Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-12-01
STEAMER PORTLAND LOST.
Was Wrecked or Highland Light, Near TIL
Harbor OF Boston, Last Sunday Morning

Was Wrecked or Highland Light, Near tho
Barbor OF Boston, Last Sunday Morning.
Boston, Mass, Nov. ga special
from North Truro to the Herald says:
The steamer Portland of the Boston
& Portland Steamship Co., which piled
between Boston and Portland, was
wrecked at 10 o'clock on Sunday morn
ing off Highland Light, and the entire
crew and all the passengers perished
within a short distance of land. A
large quantity of ,wreckage, including
trunks, has come ashore, and at dark
last night "a bodies had been recovered
from the surf by the life-saving crew
at High Head Station. One body was
that of a woman.
The news of the disaster was brought
to the Herald through the agency of a
special train, as communication with
Boston by wire from points on Cape
Cod is impossible ON account of the
havoc wrought by the storm.
There were "a persons on board the
Portland, including the officers and
crew.
From reports that come by wire, mail
and messengers to The Associated Press
from New England points, up to 10
O'Clock this morning, it was difficult
to estimate the total loss of life and
damage to shipping along this coast as
the result of the recent storm. The
list of disasters seem to grow every
hour, and, from dispatches thus far
received, it appears that at least 30
schooners have been wrecked at diff
ferent points from Eastport, Me-, to
New Haven, Conn. So schooners have
been driven ashore, and IA barges
loaded or empty are aground. This list
does not include the 30 vessels either
wholly or partially wrecked in Boston
harbor, nor half a dozen or more craft
which are reported missing, including
the Boston q Portland steamer Port
land, nor the large Wilson Linefreighter
Ohio, which is ashore ON Spectacle
Island, in this harbor: the steamer
John j. Hill,. which is ashore at At
lantic; the Merchants and Miners
Transportation steamer Fairfax, on
Sow and Pigs Ledge, off Guilty Hunk,
nor the small steamer George A. Chaffee,
foundered at Rockport, Mass. When
these are added. the aggregate list ex-
eeeds'l70 vessels. Tfs'~
The loss of life is hard to determine.
Ii is known that about 40 persons per-
ished in and about Boston harbor. Re-
poits iloih opiici pidNcSf III 1oiiio SdSoos
state that the crew of this or that ves-
sci escaped; many, however, state that
the fate of the crew is unknown. Some
survivors have turned up, and lifevsay-
ing stations and incoming vessels have
brought few sailors from wrecks.
Perhaps score would cover those of
whom nothing is known, not including
the 50 or more who were on board the
steamer Portland.
Everything possible is being done in
and about Boston to save the shipping
that has met with disaster, and to rem
der as comfortable all the survivors.
Transportation, which was generally
blockaded throughout New England,
is being opened up slowly. All the
lines running from Boston were fairly
clear this morning. and the through
trains were making fairly successful
| effort to keep time. In the more re-
mote districts, however, highways and
other means Of transportation will be
blocked for some time. .