The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-30
ACCOUNTS OF RUIN
AND DEATH POUR In.
CHE Treacberous HAIRS and Rips ON
Cape Cod Have Claimed Victims
without Number.


BOSTON, Nov. ..--The passing hours do
not bring an end to the reports Of wrecks
and loss of life Up and down the New Eng
land coast, as the outcome Of Saturday 4
terrific storm. From Cape Cod the most
terrible accounts OF ruin and death are
coming. and of the loss OF the steamer
Portland. with all on board. nearly le
souls. oyershadows all. The graveyard OF
Abe coast the treaeherous bars and rips on
The outside of Cape Cod. have claimed VIC
Tins without number. Miles ana miles OF
coast line Is piled high with wreckage.
most OF which Is ground so fine by the
waves that The Identification OF the help
3ass craft Is impossible. AS the fury Of the
wind was grea. on the bleak sandhills
which make up the Cape. IL VIII be many
hoars before al places are heard from.
Telegraph wfr~s are down and rail-
roads cannot break out Of the snow
drifts. and this feature Is distressing. as
much suffering from cold and hunger must
ensue among the poorer people in the near
By hamlets-
Tonight the only means Of reaching Cape
Cope In by steamer across Massachusetts
bay. -dIsagreeahle voyage. as the sea IS
yet boisterous, Word from Proyincetown
tells OF nearly thirty total wrecks. with the
number of lives lost unknown.
Matters are improving slightly along
Vineyard sound. SO far as means OF COM
muncation is concerned. The best sum
ming up OF tho disasters In that section Is
made BY Capt. Hard. jr., or the revenue
cutter Dexter, who has cruised along the
shore All day. He says that in Vineyard
Haven hulls are piled upon the shore, and
those vessels which are afoat seem mere
shells The Dexter reports possible add
tons to the wreck HIST In two schooners
sunk off Menemsha light and two big ones
sunk abreast of Pcsque Isle. The fate OF
their crews is unknown Three wrecking
steamers are around the Fairfax. ashore
on Sow and Pigs reef.
4 Whole Fleet Gone.
PROVINCETowN. Mass. Nov "a
Twenty-seven vessels were driven ashore
and totally wrecked I'm this netghborhood.
From the ma jorty Of these the crews were
saved although several lives were lost
-Four or I'VE OF the wrecks were coasters
and the rest were fishermen. During the
storm shipping was destroyed and the
beach was strewn with wreekage. streets
were flooded and whaFves trifted out 10
sea. Four Ice houses and a lobster hatch,
cry situated at Beach Point were de-
strnyed.
The List Of Cnsunlties.
Tho list OF casualties includes the schoon-
ers Daniel Boone. Mary Cahrai Isaac Col
Inns. the steamer 4. II. Nlckerson, Of Prov
tnce.own; the sehooners Clara Sayward. Of
Gloucester Sylvester Whaien. of Boston;
+. +, Foster and F. H. Smith OF Pray
tncetown. and the fishing schooner Unique
or Boston. Fragments Of the schooner Il
Walker. az Gloucester. and The coaster Nd
die II. Snow. Of Rcckland Me drsftea
ashore NJ Race Point this afternoon. Flour
pork. lard and whisky barrels have been
drifting ashore along the beach between,
Race Point and Highland Light ife-xaving
station to-day.
Several bodies also have drifted ashore
mar Highland Light. and part OF boat
marked Steamer Portland
\ Gallant Rescue.
The Weed Island nfe-sayers made sev-
erai gallant efrests Yesterday 10 reach tho
echooner Jordan l.. Mott bound from New
York II Rocklant with coal. ara finally
succeeded. The Mott pat in here on ne
18th for a harbor. ard sank early the same
night. The captain and crew took a. tie
rigging. The captain, Charles L. DYER.
lashess his father. q. e. DYER. who acted az
steward. to the mast. For eighteen hours
they were exposed thus before assistance
arrived. When the Wood island crew
made their successful launch and c.uaa
withiR ha!ling distance - the Mott. Cant.
Dyer said, 7 can't hoga en- Save nav
crew. My father Is froxgn 10 death Al TIE
mast. ID not wait 20 eat his body down.
Tor the crew are freezing
Many live. Lost.
Tho ihree~uaaster. Lester \ Lewis. Cant
kamhaN. fTefn ElEaheshrort n +, fsr
Bangor. with Cargo os phosphate and
raano carae in shorty after taa Mosf and
Capt Dyer Of the latter. thinks ho,A can