Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-29
ON THE NEN ENGLAND coast
Unprecedented Destruction Of Life and
Floating Property.

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Floating Property.
BY THE GREAT STORM OF SATUR-
DAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY-THlR-
TY-FIVE VESSELS OF ALL SIZES
AND CLASSES WRECKED IN BOS-
TON HAREOR = THIRTY LIVES
KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN LOST,
AND THIS LIST LIKELY TO BE
SWELLED WHEN THE NEWS IS
IN FROM ALL POINTS-THE BIG
STEAMER PORTLAND SUPPOSED
TO HAVE GONE DOWN.
Boston, November est is known
definitely tonight thas more than sew
enty lives have been lost in the wrecks
of tugs, schooners and coal barges dur
ing the storm of Saturday night and
Sunday morning, and if the steamer
Portland has also gone down, as now
seems possible, the list of casualties
will rise to 140, with over 100 vessels
of all descriptions ashore, two score OF
them to be wrecks and an unknown
| number probably beneath the waves
of Massachusetts Bay.
1 There is scarcely bay, harbor or
! inlet from the Penobscot to New Lon
don that has not on it's shores the bones
| of some staunch craft, while along
! Massachusetts Bay, especially Boston
harbor, the beaches are piled high with
| the wreckage of schooners and coal
barges. The record, although hourly
lengthening, is still incomplete for that
J ocean graveyard of Cape Cod is still
to be heard from.
The annoyance and inconvenience of
the railroad and street car embargo
| covering the whole of Southern New
England sunk into insignificance before
the story of destruction wrought by
wind and wave, yet it will be many
day before the full import OF the dis
aster is known or is even realized.
Boston. November 28.-Tugs return
ing to this city at noon, after a tour OF
the harbor, report about thirty-five YES
sells of all sizes and classes asher" or
SINK in and noar DUotun harpoi'
Seven large schooners and two Baltl-
more coal barges are completely
wrecked, and it is estimated that be-
tween % and 80 lives have been lost
Only one body has yet been recovered.
More than a dozen are reported IN
the surf at Hull and efforts are being
made TO recover them. The ocean
steamer Ohio, of the Warren line, IS
high and dry on Spectacle island. 1t IS
very doubtful if she can be fioated I'M
til a channel has been dug.
The ocean going tug Tamaqua is on
the rocks at Rainsford island and will
be total wreck.
..-fEiee..1postl Ia . h-.<SteaJ9 ship that they
had no information as to the where
abouts of the steamer Portland, which
left this city Saturday night for Port
land. During the forenoon a report
was in circulation that the Portland
was at anchor in Gloucester harbor, but
the captain Of the S. samer Gloucester,
which arrived from that port, says the
Portland is not at Gloucester. The
company has received a dispatch from
Portsmouth stating that their vessel
has not put in at that port. A number
OF steamers are at anchor in lower
Boston harbor. but owing to the thick
weather their names cannot be made
out. The Portland steamship people
think that possibly the Portland is
among the number. The Portland had
a fair sized freight and about % or 80
passengers.
Not until daylight did the awful
havoc wrought by the storm in Boston
harbor and vicinity become apparent.
Not since 1852 has a 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 assistance where it was needed,
found a condition of affairs almost I'M
precedented in the marine history Of
Boston. On every shoal and reef in
the harbor was found some wrecked
craft over which a wild sea still
dashed, carrying the vessel high up on
the shore or slowly grinding it into
fragments. Many wrecks were cover
ed with ice, and this and the fact that
a terrific sea was running. made it i'm
possible to learn their names.
> The raging waters also prevented
! any attempt to recover bodies known
1 to be in some of the wreck, and it is
! probable that it will he several days
4 before a complete list of those lost can
| be obtained At Hull Beach. where
( two barges and two schooners went
ashore, more than dozen bodies were
visible in the surf. but it was impos-
sible to get at them. At Shag Rocks,
between Boston light and the Brew
sters, where the schooner Calvin F.
Baker was ashore, two sailors were
taken from the rigging by the life
savers nearly exhausted, and the dead
body of another was recovered. Three
others from this vessel were drowned,
but their bodies could not be found
The list of dead as far as reported is
as follows:
From the schooner Calvin F. Baker,
ashore near Boston Light, three sailors
drowned. names unknown. Also stew
ard of this vessel frozen in the rig
ging; first and second mates saved
From schooner Abel c. Babcock,
wrecked on Hull Beach. entire crew,
supposed 10 number nine men. lost,
names unknown; none saved from this
vessel.
From schooner Samuel ". Triton.
wrecked near the Babcock. all hands
lost 1t is supposed that there were
four men On this vessel; names IN
known.
From schooner Virginia. ashore on
Thompson Island Boston harbor. two
lost Cautair Stanley and SEAMAN Tar