The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-29

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Chs port Saturday and continued ali day
Sunday with great velocity swept out OF
exhtence q large feet Of sailing yesSss
which anchored OF this port 10 escape
lts fury. II Ia known that as many more
have lost their lives Twenty-one scaoosl-
ers. nearly all heavily laden and one
barkentine are ashore. and four achooners
now lying al anchor are totally dlHnasted;
two others were sunk and one bark - rest
ing on the bottom entirely submerged.
Many other vessels were battered and
partially stripped OF their rigging.
Barges Abandoned and sinking.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2s.-The towing
steamer Orion arrived at Delaware Break
water today and reported that the barge
Ocean Belle, which together with the Enos
6ouie. was In tow Of the Orion had been
anchored and abandoned IN a sinking con-
d!ticn ten mics south OF winter quarter
ehoei. The crew was saved The Enos
6ouie also broke aGr.ft and the Orion is
now searching for her.
A dispatch from Delaware breakwater
brings the news that the schooner William
w. Wilson. from Philadelphia for Norfolk.
which sprank leak yesterday about four
miles out TO sea, was abandoned by her
crew and sank today.
Schooner Lost Near salem.
SALEM. Mass, Nov &.-Two members
OF the crew Of the schooner Bertha 4.
Cross were rescused from House islands.
OF Manchester. today. nearly dead. having
been without shelter and food for thirty
tear mad "A
the schooner was lost on the rocks satur-
day night, and Capt Wallace Thurston
and his son John persisted.
Railroad Communication stiIi on.
NEW YORK. Nov 2s.--Posn,s In Eastern
Long Island which have been cut OF from
railroad communication with ,hs city since
Saturdays storm, are still without train
service and the presen, prospect IL that
the tracks Will not be cleared until tomor-
row. The storm was felt far out at sea.
Many OF the regular liners and steamers
which were due carly Sunday morning.
failed to arrive on time. being Obliged 10
keep at sea until the storm abated- The
trains from the west on all lines entering
Jersey City are from one to three hours
late.
Pilot boat Lost With All Hands.
SCITUATE. Mass, Nov. 2s.-The big pilot
boat Columbia: OF Boston. is piled up on top
Of a wrecked cottage broadside on. dis
masted and total wreck. on the beach
here It is feared that all on board were
lost. One body. that OF a man apparently
80 years of age. was found in the hold, but
a diiigent search failed to show any others.
IT Ii thought the craft beached about noon.
uh of he emit Saw her
strike. She was In charge of Boatkeeper
Henry Peterson. with crew OF three men
before the mast and a steward. and had Ia
ken the outer station early last week with
several pilots on board. Peterson vas re-
turning to this port with the Columbia af-
ter putting Capt. Abbott aboard the Ohio.
which dragged ashore on Spectacle island.
Mrs Wilbur, OF Raynham. was drowned
here Sunday while trying TO escape from
her summer cottage. Her body was washed
ashore and picked up in the street.
The life saving crew reports the wreck OF
a large barge at Ahumacock beach. II is
thought to be the derellct H. Tenny. OF Bos-
ton. No trace OF the crew has been found.
Sixty cottages at Sandhili were totally
destroyed
vessel with one mast standing was
olknseu ashore al tne Graut uoIk.
Three Drowned ON Cape Ann.
SALEM. Mass. Nov 2S.--Schooner Ber-
tina A. Gross encountered the gale off Cape
Ann Saturday evening and finally struck
on the rocks near Fresh island which 10
some distance of Manchester She was
soon a total wreck The captain and his
son and aged father were swept overheard
aud drowned. The other two members Of
the crew. Neil Mcdonald and Hezekiah
Robins. managed 10 reach shore on House
island This Is barren place with 10 shell
ter and the shipwreeked men were forced
to remain there until help reached them
this morning.
Persons on shore saw the sailors and put
OF In boats. Both Mcdonald and Robins
were nearly dead from exposure and hum
ger. McDonala's feet We're frozen and he
IS In "A critical condition.
Two schooncrs Ashore nj Quincy.
QUINCY. Mass. Nov. &-The two
masted schooner Ella r, Crowell. of Thorn
aston Me. Capt J. ". Thomas. IS a total
wreck on Neaxie's rock. in Quincy bay. The
crew escaped.
The schooner Mary Rodgers went ashore
mt Mosquito Woods and is high and dry.