The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-01
.fify.six Vessels Totally Destroyed and
Sixty.nlne Are Ashore.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP PORTLAND.
Her Passengers and Crew Numbering Over
a Hundred Are Lost.
SIXTEEN BODIES WERE WASHED ASHORE.
on the III lcn,ed Vessel Escnped.
other Wrecks.

| Proyincetown, Mass. November 30.--The
steamer Portland, plying between Boston
ard Portland, was swallowed by the sea IN
last sualay's siorm eIf fiigh Head, o. all
OF The ships company OF ovsr 100 souls not
one survives. and tho story OF the disaster
Will never DO told, sixteen bodies have
como ashore and Il Is not likely that many
more viii be recovered.
The following is u list OF the bodies
washcd ashore Oh the outside c9ast OF Cape
Cod up TO mtdnighu
ldcnliiol
Dudley Freeman of Yarmouth. Me-,
prominent attorney
George W, Delaney 90 years OLD. OF
Boston
George Graha, colorcd, porter of the
Portland.
William Mosher of Gorhatn, Me.
Body of man believed TO be John Wal
tor, second engineer of the Portland
tnl1nown
Body OF "a woman about 80 years OF age.
with large frame and features, irou gray
hair aud dark eyes, no oloih hing was on
the body except fragments OF undo. wear.
BODY OF an unknown colored man about
80 years old.
Boy Of woman a. Or 40 yaarg ole seot
inches in height, with light hair. slightly
mixed with gray blue eyes weight 49,
pounds. On finger WAS Il ring whh Tho
words: Forget me not"
Bcdy OF Il gins 20 years Old with blue
eyes. dark brown hair, lIghs eomplcxon
Body OF mulatto girl, 20 years OLD
bouy of u woman about 40 years old. 5
Ia -. Aan
pould& ,tElll watch was ul this body with
the modogran 20. +. engraved an Il,
BODY cr a woman 90 years old. face bad
W dlaiigared. Tho only means uf identinra-
lion ~ blooe stone ring with the initials
IL. w, CO followed by the figures 49,"
another white girl about 20 years old.
old. ~ 's"'s
Nan about 20. with hair cut pompadour.
ligh; complexion
Man OF 40, light complexion good cloth
ihS~ueserlpiton apparently referring 10 tho
same man coming from Highland Light
says card marked. "john w, conrrF,,s
etre"t, Portland" WAS found ON the cloth
ing.
The exact number OF persons who were
carried away from Boston by the Port
land viii probably never be known. as no
list Of passengers WAS retained on shore
when tine vessel left last Saturday. Many
estimates of the number on board hnye
been made, but the estimates have seldom
agreed G. +. Williams. Boston agent OF
The Portland Steamship company who ar
rived here last night, places the total num-
Der OF passengers MT 100 or possibly los.
This estimate however. is generally re- K
garded az rather small. 1t has boon stat
cd that the number was as high as los.
but Mr. Williams denies that so many
sailed on the Portland. It is probable that
100, Including passengers and crew. is near
the correct number.
Nearly every sea captain and mariner on
the cape on being asked for an opinion.
stated that every one on board undoubtedly
was lost. One feature Of the disaster IL the
absence OF any fragments OF life boat or
life raft among the varied mass OF wreck
age from the Portland which has been
washed ashore. Ono theory Is that RATS
we're carried far out TO sea and were not
blown anywhere near tho coast.
1t Ii generally believed however, that
he wreck occurred al a point about ten
" possibly fifteen miles north OF Peaked
Hill bars. The tremendous seas which sne
must have encountered off Cane Ann un-
Blanchard saw that ne could proceed TO
urther eastward It WIS thought by so,lle
hat he resolved to make for the open sea