The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-12-01

shattered bridges.
Up to this morning, while the total
loss of life cannot be estimated with
any degree of accuracy, it is known
that more than 200 persons persisted.
This estimate is made on the basis of
only one from each crew reproted miss
ing, and each OF which would include
at least three, while the larger schoon-
ers have seven or eight men on board.
1t appears that the bulk Of the dam
age was done between Cape Ann, where
a score or more of vessels were lost,
and Cuttyhunk, where the steamer
Warwick is on the rocks.
From present reports it is known that
fifty-six vessels have been totally
wrecked, while forty-nine are ashore
with hardly chance of being saved.
OF the fifty-six total wrecks, barges
not included, forty-three craft aggre-
gate 12,2O2 gross tonnage. OF those in
perilous positions twenty-eight aggre-
gate 1859 tons. The stranding of the
big English liner Ohio, and the ocean
tug Tamaqua are not included in the
estimate given, nor many of the big
coal barges ashore in Boston Harbor.
The position of these latter craft is
now dangerous, for they are exposed
to the northwest storm which began
this morning.
The number of schooners which have
been driven ashore in fairly safe berths
or damaged by collision or dismasted
can be reckoned by the scores. and
many of them are likely to be included
in the list of total wrecks before the
day ends.
The steamer Orion, Captain Smith,
reached here this morning. after an
eventful passage from Newport News,
during which she lost the bargcs Ocean
Belle, for Providence, and the Enos
Soule, for this port. The crew of the
Ocean Belle, four men, were saved. The
fate of those on the Soule is not known.
The Orion with her tow ran into the
heavy blizzard Sunday morning about
twelve miles southeast from Winter
Quarters Shoal, and being buffeted
about for some time, the Ocean Belle
opened in the seams and began to fill
rapidly. The steamer succeeded with
difficulty in taking off the four men.
In the meantime the Soue drifted
away and the steamer was unable to
locate her.
There appears to be little apprehen-
ton for the steamer Gate City, in spite
of the report which reached here last
night that a life preserver bearing the
name of the steamer had been picked
up on Cape Cod. The steamer Chatta-
hoochee, which arrived last night, re-
ports having passed the Gate City off
Montauk Point at $3.50 o'clock Monday
afternoon, and that there was nothing
amiss with the Savannah liner, as far
as could be observed. The storm was
over at the time the Gate City was
seen by the Chattahoochee, and in all
probability she is safe and near her
destination, Savannah, Ga, at this
time
THE STORM CONTINUES.
BOSTON, Nov. 30.--Anotfer heavy
northwest snowstorm started here just
before o'clock this morning and an
hour later had settled down in way
that promised several inches of snow
at least. A brisk wind OF twenty nfiles
an hour was blowing from north north
east. These conditions will greatly in
terfere with the work thate~is being
done at points where Z vessels were
wrecked, as the sea is running high
and the snow is thick on the water.
ANOTHER VESSEL LOST.
PLYMOUTH (Mass.), Nov. SEA-
piece of bamboo picked UP in the surf
to-day brought a story of death and
the loss of the schooner White Wings
of Gloucester in the recent STERN. 1t
contained the following message:
I'VE will be lost, thirteen of us, in
the fishing schooner White Wings, from
Gloucester. Have no bottle to put it
in; everything is gone. We are about
to go on a raft. Henry Willier and
Frank Haskins are dead. If I could
only see my wife and darling child
again! ALBERT SIMMONS"
A body found yesterday morning on
the outside beach near Powder Point
bridge by the Gurnet life-saving crew,
clad in oilskins marked Haley" is
thought to be that of one of the four
Norwell men reported missing from
their shooting box near the mouth of
North River.
A six-foot steering wheel, spar
seventy-five feet long, with rigging at
tached, and what appeared to be the
front of a quarterback house or the
side of steamers stateroom, are re-
ported floating in the water off shore
near Brant Rock. They are thought to
have come from some deep sea ship
wrecked further up the coast.