The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30

The schooner Mary f. Crosby with coal,
| struck a rock at Newllelds Saturday and
sank within ten minutes. She rests slight
~ on one side of the channel and deck
flooded at high tide. She has hole stove
in port bow. She vii! be raised and re-
paired.
In Norfolk Va) dispatch to the New
York Herald Sept o. in which the story
OF the steamer Endeavour having towed
the steamer Hexham 10 that port and
Capt. Hansen Of the HeXham having been
washed overheard, was stated that tbs
captain of the Endeavour Uewis) died
when the vessel was three days out.
This Is probably a mistake; the story OF
| the death Of Capt Brotherton, at this
CITY, few days before the steamer sailed,
was no doubt confounded A paragraph
in the Norfolk Landmark is probably the
| correct account Of this incident. II says
"A curious coincidence III this story of
| the sea is the fact that when the En-
deavour and HeXham arrived here neither
| possessed a captain Three days before
the departure OF the Endeavour from Sa-
{, vannah her commander died of typhoid
, fever and she was also in command Of
! first officer when she saved the Hexham.
While the schooner Jacob Reed, from
Charleston. was anchored on South Bos-
schooner George Quincy, for Penobscot
TO load for New York. The Reed had jib-
boom and headgear carried away, and
the Quincy sustained some damage to
fcrerigging. The latter proceeded.
The schooner Flora Rogers, which ar
rived at Boston Sunday from Pascagoula
experienced very severe weather on the
| passage. and during heavy gales she
strained so badly that the oakum in top
sides was washed out and the vessel
leaked considerably. She put into New
London, where some temporary repairs
were made. The vessels mainsail burst
in Thursdays northeaster.
The steamer Comal, from Galveston, re-
ports passing the shooner Minnie Anna
Bonsan, Sept. g. p. m in latitude 81. 49,
longitude 1918, with foremost standing and
other spars on deck or afioat alongside
1t is a very dangerous obstruction.
1t is reported that bark Pactolus, from
Punta Gorda for Baltimore, with phos-
phate rock, which put into Key West
damaged. has abandoned the voyage, and
her cargo has been transferred TO barge
Atlas, which will be towed to Baltimore
by steamer Shawmut. Arrangements are
being made to tow the Pactolus to Balti-
more.
The schooner Carrie e. Look. at New
York, from Jacksonville, encountered
| hurricane Sept. 20 in latitude 80 10, longi-
tude rs. The blow lasted for twenty-four
hours, with high seas. The vessel labor.
ed heavily and lost a small boat and re-
ceived other slight damage about the
decks.
Capt. Boyce of the steamer Yumuri at
New York. from Tampico reports: Sept
%, latitude 31.40, longitude 1902 passed
schooner jeanne Lippitt, from Port Tam
pa for Philadelphia; same date, latitude
3235, longitude 77.40, passed schooner
Grace Bradley from Brunswick for Bos,
ton, waterlogged and dismasted float
ing on deck load OF yellow pine. spars
hanging alongside. Sent a boat and found
vessel abandoned Grew of the Bradley
nave arrived al Fortress Monroe) Same
date, about thirty-five miles northeast.
passed a schooners long boat, painted
white with brown gunwhale half full Of
water and no name; Sept %, north of
Hatteras, struck a large whale head, cut
ting it in two o
Chatham, Mass, Sept. 29.-The three
masted schooner Jesse Murdoch, Capt
Wheatley with a cargo of lumber from
Georgetown, IS. c., for Boston, is at an
Choir off here, with three sick men on
board. Her sails are badly split and she
is short of provisions. A part of her
deck load was washed off during north
east hurricane encountered off Hatteras
last week. Capt. Wheatley has tele.
eraphed for a tug to tow him to Boston.
The captain also reports that he met a.
gale soon after leaving Georgetown. He
was compelled to return to port to repair
a leak and to discharge and reload his
deck load as a result of damage sustained
Savannah Almanac