The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-13
Marine and River Notes.

Horn Island harbor stood the storm
well. No wrecks.
The steamer Captain Fritz came in
from New Orleans this week.
Only the steamer RavensCa ale escap.
ed the blow at Chandeliers.
The schooner Flora Woodhouse had
her JibbOOm lost in the storm.
The Austrian bark Nikiti lies at
Ship Island entirely dismasted.
Pilot boat Chicora was beached on
Cat Island, but not seriously injured.
The channel at the mouth of the
PascagOula river IA not changed by
the storm.
Chandelier Island is 81 miles log
and the storm completely changed its
topography.
The schooner Monitor came in Sun.
day from New Orleans with brick and
sundries for Bluff Creek.
The ballast schooner Amelia was
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got into tine river Sunday.
The tug Toiler from Biloxi. came to
Scranton Saturday night, and steam
ed out early Sunday morning.
The ~barkentine Henry L. Gregg, dis
mantled in the storm, was towed into
Pascagoula port Wednesday.
About the busiest places in Scran-
ton now are the ship yards. The hur-
ricane gave them plenty of work.
The storm at C%handeleur's put the
quarantine steamer WEIGH high and
dry ON the northern point of the is.
land.
The revenue cutter Seward has been
engaged this week in furnishing water
to the different lighthouses along the
coast.
British schooner Lena Pickup that
stood the storm in Horn Island har-
Dor, sailed for Caibarien with lumber
on the Sth.
After til storm was well over the
schooner l.. A. Edwards, Peterson,
set sail for Caibarien with cargo of
lumber from this port.
The bark Rebecca Goddard. bark
entine Henry l.. Gregg, and bark Reg
ma reported at Ship Island after the
hurricane, all dismantled.
A company has been formed in Chi
cage with the object of digging a ca
nal fromthe Mississippi river to deep
water il, Barataria Bay.
The Sadie l.. came in from up-river
points Saturday, and cleared again
"Wednesday with merchandise and as
sorted cargo for the up country.
A ship is called ''she," says an ex-
change, because a man is needed to
guide her. is often in stays, and the
rigging costs more than the huh.
The Cunarder Lucania, last week
made the trip from Queenstown to
New York in . days, 10 hours and 2;
minutes, breaking all previous records,
The tug Louisiana of New Orleans,
chartered by the Picayune to distrib.
ute the Sunday edition along the
coast towns, was here ii few hours
Monday.
A channel half a mile wide has been
cut through Chandeleur's. The point
northwest OF the fort was washed
away, while the buoy has moved
soutllwestward.
The schooner Anna M. Stammel
was at Vera Cruz Sept. 2Sth, dis,
charging cargo preparatory to coming
in ballast for P%ascagoula. She was
not in the storm as reported.
The government quarantine service
has beer removed to Ship Island, and
will probably be established there
permanently, as the storm complete.
ly ruined C%handeleur Island for such
purpose.
The British steamer MANN cleared
Saturday with lumber for Rotterdam
She has a tonnage of 1898 tons and
carried a cargo Of l,400, 900 feet, the
largest for the tonnage ever. shipped
from this port. She was loaded by
Capt. Patrick Feore, ~stevedore, fol
Hunter, Benn & Co.
The American schooner Angie L,
Green, Capt. Lee, from Philadelphia
to Galveston, with cargo of coal, was
caught in the storm in the gulf neal
Pensacola. and entirely dismantled
The captain at one time gave up all
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into Penscola.
A Holland sailor named Henry
Dhondt, walked from Scranton tt
Mobile after the storm and told a pit
iful tale to the Dutch consul about
being storm-beaten and wrecked al
Ship Island off the ship Ravensdale,
in order to get aid. He proved to bt
a fraud-a deserter from the seeamel
Welhaven at Progresso. where he af.
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