The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-11-29
New England Cost SWspt bye
Blizzard, EntalIlng Great
Lass to Shipping.
HAVE BEEN LOST
Quite Probable Thst over One HIM.
dred Are Drowned Scores Of YES
sells Were Dashed 70 Pieces.

Bo8ToN, Nov. Alt ls known dean.
itely tonight that more than 70 lives have
been lost in the WRECKS Of tugs, schooner
and coal barges during the storm Of saa.
urday night and Sunday morning, and Il
tne steamer Portland has also gone down.
es now seems possible the list Of casn-
altes win rise 10 40, with over 100 YES.
sells Of all descriptions ashore. two score
Of them to be total wrecks and an un-
known number probably boneath thu
waves Of Massachusetts bay.
There Is scarcely bay. harbor, or lnIst
from Penobscot to New London which
has not on Its shores the bones OF soma
staunch craft, while all along Massachu.
sets bay. and especially Boston harbor.
beaches are piled high with the wreck
age Of schooncrs and coal barges The
record. although hourly lengthenIng. Is
still incomplete, for that ocean graveyard
Of Cape Cod Is still to be heard from.
The annoyance and Inconvenience Of the
railroad and street car embargo, covering
the whole OF southern New England.
sank into insignlncance before the story
Of destruction wrought BY wind and
wave. yet It will be many days before the
full import Of disaster Is known, or even
realized.
The islands Of Boston harbor are with
out exception strewn with wrecks and
wreckage. and no less than . vessels are
ashore at Gloucester. Over % IN the sup
posed safe harbor Of Vineyard Haven
parted their anchor chains yesterday and
are high and dry on the beach. Nantasket
beach saw two schooners and a coal
barge dashed to pieces on its sands; the
rocks OF cohasset claimed staunch fish
erman Schitute, well known plot boat;
the Manchester. dowD-east lumberman,
while one tug and three barges. known to
have been between Cape Cod, and Boston,
are unaccounted for and probably are
lost. The upper harbors OF Boston.
Plymouth, Salem. Portsmouth. Portland.
anc other places. where vessels were sup
posed to be comparatively safe we're the
scenes OF numerous collisions between
ships and wharves. Every lIfesaving
crew performed deeds Of heroism IN res
cuing the drowning.
Beyond Deer island lies the big Wilson
liner Ohio and the steamer c. A. white.
OF Taunton. is ashore on Spectacle island.
It Is a matter of surprise to harbor
pilots how the Ohio reached her present
berth She stands up boldly. without
semblance OF list. on a hard gravel
bottom, IN water which at food tide this
morning hardly came to the level OF the
propeller shaft. That she should be IN.
such shallow water Is due to the fact that
the tide in which she went ashore was IA
feet above the usual flood tide. Accord
Ing to some wrecking masters, the only
way to save the liner is BY dredging a
channel from the Ohio into deep water.
Leaving Spectacle island astern, a sorry
sight is presented The three-masted
schooner Calvin F. Baker in on ShaR
Routes. midway between Boston light and
Brewesters, and the mainmast has been
whipped out and hangs dangling over the
side. From this wreck two mates were
taken of. Three bodies were seen lashed
aloft. Two OF them were secured and
life was found in them. but the other had
been frozen stiff to his lashings. The
survivors and the body were taken 10
Hull On shore stood scores Of men who
were ready to risk their lives to save
those who were on many Of the vessels
in the ofiing driving to destruction.
Captain James. OF the llfesaving crew
was there with his men. He said the
wind blew 50 fiercely that not men enough
could find room in the boat to row against
the wind. Out Of the driven snow came
the dim outlines Of a barge, with the
forms of FIVE men descernable on the
deckhouse. With a mighty crash as II
came down on the receding wave barge
No. struck shore only to crumble and
then melt into fragments, which the
waves in another minute cast upon the
shore. In that instant five men ESCAPED
impending death, for, as the barge split
In twain, the deckhouse slid of toward
shore into the surf. and at the same time
the men on shore with lines about then
rushed into the water and pulled out the
sailors. A moment later barge No. 4
came ashore and was ground up by the
waves, but nothing was seen OF It's crew.
Soon after this other wreckage came
ashore, and this morning It was seen that
both the Abel c. Babcock and the Samuel
W. Tilden had been wrecked. No sign OF
the crew of either vessel was found.
STEAMER BELIEVED LOST.
BOSTON, Nov. 2s.-The managers OF
the Boston & Portland steamship Com
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