Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-12-03
HAVOC OF THE STORM.
More Than 100 Vessels Wrecked
or Ashore Near Boston.
Seventy or More Lives Are Lost-Big
Steamer Portland with Many
Souls on Board Has Not
Deem hCnrd From.

Boston Nov. 29.-It is known definite
iy that more than 20 lives have been lost
in the wrecks of tugs schooners md
coal barges during the storm of Satur.
day night and Sunday morning, and il
the steamer Portland has also gone
down, as now seems possible, the list
Ct casualties will rise 10 140 with over
100 vessels of all descriptions ashore,
two score of them to be wrecks and an
unknown number probably beneath the
waves Of Massachusetts bay.
There is scarcely bay, harbor or in
let from the Penobscot to New London
that has not on its shores the bones OF
some stanch craft, while along Massa-
chusetts bay and especially Boston har-
Dor the beaches are piled high with
the wreckage of schooners and coal
barges. The record, although hourly
lengthening, is still incomplete for that
ocean graveyard of Cape Cod is still tc
be heard from.
The annoyance and inconvenience Of
| the railroad and street car embargo,
covering the whole of southern New
| England sunk into insignificance befor,
the destruction wrought by wind and
wave, yet it will be many day before
| the full import of the disaster is known
or even realized. The islands of Boston
harbor are without exception strewu
with wrecks and wreckage, no less thar
| 30 vessels are ashore at Gloucester. Over
20 in the supposed safe harbor of Vine.
yard Haven parted their chains, and are
| I, iprh apH drEr on tho haonb IN |. at
beach saw two schooners and a coal
barge dashed to pieces on its sands, the
rocks of Cohasset claimed staunch
fisherman; Scituate, well-known pilot
| boat; Manchester, down-east lum ber.
man, while one tug and three barges
| known to have been between Cape Cod
and Boston, are unaccounted for and
probably lost. The upper harbors oil
Boston, Plymouth, Salem, Portsmouth,
| Portland and other places where vesseli
were supposed to be comparatively safe
were the scenes of numerous collisions
between the ships and the wharves
Every lifesaving crew performed deeds
CT heroism in rescuing crews from
stranded vessels, and tugboat captains
risked life and property in their en-
deavor to save life.
Fear She Is Lost.
The managers of the Boston g. Port
land Steamship company stated that
there are grave doubts as TO the safety
of the steamer Portland, which sailec
from here Saturday night. Every har
Dor but one between here and Portland
has been heard from. and in no case hpi
The steamer been seen. The only re
manning harbor which she could hav,
reached is Provincetown, on Cape Cod
and news from that port is anXiousI,
awaited, as it is still impossible to react
that port by wire. The crew and pas
sengers on the Portland numbered 81.
The wrecked Vessels.
Among the wrecked vessels are tn,
following: Steamship Ohio, on Spec
tacle island; schooners Edgar S. Fos
ter, on Brant rock; Ella f. Crowell ol
Neazies rack; Juanita and Gloriara
on Cohasset beach; Chiswick, at Scitu
ate; Startle, Lizzie Lee, Frederick "
Walton and nonum, at South Boston
b. r. Woodside, on Toddy's rock; j. c
Mahoney, on Naughs head; Merits II
Perry, on BrIlt rock-with five of he
crew lost-Leander V. Beebe, on Tod
oy's rock, with crew of nine lost; Abe
h. Babcock, on Hull beach, with GREY
of five lost; Virginia, on Thoasson is
land, with two of her crew lost; Berth
A. Gross, on House island, with three 0
FER crew lost; w. Ii. Y. Hackett, o.
South Boston fats, with one of her GREY
lost; an unknown three master, o
Black rock, crew of nine men seen n
the rock, but could not be reached. {
A. White. of Pluscullon, on Spectacl
/ island; Flying Cloud, on Marblehea
neck; pilot boat Columbia, on Scituat
beach, with five of hel crew lost; barge
and 4, of Consolidated Coal company
. on Point AllcrtoD, with three lives LOS
Barges MacAuley, Escort and Navesinl
: toundered off Falmouth, with Is me
,ost. Two unknown barges foundera
i eff Cohasset and five bodies washe
ashore.
Unable to secure Bodies.
Q Many wrecks were covered with ict
y and this and the fact that terrific Sc
Q was running made it impossible TO lear
y their names. The raging waters ais
prevented any attempt to recover boo
les known to be in some of the wrecks
o and it is probable that it will be severi
Q days before complete list of those los
can be obtained. At Hull beach, wher
70 two barges and two schooners wen
n ashore, more than a dozen bodies wer