El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-29
In Saturdays Great Blizzard
Upon the New Eng
land Coast.
Big STEAMER MISSING
And Later and More Com
pIete Reports Show This
Disaster To Be Most
Appalling.

BOSTON, Nov. 29.-The awful story
OF the loss of life and property In the
great blizzard is not yet complete.
Hourly reports of new disasters are
reaching here, rs communication with
the wreck strewn coast Is re-establish-
ed.
Over fifty vessels were lost and 1t is
believed now that more than hundred
men perished.
Late reports from Beachmont show
heavy losses, sixty cottages being ruin
ed and at least two lives lost.
At Nantucket Beach six hotels and
q score or more of small structures
were leveled. The loss exceeds $780,
900.
In Boston hsrbor alone forty lives
and fourteen vessels were lost, twenty
four craft went aground, and fifteen
were set adrift or damaged by fouliug.
The loss to shipping here is at least
half million. The damage to rail-
road and telegraph companies in Bos-
ton city will foot up another like
amount.
Shipping seems to be suffering most
on the Massachusetts, coast. Near
Cape Cod that graveyard of,msny a ship
and many a sailor, twelve vessels were
lost. Life savers were vigorous and
only five lives were lost.
At Salem nine vessels were lost,
twelve damaged, and three men went
to watery graves.
At Gloucester thirty vessels went
ashore and three were sunk; no lives
were lost.
At Quincy four vessels were wreck
ed.
At Vineyard Haven twenty two ves-
sells went ashore and seven were dam
aged; four lives were lost.
On the Maine coast fourty-seven ves-
sells went ashore.
Thirty-eight vessels are reported as
hore between Providence and Newport
on the Rhode Island coast.
The total damage to shipping will
reach two million dollars. The steam
er Portland which left here for Port
land, Maine, Saturday night, carrying
ffty-seven persons, has not been heard
from since. and gravest fears are felt
for her safety.
The cutters Dallas from this city and
Woodbury. from Portland have been
dispatched in the search for the miss
ing steamer. OF the fifty-seven per-
sons aboard the steamer, twenty-five
are passengers. The vessel had q
miscellaneous cargo.
The steamer Fairfax, of the Mer-
chants and Miners line, from Boston,
is ashore at Sow and Pigs off Guilty.
hunk and is full of water. Her psssen-
gers have been taken of.
New YORK, Nov. 29.-The towing |
steamer Santuil with the barge City of |
Montreal arrived this morning. II |
had been reported that the Santuil |
had been foundered.
PROVIDENCE, r. 1. Nov. 29.-Block |
Island has just been heard from. The |
island Is q wreck, the hotels being
shattered and many vessels torn to
pieces by the storm. The entire fish
ing fleet Of twenty four vessels is a
total loss. The three masted schooner
OF Machiss, Maine, is
lost.
HALIFAX, N. s., Nov. 29.-An un-
known four masted vessel is ashore at
Cove, at the entrance to Hall |
fax harbor. One body has been wash
ed ashore.
NEWPORT, r. l., Nov. 29.-Except |
by water there has been no communi-
cation with the outside world since
night. A heavy snow, a
thaw, then a hard freeze, together
with stiff wind, played the mischief
with property in the city. The United
States training ship Essex dragged
her anchor and went on a shoal but
steamed off. The school ship Cons
tellation nearly tore away
from her permanent mooring.
AT the torpedo station, the torpedo
boat pier was carried away and the