Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-04-09
RECORD OF WRECKS.
An Appalling List Of Victims Of
the Storm.
DEATH AID DISASTER on THE DEEP

UhA1u ALL UlcAcIEh UN 1h6 UkhF
The shores 81 the Chesapeake strewn
with the Wrecks or Unfortunate sch0on-
ers. and Dismasted HuIIxs Line the
Beaches Of virginla--sTany Lives and
BTuch Treasure Lost-Norfoiix Damaged
20 the Extent % Two Million Dollars.
NORFOLK. Va, April 0.-The terrible
gale is at an end. The weather is bright
and crispy. but Virginia beach is strewn
with wrecksand manylive have been lost.
The four masted schooner Bergman F.
Poole. Of Providence, for Baltimore, is
ashore near Sea Tack station. The crew
were rescued. The schooner Emma F.
Hart, from Nassau for Boston, is ashore
five miles south of Cape Henry. The
crew were rescued by the Sea Tack life
sayfng station with the breeches buoy.
An unknown schooner, with both mastg
gone, Is ashore three miles south of Sea
Tack. OF her crew of five there is said
10 be only one survivor.
The steamship William Lawrence re-
ports that the schooner Andrew johnson,
If Baltimore. for Rio, is ashore at York
river. An Il iknown schooner Is ashore
of Old Point. The steamer Chatham,
from Boston. passed, two miles north
west from Cape Henry lighthouse, the
boom Of q schooner moored to wreck
age. An unknown schooner is on Will
ougby Point with the seas breaking over
her. The schooner Northampton in
Cherrystone creek with crew of four
men was blown out into the bay Satur-
e{esI.f ell s,Hlf GaItOoy.o
w. p. Davis is beached on Crany Island
and the schooner Charles II. Sinnickson
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 the Nansemond
river. The schooners Eva Osborne and
james $. Watson are ashore at Peg
Point. The schooners Emily N. Burton
and the Rising Sun were thrown up
high and dry near West Norfolk. The
schooner Godfrey il breaking up i'm
NansemOnd river, and the 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 Smithfeld creek.
The long wharf at Seawells Point Is en-
tirely swept away. An unknown
schooner Is tI3l1OIe UeLWCtn reg . 1OAllt
and Crany Island.
The Old Dominion steamer Guyandotte
reports that when twenty miles of the
Virginia capes she attempted to secure
the crew of four men lashed to the rig
ging of an unknown schooner, but was
unsuccessful. The men were 50 ex-
hatsted that they could not help them
selves and must have soon persisted after
wards
The schooners James Boyce and
Charles II. Briggs were badly damaged
at I.amber's Point. The schooner Fair
wood Suffolk, of Salisbury, Nd, is
ashore in Nansemond river, and the
schooners John w. Covington and Hes
ter al Waters foundered in Hampton
Roads. The crews floated ashore on
wreckage.
Two unknown schooners are ashore IN
York river The schooner Petrol is sunk
off Hampton. Many buildings at Ocean
View were blown down and the roof of
the Princess Anne hotel blown off. The
steam tug Ida is ashore at Portsmouth
and the schooner Watchful ashore at
Pillner's Point.
The front of the Naval hospital
grounds were seriously washed and
damaged Several local bridges at
Portsmouth were carried away. The
western branch draw bridge is gone.
Large portions of the trestle work of
the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad and
Atlantic and Danville 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 sch0oners Annie +. Clark, Robert
Healv and Mary Al. Irving are ashore
above Berkeley flats. The schooner An
: ME il sunk OF the flats. The total dam
ace iii this city and vicinity will aggre-
gate 81 ,O00,000. All the wharves along
the Nansemond river have been washed
away, The store of w. Williamson, at
sleepy Hall. was demolished and Clerk
Woodward drowned.
Capt. Elijah j. Berche and two sons.
OF Portsmouth, are reported drowned
from their vessel.
The steamer Georgia. which left Nor
folk on Friday night, put into the Rap
pahanock Ter safety, hut returned here
last night with her joiner work badly
strained and the vessel is otherwise in
iured. There was a panic among her
passengers.
Picked Up shipwreclSea Crew.
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