The Red Cloud chief., 1898-12-02
ITO SHIPS WRECKED.
iee IVES LOST OFF COAST
OF NEW ENGLAND.
The Mig Bossen Coast Line stea inner ne.
ported Lost with Ninety-Nin peop,.
Aboard Fishing schooner., Tugs an,
Barses Asbors--Many Crews Perish.

Bosroy. Nov. 30--It Is believed tina,
100 persons hnvo persisted In tn,
wrecks OF vessels during the storm or
Saturday night and Sunday morning
More than seventy have probably beer
lost aside from the passengers AND
crew OF the steamer Portland, which
Is now reported sunk.
The Portland sailed from here 10,
Portland, Me-, Saturday night. She
carried ninety-nine persons-passcn.
gers and crew. A dispatch 10 tho Bos.
ton Herald from North Truro says the
Portland was totally wrecked at lc
o'clock Sunday morning, Off Highland
light. aud the entire crew and pas.
sengers persisted within q short dis.
lance Of land. A large quantity OF
wreckagc. including trunks and ma.
%terial, has como ashore. A. dark, las,
night, thirty-four bodies had been re.
covered from tho surf by the life saw.
ing crew ut High Head station. One
body was that Of n woman.
The news Of the disaster wa brought
through the agency Of a special train,
rs communication to Boston by wire
from points on Capo Cod is impossible
on account O; the damage by the
storm.
The officials of tho Portland Steam.
ship company stated this morning that
they had received no tidings OF the
missing steamship. The revenue cut
ter Dallas, which started yesterday TO
look for tho missing boat. had not re-
ported up to 0 o'clock this morning,
and no word Of tho steamer had been
received at Portland.
The total number OF vessels wrecked
is estimated at moro than 10. The
loss Of life Ia hard TO determine exact.
ly. It Is known that about ifty per-
sons perishcd in and about Boston har.
Dor. Reports from other places, in
some cases, state that tho crow Of this
OF that vessel escaped. Many a that
the fate Of the crow 10 unknown.
Some survivors have turned up
and life saving stations aud incoming
vessels have brought . few sailors
from wrccks Perhaps o score would
cover those Of whom nothing is known
not including the Afty-fve who were
on board the steamer Portland.
The Islands OF Boston harbor arc,
without exception, strewu with wreck
and wreckage; no fewer that twenty.
nine vessels are ashore at Gloucester;
moro than twenty in the supposed
safe harbor of Vineyard Haven are high
on the beach; Nantasket beach saw
two sohooners and a coal barge dashed
to pieces on its sands; tho rocks Of
Cohassct sank a fisherman. q pilot
boat and q down.east lumberman,
while one tug and three bargcs known
10 have been between Capo Cod and
Boston are unaccounted for. and prob
ably lost. The upper harbors of Bos.
ton, Plymouth. Salem, Portsmouth,
Portland md other places where YES.
sells were supposed to be comparatively
safe were tho scenes OF numerous col.
lisions between the ships and the
, wharves.
The chief loss Of iifo in Boston har-
Dor occurred on the little stretch OF
beach at Hull. The shore there was
'hS' "'sh hhIbt "hCh WV NOW COut
barges were seen in the ofing driving
ashore. Captain James OF tho life
saving crew was there with his men
and boat, but he said that the wind
blew no faercely that not men enough
could End room in the boat to row
against the wind. Through tho
snow the forms of five men could DO
made out IN the dcc.ehousc Of the
trst barge. With a crash the barge
struck the shore, crumbled and then
melted into fragments. which the
waves in another minute cast upon tho
shore. As the barge went to pieces
tho deckhouse slid of towards the
shore in the surf. Men rushed into
the water and dragged ont the crow.
A moment later the second barge
struck. Two of her crew OF four were
saved.