Huntsville gazette., 1889-04-13

A"o AIahtic Coast Strewn with Wrecks
ana Many Lives Known to be Lost a tho
N.esuit of the Recent Gale.-A Partial
List OF the Casualties-The Pensacola
Filled with Water.
BALTIMORE, Nd. April 9.-The Ameri-
cans special from Norfolk, Va, says:
The terrible gale is 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 f. Poole. OF
Providence, for Baltimore. is ashore near
Aatack station. The crew were rescued.
The schooner Emma f. Hart, from Mas
sau for 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 to 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 off Old Point. The steamer
Chatham, from Boston, passed two
miles northwest from Cape Henry
Lighthouse the boom of a schooner
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schooner is on Willoughby Point, with
the sea breaking over her. The schooner
northampton, in Cherrystone creek, with
crew of four men, was blown out into the
bay Saturday night and all on board lost.
schooner w. z. Davis is beached on
Crany Island and the schooner Charles
ID. Sannickson is ashore at Ocean View.
The schooners Eva Osborne and James
IN Of DAi
schooners Emily N. Burton and the Ris-
ing Sun were thrown up high and dry
near West Norfolk. The schooner God
frey 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 Seawell's Point is entirely swept
away. An unknown schooner is ashore
between Pigs Point and Crany Island.
The Old Dominion steamer Guyandotte
reports that when twenty miles off the
Virginia capes she attempted to secure
the crew of four men lashed to the rig
ging of an unknown schooner, but was
unsuccessful. The men were so exhaust
ed that they could not help themselves,
The schooners James Bayce and Charles
H.Briggs were badlydamaged at Lamber's
Point. The schooner Fairwood Suffolk,
of Salisbury, Md, is ashore in Nansemond
river, and the schooners John w. Coving-
ton and Hester A. Waters foundered ia
Hampton Roads. The crews foated
ashore on wreckage. Two unknown
schooners are ashore in York river. The
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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 Pillner's
Point.
The front Of the Naval Hospital grounds
are seriously washed and damaged.
Several local bridges in Ports mouth
we're carried away. The Western Branch
bridge is gone. Large portions of the
sreste work Of the Seaboard g. Roanoke
railroad and Atlantic & Danville rail-
coad bridges throughout the county have
been washed away.
The Christian Church in Berkeley was
5lown to pieces, and many houses were
lnroofed and otherwise injured.
The schooners Annie P. Clark Robert
dealy anu Mary A. IRVING are ashore
above Berkeley Flats. The schooner
Anna is sunk off the flats. The total dam
age in this city and vicinity will aggre-
gate two million dollars. All the wharves
along the Nansemond river have been
washed away.
The store of w. Williamson, at Sleepy
Hill, was demolished and Clerk Wood
ward drowned Captain Elijah J. Berche
and two sons. of Portsmouth, are report
ed drowned from their vessel. The steam
er 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 injured. There
was a panic among her passengers on
Saturday night.
The Sinking of the Pensacola.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The Secretary Of
the Navy yesterday afternoon received the
following telegram from Commandant
Brown, at Norfolk, Va, concerning the
sinking of the Pensacola at her dock:
A very heavy northeast gale set in about
midnight Saturday. Water rose suddenly and
was higher than ever known. Was foot
above coping OF dry dock. Pensacola lifted
from blocks, filled with water through old and
new kington valve openings, and settled dag
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