Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-05

Boston, Nov. 30.-The passing hours
do not bring an end to the reports of
wrecks and loss of life up and down
the New England coast as the outcome
of Sundays terrific storm. From Cape
Cod the most terrible accounts of ruin
and death are coming, and of these the
loss of the steamer Portland, with all
on board, nearly 100 souls, over
shadows all. The graveyard coast,
treacherous bars and ribs ON the out
side of Cape Cod have claimed victims
without number. Miles and miles of
coast line are piled high with wreck
age, most of which is ground so hne
by the waves that Identification of it's
hapless craft lis impossible. The fury
of the wind was most terrific on the
bleak sand-hills which make up the
cape and it will be many hours before
all of the places can be heard from.
Telegraph wires are down and rail-
ways cannot break through the snow
drifts and this feature is distressing,
as much suffering from cold
and from hunger must ensue among
the poor people in the nearby hamlets.
The only means of reaching Cape Cod
is by steamer across Massachusetts
bay, disagreeable voyage, as the sea
is yet boisterous. Proyincetown re-
ports nearly thirty total wrecks and
many lives lost Matters are improv-
ing slightly along Vineyard sound, so
far as means Of communication are
ad Gil inc of
the disasters ia that section lis made
by Captain Hard, Jr., Of the revenue
cutter Dexter, who cruised along the
shore all Tuesday. He says that in
Vineyard haven many hulls are piled
upon the shore and those vessels
which are af1oat seem to be mere
shells The Dexter reports possible
additions to the wreck list in two
sloops sunk off Menemsha Blight and
two big ones sunk abreast of Presque
isle. The fate of their crews is un-
known
The Portland Founders.
Boston, Mass, Nov. 3O-A special
from North Truso says the steamer
Portland of the Boston & Portland
Steamship company, plying between
Boston and Portland, was totally
wrecked Sunday morning, off High
land light, and the entire crew and
passengers persisted within short
distance of land. A large quantity Of
wreckage, including trunks and mate
rial, have come ashore and "a bodies
had been recovered. One body was
that of woman. There were "A per-
sons on board the Portland, including
the officers and crew Following is a
list of the passengers when she sailed
from Boston Saturday: M. l.. SeWell
and Fred Sherwood, Portland; Charles
H. Thompson, wife and child, Woods
ford, Me-; VIM. Chase and Master
Philips Chase, Worcester; Mrs. Kaye
Koy, East Boston; Arthur f. Heer
som and Mrs. Heersom, Chelsea,
Mass; Miss A. Swift, Portland; Harry
Swift, East Boston; Mrs. Cornelia N.
Mitchell and Miss Jennie Hoyt, North
Easton; Mrs. Jacarol, Lowell; Miss
Jennie Edmonds, East Boston; Mrs
Anna Rounds, Portland; George b.
Kennison, Jr., Booth Bay, Me-; Perry
Jackson, wife and child, South Port
Pierre, Portland; Grin Hooper, H.
Hooper, Isiah Frye, Ruth Frye, Maud
Frye, Maud Symms, Mrs. Ezekial Den
mis-; Mrs. Theo. Allen, Miss Allen and
Miss Cole, Springfield, Mass; Mrs.
Daniel Rounds, Miss Ross, Edna Nc
Crillis and c. F. Wilson, Bethel, Me-;
T. Dudley Freeman and D. O..
Helen Ilangbhorne and Emma Plimp-
ton, Charles Rivers; G. w. Cole, Miss
Burns, Charles Wiggin, M. G. Hutchin-
son, Miss Hutchinson, and Mrs. George
Chickering, Weymouth, Mass; and Sis
ter, Mrs. Wheeler, South Weymouth,
Mass. The crew numbered 40, includ-
ing two women.
Disasters Almost Numberless.
Proyincetown, Mass, Nov. 3d.
Twenty-seven vessels were driven
ashore and totally wrecked in this
neighborhood. From majority Of
these the crews were saved although
several lives were lost. Four or five of
the WT0CkS were CUdSICTS ana the rest
fishermen During the storm shipping
was destroyed and the beach strewn
with wreckage. Streets were flooded
and wharves drifted out to sea. -Four
icehouses and a lobster hatchery at
Beach Point were destroyed. Four
pork, lard and whiskey barrels have
been drifting ashore along the beach
between Race Point and Highland
light saving station. Several bodies
also drifted ashore near highland light
and wreckage marked Steamer Port
land" The Efe-savers, after several
unsuccessful efforts, reached the
schooner Mott, which put in on the
26th and sank the same night. The
captain and crew of five men took to
the rigging. When the life-savers
reached them with line he found the
captains father frozen to death. The
others will probably recover. The
schooner Butler was wrecked east of
the Peaked Hill Hfe-saving station.
THE cantain and four mon wore saved