New-York tribune., 1898-11-30
MANY WRECKS AT CAFE COD.
PROVINCETOWN CUT OFF FROM COMMUNE
CATION FOR SIXTY HOURS-SENERAL
LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST.

CATION FOR SIXTY HOURS-SENERAL
LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST.
Proyince:own, Mass. Nov 29.-The tip Of Cape
Cod suffered severely from the terrible storm
which swept over il on Saturday night and sun
dav and II was much more severe than any in
the recollection Of the inhabitants. Probably
never before have the waves swept over THIS
natural bar which projects out into the At
iartic Ocean with more force than they did
while the storm continued. The town was sim
plv ct sea- and the only way the streets could be
traversed was in boats. All shipping was badly
damaged and the loss in this harbor alone is
estimated at $4,000 All the wharves, except
the new one owned by the New-York New
Haven and Hartford Railroad. were dashed to
pieces.
After nearly sixty hours Of complete isolation
on account of the storm news Of the situation
at this town is sent TO the outside world by the
only method of communication possible at pres
ent-one OF the Gloucester Fish Companys
steamers Twerty-seven vessels were driven
ashore and totally wrecked. From the major
fly of these the crews were saved. although sew
eral lives were lost Four or five Of the wrecks
were coasters and the rest werc fishermen. In
the course Of the storm shipping was destroyed,
the beach was strewn with wreckage, streets
were flooded and wharves drifted out 10 sea.
-Four icehouses and a lobster hatchery situated
at Beach Point were destroyed.
The list OF casualties TO vessels includes the
sohooners DAME, Boone. Mary Cabral and Isaac
Collins and the steamer A. b. Nckerson. OF
Provincetown the schooners Clara Sayward, Of
Gloucester. Sylvester Whalen. OF Boston; F. p.
Foster and F. II. Smith, Of Provincetown, and
the fishing schooner Unique. Captain Cooney, OF
Boston. The fragments OF the schooner r.
Walker. Of Gloucester. and of the coaster Adde
E. Snow. OF Rockland Ne. drifed ashore at
Race Point this afternoon. Flour pork. lard
and whiskey barrels have been drifting ashore
along the beach between Race Point and the
Highland Life-saving Station to-day.
The Wood Island life-savers made several gal
liant efforts yesterday to reach the schooner Jor-
dan L. Mott. bound from New-York to Rock
land with coal. and finally succeeded The Mott
put in here on the 26th for harbor and sank
early the same night. The captain and crew of
five men took to the rigging for safety. ter
rible and gale prevailed at the time. The
captain Charles Z. Dyer lashed his father
Charles C. Dyer. who acted steward. TO the
mast. For eighteen hours they exposed
thus before assistance arrived When the Wood
Island crew made their successful launch and
came within hailing distance Of the Mott. Cap
tam oyer stiu. can nOlu save my crew
Ny father is frozen to death on the mast: do not
wait 10 cut his body down. for the crew
freezing"
The three master Lester A. Lewis Captain
Kimbal, from EiiZabethport, N j., for Bangor
with a cargo Of phosphate and guano, came in
shortly after the Mott. and Captain Dyer. Of
the latter. thinks both capsized and sank about
the same time. The captain and Of the
Lewis could not have had any warning, for
they all pershed together.
The Peaked Hill Life-saying Station reports
that the schooner Albert l.. Butler. Captain : =.
land from Black River Jamaica, for Boston,
went ashore one mile east of the life-saving sta
tion. By means of the whip" the captain and
four men were saved. The mate named Rath-
burn; a sailor named Ofander and a colored
passenger named Wetherburn were drowned
The Butler is total loss.