The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-02
LOSS OF KING PHILIP
THE SCHOONER BEEBE GOES TO
THE BOTTOM.
THE GATE CITY BOB; UP SMILING
Two Schooners Wrecked Near Gay Head Life
Saving Station Great Masses of Wreckage
Coming Ashore Near Cape Cod
Corpses Swept In.
Corpses Swept In

Baltimore, Md, Dec 1.-The Black
SheridanWison Coal Company of this
city. received a telegram from +. II.
Norton, the Boston agent of the firm,
saying the company's schooner, King
Philip, which left this port November
10th with 1877 tons for Portland, Me-,
had foundered in the gale Sunday night
off Highland Light, on the Massachu-
sets coast. and that all were lost.
The King Philipswa fine four-mast-
cd vessel. She was owned by the
Black Sheridan Wilson Company and
was valued at $4,000 She was com
manded by Captain a. a. Duncan, of
Portland. from which port her crew also
hailed. She ran regularly between Bal
timore and Eastern ports with coal car
goes. Ii is said that wreckage bearing
her name driftcd ashore and thus gave
the tidings of her loss. During the late
war with Spain, the King Philip made
several voyages South with coal for
warshipS Her crew consisted of twelve
men. all fold. The vessel and cargo
were fully insured
w IN
Vineyard Haven. Mass. Dec. 1.-The
Schooner Amelia G.. Ireland. of New
York. and the Clara Leavitt of Port
land, Maine, were wrecked Saturday
night near the Gay Head life-saving sta
ton. The captain, mate and four sea-
mon from the Leayitt and one seaman
from the Ireland were drowned. The
captain. mate and four seamen of the
Ireland were saved and one man came
ashore from the Leavitt ON wreckage
THE GATE CITY APPEARS
Savannah, Ca. Dee 1.-The Ocean
Steamship Company's steamer Gate
City. Captain Googns. from Boston.
passed in Tybee safely this morning
The Gate City had rough time after
She struck the blizzard Saturday night
She was badly dashed by the waves and
shows the effect of the storm. She
was compelled to anchor thirty hours
off Vineyard Haven to escape the force
of the blow She lost some sails and
several small boats No passengers were
injured Captain Googins reports pass
ing eight sunken VESSELS and eighteen
stranded craft around Vineyard Haven.
mt tHiteu StdteS tFdilSltpfl JitidHia
arrived here today.
CAST UP BY THE WAVES.
Barnstable Mass. Dec. 1-Great
MASSES of wreckage have been coming
ashore on the inside of Cape Cod since
Sunday. A piece of Il vessel marked
Emma Philadelphia" with M
tonnage of 1000, came ashore at Sandy
Neck, near Barnstahle light, and last
night three bodies were found near
there on the beach.
Much of the wreckage appears to be
that of fishing schooners.
ANOTHER OCEAN HORROR.
Buzzards Bay. Mass. Dec. IA
member of the life-saving crew at Gay
Head. who reached here this morning
reports that OH Sunday morning the
schooners Queen Hester, Vivian and
Clara G. Baker went TO pieces on the
rocks off Gay Head, where the City of
Columbus persisted some years ago.
The life saving station crew, during
forty-eight hours of unceaSing and I'M
broken efforts. succeeded i'll launching
their surf boat for ten. trips TO the YES
sells and succeeded in rescuing nineteen
men of the crews.
Several, however, persisted before ms
sistance could reach Them
SCHOONER GONE DOWN.
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