Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-12-01
MANY LIVES LOST.
Tho New England Coast 6trewn
With WRECKS,
ONE HUNDRED VESSELS ASHORE.
Two Score Known TO DO Wrecked
Seventy Lives Reported lost
Heroic WORK Of Lllc-
saving Crews.

Boston, November 2a,'--ll Is known
definitely that more than seventy lives
have been lost In the wrecks OF tugs,
schooners and cCal bargts during lny
storm OF Saturday nlgnt ana Sunday
morning, and, II the steamer Port
land has also gone DOWN. as now
seems possible, ihe list OF casualties
will rise TO l4O, with over 100 vessels
OF all descriptions ashore, two score
OF them known 10 be wrecks and an
unknown number probably beneat III
the waves OF Massachusetts Bay.
There Is scarcely II bay, hurvor or
Inlet from the ptnobscVI 20 New Lon
don that has not on It's shores the
bones Of some slaunch craft, while
along Massachusetts, bay, ana espe'
clally Boston harbor, the beaches are
plea hlgh wl,h the wreckNge OF
schooners and coal burgess. The rec
ord, although hourly lrnglhening, Is
istlll incomplete, Tor that ocean grave
yard or Cape Cod is stIll TO oc heard
from.
The annoyance and Inconvenience
OF the railroad and street car EN-
barge, covering the whole OF Southern
New England, sank into insignihconce
before the story of destruction
wrought by wind and wave, yet II will
be many day before the full import
of The disaster is known or even re-
allied.
The islands OF Boston harbor are,
without exception, strewn with wrecks
and wreckage; no fewer than twenty
nine vessels are ashore at Gloucester;
over twenty in the supposed safe har'
Dor Of Vineyard Haven, parted with
anchor chains yesterday and are high
and dry on the beach; Nanlasket
beach saw two schooners and coal
barge dash to pieces on It's sands; the
rocks OF Cohasset claimed n stanch
fisherman; Scituate, well known
pilot boat; Manchester, a down East
lumbermon; while one tug and three
barges, known TO have been between
Cape Cod and Boston, are unaccounted
for and probably lost.
The upper harbors of Boston, Ply
mouth, Salem, Portsmouth, Portland
and other places where vessels were
supposed to be comparatively SAFE
were the scenes OF numerous collisions
between the ships aud the wharyes.
Every lifesavlug crew performed
deeds Of herolsm in rescuing crews
from stranded vessels, and tugboat
captains risked life and property IN
their cndcavor to save life
The managers of the Boston & Port
land Steamship Company stated to-
night that there are grave doubts as
to the safety Of the steamer Portland,
which sailed from here Saturday
night, Every harbor between here
aud Portland on the north shore has
been heard from and one OF the south
shore, ana in no case has the steamer
been seen. The only remaining har.
Dor which she could have reached is
lrovncetown, on Cape Cod, and news
from that port is anXlously awaited,
as it is still impossible to reach that
port by wire. She carried siXty-iive
passengers and crew Of fifteen men.
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
wea ther of Deer Island while endeav.
oring to ascertain the meaning oil
distress signals flying from the light
house. She made for the tiny beacon
which marks the inner harbor cham
mel again this morning with toss
ing sea and strong incoming tide,
tried to answer signals. Finally II
was learned that the lighthouse had
no fresh water, for the heavy seas
had broken in the bulkheads and
spoiled the water stored there. Be-
yond Deer Island lies the big Wilson
liner Ohio, and the steamer G, A,
White, of Taunton, ashore on Specta'
Gle Island.
1T is q matter of surprise to hnrbor
pilots how the Ohio reached her pres
emit berth. She stands up boldly with
out the semblance of list, on hard
gravel bottom, in water which at food
tide this morning hardly came to the
level of the propeller shaft. She is
firmly aground and her predicament
Is very serious one. That she should
be in such shallow water is due to
the fact that the tide in which she
went ashore was fourteen feet above
The usual flood tide. With her power
full screw churning the mud and sew
eral powerful tugs straining at haw-
sers over her stern at food tide today
there was no tremor OF the vessel to-
ward the open water.
According to some of the wrecking
masters, the only way to save the
liner 10 by dredging a channel from
the Ohio to deep water, but even this
must be done quickly, as another gale
would do incalculable damage.
The White evidently lies on rocks,
and while she could be pulled into
deep water her cargo would scarcely
keep her afoat.
Leaving Spectacle Island astern, n
sorry sight is that presented By the
three masted schooner Calvin i. Ba-
ker, on Shag rocks, midway between
Boston light and the Brewsters, where
the deep sea surges roll in and half
bury the craft. which Is fast going to