The record-union., 1898-12-02

scene or the Wreck.
PROVINCETOWN (Mass), Dec. l.
Another day has passed, and the mys-
terry of the steamer Portland has not
been given up by the seas. 1t was a
day of constant watching of more than
thirty miles of coast line, and the sea
grudgingly held its victims, yielding
only five. Twenty-Five bodies have
been recovered out of the entire pas
senger crew list, the exact number of
which is still unknown.
The number Of people who went to
death in the Portland will never be
known, but almost hourly persons are
reported missing from different places
in New England, until now it seems
possible that the number was over 100.
OF the bodies recovered hereabouts
thirteen have been identified and eight
remain to be named.
One of the five bodies recovered to-
day was found at Nauset, some twenty
five miles from the place near which
it is believed the wreck occurred: an
other came ashore at Orleans, some
four or five miles further south, and
three at Chatham. The rest, it is be-
lieved by the experienced seamen, have
been carried far south and lost in Nan
tucket Sound. Moreover, the belief
that many bodies are still within the
null Of the steamer seems to be grow
Ing. This theory is held by so many
people that it is likely tugs will be
sent out to patrol the section of sea
which has been fixed upon as the prob
able scene or the wreck, in an endeavor
TO locate the hull, as well as to secure
everything that may be found afioat
from her, including bodies, baggage,
cargo, etc.
The train from Boston to-day brought
down over fifty relatives or friends of
the lost ones.
TWO MORE VESSELS WRECKED.
VINEYARD HAVEN Cva.), Dec. l.
The schooner Amelia G. ireland of New
York and the Clara Leavitt of Port
land. Maine, were wrecked Saturday
night near the Gay Head Life Saving
Station. The Captain, mate and four
seamen from the Leavitt and one sea-
man from the Ireland was drowned.
1t was about $50 o'clock, in the
f1ercest of the storm, that the Gay
Head Life Saving patrol saw the flash
of torch in the direction of Dogflsh
Ear. AS quickly as possible Captain
Hayman mustered his crew, and in a
few minutes a life boat and all the
apparatus necessary, drawn by a yoke
of oxen, was on its way to the nearest
point to the bar, which was two and O
half miles from the station.
1t was IL o'clock before the men
reached the position they sought. They
We're too late. When they came to the
beach wreckRge from the vessel was
coming ashore, giving evidence that
she had gone to pieces. A fragment
showed the vessel to have been the
Clara Leavite. Later, clinging to
broken plank, one man was driven in
and rescued from the waves. He was
carried to the station
While the life savers were peering in
TO the storm in an effort to- discover an
other possible survivor another signal
torch was seen from a vessel which was
at that moment almost upon the bar
The next instant she struck, but went
on in position little less exposed to
the fury of the waves, and she did not
go to pieces. An attempt was made
to launch tie life boat, but it was
swept back like a chip. It was then de-
cided TO try shooting a line to the
wreck, but this could not be done until
daylight. With the first appearance of
dawn the gun carriage was drawn up
for service. Seven men could be seen
clinging to the rigging of the vessel A
line was shot toward the schooner. but
II fell short Meanwhile the wind
shifted more to the northerly and was
colder, and the snow had turned to hail.
Spurred on by the sight Of the men
and the increasing severity Of the
storm, another trial of the surf boat
was made. The craft was tossed back
on the bea ch. Seven times the boat
was launched, and the most persistent
efforts of the crew to breast the waves
was of no avail. On the eighth trial,
however. success came, and under the
tremendous strokes of the men, the boat
was driven from wave to wave till she
reached the vessel. One seaman had
perished, but the Captain. mate and
four sailors, who were barely alive,
were rescued and taken to the station
The vessel was the Amelia G.. Ireland
When the messenger who brought the
story of the wreck and rescue left Gay
Head the shipwrecked men were all in
a serious condition from exposure. Sew
eral members of the life saving crew
We're more or less injured while en-
gagged in their attempt at rescue.
The Clara Leavitt was three
master of 395. tons, 125 feet long and
was built at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in
1877.
The Amelia G. ireland was also a
three-master. She was owned by the
Tidewater Oil Company of New York,
and was bound from Bayonne, N. j., to
Boston, with a cargo of oil in tanks.
She was 270 net tons, 124 feet long and
was built in Somerset County, Mary
land, in 1866. She will be total loss.
MANY RESCUED BY LIFE SAVING
CREWS.
BUZZARDS BAY (Mass.), Dec. IA
member of the life saving crew at
Gay Head, who reached here this
morning, reports that on Sunday morn
ing the schooners Queen Hester, Vivian
and Clara c. Baker, went to pieces on
the rocks off Cay Head, where the city
of Columbus perished some years ago.
The life saving crew, during forty eight
hours Of unceasing and unbroken ef