Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-31
OLD OCEANS FURY.
Many Vessels Wrecked During
Gale on the Atlantic.
A Total of Forty Eight Lives Lost-worst
Storm Experienced Along the Coast
in Years-A Great Amount
of Damage Done.
SHIPS GO DOWN.

AsBURY PARK, n. j., Aug. s5.-The
two-masted fishing schooner Mary p.
Kelly of New York was wrecked here
at 5 o'clock Thursday morning. Four
men persisted and seven were only res
cued by summer guests after most
thrilling experiences. The men lost
were; Christopher Bratton, of Brook
lyn, captain; Charles Brown, of Green
Point, first mate. Walter -, the
steward; Harry Broden, a Norwegian
fisherman.
BODIES WASHED ASHORE.
SOUTHAMPTON, l. J., Aug 25.-About
. o'clock Thursday morning two yes
sels-a coal barge and a towing vessel
were wrecked off the coast at this
point. Up to the present writing six
men from the wrecked vessels have
been washed ashore out of a total
crew of twenty-one on both vessels
Three of the six were beyond
resuscitation. The fifteen other men
of the crew are believed to have been
drowned, thus making the total loss of
life eighteen persons. The uame of the
barge is Lykens Valley of Philadel-
phia, Capt Scott The steamer was
the Panther.
TWO VESSELS LOST
New YORK, Aug. 25.-The fishing
schooners Empire State, with a crew of
ten men, and Ella NJ. johnson, with a
crew of eight men, went down Wednes-
day night off Manasquan, on the Jer-
sey coast, and all on board were lost.
These two vessels were in company
with the Chocrua at midnight when the
storm struck them. and after beating
around all night IN some of the worst
weather ever known off the coast and
with loss of the captain and her first
mate the Chocrus tied up Thursday at
4:30 o'clock, the only survivor of the
three.
HEAVY RAINFALL.
The storm left its mark over the
whole region around New York within
sweep of fully 1000 miles The rain
fall, measuring s. SO inches during the
last twelve hours, is the heaviest that
has ever been recorded by The local
signal service.
All along the sound shore, from In
dian harbor at Greenwitch to Port
Morris, the devastation OF the storm
was apparent in the destroyed piers,
the flooded meadow lands and the
shore houses, whose first floors were
in mot instances on level with the
water.
ON LONG ISLAND.
The storm on Long Island was very
ca nj -
age from Brooklyn to the eastern end
of the island. Thousands of trees fell
before the fury of the gale;
outhouses and smah buildings
were destroyed and fences were
leveled in all directions Crops in
many sections of the island are ruined.
New YORK., Aug. 26.-Stories of death
and damage by the hurricane came rap
idly in from the sea Friday, and still
there is more to tell The known dead
at midnight reached a total of forty
one. The missing, some of whom may
oe saved are ffty-eight more The
remnants of the feet of fishing smacks
came up the river battered and torn,
and those that had any rigging left
few their flags at half-mast for their
dead comrades.
TWENTY-FIVE DROWNED.
HALIFAX, N. c., Aug. %. - Fully
twenty-five persons persisted in the
wreck of the steamer Dorcas and the
barge Eta Stewart The remains of
twenty have been recovered Miss Sadie
Musgrave, NJ. McCastill, Norman Nc
Crury, John F. Sharp and a child of the
steamers engineer are yet unaccounted