Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-17
NEIGi.BuRnGUD NOTES.
fhiitcssseague.

hoEc on the sick list for the first time
since lie has been in the service.
Mr. s. c. Dale and family, of Phil
adelphia, have moved to this place,
and the gentleman since his arrival
has accepted cierkship in Mr. L. P.
Timmon's store.
Mrs. Traney NJ. Fu~ch, wife OF
Capt. Geo. Burc,l, late keeper of
Green Run Lie Saving Station, died
on 9Th inst. aftrn lin~c, irg illness
of consumption, aged IS yeals.
Mr.. Henry Fish, a popular and
worthy citizen of this place, had his
finger c>ught in the lorp OF the rem,
by horse which he WIS attempting
to hitch to II post one day last week,
and the l,orsc drawing beck ut the
time, the finger was pulled from the
socket before assistance could he
given him. The sight was such Il
sickenin@ ore several of the hystand-
ers tainted. The finger was ampu-
ta'el by DR.. r. w. White, and at
this writing he is doing well.
A severe northeast storm has been
raging here since the 10th to this
writing wednesday,. The wind has
been blowing at abont 40 miles per
hour, and the tide is the highest for
past two years IN as swept our
meadows. Many of the sloops and
other craft have been blown up into
TIE land to the Inconvenience of the
owners. The oysternon say, howev-
err. that tie storm is Il blessing, as
the oysterbeas have thereby been
swept of ernss to the great benefit of
tie oysters.
Arrivals at Atlantic Hotel this week:
r. A. King, Suffolk, Va; II. S. Brown,
New York; L. H. Yaudv, Philadel-
phia; a. P. Shirk. Lancaster, Pa; f.
c. Hanna, Jas. Fletcher, Wilmington,
Del; CIV. Hancock, Pocomoke City;
Jas. McA!len, John Ayres and son,
Geo. Bishop, sgd Wimbroush, L.
Mumford, Snow Hill; w. G Hum
phreys. r. S. Slcckley, Salisbury; B.
T. 10 les, NJ. T. West, Thos. Davis, j.
w. 3 .orghton, Edw. Mason, e. O. f.
Cusris,F. P. Brent. r. S. Rich, Lieut.
G. T. Wadsworlh, Accomac.
The U. S. Steamer Despatc h, Lieut..
Cowles commander, with six officers
and sixty eight marines, went ashore
on 10th inst, 3 a. ~, enc mile North
of Assateague Life Saving Station
The signal of distress from steamer
was promptly answered by Capt.
James Tracey and crew of Life Saw
ing Station, and in less than one
hour all the Ulcers and crew of Des-
patch were safely landed at Station,
where they remained and were kind
ly cared for until Wednesday, when
in obedience to an order of Secretary
Tracy, all of them except Lieutenants
Cowles and Mullen and two cooks
left By train for Philadelphia. The
Despotch is total loss, nothing now
to be seen but her mainmast and
slnokesta OK, and nothing was saved
except what drifted ashore in dam
aged condition-everything was lost,
not only the $4,000 worth of silver
ware which, it is reported, was on
board, but the clothes even of the
sailors. many of them being in bed at
the time she struck the shoals, who
escared in their night clothes. In
this connection, too much cannot be
said of Capt Tracey and his crew,
as to their efficiency the officers and
crew of Despatch owe their lives.
Since the disaster many reporters
have appeared On the scene of action
and some of them, notably some of
the New York correspondents have
shcwn themselves the possessors of
vivid imagine tions. Assateagueis not
a barren Islard, as they reported, nor
did the Despatch have to be guarded
aga inst Chincoteaguers, the same
beirg lie out of the whole cloth.