Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-17
LINED WITH WRECKS.

LINED WITH WRECKS.
Tho Eastern Coast Uttered with Remains
OF Totally Lost or Badly Damaged Ves-
sen-A Number Of Lives Lost.
BALTIMORE, Md, April H. Tho storm
winch ragged In Baltimore with severity
on Saturday swept over the Lower Chesa-
peake most dtsastrOusly to shipping. Over
| dozen seamen lost their lives and thirty
| or forty vessels, some large and others
| small, were wrecked Reports of disasters
to shipping and loss Of life continue to come
| In by arriving vessels and special dis
| patches
Captain Gourley reported that the schoon-
or Caroline Captain Hutchinson) was driven
high and dry on Cove Point bar and wentto
pieces. The schooner W. P Snow started out
OF the Patuxent Saturday for Baltimore
| Her stern, with her name, loated ashore
on Sunday near Milestone creek A body.
| which Is supposed to be one OF the Shows
crew, was found on the beach near where
the stern Of the schooner f1oated ashore 1t
| Is feared that the entire crew is lost Moth
| Ing Is known Of the crew of the Caroline.
Two unknown vessels are ashore in Battle
| creek.
The steamer Sue, Captain Geoghegan.
arrived at 40 this morning from the
Potomac river, and brought news of the
| severest storm ever known in Southern
Maryland. Captain Geoghegan reported
| seven small sailing vessels ashore
In the Yeccomico river. In
Coan river the schooner William
Cowart are in field high and dry. The
schooner Columbia F. c. is sunk in Carters
| creek. All the fish traps were destroyed in
| the lower part Of the Potomac There will
also be severe loss to property holders
| along the Potomac river front, as the land
was submerged, and in many places there
have been many acres OF land washed
away.
The wharf and store Of Representative
W. Williamson at Sleepy Hole were both
washed away, and the clerk, Mr.. Wood
ward, was drowned The western branch
draw bridge was carried away; the damage
to it Is estimated at $4,000 very aged
colored woman named Amy Jasper, who
lived alone, was found on the floor Of her
hut drowned. All the southern side of the
harbor is lined with wrockage. Captain
Elijah Benson and his two sons, of Ports
mouth, are reported to have been capsized
in their oyster sloop in James river and
drowned. The oyster fleets suffered Sc
verely, and thirty vessels went ashore in
Scott creek
BALTIMORE, Md, April l0.-Reports of dis
asters from Saturdays storm continue to
come in from Cape Henry and show that it
! was the worst in ten years. 1t is hard to
state exactly the number OF lives lost or the
| number of vessels ashore or sunk but it is
estimated that between fifty and seventy
| five vessels were damaged by the hurricane
| near the capes The large list given in
| previous dispatches has been increased in
| number, and much fear is expressed among
| the shipping men that some of the vessels
caught in the gale will never be heard
| from. The arrivals in this port Tuesday
| were only three ocean steamers, and one of
| them has been due three days. The details
OF the storm are coming in very slowly
The steamship Caspia, from Glasgow, re-
ports that on Monday morning she sighted a
bark sixty miles southwest of Cape Henry
Her foremost, main-tOp- mast and jib-boom
were gone 1t may have been the bark AL
batross, which broke adrift on Saturday,
and whose crew were landed at Port Royal
on Monday by the steamer State of Texas.
The Caspian also reports schooner ashore
at False Cape and ano Their ten miles below.
The steamer Westmoreland reports that
IN the Rappahannock river a number of
wharves have been washed away and the
low lands along the river covered with
NdtCA Liz YES siIt SCIOuS1E utu3Seu
at Rappahannock, Wares Bowlers Bay
Port, Waterview, Urbana and Burnham.
The New York Siicated Compa-
ny's warehouse at Lyons Creek, in
the Patuxent, had one end torn away by
the gale. The schooner Emma Jane, Cap
tain Pryor and Eva T. Barnes are ashore at
Battle Creek in the Patuxent At the Laz-
arctic the schooner May Queen had her rig
cling entirely demolished, her foremost
gone and her bowsprit broken by col
lison with three-masted schooner which
was blown into the May Queen.
FORTRESS MONROE, Va, April II. Farmers
report heavy loss of stock from drowning
during the late gale Between here and
York river the fishermen have lost nets val
ued at $1,000
NORFOLK, Va, April 10.-The United
States steamship Pensacola, which was
sunk during the recent storm while in the
drydock at the navy yard, has been
pumped out An examination develops the
| fact that she Las been damaged to the ex-
tent of about 600. A large force will
commence the work of repair at once.