The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-29

Boston. Nov. est is known defiitely
tonight that more 20 lives have been
lost in the wrecks Of tugs, schooners
and coal barges during the storm OF
Saturday night and Sunday morning.
And IL the steamer Portland has also
gone down. as now seems possible, the
list of casualties Will rise to 14o, with
over 100 vessels OF all descriptions
ashore. two scores of them to be total
wrecks and an unknown number prob
ably beneath the waves OF Massachu-
setts bay.
There is scarcely a bay. harbor. or
inlet from the Penobscot to New LIN
don, which has not on fits shores the
bones of some staunch craft, while ell
along Massachusetts, bay, and especially
Boston harbor, the beaches are piled
high with the wreckage OF schooners
and coal barges. The record. although
hourly lengthening. is still incomplete.
for that ocean graveyard of Cape Cod
is still to be heard from.
The annoyance and inconvenience of
the railroad and street car embargo,
covering the whole OF southern New
England, sank into insignificance be-
fore the story of destruction wrought
by wind and wave. yet it will be many
a day before the full import of the dis
aster is known or even realized.
The islands OF Boston harbor are
without exception strewn with wrecks
and wreckage; no less than 90 vessels
are ashore at Gloucester and over 20
in the supposed safe harbor Of Vineyard
Haven parted their anchor chains yes
terday and are high and dry on the
beach. Nantasket beach saw two
schooners and a coal barge dash to
pieces on its sands; the rocks Of Cohas-
set claimed a staunch fisherman; Scit-
uate. a well-known pilot boat; Man
chester. a down-east lumberman; while
one tug and three barges, known to
have been between Cape Cod and Bos-
ton. are unaccounted for and probably
lost. The upper harbors Of Boston,
Plymouth. Salem. Portsmouth, Port
land and other places where vessels
were supposed to be comparatively
safe. were the scenes of numerous col
lisions between 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 endeavor to save life.
Among the tugs which started down
the harbor as soon as daylight came
was the police boat Guardian, which
last night was caught in the thick
weather OF Deer island, while endeav-
ofin6 W dcCcTtdln tnt meaning OF QlS-
tress signals flying from the lighthouse
She made for the tiny beacon which
marks the inner harbor channel again
this morning and with a tossing sea
and stron~ incoming tide, tried to an
swer signals. Finally IL was learned
that the lighthouse had no fresh water,
for the heavy seas had broken in the
and spoiled the water stored
there. There were five men in the light
house. The two boats which usually
hang from the davits had been splin-
tered by the force of the waves and the
sea was dashing over the lighthouse
with such force that there was little
hope of reaching there. Beyond Deer
island lies the big Wilson liner. Ohio.
and the steamer c. White of Taunton
ashore on Spectacle island. 1t Is a mat
ter of surprise tc harbor pilots how the
Ohio reached her present berth. She
stands up boldly without the semblance
OF a list. on a hard gravel bottom. in
water which at food tide this morning