The record-union., 1898-11-29

SrauIly driven dSHUT0s many or them 10
be dashed to pieces. large fleet of
coasting schooners from st. Johns and
other ports in the provinces of Maine
were battered to fragments.
It is believed that Captain Nelson CT
the schooner Island City, OF Rockland,
Me-, and his entire crew have perished
The Island City was bound from Lib
erty, N. J., for Cohasset with cargo
OF COAL She put in here Sunday morn
ing, and later started for her destina-
tion, but in the afternoon she put back
TO Vineyard Haven. She was discov-
cred Sunday morning off Cottage City
ashore, the seas making a clean breach
over her.
Captain Nelson and his crew were IN
the rigging. The residents of the ISL
and were powerless to render aid. All
the forenoon the men clung to the rig
ging. During the afternoon two men
were seen TO drop overheard. The
third man remained in the rigging, ap-
parently limp and unconscious, If not
dead. The schooner is tstal loss.
The schooners Leora, n. Thurlow of
Bath, Me-, Captain Roberts, bound
from Hallowell. Me-, with cargo Of
stone, was sunk near the east side CT
the harbor here yesterday afternoon
The crew climbed into the rigging. A
volunteer crew of skilled boatmen pro-
ceeded to the rescue towed by the tug
| Lockhart. They succeeded with diff
Guilty in saving the mate and two sea
men, but Captain Roberts had perishad
from exposure before succor came.
| The schooner E. ]. Hamilton, Captain
| Soule of Bridgeton, N. j., bound from
Perthamboy for Portland with coal, was
driven ashore on fiat near the head OF
| the harbor. where she now lies with
/ deck submerged. Captain Soule and
| his crew were rescued after much diff
Guilty by volunteer crew from the
shore.
The schooner M E. Eldridge of Dem
mis-. Captain Kelly, bound from Albany
| for Boston with cargo of clay, Went
ashore near the steamboat at the west
side of the harbor and is completely
dismasted.
The barkentine Nellie M. Slade OF
Boston from Charleston, s. c., for Port
Hand with a cargo of clay. parted both
chains and fouled the British schooner
Delta The. Slade had all the head gear
and royal masts carried away. she
| was driven ashore on the west side or
| the harbor.
TRAIN SERVICE INTERRUPTED.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-Points in
Eastern Long Island, which have been
cut off from communication since Sat-
urdays storm, are still without train
service, and the present prospect is that
! the tracks will not be cleared until to-
morrow. The towns in Suffolk County,
| east of Babylon, have had no train SER
/! vice since Friday evening. The Mon
tauk line of the Long Island Railroad
| is open to Babylon. From Babylon 10
| Greenport, distance of about fifty
| miles, no train is running. and none IS
promised by the railroad before to-
night at the earliest. There are two
| trains stuck in snow drifts. Both
were east bound, and were caught on
Saturday night. One is on the Mon
tauk division, between Bay Shore and
Islip. The other is on the main line,
and when last heard of<eas at Farm
ingdale. There were but few passen-
gers, and the railroad officials had them
cared for in hotels.
The railroad cuts about the Shinne-
cock hills are reported to have ten feet
of snow in them.
The storm was felt far out at sea.
Many of the regular liners and steam
ers which were due early Sunday morn
ing failed to arrive on time, being
obliged to keep at sea until the storm
abated. The French liner La Tour
aine first encountered the storm on No
vember 25th, but came. along steadily
until the night of the 26th. when the
snow and wind became so binding that
at a distance of seventy miles from port
the vessel was slowed down and barely
held her way This was continued ur1-
til at 5:15 o. m. the vessel was anchored
outside the bar.
The Furnessia had to face the gale,
as did also the Thingvalia. The lat
ter reported the strength of the gale as
II, the highest the Beaufort scale gives
Both came along without any difficulty
as they were running near the end of
the storm.
Trains from the West on adj lines en-
tering Jersey City were from one, to
three hours late. This is true of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, the Lehigh
Valley, the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Erie. The train from Boston by the
New York N H. and III. Railroad, due
here at a. m. yesterday, reached the
Grand Central depot twenty-five hours
late. The passengers suffered greatly
| from cold and hunger.
A small topmast schooner Is sunk just
east of Barkers Bluff, L. I. She is close
| in shore, and we'll out of the water at
| low tide but fills at high tide.