The herald., 1896-10-12
MateriaIizes Promptly as Was
Predicted
ONE WRECK OFF HENLOPEN
Vessel Pounded to Pieces and Three
Men Drowned
The Gale Still Raging All Along Tia
Coast and Reports of Disasters
Will Come Later.

| Associated Press Special Wire
LEWES, Del, Oct. 11.-At daybreak
this morning the American schooner Luz
ther A. Roby of Schivere, N. S., for
Philadelphia with cargo of plaster,
struck near the point of Cape Henlopen.
while a terrible northeast gale was pre-.
vailing. The force of the sea was 80
| great that the vessel pounded to pieces
on the sands before the life-saving men
could get line to her. Three of the
crew lost their lives and five were res.
cued after an awful experience with the
elements The dead:
Harry Miltby.
Thomas Shines.
An unknown Norwegian sailor.
Inc survivors are: Captain w. H. Ma.
loney of Boston, Mate George A. Hop.
kins, Fred Olsen, Alex Malen and Ed
gar LeWes. They are being cared for by
the crew of the life saving station. The
bodies of those lost have not yet been
located
Captain Maloney and the members of
his crew who were rescued with him
were taken out of theisea. after they had
given up all hope of reaching shore alive.
When the schooner went to pieces the
11ve men managed to get hold of the
deckhouse. On this frail raft they were
buffeted about at the mercy of the enor-
mously high seas until they were seen by
the life-savers. a rope was thrown to
them and the five men, now nearly ex-
hausted, were hauled through the roar
ing surf to place of safety. A watch is
being kept for the bodies of the three
men who lost their lives.
LEWES, Del, Oct. ia severe
northeasterly gale is raging along the
ipI tod hxy
rain. About forty vessels are anchored
inside the Delaware breakwater. Some
or them are dragging dangerously near
the bar, and there is every prospect that
unless the storm abates there will be
other disasters to shipping in addition to
the loss Of the schooner Roby, reported
| in another dispatch. TIE outward
bound bark Alice lost one anchor and
was dragging in a helpless condition
when the tugs Pioneer and Hughes went
to her rescue.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. Oct. 11.-A
severe northeast storm began to rage
along the coast at o'clock this morning
and has continued with unabated fury.
The wind blew steadily about fifty-flv
miles an hour. The government life
crew reports no shipping disasters along
the coast. In this city the storm did
considerable damage.
NEW YORK. Oct. 1.-THE storm
which Weather Observer Dunn warned
New York City would strike here by.
nightfall Sunday promptly arrived on
time. 1t was about o'clock in the after
noon when it began to rain and from
that time it began to blow, lightly at
first, but gradually working up to a very
high pitch, almost a mile a minute, the
velocity it had attained at 10:30 and the
effects were perceptible on all sides.
AT BOSTON.
BOSTON, Oct. 1.-THE advancing
West India hurricane made itself evil
dent about 2 o'clock this morning, Or
twelve hours after the hurricane signal
was hoisted. The winds shifted to the
northeast and since that time has in
creased constantly in force. Along the
northern New England coast it is rain
ing hard. AS usual Block island report
ed the greatest wind velocity, sixty
eight miles an hour while Nantucket
was not far behind with fifty-two miles
an hour. Both places reported the wind
increasing.
With the exception of the wreck of the
Alsatian at Bakers island no other dis
asters have as yet been reported