The record-union., 1894-12-31
SHIP WRECKED AND TWENTY-FOUR
PEOPLE DROWNED.
The Vessel Caught in a Gale In the
Meet With Accidents The Storm
Inland Docs Much Damage, Trains
Being Blockaded by Heavy Snow
drifts.
Special to the RECoRD-UN1ov.

dangerous. All vessels that could do SO
made for havens of shelter Some of
them, however, did not succeed in reach
ing port, but were wrecked within al
most in sight Of safety. This was the case
OF the Britishsbark Osseo. Captain Boggs,
which sailed from Taltal August 18th for
Androssan. She made the long voyage
safely until this morning, when she was
wrecked on the Holyhead break water,
and every soul on board of her, twenty
four in all, We're drowned.
The ship was caught i'll the gale in the
Irish Sea. The Captain evidently
thought to run to Holy head and wait for
the storm to abate. Shortly before 1880
this morning the keeper of the light
house at the seaward Of the long break
water saw bark come out of the gloom
with her lights burning brightly and
under close storm canvas. The wind
was blowing q lively gale, and a terrific
sea was running before it. The bark,
however, was making as good weather of
1t as possible, and was apparently being
handled Ia most careful manner.
How the accident occurred is not eX-
actly known, but it is surmiSed an ex-
traordinarilY high sea lifted her when
she was quite close to the break
and dashed her upon 1t. She struck amid
ships, and Immediately began to break
up, the sea pounding at her 1uriouSly The
moment she became stationary.
The ighthOuse-keeper, as soon as he
realized what had occurred, fired a rocket
10 call guardsmen and liteboatsmeD. In
the meantime the bark had broken into
halves, the mainmast going by the board.
In It's fall it struck several men on deck
killing them instantly. Others OF the
crew had clambered into the fore and
mIZzen-r rigging 10 escape being washed
overheard by the huge combers that were
making clean breach over the wreck,
The coast guardsmen were the first to
reach the scene, and were followed soon
after by the life boatmen.
Above the howling of the gale was
heard the cry OF the men for assistance.
The coast guards got a line aboard the
wreck, and 1t was caught by one of the
crew. Before he could make it fast the
lore and mlzzenmasts were whipped OFT
close TO the deck, and everybody in
these rggings ieil with them into the sea
and were drowned. A sailor who had
caught the line was crushed to death
under one of the falling masts After the
mastS had gone by the board all was
silence on the wreck, and those on the
Dreakwater knew that all hands on the
bark had perished. In short time moth
ing was visible seaward but broken spars
and some rigging attached to them.
During the day nine bodies were re-
covered.
The Identity of the bark was learned
from some OF the papers that were washed
ashore. The Osseo was commanded by
Captain x. Boggs. She was a steel ves-
sci OF ,399 tons, and was built in 1889 at
Londonderry, from which point she
hailed. Her dimensions were: Length.
245 feet inches; beam, 50 feet 9 inches
depth of hold II feet 3 inches, Is. Ii. Nc
Corkle was her owner.
The Norwegian ship Frex, Captain
Hansen, from Darien, while riding at
anchor off Iroon, was dismasted. Her
crew was taken of in a lifeboat The
boat capsiZed, and one man was drowned
The British bark Bonita, Captain
| Thomas, from Galveston, was run into
off Falmouth this morning by the
schooner Carrie Harvey, and was dam
aged.
a dispatch from Londonderry saws
that nothing has been heard from the
Dominion line steamer Sarnia. which
lost her rudder at sea, aud which, after
being taken IN tow, was dropped about
l3O miles of Toray Island in heavy
weather. Owing to the gale in the Eng
glish Channel, the Ostend mail steamer
was unable to leave Dover to-day.
a coasting schooner was dismasted off
Cromer. -Four liteboats started out to
rescue her crew. 1t was extremely dam
gerous for the liteboats to approach her.
and twelve hours elapsed before the crew
was taken off and landed.
The storms inland had done some dam
age. Trains have been blockaded by
snowdrifts, and in many places the wires
are down.
STORMS IN GERMANY.
BERLIN, Dec. 30.-Gales. accompanied
by snow, prevail in Northern Germany.
An unusually high tide in the River EIhe
has Hooded the low lying parts Of Cux-
haven and Hamburg. Two bodies have
been washed ashore in the lower EIbe
Enormous damage has been done along
the North seacoasts. Many vessels badly
damaged have been towed into Bremen
haven.
STEAMSHIPS REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3O.-All incoming
steamers report very severe weather
along the coast. Steamers from Eurone
report having experienced the effects of
the gale of tho 9TH. when approaching the
banks and Nantucket. The wind, which
set IN from the southwest, blowing a
strong gale, shifted to the southwest and
northwest, accompanied by heavy seas
and intensely cold weather. The vessels,
decks and hulls were quickly covered
with ice to the thickness of several
inches. The crew suffered much from
co4d, ana the task OF getting about the
decks proved difficult one
Steamers from the southwark ran into
bad weather upon reaching Hatteras g
which the wind suddenly shifted to the
south, blowing strong gale, with heavy
sea. Several steamers, after passing Hat
teras, experienced severe electrical
storm, which was accompanied by heavy
rain and hard squalls, and upon moder-
ating came out in a sudden shift from the
northwest, blowing with hurricane force
causing tremendous sea, which washed
the vessels decks and covered them with
ice. The officers and crew suffered a
great deal from cold. No damage of a
serious nature was reported.
EFFECTS OF THE STORM IN FLORIDA
JACKSONVILLE (Fla.), Dec. 30.-Renorts
by wire from fifty-one correspondents in
the orange districts of the State Indicate
that at least 1,Sl0,00 boxes OF unpicked
oranges are spoiled, and more than 200.
600 boxes OF oranges in warehouses or
lying in bulk preparatory to picking are
frozen. Tomatoes, cabbage beans. meas
and all vegetables in the northern mart of
the State are ruined, except the pineappIe
plantations, which are not much Injured
Day before yesterday, half the seasons
great orange crop of 5000, 600 boxes was
still on the trees. The tail of the northern
blizzard switched around through the
Florida peninsula, and within the space of
a few hours Florida had sustained a loss
that estimated in cash would reach