Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-13
SHIPPING
On the Atlantic Coast Damaged
by Heavy Gales.
Schooner Alsatian Capsizes Near
Baker Island and is a Total Loss.
The Crew with Difficulty Was Rescued
A Storm and High Tide Wrecks Por-
tion of the Piers at Atlantic City
Hallway Traffic Suspended.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Oct 12.-Schoon-
er Alsatian, from Bath. lumber laden
for Boston, capsized off Baker island
Sunday afternoon and is total loss,
According to Capt. Oliver the Alsatian
left Bath Saturday aud at 2 o'clock
Sunday morning the wind freshened
and the sea increased so that the
heavy swell shifted the deck load and
opened the water ways.
The vessel soon filed and became
unmanageable. Attempts to get into
Rockport and Salem were futile and as
the sea were breaking over the water
logged craft, the crew were lashed to
the rigging. ALI that could be done
was to let the schooner drift
before the wind and sea. She
drifted near Thachers island and
nearly swamped, the crew being
rendered almost unconscious by the
waves. When near Bakers island
reef a sea carried off the mainmast,
capsized the vessel and threw the crew
OF four overheard. They succeeded in
grabbing wreckage that came from the
deck load. In the meantime fishing
boat which arrived here reported see
ing a waterlogged vessel off Eastern
Point, and Capt. Young, of the steamer
Helen May Butler, Immediately start
ed to the vessels assistance.
Upon overtaking the wrecked sailors,
Capt. Young and Steward Anderson
manned a boat and pat off to save the
nearly exhausted men. With great
difficulty and just as the victims were
sinking they were hauled into the
boat. Two of the shipwrecked men
were unconscious, but soon recovered.
Owing to the heavy storm that was
raging the rescue was an heroic one.
Capt. Young and his steward nearly
sacrificed their lives, as the boat filed
three times before the shipwrecled
men We're got on board the steamer
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., Oct. 12-The
northeast storm that has been travel
ing along the Atlantic coast struck
this city Sunday morning. and in con-
nection with an extraordinarily high
tide has done considerable damage
Two of the three piers along the ocean
front have sustained the greatest dam
age so far. About 200 feet of the
iron pier at the foot of Massa-
chusetts avenue have been battered
away. A section of the wrecked
schooner Metcalf, which was lying
near the pier, was broken away by the
surf, and for an hour or so it pounded
with terrific force against the piling of
the pier. The piling withstood the
battering at first, but at last the mid
die section went down with crash
The mass of wood from the wreck is
still floating along the beach front and
more damage may be done by it.
The center of the pier at the foot of
Texas avenue has partially given way
1t is expected that the weakened parts
will go out to sea before morning The
bulkhead at Chelsea has been de-
stroyed. Railroad travel on the Camden
and Atlantic railroad has been sus-
pended, owing to the high waters on
the meadows submerging the tracks.
The entire force of the life saving
crew were out Sunday night on the
beach watching for any ship in dis
tress. The cottages on the Meadow
side of the city have been surrounded
by water all day and the occupants
have been compelled to use boats to
get to and fro from their homes. The
wind reached velocity of IS miles an
hour Sunday.
Many railroad ties were floating in on
the beach Sunday night and it is be,
lieved they indicate the washing away
of the trolley railway on Brigantine
beach.
NANTUCKET, Mass. Oct. 12.-Informa.
ton OF what may have been another
ocean tragedy was obtained Saturday.
James c. McCleace picked up on the
south shore bottle containing the
following hastily scribbled note on a
leaf of book:
Sept, 1C.-We are off Nantucket &C
miles and are about to sink. Please
notify my wife, Mrs. Mary Frazer, OF
Gloucester.
"(Signed) JOHN C. FRAZER"
"We will never reach shore alive
Good-by."
The gale has increased steadily foi
the past "a hours and blew a hurri
cane Sunday night. Small boat.
are being sunk at their moorings
but shipping was SO thoroughly