The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29

company, ashore at Hull beach, entire
crew, supposed to number five men,
| lost.
From an unknown schooner, ashore
] at - ntasket beach, entire crew lost. 1t
| is supposed that there were five men
/ on this ship.
From schooner Governor Ames, in
Boston harbor, Seaman Edward Proffet
washed overheard and drowned.
/ 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-
oring to ascertain the meaning of dis
I 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 was five men in the light
| house. The two boats which usually
! hang from the davits had been spIint-
/ cred by the force of the waves, and
the sea was dashing over the lighthouse
with such force that there was little
hope of reaching there.
BIG STEAMER ASHORE.
Beyond Deer island lies the big Will
son liner Ohio and the steamer G. A
/ White of Taunton, ashore on Spectacle
| island. 1t is a matter of surprise to
harbOr pilots how the Ohio reached her
present berth. She stands up boldly.
| without the semblance of a. list on a
hard gravel bottom, in water which at
/ flood tide this morning hardly came to
| the Level Of the propeller Shaft That
she should be in such shallow water
i ie dTTn. to. T11 FOO Il.
she went ashore was fourteen feet
above the usual flood tide. With her
powerful screw churning the mud and
| several powerful tugs straining at
/ haWsers over her stern at flood tide to-
/ day, there was no tremOr of the vessel
| toward the open water. According to
4 some of the Wrecking masters, the only
I way to save the liner is by dredging a
channel from the Ohio to deep water,
/ but even this must be done quickly. as
another gale would do incalculabIe
! damage.
The White evidently lies on rocks.
/ and while she could be pulled into deep
water, her cargo would scarcely keep
| her ahoat.
Leaving Spectacle island astern, a
/ sorry sight is presented by the three
masted schooner Calvin F. Baker, 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 pieces.
The main mast has been whipped out
and hangs dangling over the side, sup
! ported by the top hamper Of the other
masts.
From this wreck the two masts were
/ taken off by Captain James and his
crew from across the bay at Hull It
| was day break when the Baker wax
seen and the lifebOat was sent out on
Nil re4sr III
and finally, when the wreck was reach
ed, three bodies were seen lashed aloft.
| Two of them were secured and life was
( found in them, but the other had been
frozen stiff to his lashings. The sur
vivors and the body were taken to Hull.
It was on the little stretch of beach
at Hull, just behind the Hotel Pember-
ton, that the tragedies occurred. The
old salts Of Hull say that in ferceness
the storm edualled that of 1852, except
I that while the sea did not run so high,
the wind was stronger.
In the fury of the storm yesterday
two big newly-built barges of the Con-
solidated Coal company, Nos. L and 4,
were dashed to pieces almost in an an
slant.
BRAVE LIFE-SAvERS.
On the shores stood scores of men
/ who were ready to risk their lives to
save those who We're on many of the
vessels in the ofing driving to destruc-
ton. Captain James of the life-saving
crew, was there with his men. He said
the wind blew Sc fiercely that not men
| enough could find room in the boat to
row against the wind. Out of the driven
snow came the dim outlines of a barge,
with the forms of five men discernable
on the deck house. With a mighty crash
! as it came down on receding wave,
bdTup No I cfr11cIr shore Or7Iv- +r.
crumble and then melt into fragments,
| which the waves in another minute cast
upon the shore
In that instant five men escaped i'm
pending death, for as the barge split
in twain the deck house slid off toward
the shore into the surf and at the same
time men on short with lines about
them rushed into the water and pulled
| out the sailors.
A moment later barge No came
ashore and was ground up by the
waves, but nothing was seen of it's
crew. Soon after this another wreck
age came ashore and this morning il
was seen that both the Abel c. Bah
cock and the Samuel w. Tilden had
been wrecked. No sign of the crew Of
either vessel was found.
Another terrible scene was that at
Thompson's island, where the city's re-
form school is situated. Against the
| WlldIl were uIlN6n IOuF QOWQ-edSC YES
sells, each of which at the time the
storm broke, was anchored miles away
and each a long way from the others.
An idea of the force Of the wind is
shown in this instance, for after drift
ing across the bay, one after another
brought against the pier, .one being
driven entirely out of the water The
craft are the Virginia, of which barely
a vestige is left; the Watchman. the
Seraphin and the Fred NJ. Emerson.
The last three are in one great heap
of timber and rigging, mixed with
debris from the Virginia Two lives
were lost from the latter craft. Will
lam B. Stanley, the captains son, was
washed ashore and resusciated.
OF the other wreckage the most sin
gular is that of the tug Tamaqua, on
RainsfOrd's island. She has gone
straight on against a prOmontOry of
rocks, and there seems little chance of
her getting off. Her consort, a Read
ing barge, was easily foated this af-
ternoOn.
Other evidences of the storm are to
be found on every headland and in
nearly every cove, for numberless and
nameless wrecks all snow and sleet
covered, are piled up there. 1t will be