Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-11-30

A score OF outgoing steamships and )
} hundreds Of other vessels weather-bo
, in the bay.
Snow paralyzes Connecticut
New Jersey railroad trains all delayed }
Fifteen inches of snow fell in much Of Z
the state.
Traffic snowbound on Long island.
The sea wall the ocean front at
Lynn, Mass, was damaged to the extent s
Of $4,000
snowdrfts plunged Boston and Maine {
} locomotive over an embankment, killing 5
two men.
Not structure is left standing in Nan }
tasket Beach between Atlantic Hill anO }
the Ocean View House. Loss, 100000.
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Boston, Mass, Nov. 2S.-Tugs re-
turning to this city at noon after a
tour of the harbor reported about thir-
ty-fve vessels of all sizes and classes
ashore or sunk in and near Boston harbor.
Seven large schooners and two Balti-
more coal barges are completely wrecked,
and it is estimated that between twenty
five and thirty lives have been lost. Only
one body has yet been recovered.
More than a dozen are reported in the
surf at Hull. and efforts are being made
to recover them. The ocean steamer
Ohio of the Warren line is high and dry
on Spectacle island. 1t is very doubtful
if she can be floated until a channel has
been dug.
The ocean-going tug TamQua is on the
rocks at RainsfOrd island and will be a
total wreck
Not until daylight did the awful havoc
wrought by the storm in Boston harbor
and vicinity become apparent. Not since
1882 has a storm caused such destruction
oil property and loss of life so near the
city.
The tugs that started early today to ex-
0lore the harbOr and offer assistance
where it was needed. found a condition of
affairs almost unprecedented in the ma
rine history of Boston. On every shoal
and reef in the harbor was found some
wrecked craft over which q wild sea still
dashed, carrying the vessel higher up on
the shore or slowly grinding it to frag
ments
Many wrecks were covered with ice.
and this and the fact that a terrific sea
was running made it impossible to learn
their names
The raging waters also prevented any
attempt to recover bodies known to be
n some of the wrecks, and it is proba bic
that it will be several days before a com
plete list OF those lost can be obtained.
At Hull each where two barges and
two schooners went ashore, more than q
dozen bodies We're visible in the surf. but
it was impossible to get to them.
At Shag rocks, between Boston lights
and the BrewSterS, where the schooner
Clavin +. Baker was ashore, two sailors
were taken from the rigging by the life
savers nearly exhausted, and the dead
body of another was recovered Three
others from this vessel were drowned
but their bodies could not be found.
Fear for Passenger. Steamer.
The management Of the Portland
Steamship company announced at noon
today that they had no information as
to the whereabouts of the steamer Port
land, which left this city Saturday night
for Portland.
During the forenoon a report was in
circulation that the Portland was at an
Choir III Gloucester haIbOr, but the cap
tain of the steamer Gloucester, which ar
rived from that port, says the Portland
is not at Gloucester. The company has
received q dispatch from Portsmouth
stating that their vessel has not put in
at that port.
number of steamers arc at anchor
in lower Boston harbor but owing to the
thick weather their names cannot be
made out. The Portland steamship peo-
pie think that possibly the Portland is
among the number. The Portland had q
fair-sized freight and about twenty-five
Or thirty passengers
The storm was the first snow Of the
season, and it came SO fast and was ac-
companied by SO high wind that it
found everyone unprepared for it. The
temperature was below freezing point
and the snow blown by the fifty -mile-an-
hour wind froze to everything in Boston
harbor and made the atmosphere so
opaque that vessels could not be navi-
gated with safety. At times last night
and today the wind reached a velocity
Of sixty to seventy miles an hour. The
snow is still falling heavily and the gale
continues at a forty mile-an-hour gait
Ocean Freighter Wrecked.
The biggest and most important Of the
wrecks is the Wilson liner Ohio, Liver
pool to Boston, big ocean freighter,
Boston harbor, went hard and last on
Spectacle island She was carried high
upon the rocky island and will probab bly,
be a total wreck. She is not badly stove
in, but can never be pulled off unless she
waits for a tide as high as that which
carried her up there, and that may not be
in a decade.
Among the other vessels wrecked are
the schooner Virginia on Thompson's ISL
and q three-masted schooner on the
Brewstors, schooner on Hull Beach, a
schooner on Toddy's Rock, schooner on
Hogs Neck, the ocean tug Tamaqua on
RainSford island and the steamer John
j. Hill at Atlantic, Mass.
Cape Cod is completely shut off from
Boston by wire and trains. and no reports
of the loss to shipping along that coast
can be had till tomorrow. Undoubtedly it
was very large. as the storm approached
Boston from that direction and ragged in
all its fury along the cape all night.
All Trains Stalled.
The blizzard has shut Boston off from
the rest of the world nearly as complete
ly as did that of last winter. No train
from any point more than twenty miles
away has entered the city, and those due
last night are hopelessly in snow drifts,
the railroad officials do not know where
No trains have been started out today and
the blockade is complete.
Drowned in Vineyard Sound.
The tug Harold put off from Provi-