The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-30
|HORRORON HORROR
Later Reports from Sundays Storm Add
to the List Of Lost.
GRAVEYARD OF THE COAST.
The Treacherous Bars Of Cape Cod Have
Claimed Scores Of Victims.
PASSENGER STEAMER PORTLAND LOST
With Her Went Down NInety.ninc Men,
Women and Children.
VESSELS LITERALLY GROUND TO PIECES
ships Torn 10 Atoms and Not EnouEh
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PASSENGER STEAMER PORTLAND LOST
With Her Went Down NInety.nine Men,
Women and Children.
VESSELS LITERALLY GROUND TO PIECES
ships Torn 10 Atoms and Not Enough
4 IL Cast Ashore for Identihcation.
some Heroic Rcscues.

Highland Light. MISS, November IS
delayed In Taansmission.) The steamer
Portland OF the Boston and Portland limo
has becn lost on Cape Cod with all on
boari, Tho tifc-savng men, through
binding storm yesterday morning at
O'Clock. heard t,fe distress whistle OF
steamer. and last night at midnight the
body of man was found on shore. On she
body of The man was u life belt marked I
Steamer Portland. OF Portland"
A gold w@tch In his pocket had stepped
,at 10 o'clock. This man was we'll dressed.
wore black clothes and tan shoes ard light
hair and mpstaoAo, aud a piece of card 40
as pocket bore tho words John W.. Con-
grcss street. Portland"
The body OF Il large woman, without COW
cring OF any kind, was washed ashore ut
Pane. river, but there was no means OF
identifying IL. 1t is believed that tho
steamer Portland was disabled by tie stogm
at 10 o'clock last night, being unable 10
longer hold up against the gale. and drifted
on Peaked Hill bars and went to pieces.
No part of the ship - S.rifted ashore, and
4, is not known Just where she struck.
Boxes OF tobacco, clothing, cheese, oil. ETC..
have bees washed ashore. also life pre-
servers marked Steamer Portland
Boston, November 29.@The passing
hours do not bring an end 10 fhe reports OF
wrecks land loss OF lGfe UP and down the
New England coast as the outcome of Sun
days terrific storm. From Cape Cod the
most TERRIBLE accounts of ruin and death
are coming, and OF these the loss OF tho
sgienmer Portland, with all on board, nearly
100 souls oyershadows all. The grISvsygad
OF the coast, the ereacberous bars on the
outside of Cape Cod, have claimed victims
without number. Miles and miles oil coast.
line are piled high with w'reckage, most OK
which Ia ground so fine By the waves that
identIlicaa!on OF hapless craft Is Impossible.
As thc fury OF the wind WAS great on the
bleak sand hills which mark the cape, 1t
will be many hours before all places are
heard from Telegraph wires are down and
railways can not break out the snow
drifts. and this feature is distressing, as
much suffering from cold and hunger must
ensue among the poorer people IN all the
nearby hamlets.
Tonight the only means OF reaching Cape
Cod Is by steamer across Massachusetts,
bay, a disagrecable voyage. as the sea -
vet bosterous Word from ProyldencetownS
tells OF nearly thirty total wrecks %ith tho
number of lives lost unknowp
The best summing up OF the disaster "a
Msrtha's Vineyard is made by CAPITA n
HsGd, Jr OF the revenue cutter Dsx'er,
who has criIsed along that shore all day.
He says that IN Vineyard Haven huls Gre
rslled upon shore aad those vessels watch
are ailcaL seem mere shells. Inc Dexter
reports possible additions TO the wreck lSt
IN two schouneis sunk of Menemsil L.2hs
and two big ones sunk abreast OF Psesque
island. The fate OF their crews Is un
known.
prom reports coming b. wire, mall aud
messenger to the Associated Press from
New England points today y was difncult
Il, estimate ffe total loss OF life and DAM
arc TO sh PIPING along this coast as the re-
euit OF the recent storm The LIST OF the
disasters seems TO grow every hour and
from dispatches thus far received It APP
pears that at least thirty schooneTa have
been wrecked az different poisAs from
Eastrort, Mass, TO New Haven, coan.,
e!ghty-six schooners have been dr.yen 4
ashore and fourteen barges. loaded or
empty are aground. This Goes not Include
the thirty vessels either wholly or partly