The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-06
DEATH AND DISASTER,
The storms Fury aud lis Results nj
Nhip and ChandIeur Islands.

The storms Fury aud lis Results a
Nhip and Chandleur Islands.
Many Deaths BY Drowning Vessel
Wreeked-Narrow Escapes.
Riley McLain (col.1 came to Scran
ton Wednesday from Ship Island
He said he came to Biloxi Tuesday
night with l3 Others. He reports
a scene of death and destruction a
Ship Island Grandeur Island that i,
without a parallel on this coast. AT
Chandileur the storm made a com
plete demolition of the island, hospit.
al and the vessels in harbOr there
He did not know the number of yes.
sells nor their names, nor the number
Of deaths, but he said ) men were lost
off the island and ) of the pier head,
among the number he thought wa,
Fritz Farragut of this place. The
lighthouse was destroyed. The Flor;
WUo1hOuse was lost, and the Quaran
tine boat was bcached. At Ship Is
land the Ellen Smith and crew was
lost. The schooner Union loaded
with lumber went down with / men
and | woman. An Austrian bark
the name of which he did not know,
W mt down half filled with lumber
The captain was drowned.
Among those drowned at Ship Is.
land, he said, were Sam Robinson &c.
of Scranton. rs. Huff, of Moss Point
and NJ. Shepherd, were also reported
drowned.
NJ. Andersen. mate of the Fowler
who was here Wednesday, says there
were nine ships anchored off Ship Is.
land Sunday night and after the
storm only four were in sight. lie
says that in every direction can be
seen vessels in distress. A British
steamer came in Wednesday having
in tow the hull Of an iron steamer.
OF Cat Island a bark. and three men
went down.
John Graham, was'swept off Dantz-
ler's barge Remus off onto the rigging
Of a wrecked bark, from which he was
rescued by the tug Toiler.
At Ship Island.
Mr.. Alex Rowland, a stevedore,
from Scranton, who was on Ship Is
land, says that on Sunday evening a
light gale from E.S.E. increased into
a hurricane, unexpected and with
more fury than eve known there.
The barometer showed no Indication
of such weather, and that fact is re-
sponslble for so much damage to ship
ping. He says the brig Rozella Smith
owned by POitevant & Favre, Pearl
ington, Capt. Huntcrman, is a total
wreck, lying bottom up II miles off
Ship Island. She drifted foul of the
Nova Scotia barkt. Antilla, carrying
away the Antilla's fore gallant upper
and lower topsail yards, also the jib
boom. When she cleared the Anti!la
the former had lost all her rigging by
the board. 1t is claimed by the cap
tain of the Antilla the Smith capsiz-
ed after leaving the vessel. ana her
crew of three men, except the captain
went down to watery graves. The
captain was ashore at the time.
The Austrian bark Annie L. b.
drifted toward Pass Christian and
when near that place struck bottom
and went to pieces, she being an old
vessel. Five men, including the cap
tain were drowned. She had also on
board baymen from ScrantOn-An-
Olsen and JordOn Whitaker (c.)
and Sam Robinson (c.) one sailor and
a boy belonging to the vessel were
washed overheard but cauk Int to the
lumber drifting out of the vessel. o.
sen caught sight of a piece of a rope,
secured 1t and dashed together five
heavy pieces Of timber, and as the
raft began to break up they chung to
the little raft, which was the means
OF saving three out of five who clung
to it. The wind changed and riding
the tremendous current they drifted
toward Cat Island. At dawn they
ran foul IA tree. Olsen Whitaker and
the sailor after desperate efforts elm
bed the tree, but Sam Robinson and
the boy thinking they would reach
sand further on chung to the drift
which swiftly swept out to sea. They
may be counted among the lost,
[LATER.-Sam Robinson was found
below Cat Island still clinging to the
raft almost persisted, his clothes
all washed off him.
The Norwegian bark Simeon had to
cut her main top mast to escape cap
The lighter Remus drifted
across her anchor chain, and the cap
tain OF the Remus, being in a sinking
condition, made "A leap for the chain
and was saved. Mr.. S. II. HUFF, of
Moss Point, attempted the same and
caught the chain, but the vessel dip
ped forward and left him in the wa
ter and the strong current washed his
body past with violent speed.
Later on a Lake vessel turned bot
tom up with six men and a woman.
all colored. swept close by. They
were no doubt lost.
The German ship Margaretta, Capt.
Goster. lost both anchors and had a
narrow escape from wrecking.
Norwegian bark Campbell, Capt.
Johnson, lost her jib boom, and drift
ed out. Mr.. Rowland rendered his
services as pilot and brought her
back from Pass Marian light.
The pilot boat ChicOra Is ashore on
Cat Island, also one oyster boat from
Biloxi. bottom up.
The Norwegian bark Francisco had
four anchors out and was saved.
The Hospital on Ship Island has
been washed down. DIR. Chamberlin
reports the water coming up over the
floor at one time.
Different reports are in circulation
concerning Grandeur Island. The
most reliable seems to be from a sail
who came from there saying that
the quarantine plant is a thing Of
the past. Out of eight vessels in
quarantine two are supposed to be
lost.
Later accounts say the quarantine
boat crew were saved.
At Ocean Springs the Gillum IIolcl
is badly wrenched, and the boats,
fences, etc. damaged. A large num-
Der of passengers were caught in the
storm and delayed several days, and
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