The San Francisco call., 1898-11-29
Appalling Loss of Life in the " Gale of Sunday on the ="
 Atlantic Seaboard. "
On Every Shoal and Reef in Boston Harbor Stranded Craft Are at the Mercy of
 the Waves

story of destruction wrought by wind and wave, yet 1t will. be many a day before the full inn port of the disaster IS known or even realized.
 The islands of Boston harbor are, without exception, strewn with wrecks and wreckage. No less than twenty-nine vessels are ashore at Gloucester. Over twenty in the supposed safe har- Dor of Vineyard Haven. parted their anchor chains yesterday and are high and dry on the beach. Nantasket Beach saw two schooners and a coal barge dash to pieces on its sands; the rocks of Cohasset claimed a staunch fisherman; Scituate, a we'll known pilot boat; Manchester, a down-east lurnberman, while one tug and three barges known to have been between Cape Cod and Boston are unaccounted for and probably are lost. The upper har- bors of Boston, Plymouth, Salem, Portsmouth, Portland and other places where vessels were sup posed to be comparatively safe, were the scenes Of numerous col lisions between the ships and the wharves.
 Every 1ife-saving crew per formed deeds of heroism in res cuing crews from stranded yes sels, and tug boat captains risked life and property in their en- deavor to save life.
 Not until daylight this morning did the awful havoc by the storm in Boston harbor and vicinity be- come apparent Not since 1852 has storm caused such destruction of property and loss of life so near the city. The tugs that started early to- day to explore the harbor and offer as- sistance where it was needed found condition almost unprecedented in the marine history of Boston. On every shoal and reef in the harbor was some wrecked craft, over which a wild sea still dashed, carrying the vessel higher up on the shore or slowly grinding it to fragments. Many wrecks were cov- cred with ice. and this and the fact that a. terrific sea was running made it impossible to learn their names.
 The raging waters also prevented any attempt to recover bodies known to be in some of the wrecks, and it is prob able that 1t will be several days before q complete list of those lost can be ob- tained.
 At Hull Beach, where two barges and two schooners went ashore, more than a dozen bodies were visible in the surf, but it was impossible to get at them. At Shag Rocks. between Boston Light and the Brewsters, where the schoon- CT Calvin F. Baker was ashore, two sailors were taken from the rigging by the lifesavers, both nearly exhausted. and the body of another was recovered. Three men from this vessel were drowned, but their bodies could not be found.
 Among the tugs which started down the harbor as soon as daylight came was the police-boat Guardian, which last night was caught in the thick weather off Deer Island, while endeav- bring to ascertain the meaning of dis tress signals flying from the lighthouse. She made for the tiny beacon which marks the inner harbor channel again this morning, and with a tossing sea and strong incoming tide, tried to an- swer signals. Finally it was learned that the lighthouse had no fresh water, for the heavy seas had broken in the bulkheads and spoiled the water stored there There were five men in the lighthouse The two boats which usu- ally hang from the davits had been splintered by the force of the waves and the sea was dashing over the lighthouse with such force that there was little hope of reachin~ it.
 Beyond Deer Island lies the big Will son liner Ohio, and the steamer c. A. White of Taunton, ashore on Spec tacle Island. It is a matter Of surprise to harbor pilots how the Ohio reached her present berth. She stands up bold ly. without the semblance of list on