The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-28
GREAT Loss TO SHIPPING.
Dozen Big Vessels wrecked at BOstO
md Many Lives Lost.

Dozen Big Vessels Wrecked at Boston
and Many Lives Lost.
BOSTON, Nov. 27--During the gale last
night and this morning dozen or more big
barges and schooners lying in the harbor
were wrecked or sunk and at least twelve
lives were lost. This morning the great
ocean steamer Ohio, of the Wilson line, was
torn from her moorings and driven high and
dry on Spectacle island. Schooners and coal
barges with two anchors out and every rea-
son to expect a safe weathering of the gale,
were dragged from their moorings and
hurled against pier heads. dashed on islands
rocks or sunk outright. Fortunately, the
greater portion of the coasting fleet was
securely tied up at the wharves. The
schooners and barges anchored in the lower
bay bore the brunt of the storm.
Anchored at quarantine was the Wilson
liner, Ohio a great four-masted cargo boat
just in from Hull, England She had only
small cargo on board, and. her sides being
high out of the water, offered large sur
face to the wind. The swift tide prevented
tire -vessef from pointing her nose into the
wind, and, after a fierce battle for hours,
her cables gradually gave way and she ran
on the beach Of Spectacle island, where she
now lies high and dry. AS the tide was very
high when the Ohio went ashore, the work
of hauling her off is likely to be difficult.
The Ohio lies about a mile from the place
of the Venetian wreck. Ashore, not far
from the Ohio, is the schooner c. A. White,
from Baltimore, but she will probably float.
Just above Spectacle island is Thompsons
island, and on the beach are three Down
East lumbermen-the Watchman Fred
A. Emerson, S. f. Raphine
and g. vessel believed to be the
Virginia. 1t is likely that they will be
hauled off without serious damage. The
schooners John S. Ames and Lizzie Dyas are
also ashore at Fort Warren. So far as is
known there were no lives lost from any
of the above schooners, although it is said
two men were washed overload from the
Virginia. No effort was made this afternoon
to reach two unknown schooners on shore
at Moonhead, or another further up Quincy
bay on the flats off Atlantic.
Further out in the bay the casualties be-
gan with the sinking of at least one, if not
two, coal barges and the loss of the crew
of each. The tug Cumberland came in early
last evening with two barges, and one of
them belonging to the Consolidated Coal
Company broke away from the tug, and,
striking Huntslege, sunk with all four of
her crew. Another barge belonging to the
oIdple Goal CoHpdhy 10 reported 10 nave
sunk off Long Islandhead and her crew of
four lost. The schooner Adele Babcock,
from Philadelphia, which came around Cape
Cod yesterday and anchored late in the day
outside Of Boston light is reported to have
foundered with her crew of seven men.
Two other coal barges are ashore at Gal
loupe's island but it is likely that the crew
of neither has been lost, as the vessels ap-
pear to be in a comparatively safe place
All the captains of the fleet who were
lucky enough to round the cape and make
the harbor in safety say that the storm was
the most terrible that they ever experienced
in Massachusetts bay.
The loss by the storm in and about this
city will amount to over $4,000.