The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-03
COAST LINED WITH WRECKS.
STORM DID NOT EXTEND FURTHER
THAN THIRTY MILES OFF SHORE,

tom Up OF Martins Industry Light.
The Bark Ragua Gone to Pieces.
One Schooner Ashore on Richards
Island, Another on Hunting Is
land and Another on Hilton Head.
The Crews of These Vessels Be-
Crews of the Sunken Vessels Prob
ably Persisted.
Incoming vessels report that the storm
did not extend far off the coast, probably
not more than thirty miles.
The pilot boat j. H. EstiE put into
Tybee roads last night, after a
hundred-mile cruise Capt W. T.
Thompson came up to the city
on the last train from Tybee, and
reported that the pilot boat had sighted
six wrecks between Tybee and Martins
Industry light snip. All of them were
sunk or bottom up They were evidently
anchored when struck by the storm. All
were schooners, but the names of none of
them were distinguishable. One was bot
tom up between five and six miles south
east OF Tybee. Her stern was out of wa
ter. Her bottom was copper painted. The
booms and rigging were floating around
the wreck
Another schooner was seen nine and one
half miles south from the lightship, bot
Tom up.
A schooner was sighted II miles south
east from the lightship. She was sunkea
and had one mast twenty feet out of
water
A royal mast, with yard attached, paint
ed yellow. was passed one-fourth of mile
from the schooner.
Two masts of sunken schooner, south
east from Martins Industry. showed up In
a dangerous position.
The Eshll picked up yawl boat north
west of the lightship. The boat was brok-
en- in on the port side. 1t had a new CEN
ter-board and was painted white.
A schooner. bottom up, was seen bear
ing north of Tybee She was coppered
bottom.
All of the wrecked vessels were supposed
to be schooners, as drifting rigging indi-
Gated that they were schooner-rigged
The Estill also sighted the Norwegian
bark Ragna ashore on CASTOR bank. Dur
ing her cruise she spoke brig safely an
chored north of Industry lightship.
There were no signs of life on any of the
wrecks, and it is believed the crews per-
ished in the storm
On leaving Tybee Thursday night she
spoke the schooner Robert Mcfarland of
Thomasville, Me-, from New York, bound
for Brunswick. She was dismasted, and
had only her mizzenmast standing. She
was under jury rig. She arrived yester-
day al Tybee and anchored.
A telegram from Beaufort last night
said that the schooner May O'Neill, Capt.
Watts, bound from Boston for Savannah
is ashore on Richards Island and schoon-
er c. c. Foss, with main and mizzenmasts
gone is ashore on Hunting Island The
schooner S. d. ]. Rawson arrived at the
quarantine station, towed by the tug Juno,
dismasted. The schooner Nelson Bartlett
Is dismasted and ashore on Hilton Head.
A schooner, name unknown, is ashore on
South Edisto. The brig Ventura is inside
of Port Royal bar The crews Of these
last vessels named are reported to be
saved
The City Of Birmingham arrived from
New York yesterday morning, and re-
ported no storm at sea. The first that
Capt. Burg knew of a storm was on pass
ing the wrecks as he came into Tybee. He
did not pass the Chattahoochee, which
went to sea the afternoon of the storm. II
Is believed she went out beyond the usual
course to escape the Storm
The naphtha launch Flash, belonging to
Mr.. F. s. Lathrop, which got adrlft dur
ing the storm, was found sunken al Venus
point by Lighthouse Keeper Sisson, Mr.
Lathrop has been notified and his launch
will be sent to the city in a day or two.
The Italian bark Maria Raffo which
went ashore near Fort jackson during the
storm, was pulled off yesterday on high
tide.
The steamer w. S. Cook, which left here
Tuesday night, reached Ebenezer, on the
Savannah river, where she was struck by
the storm Her smoke stacks were blown
out OF place, but were replaced.