovered one of
the sailors dead, the body still lashed to
the spar. The two survivors were picked
up by tug and brought ashore
There IS great concern over the crew of
the pilot boat Ebe Tunnel. She put to sea
Monday and has not been heard from.
Pilots John Barnes, Lewis Bertrand, James
Bowland, Berry Hickman and a crew of
eight men were on board.
The New Jersey pilot boat Edmund was
blown across the bay and lies on the Jersey
coast with her sails in tatters. An un-
known schooner is ashore at Rehoboth, and
the coast for miles down is reported strewn
with wrecks.
There has been No communication with
Longport. Great anxiety is felt for the
safety of the residents.
The crew of the tug A. L. Luckenbach,
which had laid alongside the schooner
Mate E. Morse all night, succeeded this
morning in taking the crew of the latter
vessel, nine in number, on board, and
afterwards brought them to this place.
A schooner was blown onto Hawks
Nest shoal about 5 p NJ. Monday The
crew took to the rigging, where they re-
mained clinging to the ropes for nearly
forty hours. The men were nearly ex-
hausted when rescued and could not have
lasted much longer. 1t was impossible for
tug to approach the stranded schooner
nearer than twenty yards, and the men
IN the rigging were directed to jump over
board.
As man would strike the water rome
would be thrown 10 him and he would be
lifted on board the tug. After getting all
on board the Luckenbach brought them to
to this place shortly after the Morse went
on the shoal.
A schooner, supposed to be the Walter f.
Parker, was also grounded within thirty
yards of the Morse. She soon broke up
and those in the Morse saw her crew
drown one by one. The Morse is total
wreck
DAMAGE To DELAWARE FRUIT.
DovER (Del.), September 18th. - I'm
mense damage has been done to the fruit
crop, especially peaches, by the storm. Trees
are uptorn by their roots The loss is
many thousands of dollars. Many ship
ping losses are reported but the wires are
down and the report cannot be verified
DISASTROUS WIND AND RAIN.
CARE MAY On. J), September l2th.-
Eleven houses were destroyed here.
Wildwood, Sea Isle City, Ocean CITY and
Amlon are entirely cut off from railroad
or telegraph. The entire meadow is vast
sheet of water. The Anglesea train was
wrecked Tuesday and still is ditched. The
track is destroyed for distance of five
miles. The wind is blowing fifty miles al
hour.
VESSEL WRECKED.
CHATHAM (Mass.), September 12th.-A
sunken vessel has been discovered on
Pollock Rip Shoal. She is supposed to be
lhhee-maSteu sCnooneri with the main
mast gone. 1t is thought she was running
for the light in the thick weather last
night but failed to get hold of the light
and struck the shoal. She pounded heav-
lily all the way across the terrible rough
sea, knocking holes in her bottom. She
leaked badly and sunk as soon as she
struck the deep water. 1t is feared all
hands were lost.
VESSEL BURNED.
VINEYARD HAVEN (Mass.) September
12Ih.-Tbe heavy east-northeast wind still
continues this morning. There has been
no steamer from Nantucket for three DAYS.
All telegraphic communication with Mar
tha's Vineyard and the mainland stopped
early yesterday morning The schooner
Edwin, at Edgartown, whose cargo of lime
took fire, burned up.