New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-01

MuSkegat crew TO an extreme en0rt ana AT inc risk
OF their lives they crossed to Nantucket where
word was telegraphed to various wreckng com.
to the crews assistance At sunset the wind
tnues. blowing a northwest gale. and heavy sea
Boston. Dec. sl.-The high wind which prevailed
this morning caused no material damage to snip
Feared that Of hs as vessels in the Sound
less , VEL and that considerable damage might have
At 8 a. m. the forerunner Of the terrific blow
shippers whose vessels We're anchored in the har:
Dor, and preparations were made to ride out the
made snug aboard the deren craft with the
result that little damage was done. At O'clock the
blowing fifty miles an hour from the south
day from Antwerp. having anchored below last
pss % @ n s ald the
Of cattle fittings on the starboard side Of the vessel
afterdeck were taken up and swept away into the
rough passage during which some Of her tenn en-;
she ne, ; sustained no further damage ga s,.,
were broken off by the heavy gale this morning,
were restored this afternoon when the first intelii-
ceived '"' "'e'N VI '"' "'"'"s '''''''
The pilot boat Columbia tNo. q, cruising for in.
nearly one miles to the
Of Boston Light last night, After the customary
was lowered, and, manned by Horace Foiser and
| Charles johnson pulled off for the steamer to put
John c. Fawcett pilot aboard. The seas were
running mountains high. but the little boat reached
| the steamers side. The steamer proved be the
Cape Breton, from Sydney. c. b.. with coal for the
| Dominion Coal Company. After some little diff
| culty, owing to the heavy which swept COM
pletey over the canoe, Fawcet succeeded in reach
ing the steamers deck. and she started for the city.
| The canoe headed for the pilot boat. and, when
about half the distance had been covered. huge
wave turned her completely and threw the
TWO men into the water. They grasped the bottom
OF the boat. and for half hour chung tenaciousy
To- this support crying all the while for help.
| ihey were rapidly becoming exhausted when their
plot boat. and another canoe was put off TO their
Mscue. manned by William McMlen and the first
poatkeeper Harry Petersen and rescued them.
| Hlghand Light. Mass. Dec. 31.-Such a
swept the coast last night has not been in many
| years. and Captains Bearse Of Nauset, and Cole
OF Canoon,s Hollow stations. with their crews had
their hands full. for thrty-ninc men were brought
safe.y ashore from the fishing schooners Smuggies
| OF Gloucester, ard Ellen Lincoln Of Portland which
went ashore between Weliieet and Nauset at mid
| were taken out after heroic exertions by the life
saving men just the vessel broke up. Two Il the
| crew were nearly exhausted when rescued The
| vessels we're from the fishing grounds with 1906
fish weirs at Ncrth Truro were b.own ashore and
broken to pieces The weather has cleared but the
gale continues.
Vineyard Haven Mass, Dec. 3l.-The heaviest
southwest gale for years has prevailed here to-day
the velocity or the wind reaching about sixty miles
an hour.
Bar Harbor. Me-. Dec 3l.-The storm to-day
caused the highest tide in twenty years The
steamer Sebenoa was two and half hours coming
from Mount Desert Ferry, put back twice and the
decks and pilot-house. The passengers were panic
stricken