The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02
C!0RST FEARS REALIZED
Steamer Portland Lost With
All on Board.
COAST PILED HIGH WITH WRECKS.

COAST PILED HIGH WITH WRECKS.
Terrible Accounts Of Ruin and Death
Coming In-Grnveyard of Coast, Capo
Cod, Has Claimed Victims Without
Number-Wreck"ge Ground so Fine
That identification IL Impossible.
HIGHLAND LIGHT, Mass, Nov. 2s.-
Delayed in transmission)-Th st, amer
Portland. Of the Boston and Portland
line, has been lost on Cape Cod, with
all on board. The lifesaving men,
through a binding storm yesterday
morning at 6 o'clock, hearl the distress
whistle of a steamer, and last night at
midnight the body of a man was fonnd
- litebelt, marked "Steamer Portland of
Portland. A gold watch in his pocket
had stopped at 10 o'clock. This man
was we'll dressed. wore black clothes
and tan shoes and light hair and nous.
tache, and a piece OF card in his pocket
bore the words, "John w, Congress
street, Portland.'
The body OF a large woman, without
covering of any kind, washed ashore at
Famct river, bat there was no means of
Identifying it. Il is believed that the
steamer Portland was disabled by the
Storm at II OF 'cloclS.last night, being un-
able longer to hold up against the gale,
and dlifred Oh to Peaked Hill bars and
went to p eces, No part of the ship has
Gr.ft, q ashore and it is not known Just
where She struck. Boxes of tobac' o,
clt thing, cheese, oil, et:., have been
washed ashore, also life pre>ervers
marked with the words, "Steamer Port
land
No End t" Loss of Life.
BOSTON, Nov. 30.-Ihe passing hours
do not bring All end to the reports of
loss Of life up and down the New En-
gland coast as the on, come of Sundays
terrific storm. The most terrible ac
counts Of ruin and q cath :2"e coming in,
and OF t ese the loss of the steamer
Portland, with all Oh board, nearly 100
souls, overshadows all. The grave yard
of the coat, the treachprOus bars and
rips Oh the Gu side OF Cape Cod have
Gained victims without number Miles
and miles Of coast line are pied high
with wrechage, most of which is
grounded SO fine by the waves that
ldentltcation of hap!esS craft is ilnpos-
sible. AS the fury OF the wind was so
great on the bleak sandhlls, which
make up the cage, it would he many
hours before ali places are heard from.
All telegraph wires are down and rail
rOaGs cannot break out the snow drifts,
and this feature is distressing, as much
suffering from cold and hunger must
ensue among the poorer people III the
nearby hamIets.
Wrecks Piled on Shore.
The only means Of reaching Cape Cod
is by ST, amer across Massachusetts bay,
a disagreeabie voyage, as the sea is yet
Doisterous. Word from Provincetown
tells OF nearly 80 total wrecks with the
lives lost unknown.
Matters are improving slightly along
Vineyard sound, so tar as means of COM
munlcatlOn are concerned. TDe best
summing up OF the disasters i'll that Sec
ton is made by Cap am Hard, Jr., Of
the revenue cutter Dexter, who has
VI uloCA hAODS tIiC SI1l Ic dill udy. LIZ,
says that in Vineyard Haven hulls are
piled UP OH the shore, and those vessels
which are afioat seem mere shells. lAe
Dexter reports possible addition 10 the
wreck list in two schooners sunk off
Mememsha Bright, and two big ones
sunk abreast OF Presque isle. 1be fate
OF their crews is unknown. Three
wrecking steamers are around the Eair.
lax, ashore on Sow and Pigs reef.
, LIST oi Por, land'a Pa..engerr.
Following is partial list of the pas.
sengers SAID 10 be on board the Portland
when she sailed from Boston Saturday
night:
M. l.. Lowell Of Portland, Fred Hood
of Portland, Charles X. Thompson, Mrs.
Thompson and child OF Woodford, Me-;
William Chase and Master Phiis Chase
OF Worcester, Mrs. Kate Mccoy of East
} Boston. Arthur +. Heerson and Mrs.
Heerson OF Chelsea, Mass; Miss A.
Swift of Portland, Harry Swift of East
Boston. Mrs. Cornelia N. Mitchell and
Miss Jennie Hoyt of Boston, Mrs.
}. A. Carroll of Lowell, Miss
Jennie Edmunds. Marion street, East
Boston; Mrs. Anna Rounds, Portland
. George B. Kennison, jr., Booth Bay
Me-; Perry jackson, wife and child OF
South Portland. Me-; Fred Stevens,
Portland; Mr.. Pierce, Portland; child OF
CHARLES II. Thompson OF Woodford
Me-: OrOn HOODer H Trua Hoonar