Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-02
THE DEATH LIST is GROWING
IT Is BELIEVED THAT $50 WENT
DOWN WITH THE STEAMER.
Only Twenty-Five Bodies Have Been
Rccoyered-Numcrou other Dis
astcrs. With Considerable
LOSS of Life, Came to
Light Yesterday.

PROVINCETOWN, MASS, Dec. Am
other day has passed, and the mystery OF
the steamer Portland has not been given
up by the sea. 1t was a day OF constant
watching of more than thirty miles OF coast
line and the sea grudgingly held its vic
Tins. Welding only five. Twenty-Five bod
les have been recovered out of the entire
passenger and crew list. the exact number
of which is still unknown. Ihe nunDer OIL
people who went to their death IN the
Portland will never be known, but almost
hourly persons are reported missing from
different places in New England. until now
it seems possible that the number was over
$50. OF the bodies recovered hereabouts,
thirteen have been identified and eight re-
main to be named.
An attempt to fix the financial loss OIL
SUNDAYS storm in and around Province
town and including the steamer Portland
wreck was made to-day by several men
who have large interests in coastwise ship
ping. The tabulations reached were as
follows:
Lives lost Cprobably), 150.
Loss of property on land, $4,000.
Loss of marine property, not including
steamer Portland. 100000.
The Portland, s250,0C0.
Loss in money and effects of passengers
and sailors, $4,000.
Total, $4,000.
The Boston fishing schooner Ruth NJ.
Martin arrived here this morning, and was
beached. The crew was saved, one man,
however, being badly hurt. The vessel is
breaking up.
A schooner supposed TO be the Grace. OF
Calais. Me, is ashore two miles southwest
of Woodend lifesaving station, with masts
gone, cabin gutted and no signs of life. II
is believed her crew has periShed.
Fragments of a large vessel probably of
600 tons, drifted ashore yesterday off
Woodend. A large piece of an entirely
different kind of vessel floated ashore
shortly after. At Peaked Hill station, Il
quarter board. bearing the name of King
Philip was picked up.
1t is no doubt that OF the big four-master
King Philip. owned at Taunton. Mass.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. IA private dis
patch from Boston says the schooner L.
V. Beebe. Philadelphia for Boston, with
coal. has been wrecked on Black Rock,
near Cohasset Mass. and that all hands.
eight in number, perished This vessel and
cargo were valued at $50 600. She was COM
manded by Captain Daniels, whose son was
mate
BCZZARD'S BAY. MASS. Dec. IA
member of the life saving crew at Gayhead.
who reached here this morning, reports
that Sunday morning the schooners
Queen Hester, Vivian and Clara c. Baker
went to pieces on the rocks off Gayhead.
where the City of Columbus perished some
years ago.
The life saving station crew. during for
ty-eight hours, of unceasing. and unbroken
efforts. succeeded in launching their surf
boat for ten trips to vessels and succeeded
in rescung nineteen men of the crews.
Several. however. perished before assist
ance could reach them.
NEW YORK, Dec. Port Jefferson, L.
l., has just emerged from the snow en-
barge.
The story of the havoc done in Port JEFF
ferson bay by the storm came with the first
train. Wrecks of pleasure yachts and COM
mercial craft are strewn about the shores
or lie on the bottom. During the height of
the storm thetishing schooner Hard Chance
attempted to make the harbor. but was
driven on the rocks at Old Field point
where she lies broken in two. 1t was i'm
possible to aid the vessel, and her crew of
four men perished. The body of her cap
tain was found in the hold of the schooner.
Early in the gale the beautiful steam
yacht Halcyon, owned by Commodore
Smith, of the Stamford Yacht Club. was
driven side on against dock, where she
crashed into the stern of the schooner Mary
L. Cuff. The steamers port side was
crushed in. She sank at the dock
The steam yacht Rival dragged her anch-
ors across the end of Bayles dock. carrying
away her stern. She drifted on the beach,
where the heavy sea soon demolished her
deck houses and stove in her matches. The
schooner yacht Asacionne filed and sank
at her anchorage. The schooner yachts
Carlotta Wayward. Comanche and Neara
dragged their anchors and went ashore.
The Ncara lost all her spars.
The schooner Olive Leaf was driven
against Darling's dock and lies there a
complete wreck. All of the sloops and
catboats housed in the basin were ground
into kindling wood.
The damage to shipping at Port Jeffer-
son bay is estimated AT more than 100000.