The Portland daily press., 1889-09-13
And Caused Untold Suffering and
Loss Of Life.
A Portland Captain and His Grew
Forty Hours in the Rigging
Nights of Terror in Summer Cottages
by the Sea.
The Passage Of the Steamer Win.
thrOp Through the Gale.

The moon was shining in cluudless sky
twelve this morning when the deep bass of
the whistle of the steamer Winthrop an
nounced her arrival. AS the Winthrop had
passed through part of the area of the
great storm, reporter Of the PRESS visited
the steamer to learn what had been seen
from her decks during the passage.
Captain Bragg stated that the steamer left
New York at p. m. Wednesday, about her
usual sailing time. The big sound steam
ers did not venture out and as far as her
officers could learn, the Winthrop was about
the only steamship to leave New York that
night tor the trip up the sound. The sea
was very high and the wind blew with ter
rife force, but the Winthrop logged steadily
along through the waves and reached Vine
yard Haven in 13 hours. A landing was
made here and then the steamer proceeded
for Portland. AT first she found herself in
the midst of tremendous gale, with very
high sea, but as she proceeded, the wind
grew less in force and the seas decreased un-
til, when the Maine coast was reached, the
storm was left behind. The Metropolitan
steamer 81. f. Dimmock, New York for Bos-
ton, which left the former city "a hours be-
fore the Winthrop was obliged to lay to
somewhere on the passage, the Portland
boat being off Boston by the time the other
steamer had reached that port. Captain
Bragg reports dangerous obstacle to navi-
CATION in the shape of sunken schooner
lying directly in the path of many large
steamers. The wreck is about half a mile
east by north of Pollock Rip and is that of a
two-masted schooner. Her sails, including
the gaff topsails were flying. The vessel was
of about 250 tons. The Winthrop's officers
saw no other evidences of disaster, but Cap.
tain Bragg's report of the storm substanti-
ates the story of its violence told in the sub
joined dispatches.
On her way to New York last Sunday,
when near Race Rock at the entrace to Long
Island Sound, the Winthrop offered to tow a
dismasted sloop yacht. There were several
ladies aboard and the weather was then
thickening. The yachts skipper, however,
thought he could get all the help he needed
from schooner which was near by and de-
clined the Winthrop's offer. Captain Bragg
did not learn the name of the yacht nor
what became of her.
The Winthrop made the passage without
difficulty and sustained no damage. She
reported the Eleanora proceeding all right.
The steamer John Brooks while on the way
from Portland to Boston yesterday carried
away her foremast. One of the follow ing
New York dispatches concerns the fate of
Sound steamer reported ashore. If such an
accident happened it was probably after the
Winthrop passed through the Sound. At
any rate she saw nothing of stranded
steamer.
The Winthrop on Her Way.
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, September II
The heavy east-northeast wind still con-
tinues this morning. There has been no
steamer from Nantucket for three days. All
telegraphic communications with Martha's
Vineyard and the mainland stopped early
yesterday morning. Schooner Edwin. pre-
viously reported at Edgartown with her car
go of lime on fire, has burned up A portion
of her sails. rigging, ETC., was saved. She
was owned il Maine.
Steamer Winthrop from New York for
Portland, arrived here this morning and
proceeded.
TidIngs of the EIeanora.
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, September
12-Steamer Eleanora from Portland for
New York, at this port today reports an un-
known schooner sunk one eighth of mile
east northeast of Pollock Rip. Her crew is
aboard the light ship, all safe