Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-28
DISASTERS BY SEA
Terrible Storm Raging Along the
New England Coast Attended
by Many Fatalities.
80 LIVES AND 80 VESSELS
Lost Near Boston Alone, and One Passenger
Steamer With Thirty Passengers
Lost Track Of Gloucesters
Hard Luck.

this city at noon, after a tour of the
harbor, report about 35 vessels ashore
or sunk in and near Boston harbor.
Seven large schooners and two Balti-
more coal barges are completely wreck
ed. 1t is estimated that between % and
80 lives have been lost, and only one
body is yet recovered. More than
dozen are reported in the surf off Hull
The steamer Ohio, of the Warren line
is high and dry on Spectacle island. 1t
is doubtful if she can be floated until a
channel is dug. The ocean-going tug
Tamqua is on the rocks at Rainsford
island a total wreck.
The management of the Portland
Steamship Company announced at noon
that they had no information as to the
whereabouts of the steamer Portland,
which left this city Saturday night for
Portland, with 25 or 30 passengers.
Not since 1852 has storm caused such
destruction of property and loss of life
so near the city as that of yesterday.
Tugs that started out early today to ex-
plore the harbor and offer assistance
where needed, found a condition of af-
fairs almost unprecedented in the ma
rine history of Boston. On every shoal
and reef in the harbor was found some
wrecked craft over which the wild Sc;
still dashed, carrying vessels higher up
on the shore or slowly grinding them to
fragments. Many wrecks were covered
with ice. This and the fact that a ter
rife sea was running made it impossi-
BILE to learn names.
The raging waters also prevented any
attempt to recover bodies known to be
in some of the wrecks, so it will be sew
eral days before complete list of those
can be obtained
At Shage Rocks, between Boston
Light and Brewsters, where the schoo-
ner Calvin F. Baker was ashore, two
sailors were taken from the rigging by
the life savers, nearly exhausted, and
the dead badly of another was recovered
Three others from this vessel We're
drowned, but their bodies could not be
found.
REGULAR R.GLOUCESTER LUCK.
Gloucester, Mass, Nov. 2S.-Nine ves-
sells were lost in the blizzard near this
port, but the crews nearly all escaped.
Nearly all the vessels lost were fisher
men.
HARD LINES EAST OF NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 2S.-Points on east
ern Long Island which have been cut
off from railroad communication since
Saturdays storm, are still without a.
railroad, as the cuts in Shinnecock hills
are reported to have 10 feet of snow in
them. The storm was felt far out at
sea. Many regular liners and steamers
due early Sunday were obliged to keep
at sea until the storm abated. Trains
from the west on all the lines entering
Jersey City are from one to three hours
late. The train from Boston by the
New York, New Haven & Hartford rail-
road, due here at a. m. yesterday,
reached Grand Central depot rs hours
late. The passengers suffered greatly.
The blizzard which set in Saturday
night continued Sunday throughout the
east, causing much damage and suffer-
ing in this city, Several persons died
of exposure
WRECKS OFF NEW HAMPSHIRE
COAST.
Washington, Nov. 2S.-Chief Kimball,
of the life saving service, received tel
egram today stating that the schooner
Ivy Bell, from Boston to Bristol, had
stranded near Jerry's Point, N. H. The
crew of four were saved by the life saw
ing crew, but the vessel is a total loss.
The British brig Champion and school,
ner c. J. Willard are ashore in Passe-
mequaddy bay Maine. The Champion
will be a total loss, but the crew. are
safe.
ON LAKE SUPERIOR.
Duluth, Mimi, Nov. 2S.-The steamer
Harlow, of the Western Transit line, is
ashore on the south side Of the Isle Roy
ale, near Menagerie light, in nearly the
same spot where the Centurian went
down two years. ago. She is in an ex-
posed position and thought to be leak
ing.
RESCUED JUST IN TIME.
Salem, Mass, Nov. 2S.-Two of the
crew Of the schooner Bertha A. Gross
from Deer Island, Me-, were rescued
from House Island off Manchester to-
day, nearly dead, having been without
shelter or food for 80 hours. The school,
ner was lost on the rocks near Fresh
Island Saturday midnight, when Cap
tain Wallace Thurston, aged about TO-
and his son, John, perished.