Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-01
Loss OF THE PORTLAND.
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from IRON. Rockland to Portland with his wife.
schoe,e .. the crew were signed in the
ncuoohef at Portland, Nov. 3, and the
lTrt1sSase was to Baltimore and return
my c were Philip Johnson. 90 years old
Of St. Georte M e. w B inn 50 years old
Years old, of Rocllland. The King Philip
was putt at Camden. Me, in 1886, and is
d Vessei OF l224S gross tons.
MISS Maud Skies, one of the victims
OF the Inflated steamer City of Port
lana. was well-known in Bridgton,
having lived there with her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. George Skies, and attended
the village schools until about 10 years
ago, when they moved to Boston, where
Mr. Skies, since that time, has been en-
gagged in the meat and provision bust
ness on Blackstone street.
Albert Dunbar, fisherman, we'll
known at Gloucester, Mass, was a
passenger on the Portland. He was
member of the crew of the fishing
schooner Edward Trevory, Capt. Phe-
ian, OF Gloucester, which was lying at
wharf, Boston, Saturday. He de-
cided suddenly to go down east" and
went aboard the Portland just as she
was starting. He was a native of
Maine and is thought to have left
WiuON III bOOtnDay.
John Mann, formerly of Brewer. was a
passenger on the steamer Portland. Capt
Alden Mann of South Brewer. a brother
Or John Mann, received a dispatch
Wednesday. which contained the news
mat his brother was one of the passen-
bound for Portland. John Mann was a
resident of Brewer for quite number
OF years and he was engaged in the watch
and clock repairing business at various
stands. He about of
He was Democrat and at one time was
a ballot clerk in Ward l. Besides his
brother. Mr.. Mann is survived nv one
son, Wilbur E. Mann.
Six Portland parties reported to have
been passengers on the steamer Port
land have reached home. They are
Frank A. Pierce, wife and two children.
and j. NJ. Ridlon and wife. They were
intending to come on the boat but did
not on account of the storm Thomas
j. Rodden of Everett, Mass, a we'll
known sporting man. is believed to be
lost. He was coming to Portland and
his wife, Wednesday wired friends in
curing whether he had arrived.
a peculiar incident is related at the
freight sheds of the Portland Steamship
Co. On board the Inflated Portland was
q cat with family of kittens. The cat
formerly occupied the warm corner of a
Kitchen in a house on Munjoy hill,> until
she was taken on board the steamer a
few months ago. She had made many
trips, and appeared to greatly enjoy her
lie on the ocean wave. Shortly before
the Portland left this city on her last trip
To Boston, however, the cat deserted. She
left her family and everything, seemingly
intent upon getting away from the ship.
Soon after the Portland sailed the cat
turned up once more at her old home on
the hill, where she now SHORTHAND Ex-
press.
Among those who narrowly escaped
coming down on the Inflated Portland,
young man residing at Woodfords. He is
the son of Papa" Murch. lately quarter
master of the Maine regiment at Chicka-
manga. and is employed at the shoe store
of Alvin Lane, Portland. He went to
Boston to spend Thanksgiving with his
married sister, Mrs. Lane. at Dorchester,
BY some unaccountable influence, how
ever, he was impelled to cut his visit
short and come down. Friday night. That
his family and friends are overjoyed be-
cause he yielded to the impulse, Fremont
ton or whatever it was, goes without
saying.
The overdue fruit steamer Brooklnc,
Captain List, arrived at her. wharf AT
Boston, Wednesday, 4S hours late on her
passage from Port Antonio. Jamaica.
Captain List reports that on the evening
Of the 9th inst. when off Cape Hatteras.
the Brookline ran into fierce northwest
gale which pounded the vessel so that it
was necessary to heave to for sc hours
for safety. During. this time gigantic
comberS raked the decks of the steamer.
washing away everything movable. One
| huge sea stove in the cargo port. admit
! ting large quantity of water and dam
aging the fruit in the hold. First Officer
| being thrown down violently by a heavy
! sea. He was removed to Il hospital on his
| arrival
| Miss Emma L. Plympton. a victim Of
! the Portland disaster, was a teacher
| in the Maine school for the deaf. She
| had been at her home on Charles river,
near Boston, spending Thanksgiving.
| with her family. She had an aged
mother, a brother who was recently
state librarian of New York at AL
bany, two sisters. Miss A. G. Plympton.
| a well-known author, and Mrs. Potter,
| who is about to go to the Philippines to
| join her husband. Major Carol II.
| Potter, L. S. army, now on duty there.
Miss Plympton first taught at North
| ampton, then for a short time under
Miss Barton at the Portland school for
| the deaf, then for a long time at Mt.
Airy school at Philadelphia. She came to
the Portland school for the deaf about
| four years ago as teacher of articu!a-
ton in which subject she stood at the
head of her profession in this country.
She was universally esteemed.
The steamer Orion Captain Smith,
reached Boston, Wednesday, after an
eventful passage from Newport News.
| The Orion started with the coal barges
! Ocean Belle for Providence and the
| F,nos Soule for Boston, but arrived
minus both these vessels. The Orion
| with her tow, ran into the heavy biz
Yard, Sunday morning. about II miles
south southeast, from Winter Quarter
| shoal, and after being buffeted about
| for some time, the Ocean Belle, opened
| in the seams and began to fill rapidly.
| The steamer dropped the tow line and
| ran alongside the barge to rescue her
| crew, and succeeded in taking off the
| four men with much difficulty. In the
meantime the Enos Soule had drifted
away and although the steamer
! searched in the vicinity for some time,
she was unable TO locate her. Captain
| Smith, believes, however, that she
might have headed in for a safe an
| chorage. The four men rescued from
the Ocean Belle We're Captain Grant
Eaton. Seaman Arthur Eaton, Birga
| Harding, and a Portuguese sailor
| IL hnC 10 ,Tnti -,,fH