The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-29
NEW ENGLAND WRECKS.
The Coast Strewn With the Bones
Of Coasting Vessels.
AN APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE,
IT Is Definitely known That seventy
Have Been Drowned. and ills Likely
That the List VIII BE Increased TO at
Least a Hundred and Forty.

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Least Hundred and Forty.
Boston. Nov. 29.-It Is definitely
known that more than 10 lives have
been lost in the wrecks Of tugs, scnOon-
crs and coal barges during the storm
Of Saturday night and Sunday morn
ing. and if the steamer Portland has
also gone down, as now seems probable,
the list of casualties will rise to l4O
with over 100 vessels Of all descriptions
ashore, two score Of them total wrecks
and an unknown number probably be
meath the waves of Massachusetts bay.
There is scarcely a bay, harbor or inlet
from the Penobscot to New London
that has not on its shores the bones OF
some staunch craft, while along Mass
achusetts bay, and especially Boston
harbor, the beaches are piled high with
the wreckage of schoOners and coal
barges. The record, although hourly
lengthening, is still incomplete, for that
ocean graveyard of Cape Cod is still
to be heard from, and as it has never
yet failed to give up some grim tale at
such a time it probably will not be
found lacking on such an occasion
The annoyance and inconvenience of
the railroads and street car embargo
covering the whole Of southern New
England, sunk into insgnfcance be
fore the story of destruction wrought
by wind and wave, yet it will be many
a day before the full import Of the dis
aster is known or even realized.
The islands Of Boston harbOr are
without exception strewr with wrecks
and wreckage, no less than 20 vessels
being ashore at Gloucester, over 20 in
the supposed safe harbor Of Vineyard
Haven parted their anchor chains and
are high and dry on the beach, Nantas
ket Beach saw two schooners and "A
coal barge dashed to pieces on its sands,
the rocks of Cohasset claimed astaunCh
fisherman, Scituate, a well known pilot
boat, Manchester, a down east lumber
man, while one tug and three barges
known to have been between Cape Cod
and Boston are unaccounted for AMI
probably lost. Even the upper harbors
of Boston, Plymouth, Salem, Ports
mouth, Portland and other places,
where vessels were supposed to be
comparatively safe, were the scenes OF
numerous collisions between the ships
and the wharves.
Every life saving crew performed
| deeds of heroism in rescuing frozen
seamen from the stranded vessels, and
tugboat captains risked life and prop
erty in their endeavor to save life.
Among the tugs which started dowr
| the harbor as soon as daylight came
| yesterday was the police boat Guardian
| which made for the lighthouse which
| marks the inner harbor channel and
| tried to answer signals Finally it was
| learned that the lighthouse had no
| fresh water for the heavy seas had
broken in the bulkheads and spoiled
| the water stored there. There were
| five men in the lighthouse. The two
boats which usually hang from the
davts had been splintered by the force
| of the waves and the sea was dashing
over the lighthouse with such force
that there was little hope of reaching
| there.
Beyond Deer Island lies the big Will
son liner Ohio and the steamer c. A.
| White. Of Taunton, on Spectacle ISL
and. 1t is a matter of surprise to
harbOr pilots how the Ohio reached her
present berth. She stands in water
which at flood hardly came to the leve
of the propeller shaft. The tide in
| which she went ashore was IA feet
must be dug to deep water.
A sorry sight is that presented b!
the three masted schooner Calvin F
Baker on Shag Rocks midway betweel
Boston Light and the Brewsters, wher
the deep sea surges roll in and hal
bury the craft, which is fast going t
pieces. The mainmast has been whip
ped out and hangs dangling over tn
side, supported by the top hammer o
the other masts. In this wreck the tw
mates were taken off by Captain Jane
/ and his crew from across the bay a
Hull. When the wreck was reached
three bodies were seen lashed aloft
Two of them were secured and life was
found to be in them but the other haC
been frozen stiff to the lashings.
1t was on a little stretch of beach a
Hull, Just behind the Hotel Pemberton
that the tragedies occurred. In th
fury Of the storm Sunday Two big new
ly built barEes of the Consolidated Goa
company, Kos. / ana I, We're dashed t.
bits almost in an instant on the shore
stood scores of men who We're read.
to risk their lives to save those VIII
were on many vessels in the offinc driV
ing to destruction. Captain James, o
the life saving crew, was there witt
his men and boat but he said that th'
wind blew 50 fiercely that not meI
enough could find room in the boat t;
row against the wind.
Out of the driven snow came the din
outlines of a barge, with the forms O
five men discernible on the deckhOuse
With a mighty crash barge No
struck the shore, only to crumble anC
then melt into fragments, which tn
waves in another minute cast up oI
the shore. But in that instant fiv
f men escaped the impending death, 70
! men on shoe, with lines about them
2 rushed into the water and pulled ou
5 the sailors. moment later barge Nc
4 came ashore and was ground up b,
. the waves, but nothing was seen of 1t
;, | crew,
1 Another terrible scene was that a
: Thompson's island, where the city
reform school is situated. Against tn
wharf were driven four down east yes