The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-12-01
WRECK OF PORTLAND.
Coast Steamer Sunk and All on
Boa-d Lost.
MORE THAN A HUNDRED VICTIMS
Many BodIes Washed Ashore ON Cape
Cod, but Few Are Yet Identified.
The Beach strewn With Wrecl<age.
Fhe Captain Disobeyed Orders.


Cod, but Few Are Yet Identified.
The Beach strewn with wrecl<age.
The Captain Disobeyed Orders.
Boston, Nov. 30.-The steamer Port
land, bound from Boston to Port
land, went down off Truro, on the out
side of Cape Cod, Sunday morning. Ev-
cry man, woman and child on board at
the time of the disaster was drowned,
in all 11S.
The list Of passengers was on board
the vessel. The following list, however,
has been compiled as accurately as pos
sible by the officers of the company:
oren Hooper, True Hooper, Isaiah Frye,
Miss Ruth Frye Miss Maud Sykes, Mrs.
Ezekiel Dennis. Mrs. Theodore Allen, Miss
Allen Miss Cole of Springfield, Mass;
Mrs Daniel Rounds Fred Sherwood, Miss
Ross Miss Edna McCrillis. G. #. Wilson
of Bethel, Me-: Hon F. Dudley Freeman,
d. o. Getchell of Boston, Miss Sophie
Holmes, Miss Helen Langthorne, Miss
Emma L. Plymptcn of Charles River, G.
w. Cole, Miss Burns, Charles Wiggin M.
C. Hutchinson Miss Hutchinson Mrs.
George o. Chickering of Weymouth,
Mass, and sister, Mrs. Wheeler Of South
WEYMOUTH Mass; M. L. Sewell OF Port
land, Charles H. Thompson. Mrs. Thonlp-
son and child of Woodfords, Me-; William
CndSc
worcester, Mass; Mrs. Kate Coy Of East
Boston. Arthur F. Heersom and Mrs
Heersom of Chelsea Mass; Mrs. Alice
Swift of Portland. Harry Smith, q Marion
street East Boston; Mrs Ccrneiia N
Mitchell and Miss Jennie c. Hoyt of
North Easton, Mrs. j. A. Carroll of Low
ell, Mrs. Jennie Edmunds of Marion
street, East Boston; Mrs. Anna Rounds
of Portland George b. Kennison, Jr., OF
Booth Bay Harbor. Me-; Perry Jackson,
wife and child of South Portland, Me-
Fred stevens of Portland and Mr.. Pierce
Of Portland.
The Portland was under command Of
Captain H. H. Blanchard, who had
crew of 81 men.
Or. Richardson's Statement
DR.. Maurice Richardson of Beacon
street. this city. has been at his sum
mer home at Wellfieet during the
storm, and his story corroborates the
early accounts of the loss of the Port
land. for he saw two of the bodies
washed ashore, and on them were life
preservers marked with the vessels
name. DR.. Richardson was on the first
train from Cape Cod, which arrived in
this city late last night. To take the
train he was obliged to ride Is miles.
II saw two of the bodies picked up,
Sa1Q DTs GflcQdIQSO1. Oue WAS pEObea-
bly, that of a deckhand. a man of about
90 He had on life preserver marked
Portland The other body was that
of a stout woman She too, wore a
life belt with the steamers name on it.
Wreckage is coming ashore for Is miles
along the coast I picked up three pi-
ano keys and a piano cage ashore, but
of course DO not know that it was
from the Portland. Among the wreck
age was large quantity of furniture
upholstered in red plush. Then there
were cases of lard directed to Portland.
IT was Is miles south of High Head.
There is nothing in the fact that wreck
age was found so far south TO contra
dict the report that it was at High
Head that the Portland struck, for the
current runs south along the shore.
Il heard one theory advanced that
the Portland had foundered far to the
north, somewhere near Cape Ann, and
that all the wreckage and bodies had
drifted across the bay to Cape Cod
In addition to the two bodies DR..
Richardson brought news that at Or
leans the body of a girl of about 20 was
found. She had gold watch and
ring marked u. G. E." Her watch
stopped at 9:17 There are three bodies
at Nauset, eight at Orleans and % at
Truro and Wellfieet. The double wheel
of the Portland came ashore at Orleans.
steamer Gate City Reported Lost.
The arrival in this city from Cape
Cod last night of party of hunters
has added to the excitement attendant
upon the report that the steamer Port
land had been wrecked on Cape Cod
through their reporting that it is the
belief of the life savers on the outer
side of the cape, south of Nauset light,
that a Savannah line steamer had
struck on Peaked Hill bar. Each mem
ber of the party saw bodies washed
ashore at Nauset, and the life savers
claimed to have seen boat in the
surf bearing the name Gate City"
The surf is full of articles from a ves-
sells general cargo.
One of the hunters, in an interview
last night, says that there is possibili-
ty that the Gate City was only swept
by seas, and some Of her deck fittings
were washed away The Gate City sail
ed from this port for the south on Sat
urday.
The steamship Gate City is command
ed by Captain Googins and usually plies
between Boston and this port The yes
sci was built by John Roach Son,
Chester, Pa, in 1878. She is owned by
the Boston and Savannah Steamship
company. Her tonnage is 1897 gross;
her length, 254 feet; beam, 1871 feet, and
depth of hold, "a feet She carries pas
sengers on most of her trips.
Later Details of storms Work.
The passing hours do not seem to
bring an end to the reports of wrecks
and loss of life up and down the New
England coast as the outcome of Sun
days terrific storm. The places which
were nearer the storm center got word
to the outside world yesterday, and as
the tale unfolded it was such as New
England never heard before. 1t is from
Cape Cod that the most terrible ac-
counts of ruin and death are coming,
and OF these the. loss Of the steamer
Portland, with all on board, nearly 100
souls overshadows all.
The rightly called graveyard Of the
<.<t.<.. A..;.1e