Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-12-02
The GREAT STORM.
Hundreds of Vessels and Lives Lost in
Sundays Blizzard.

sundays Bl1ZLaru.
Boston, Nov. 30--News of the loss of
life on the Boston & Portland steamship
company's steamer Portland, of Cape
Cod, and the death of more than 100 per-
sons who comprised the passengers and
crew of the steamer, and news from hith.
erto unheard from ports on Cape Cod
showing at least a score and a half of
vessels wrecked along that shore with
the loss of a dozen lives, has come as a
dire climax to the previous record of
disaster resulting from Saturday nights
storm. There are still other places to
be heard from on other sides of the cape,
which have not been received by train
on account of the washOuts and which
are cut of from other means of commu-
nication by broken wires, blocked high
ways and shattered bridges. Up to this
morning the total loss of life cannot be
estimated with any degree of accuracy,
but 1t is known that not more than POO
persons perishPd. From present reports
it is known that sc vessels have been to-
tally wrecked, while 40 are ashore with
hardly a chance of being saved. OF the
SO total wrecks, barges not included, 43
craft aggregate p POP gross tonnage; of
those in precarlous positions, 2S aggre-
gate 1859 tons. The stranding of the
big English liner Ohio and the ocean tug
Tamaqua are not included in the est-
mate given nor any of the big coal-barg
es ashore in Boston harbor. The posi-
tion of these latter is now dangerous, for
they are now exposed to the north
east storm which began this morning.
From reports by wire. mail, and
messenger to the Associated Press from
New England points it is difficult to
even estimate the total loss of life and
shipping along this coast as a result of
the recent storm. The list of disasters
seems to grow every hour, and from
dispatches thus far received it appears
that at least so schOoners have been
wrecked at different points from East
port, Me. to New Haven, Conn, Sc
schooners have been driven ashore, If
barges loaded or empty aground, be-
sides a large number of smaller craft.
This list does not include 80 vessels
either wholly or partially wrecked in
Boston harbor, nor half dozen or more
craft which are reported missing, in
Guiding the Boston and Portland steamer
Portland, nor the big Wilson line
freighter Ohio, ashore on Spectacle island
in this harbor, the steamer John j. Hill
ashore at Atlantic, the Merchants and
Miners transportation steamer Fairfax
on Snow and Pigs ledge, off Cuttyhunk,
nor the small steamer George A. Chafiee,
foundered at Rockport, Mass. When
these are added the aggregate list eX-
ceeds one hundred and seventy craft.
The loss of life is equally hard to de-
termine. 1t is known that about 40
pershed In and about Boston harbor.
Everything possible is being done in
and about Boston to save shipping that
met disaster and render as comfortable
as possible all survivors.
Transportation, generally blockaded
throughout New England is being open
up slowly. All lines running from
Boston were fairly clear Tuesday,
and through trains were making a fairly
successful effort to keep time. In the
more remote districts, however, high
ways and other means Of transportation
will be blockaded for some time.