The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-19


aud Many Lives known % he Lost ~ the
Resuit 81 the Recent Gais.-A IsrslA
list Of the Casualtics-Th pens scoll
PULLED with water.
BALTIMORE. Md. April o-The Ameri.
cans special from Norfolk. Va. saws:
The terrible gale Il at an end. The
weather Tonight Is bright and crisp. but
Virginia Beach Is strewn with wrecks.
and many lives have been lost The four.
masted schooner Bergman \. Poole. 30
Providence. for Baltimore. is ashore me-.
Zatack station. The crew were rescued.
TIE schooner Emma y. Hart, from Mas
'sau Tor Boston. is ashore five miles south
OF Cape Henry. The crew were rescued
by the Zatack Life-saving station with
the breeches buoy. An unknown
schooner with both masts gone Is ashore
three miles south OF Zatack. OF her crew
Of five there is said 10 be only one SUR
vivor. The steamship william Lawrence
reports that the schooner Andrew John
son, Of Baltimore, for Rio. Is ashore AT
York river. An unknown steamer is
ashore of Old Point. The steamer
Chatham, from Boston, passed two
miles northwest from Cape Henry
Light house the boom OF a schooner
moored 10 wrcckage. An unknown
the sea breaking over her. The schooner
Northampton. IN Cherrystone creek, with
crew Of four men. was blown ont into tho
bay Saturd.y night and all on board lost.
Schooner w. +. Davis Is bcached on
-rany Island. and tile schooner Charles
n. Sannickson j. ashore at Ocean View.
The schooners Eva Osborne and James
;. Watson are ashore at Peg Point. The
schooners Emily n. Burton and the Ris-
ing Sun were thrown up high and dry
near West Norfolk. The schooner God
frey is breaking mp in Nansemond river,
and the Carrie May Is ashore at Western
Branch. An unknown schooner, with
masts only visible. is sunk Of Ocean
View. Two unknown vessels are ashore
south OF Smithfeld creek. The long
wharf at Seawell's Point is entirely swept
away. An unknown schooner is ashore
between Pigs Point and Crany Island.
Hhe Old Dominion steamer Guyandotte
reports that when twenty miles of the
Virginia capes she attempted to secure
-he crew OF four men dashed to the rig
gtng Of on unknown schooner, but was
unsuccessful. The men were so exhaust.
ed that they could not help themselves,
and must have persisted soon afterwards.
Jhc schooners James Bayce and Charles
h.Brig,s were badlydamaged at Lamber's
Point. The schooner Fairwood Suffolk.
Of Salisbury, Nd, is ashore in Nansemond
river, aud the schooners John w. Coving- (
BON and Hester A. Waters foundered in
Hampton Roads. The crews foated
ashore on wreckage. Two unknown
schseners are ashore IN York river. The
schooner Petrol is sunk Of Hampton.
Many buildings at Ocean View were
blown down aud the roof OF the Princess
Anne Hotel was blown OF. The steam
tug Ids is ashore at Portsmouth. and the
schooner Watchful ashore at Pillner's
Point.
The front Of the Naval Hospital grounds
arc seriously washed and damaged.
Several local bridges in Portsmouth
we're carried away. The Western Branch
bridge j. gone. Large portions OF the
restle work Of the Seaboard a Roanoke
railroad and Atlantic a. Danyille rail-
'oau bridges throughout the county have
been washed away.
The Christian Church in Berkeley was
blown to pieces, and many houses were
inrooted and otherwise injured.
The schooners Annie r. Clark. Robert
iealy and Nary A. Irving are ashore
'bove Berkeley Flats. The schooner
Anna Is sunk Of the fats. The total dam
'ge "a this city and vicinity will aygre-
'ese Two million dollars. All the wharves
long the Nansemond river have been
Washed away.
The store Of W. Williamson. nj Sleepy
ill, was demolished and Clerk Wood
'ard drowned. Captain Elijah J. Berche
nd two sons, OF Ports mouth. are report.
drownedfrom their vessel. The steam-
= Georgia, which left Norfolk on Friday
light put into the Rappahannock for
afety. but returned here late last night
nth her joiner work badly strained and
be vessel il otherwise injured. There
'as a panic among her passengers on
aturday night.
The shaking OF the Pensacola.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The Secretary Of
he Navy yesterday afternoon received the
Glowing telegram from Commandant
Brown, at Norfolk, Va, concerning the
mixing Of the Pensacola at her dock:
a very heavy northeast gale set in about
Midnight Saturday Water rose suddenly and
Fas higher than ever known Was foot
hove coping OF dry dock. Pensacola lifted
rom blocks. filled with water through old and
cw kington valve openings. and settled dag
nally across the blocks. Water Is over gun
eek CO n pings. Diver reports no injury to bot
ON Have plugged holes. Expect 70 pump
hip dry. rcadiust blocks and dock again Gale
ontnncs Simpson dock Is flooded.
The Pensacola was being made ready to
elicve the Richmond, now in Brazil,
which has been ordered 10 Samoa