The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
Results From the Storm
off New England
The PORTLANDWRECKED
She Goes Down i'm sight of Land with
all on Board The Record Of Wrecks
Coast Strewn with the Shattered
Wrecks Of all Kind. OF VesseIr-A
Mass of Wreckase in Harbor of VIne-
yard Haven.

II
Boston, November pa special TO
The Herald from North Truro. says
the steamer Portland, OF the Boston
and Portland Steamship Company,
plying between Boston and Portland,
was totally wrecked at 10 o'clock Sun
day morning, off Highland light. and
the entire crew and passengers per
ished within a short distance Of land.
A large quantity or wreckage, includ-
ing trunks and other material have
tkirty-fOur bodies had been recovered
from the surf by the life saving crew
at High Head station. One body was
that Of a woman.
The passenger list numbers fifty-one
and the officers and crew number for
ty-eight. The Portland was built in
Bath in 1890 and was a side wheel
steamer of 1917 tons net burden. Her
length is 230 feet, beam AZ, and depth
10 feet. She was valued at $3.50, 600, and
is fully insured.
P~rovincetown, Mass, November %
Two bodies that came ashore at High
land light and are supposed to be from
the Portland, have been brought here.
One is that of a Well-dreSSed man.
The other body was that of a woman
with only shoes and stockings on.
New York, November 29-The French
Cable Company has received a dis
patch from its officer at Cape Cod,
Mass, saying that twelve bodies from
the steamer Portland have been wash
ed ashore at that station.
Boston, Mass, November pa spe-
cial to The Herald from Highland
liuht 81 G 1arDn tIrnn yonctn1
schooner, name unknown, is ashore on
Peaked Hill bar. Two sailors and one
passenger were lost. The captain and
two sermon were saved. The schooner
will be a total wreck.
A two masted schooner supposed to
be the Philamon, of Provincetown, was
picked up by the steamer Longfellow.
The schooner was diSmantled and the
fate of the crew is unknown.
The news of the disaster was
brought to The Herald through the
agency of a special train, a. commune
cation to Boston by wire from points
on Cape God is impossible on account
of the havoc wrought by the storm.
New York, November pa special
to The Evening World from Provi-
dence, r. L., says: Block Island has
been heard from for the first time since
the blizzard began. The island is a
wreck, hotels being shattered and yes
sells torn to pieces by the storm. The
entire fishing fleet of twenty-four YES
sells is a total loss. The three masted
schooner Lexington, of Machias, is
lost. The Hartford Dredging Compa-
ny's plant is gone.
Norfolk, Va, November 29.-NeWS of
the storm comes in slowly, but it is
feared here that when all is known
there will be a large number of disas-
tiers to shipping, hOming or carrying
from his port. During the last week
IN the neighbOrhOOG of twenty SchOOn-
erS and eight or ten bargeS sailed
from Norfolk to New England ports,
and fears are felt for their safety.
The barge General Mcclellan arrived
in the harbor today with both anchors
gone, while the barge Orion is report
ed adrift from her tug off Chinco-
league. In addition to this, the tug
Alexander Jones, towing the NOrWe-
gian bark Ariel, from Savannah to
New York, put in for harbor. Several
fishing smacks and PUNCHES are cap
sized, sails blown out of bolt ropes or
| anchors gone. The William L. WILSON.
( Captain Bragg, is a total wreck on
WachapreOgue. No lives were lost.
Boston, November 29.-The passing
hours do not bring an end to the re-
ports of wrecks and loss of life VI
and down the New England coast as
the outcome of Sundays terrific storm
SUCH d one DIS New EllSld11u never mao
before. From APE Cod the most ter
ribIe of ruin and death are
coming and of these the loss of the
steamer Portland, a side wheeler ply
ing between Boston and Portland with
all on board, nearly 100 souls, over
shadows all. The graveyard of the
coast, the treacherous bars and rips
on the outside of Cape Cod, have
claimed victims without number. Miles
and miles of coast line are piled high
with wreckage, most of which is
ground so fine by the waves that iden.
tification of hapless craft is impos-
sible.
AS the fury of the wind was as grea'
on the bleak sand hills which make
up the ape, it will be many hour.
before all places are heard from. Tel
egraph wires are down and railroad:
cannot break out the snow drifts, anC
this feature is distressing, as much
suffering from cold and hunger mus
ensue among the poorer people in tn,
nearby hamlets.
Tonight the only means of reaching
Cape Cod is by steamer across Mas
sachusetts bay. a disagreeable voyage
as the sea is yet boisterous.
Word from Provincetown tells 0
nearly thirty total wrecks, with IN,
number of lives lost unknown.
Matters are improving slightly alon:
Vineyard sound. so far as means o
communication is concerned. The BIS
summing up of the disasters in tina
section is made by Captain Hard. .Ir.
, of the revenue cutter Dexter, who ia!
cruised alongshOre all day. He say
that in Vineyard Haven hulls are pile
upon the shore and those vessels afloa
seem mere shells. The Dexter report
possible additions to the wreck list il
two schOoneTs SUM off Menemsh.
bight, and two big ones sunk abreas
OF Pressure isle. The fate Of thei
crews is unknown. The wreckinj
steamers are aground ashore on Hoi
ang Pigs reef.
4 report reached here tonight from
the southern end OF Cape Cod that IN
steamer Gate City has been wrecke'
on Peaked Hill bar.
The report is based on a story toll
by a Boston IMAM who came here frOr
Cape Cod tonight that the life save
at Nauset had picked up Gate Cit
life preservers.
Halifax. y. s.. November PA
nknow four maSted vessel is ashol
at Herring Cove. entrance TO Halifa
harbor. The vessel is fore and a
rugged.