Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-09
StreWn With Wrecks
Counting the Cost of the Gale
at Norfolk.
MAKING UP THE LIST OF DEAD.

Dozen Already Reported-The Waters
Roundabout Full of Stranded and
Sunken Schooners-Property Losses in
the Vicinity of Norfolk Reach $4,000
900 in Vaiue-Destructive Eject of the
Wind Ashore Condition of the Man
of-War Pensacola
BALTIMORE, Md, April 9-The Amer
leans special from Norfolk, Va, says: The
terrible gale is at an end The weather last
night was bright and crisp but Virginia
beach is strewn with wrecks, and many lives
have been lost The four-masted schooner
Bergman +. Poole, of Providence, for Balti-
more, is ashore near Zatack 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 Zatack life-saving sta
tion with the breaches buoy. An unknown
schooner with both masts gone is ashore
three miles south of Zatack. OF her crew of
five there is said to b. only one survivor
The steamship William Lawrence reports
that the schooner Andrew johnson, of Balti-
more, for Rio, is ashore at York river An
unknown steamer is ashore Off Old Point
The steamer Chatham, from Boston,
passed. two miles northwest from
Cape Henry lighthouse, the boom of
a scho 'ner moored to wreckage An
unknown schooner is on Wiloughby
Point with the sea breaking over her The
schooner Northampton, in Cherry Store
creek, with crew OF four men, was blown
out into the bay Saturday night, and all on
board lost. The schooner 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 S. Wat
son are ashore at Peg Point The schooners
Emily n. Burton and Rising Sun were
thrown up high and dry near West Norfolk.
The schooner Godfrey is breaking up in
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 Smithfield creek The long
wharf at Seawells' Point is entirely swept
away. An unknown schooner is ashore be-
tween Pigs Point and Crany island.
mo oId DVuhuiOH SJtdineT IuydUuOUu6
reports that when twenty miles Off the Vir-
ginia capes she attempted To rescue the crew
of four men dashed TO the rigging of an I'M
known schooner, but was unsuccessful The
men were so exhausted that they could not
help themselves and must have soon persisted
afterward
The schooners James Bayce and Charles II.
Briggs were badly damaged at Lamber's
Point. The schooner Fairwood Suffolk, of
Salisbury, Nd, is ashore in Nansemond river,
the crew hoated ashore on wreckage.
Two unknown schooners are ashore in
4 ork river. The schooner Petrol is sunk of
Hampton. Many buildings at Ocean View
were blown down and the roof of the Princess
Anne hotel was blown off. The steam tug
Ida Is ashore at Portsmouth and the schooner
Watchful ashore at Pillneris Point
The front of the naval hospital grounds
was seriously washed and damaged Sew
eral local bridges in Portsmouth were car
ried 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 Berkeley
was blown to pieces and many houses s. ara
unroofed and otherwise Injured Tn.
sohooners Annie r. Clark, Robert Healy,
a ana mary A 'y'iffng are ashore above Berke-
icy nat The schooner Anna is sunk off the
nats- The total damage in this city and
vicinity will aggregate $1,000 900 All the
wharves along the Nansemond river have
been washed away. The store of W. William
son at Sleepy hall, was demolished and Clerk
Woodward drowned.
Capt. Elijah j. Berche and two sons, Of
Portsmouth, are reported drowned from
their vessels. The steamer Georgia, which
left Norfolk on Friday night, put into the
Rappahannock for safety, but returned here
late last night with her joiner work badly
strained, and the vessel is otherwise in
jured. There was a panic among her passen-
gers on Saturday night