Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-11-30
Over 200 Persons Known to Have
Been Drowned.
LIST FWRECKS STILL GROWS
Believed Now That $50 Went
Down on Portland.
GATE CITY PROBABLY SAFE

BOSTON, November 3O.-News of the loss
of the Boston and Portland Steam Packet
Company's steamer Portland off Cape Cod
and the death Of more than $50 persons
comprising the passengers and crew of the
steamer, and news from hitherto unheard-
of ports in Cape Cod showing that at least
along that shore with the loss of twelve
lives, has come as dire climax TO the pre-
vious reports of disasters resulting from
Saturday nights storm. There are still
other places to be heard from both sides
of the cape, which have not been reached
by train Oh account of washouts and which
are cut off from other means of communica-
ton by broken wires blocked highways
and shattered bridges
Up to this morning. while the total los.
of life cannot he estimated with any de-
gree of accuracy, 1t is known that more
than 200 persons perished. This estimate is
made on the basis of only one from each
crew reported missing and each of which
would include at least three while the
larger schooners would have seven or eight
men aboard.
The Financial Loss.
Attempt to estimate the financial los es sus-
tanned by shipping interests is equally diff
cult from facts in hand, but it appears that
the bulk of the damage was done between
Cape Ann, where score or more of ves-
sells were lost, to Guilty Hunk. where the
steamer Warwick is on the rocks
From present reports il is known that
hfty-six vessels have been totally wrecked
while forty-ntne are ashore with hardly
chance of being saved. OF the fifty-sX to-
tai wrecks, barges not included, forty three
craft aggregate 12.202 gross tonnage OF
those in perlous positions twenty-eight ag-
gregate ',1J3 tons. The stranding of the
big English liner Ohio and the ocean tug
Tamaqua are not included in the estimate
given, nor many of the big coal barges
ashore III Boston harbor. The position of
these latter craft is now dangerous for
they are exposed to the northeast storm
which began this morning
The number of SchoOners which have
been driven ashore in fairly safe berths or
damaged by collision or disnasted can be
feckoned by the scores, and many Of them
are likely to be included in the list of total
wrecks before the day ends.
Gate City Probably Safe.
There appears to be little basis for appre.
hension as to the safety of the steamer
Gate City, of the Savannah Line, in spite Of
the report which reached here last night
that life preserver bearing the name of
the steamer had been picked up on Cape
Cod, The steamer Chattahoochee, which
arrived here last night, reports having
passed the Gate City off Montauk Point
Long Island. at $50 o'clock Monday after.
noon, and that there was nothing amiss
with the savannah liner as far could be
observed The storm was over at the time
the Gate City was seen by the Chattahoo.
chez, and in all probability she is safe and
near her stnaton-Savannah, Ga-af
this time.
Long Island Strewn With Wrecks.
NEW YORK, November 30-The storm
of Saturday night and Sunday has literally
strewn the Long Island coast with wreck
age. Altogether about fifty vessels, not
counting small yachts and scows, were
wrecked or rendered useless and the nu-
merous harbors where vessels sought shell
ter from the fury of the storm are filled
with wreckage of all kinds.
The damage in Greenport harbor and vi
entity were estimated to be over 25,00n
The small steamer Mantle is reported to
be ashore near Montauk. 1t was reported
today that there is a three-masted schooner
ashore near Wading river. fourteen miles
east of Port Jefferson. 1t is impossible to
learn anything about her, as communica-
ton with Wading river has been cut off.
Not Aboard the Portland.
PORTLAND, Me-. November 3O.-It was
learned today that L. F. Strout, first pilot,
ard e. b. Deering, mate, previously re-
ported aboard the steamer Portland, were
not with her when she was wrecked
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WOODS HOLL, Mass, November 3O.-The
Nantucket steamer which has arrived here
on her first trip since the storm, reports
that very little damage was done at Nam
tucket. The steamer could make no land
ing at Vineyard Haven, owing to the
wrecks which obstructed the channel.
More Bodies Come Ashore.
ORLEANS, Mass, November 3o.-Five
bodies have been recovered here from the
Portland The vessel was wrecked just
north of Cape Cod. The wreckage and a
great many bodies drifting south, pos
sfbly as far as Nantucket. 1t is thought
that the northeast gale today will bring
bodies in. The entire cape is patroled.
The body of Dudley Freeman is the only
one identified as yet 1t will be shipped to
Portland tomorrow.
SALEM, Mass, November 30--Word has
been received here from Ipswich that Mr.
and Mrs. Julian A. Fogg, who were report
ed on the steamship Portland, did not take
the steamer on Saturday, being afraid of
the storm, when they arrived in Boston.