The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-11-30
Victims of the Great Storm
are Now Counted.
WRECKS LINE THE COAST.
Shores of Eastern States are Dot
ted with DiSmantled Ships.
SOME THRILLING REsCUEs.
The Destruction was Worst In the
Vicinity OF Boston, About 35 Craft
OF Various Sizes Being Lost Near
that City.

Boston, Nov. 29.-More than 70 lives
have been lost in the wrecks of tugs,
schooners and coal barges during the
storm of Saturday and Sunday morn
ing. and if the steamer Portland has
also gone down, as now seems possible,
the list will rise to $50, with over 100
vessels of all descriptions ashore, two
score of them to be wrecks and an un-
known number probably beneath the
waves of Massachusetts, bay, There is
scarcely bay, harbor or inlet from
the Penobscot to New London that has
not on it's shores the bones of some
craft, while along Massachusetts bay,
and especially Boston harbor, the
beaches are piled high with the wreck
age of schooners and coal barges. The
record, although hourly lengthening,
is still incomplete, for that ocean grave
yard, Cape Cod, is still to be heard
from.
The annoyance of the railroad and
street car embargo covering the whole
of southern New England sunk into
insignifcance before the story of de-
struction 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 strewn with wrecks and
wreckage. No less than 30 vessels are
ashore at Gloucester; over 30 in the
supposed safe harbor of Vineyard
Haven parted their anchor chains and
are high and dry on the beach; Nam
tasket beach saw two schooners and a
coal barge dashed to pieces on its
sands; the rocks of Cohasset claimed a
staunch fisherman; Scituate, a pilot
boat; Manchester. down east lum-
herman, while one tug and three
barges known to have been between
Cape Cod and Boston are unaccounted
for and probably lost.
The upper harbors of Boston, Ply
mouth, Salem, Portsmouth, Portland
and other places where vessels were
supposed to be comparatively safe were
| the scenes of numerous collisions be-
tween the ships and the wharves.
Every life saving crew performed deeds
of heroism in rescuing crews from
stranded vessels and tug boat captains
risked life and property in their en-
deavor to save life.
The managers of the Boston & Port
land Steamship Company stated last
night that there are grave doubts as to
the safety of the steamer Portland,
which sailed from here Saturday night.
Every harbor between here and Port
land on the north shore has been heard
from and one of the south shore and
in no case has the steamer been seen.
The only remaining harbor which she
could have reached is Provincetown,
on Cape Cod, and news from that port
is anxiously awaited, as it is impossi-
BILE to reach that port by wire. She
carried rs passengers and crew of 10
men.
The old salts of Hull say that in
fierceness the storm equaled that of
1852, except that while the sea did not
run so high the wind was stronger. In
the storm Sunday two big newly built
barges of the Consolidated Coal Co.
were dashed to bits almost in an in
stant.
Another terrible scene was that at
Thompson's island, where the city's re-
form school is situated. Against the
wharf were driven four vessels, each
of which at the time the storm broke
was anchored miles away, and each a
long way from the others.
Vineyard Haven, Mass, Nov. 29.-
The fierce northeast storm which
struck this port Saturday night and
continued all day Sunday with great
violence, swept out of existence large
fleet of sailing vessels which anchored
off this port to escape its fury. At least
four men have perished and it is prob
able that as many more have lost their
lives. Twenty-one schooners and one
barkentine are ashore, four schoonerS
now lying at anchor are totally dis
masted, two others were sunk and one
bark is resting on the bottom entirely
submerged. Many other vessels were
battered and partially stripped of theil
rigging.
Sunday was the most eventful day
that Vineyard Haven has known for A
years. From early morning until late
at night the water was strewn with
wreckage and vessels were constantly
driven ashore, many of them to bt
dashed to pieces Alarge feet of coast
ing schooners from st. John and other
ports in the provinces and Maine were
battered to fragments. Most of the yes
sells driven ashore were obliged to par
their cables, owing to the great danger
from collision with other vessels which
had broken adrift.
The beaches in this vicinity are GOV
cred with debris. 1t is feared that a
least half dozen lives have been los
in this section. The volunteer life
saving crew from this port saved 1!
lives. Nearly so sailors who had com,
ashore from their abandoned craft
were cared for on Sunday night by thu
villagers.
Spaniards leave Pinar del Rio.
| Havana, Nov. 29.-Gen. Hernandez
Velasco with 1000 Spanish troops evac
uated the city and province of Pima