The San Francisco call., 1898-11-28
VESSELS GO ASHORE
 DURING THE GALE

1 BOSTON, Nov 27.-A dozen or more coasting vessels were driven ashore in l Boston harbor during the blizzard of 1 last night and this morning, and the great ocean steamer Ohio of the Wilson l line was torn from her moorings and l driven high and dry on Spectacle Isl ] and. Schooners and coal barges with 1 two anchors out and every reason to 1 expect a safe weathering of the gale l were dragged from their moorfngs and ! hurled against pier heads, dashed on islands and rocks, or sunk outright. Fortunately the greater portion of the 1 coasting fleet was securely tied up at the wharves. The schooners and barges anchored in the lower bay bore the
 brunt of the storm.
 Anchored at quarantine was the Will
 son liner Ohio, a great four
 cargo boat, just in from Hull, England.
 She had only a small cargo on board, and her sides being high out of the
 water offered a large surface to the
 wind. The swift tide prevented the
 vessel from pointing her nose into the wind, and after a fierce battle for hours her cables gradually gave way and she ran up on the beach of Specta- 1 u, 1 try.
 As the tide was very high when the 1 Ohio went ashore the work or hauling ! her off is likely to be difficult. The | Ohio lies about a mile from the place or the Venetian wreck. Ashore not far
 White. from Baltimore, but she will probably float
 lust above Spectacle Island is
 Thompsons Island, and on the beach are three down-coa-t lumbermen, with the Watchman, Fred F. Emerson, S.. k. Raphine (BritishO and vessel be- Iieyed to be the Virginia. It is likely that they will be hauled off without
 serious damage. The schooners John | s. Ames and Lizzie Dias are also ashore at Fort Warren.
 So far as known there were no lives lost from any of the above schooners, l although 1t is said two men were wash | cd overheard from the Virginia. No effort was made this afternoon to reach two unknown SchoonerS ashore at l Noonhead or another further up Quincy Bay on the flats off the Atlantic. Further out in the bay the casualties began with the sinking of at least one if not two coal barges and the loss
 of the crew of each. The tug Cumber- land came in earlier last evening with two barges, and one ofthem belonging to the Consolidated Coal Company broke away from the tug anu SlIlhihS
 Hunts Ledge, sunk with all four of her crew. Another barge blowing into the Staple Coal Company is reported to
 have sunk off Los Angeles Head and her crew of four men lost.
 The schooner Abel E. BabcOck from
 Philadelphia is reported to have foun-
 dered with her crew of seven men out side of Boston light. Two other coal barges are ashore at GaouDes Island,
 but it is likely that the crew of neither
 has been lost as the vessels appear to
 be In a comparatively safe place.
 All of the captains of the fleet were lucky enough to round the cape and
 make the harbor, and say the storm was the worst that they experienced
 in Massachusetts Bay. The loss in and about the city will amount to $50,000. LYNN, Mass, Nov. 27.-The damage
 to the seawall on the ocean front is be-
 tween $30,000 and $40,000. Tonight the city is in darkness. This has been the
 only train into Lynn from Boston to- l day.