Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-30


Iisence to Boston, the Wires Being
Down-Thirty-fourE Bodies Have AL
ready Been RecSvercd-TIun ks and
Other WreckaEe Fcund-Resume Of
the Shipping Disasters on the New
England Coast During the Recent
Storm and of the Lives Lost.
Boston, Nov. 30.-A special to The
Herald from North Truro says the
steamer Portland of the Boston and
Portland Steamship company, plying
between Boston and Portland. was to-
tally wrecked at 10 O'Clock Sunday
morning off Highland Light. and the
entire crew and passengers persisted
within a short distance Of land. A
large quantity of wreckage, including
trunks and other material. has come
| ashore and "a bodies have been recov-
cred from the surf by the life saving
crew at High Head station. One body
was that of a woman.
The news Of the diSast was brought
to The Herald through the agency Of
a special ira n. as communication with
Boston by wire fiom points on Cape
Cod is impossible on account Of the
havoc wrought by the storm.
The first body was found by Gideon
Bouley, a surfnan at the station, who
at once gave the alarm. Then thor
ough search was made. The bodies
found were evidently those OF passen-
gers. The body OF the woman was well
dressed.
It is thought here that the Portland
took the storm outside Saturday night,
causing her to break down and finally
to drift on to the lee shores and to de-
struction.
The Passengers.
The following Is a partial list of the
passengers now said to be on board
the Portland when she sailed from
Boston Saturday night:
Oren Hooper. True Hooper, Isaiah
Frye. Miss Ruth Frye, Miss Maud
Sykes. Mrs. Ezekiel Dennis, Mrs. Theo-
dore Allen Miss Allen, Miss Cole Of
iSpringfieid, Mass; Mrs. Daniel Rounds
Fred Sherwood. Miss Ross. Miss Edna
McCrillis, C. F. Wilson Of Bethel. Me. i;
Hon. F. Dudley Freeman. D. o. Get
chell Of Boston, Miss Sophie Holmes
Plympton of Charles River, G. w. Cole
Hutchinson, Miss Hutchinson. Mrs.
George o. Chickering Of Weymouth.
Mass, and sister. Mrs. Wheeler. Of
South Weymouth. Mass; NJ. L. Sewell
Of Portland, Fred Sherwood Of Port
land, Charles H. Thompson. Mrs.
Thompson and child of Woodfords, Me-:
William II. Chase and Master Philip
Chase Of Worcester. Mass; Mrs. Kate
Coy Of East Boston, Arthur F. Heer-
som and Mrs. Heersom Of Chelsea.
Mass; Mrs. Alice Swift of Portland,
Harry Smith, 2l Marion street. East
Boston; Mrs Cornelia N. Mitchell and
Miss Jennie c. Hoyt of North Easton.
Mrs. ]. A. Carroll of Lowell. Mrs. Jen-
ME Edmunds of Marion street. East
Boston; Mrs. Anna Rounds Of Port
land. George B. Kennison. Jr., Of Booth
Bay Harbor, Me-; Perry Jackson, wife
and child of South Portland, Me-: Fred
Stevens Of Portland, Mr.. Pierce OF
Portland and child of Charles H.
Thompson of Woodfords. Me.
y The Crew.
\The crew Of the steamer Portland as
fair as can be ascertained is as follows:
Captain. Hollis H Blanchard; first
pilot, Lewis Strout; second pilot, Lewis
Nelsona. purser, +. A. Ingraham: clerk,
Horace Moore; mate, Edward Deering;
second mate, John Mckay; quarter
master, AQsel Dyer; quartermaster, F.
Peterson; Eatchmen. r. Blake, T. Sew
ell, ]. Whihbon, - Williams; first en-
gineer, Thomas Merrill; second engi-
neer, John Walton; third engineer, c.
Verrill; steward, A. V. Matthews; Sec
ond steward, Eben Houston.
Deck crew, John Daily. George Nc
Calvary, Arthur Sloan. James Davidson.
Peter Collins. Norris Graham. Cornelius
O'Brien, D. Bruce, Matthew Barron,
Richard Hartley, George c. Ropley.
Electrician, F. W.SLeighton; oilers, J.
A. Dillon, J. McNeal: firemen, M. Merri-
man, T. E. FennelE H. Carter. w. ].
Doughty, II. Rolison, ]. E. Gately;
baggage master, Nv. B. Robichaw.
Walters. LewiS Johnson, Arthur John.
son. Lee Formsn, George Graham, -
Gatlin. Samuel Smith, head saloons
man, - I4atimer; barber. - Conner:
stewardesses. Mrs. Carrie M. Harris,
Mrs. Margaret Berry.
The Portland was built in Bath. Me-.
in 1880 and was side wheel steamer of
1877 tons net burden. Her length is 230
feet; beam. AZ feet; depth. 10 feet. She
was valued at $250O and is fully in
sured.
Enormous Losses.
1t is even now difficult to estimate the
total loss Of life and shipping along this
toast as the result Of the storm. The
LIST Of disasters seem to grow every
hour, and from dispatches thus far re-
ceived 1t appears that at least 80
schooners have been wrecked at differ
ent points from Eastport, Me- to New
Haven, IS schooners have been driven
ashore. IA barges loaded or empty are
aground. besides large number of
smaller craft.
This list does not include the 30 YES
sells either wholly or partially wrecked
in Boston harbor nor half dozen or
more craft which are reported missing,
nor the big Wilson line freighter Ohio
which is ashore on Spectacle island, in
this harbor: the steamer John ]. Hill,
which Is ashore at Atlantic: the Mer-
chants and Miners Transportation
steamer Fairfax on Sow and Pigs ledge.
off Cuttyhunk, nor the small steamer
George A. Chaffee. foundered at Rock
port, Mass. When these are added, the |
Aggregate list exceeds 10 craft.
The loss Of life. Is equally hard 70 de- |
tefmine. It ls known that about 40 per-