Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-13
TERRIBLE STORM RECORD.
wrseksge Piled High for Miles
on .he Coast
DOZENS OF YGsS8LS ARE LOST.


wrvSoroS. September l2--No LAM
guaes can picture che terrible sc,ns along
the coast The wind IS b'oFiug with ale
mos. hurricane farcness, dnying thern
with force that cats like hail. The half
mile reach of sand between ioEu end coast
is tossing ccssn. bearing vrsckage on
every wave. Torough the mists of spray
..orm-ta.tered sails sad the naked insists of
score deserted aad dismantled vessels
can be- diuIy seen. Since Monday night
the storm has rsgsd without abatement
Yesterdays dawn showed a dozen yes-
s.l. which had sought the refuge Of tie
b-ssk water TIE refuge was insufficient
Pr d o'clock the sea broke over the
h-sskrstsr. wrscksd the telegraph station,
carried svsg Che b'g fog bell and rushed
f,-vsri sweeping awsy the steamboat
Mar and hing ihs Italian bark 4. J.
s.or s-siasl the iron government
o r.sv.s,s Of Brown 81 Co. aad Lace
B,s ugs esg aal were swept to sea.
rber v Hospital wss dashed
from sa-a.- al sent spinning down
tls h...r T res Life Saving Sia-
bon ..r above high water mark,
a f5f.IalI ils foundations under
mined
lINo FOB LlFE.
IraqE.e.a 81 suburb between the town
and beach vs submerged, and it's two
hundred inhabitants lied for life, leaving
su thar possessions behind.
The fr-t boat came ashore at 9 o. 10.
Then came another and smother. Inc
station crew went 20 work aud have Ia
bored almost unccasirgly ever since. Tbs
crew of every vessel chat struck was taken
on bv these daring men and no. a lue was
lost among the scores o.. men they handled.
The following PSI "a complete list OF TIE
vessels that went ashore, The Italian
bark j. T. Salvatore. American schooner
Henry I. CLARK. British schooner Byron
NJ American scho0ners Alena Covert
Gertrude Summers q. +. Baker h q l.
Rrvan. Maude Leonard, Nina A. hsed,
Novenasi Charles p ot.cSney total loss
Adiis B. Bscon. s. A. Rudolph. A. N u
Hooper. Emily R Dwyer, A ID Robinson,
American ship W. R Grace American
barre Timorer. Danish bark Atlantis,
American briE , chari j. Green, Auefi
can schooner Msi. W. H Iantum l'otal
los.l Nrtie Chsmpsen. pilot boat II. b
2avard. harZes Wallace and lonaWaula,
,od two others. names unknown. Also O.
yessei 1nnk ON the Brown shoals, all the
crew drou1sd Boo two, who got ashore or
a raft Another vessel, IN regard 20 which
there Ia d dispuis ls Co her bsiug a bars
OF three Ell schooner, as her top
mss,s can only te discovered, is sunk on
the Shears shoaIs
AN AWFUL DEATH RECORD.
Ttfs not known whether the crew es-
capped. The toia. number Of lives lCst will
nrohablv exceed forty. Five of the eight
men who composed the crew Of the J N
(. BRYANT perished W here the vessel strucS
on Brandywiuo shoal1 The mate and tive
eeamen caught q spar and duited all night
All 1svhreak the others discovered that one
of the sailors was dead bis body still
la.hsd to the spsr The two survivors
were picked up by tug and brought 10
Iewes. There is cre8t concern over the
crew of The pilot boat Els Tuoneh She
ont To- sea on Monday sud has not been
heard from. Pilots John Barnes, Lewis
Bertrand and james Rowland; Barry Hick-
man. son o. HMbesou Hickman, and a
crew of eight men were Oh board. The
New Jersey pilot boat Edmons was blown
across the bay and lies grounded on ths
Jersey coast with her sails in tatters- Ne"
York pilot no. uss driven iu from th'
sea. but made anchorage safely. an On
known schooner IS ashore at Rehobolhland
The coast Tor miles IS reported TO be sife"r
with WreCks.
rlFrEEN NEW VICTIMS.
News comes from Rshoboth that th'
surf Is breaking over the Bright House
1o,,h. that Surface aveuue is entirely
washed away and that the Douglas
House is surrounded Boy water and its m
mates ars iu great danger. Three vessels
previously reported iosi outside tie Capes
are the schooners Kate j. Morse, Walter
r. Parker. and j s. j.. Bryan. Two men,
ore colo1ed man and "a German, have
come ashore as survivors from these wrecks.
They uese on ra0 ilou b p 90. Monday
t09a. m. yesterday The other fifteen
who composed ile crews O.. these schooners