The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-12-03

n Stbit VI tulSbiHS steamships anu
hundreds Of other vessels weather bound )
in the bay.
T., Snow -paralyzes Connecticut.
q New Jersey railroad trains all delayed
Fifteen inches of snow fell in much OF
the state.
/, Traffic snowbound on Long island. (
ID, The sea wall on the ocean front at
Lynn, Mass, was damaged to the extent {
f, Of $40. 600
i Snowdrifts plunged Boston and Maine s
, locomotive over an embankment, killing )
u two men.
u Not a structure is left standing in Nan )
! tasket Beach between Atlantic Hill ano J
| the Ocean View House Loss 100000.
Boston. Mass, Nov. 2S-Tuss re-
turning to this city at noon after
our of the harbor reported about thir-
ty-t:ve vessels of all sizes and classes
ashore or sunk in and near Boston harbor.
Seven large schooners and two Balti-
more coal barges are completely wrecked,
and it is estimated that between twenty
i've and thirty 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
10 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 foated until a channel has
! been dug.
The ocean going tug Tamqua is on the
rocks at Rainsford island and will be a
, total wreck
Not until daylight did the awful havoc
wrought by the storm in Boston harbOr
md vicinity become apparent Not since
49, has storm caused such destruction
Of property and loss of life so near the
: city.
The tugs that started early today to ex-
| plore the harbor and offer assistance
| where it was needed, found condition of
! affairs almost unprecedented in the ma
rine history of Boston. On every shoal
and reef in the harbor was found some
wrecked craft over which wild sea still
dashed, carrying the vessel higher up on
the shore or slowly grinding it to fraS
nentS
Many wrecks were covered with lee
and this and the fact that a terrific sea
was running made it impossible to learn
| their names.
The raging waters also prevented any
| attempt to recover bodies known to be
! IN some of the wrecks, and it is probable
| that it will be several days before Il com
! plete list of those lost can be obtained.
At Hull each, where two barges and
! two schoonerS went ashore. more than Il
| dozen bodies were visible in the surf, but
! 1t was impossible to get to them.
At Shag rocks, between Boston lights
md the Brewsters. where the schooner
Clavin +. Baker was ashore. two sal ilors
/ 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.
Fear for a Passenger Steamer.
The management Of the Portland
! Steamship company announced at noon
| tpGny that tIny ho1 inf
| to the whereabouts of the steamer Port
| land which left this city Saturday night
| for Portland.
During the forenoon a report was in
| circulation that the Portland was at an
d Choir in Gloucester harbor but the cap
tain of the steamer Gloucester, which ar
/ rived from that port, says the Portland
/ Is not at Gloucester. The company has
received dispatch from Portsmouth
! stating that their vessel has not put in
/ at that port.
| 4 number of steamers arc at anchor
in lower Boston harbor, but owing to the
! thick weather their names cannot be
made out. The Portland steamship peo-
| pie think that possibly the Portland is
among the number. The Portland had a
| fair-Sized freight and about twenty-five
| or thirty passengers.
The storm was the first snow of the
season. and it came so fast and was ac-
/ companied by SO high wind that it
| found everyone unprepared for it. The
| temperature was below freezing point
and the snow blown by the tfty-mile- an
| hour wind froze to everything in Boston
| harbor and made the atmosphere so
| Opaque that vessels could not be navi-
gated with safety. Al times last night
| and today the wind reached a velocity
| of sixty TO seventy miles an hour The
STOW is still falling heavily and the gale
! continues at a forty -mile-an-hour gait
/ Ocean Freighter Wrecked
| The biggest and most important of the
| wrecks is the Wilson liner Ohio Liver
! pool to Boston, a big ocean freightcr
! which last night, in attempting to make
= Boston harb0r. went hard and fast on
/ Spectacle island. She was carried hign
! upon the rocky island and will probably
/ be total wreck. She is not badly stove
! in. but can never be pulled off unless she
! waits for Il tide as high as that which
| carried her up there, and that may not be
/ in decade.
Among the other vessels wrecked are
the schooner Virginia on Thompson's isl
and. 4 three-masted schooner on the
RrewSters. Il schooner on Hull Beach. a
! schooner on Toddy's Rock. a schooner on
/ Hogs Neck, the ocean tug Tamaqua on
! Rainsford island and the steamer John
/ J. Hill at Atlantic, Mass.
Cape Cod is completely shut off from
/ Boston by wire and trains. and no reports
| of the loss to shipping along that coast
can be had till tomorrow. Undoubtedly if
was very large. as the storm approached
Boston from that direction and ragged in
/ all its fury along the cape all night.
All Trains Stalled.
/ the rest Of the world nearly as complete
+ " as did that Of last winter. No train
/ from any point more than twenty miles
away has entered the city. and those due
! last night are hopelesSly in snow drifts.
/ the railroad officials do not know where
! No trains have been started out today and
/ the blockade is complete.
Drowned in Vineyard Sound.
The tug Harold put off from Provi-
/ dence Saturday night with three loaded
! coal barseS in tow bound 10 Boston. She
! reached Falmouth. Mass. late yesterday,
/ and reported that when going through
! Vineyard sound in the teeth of the gale
/ her barge broke adrift. The captain of
| the Harold has no doubt they foundered
! with all on board. twelve in number. four
! in each barge. There is no hope that the
! bargcs made any port in the sound. as
| they could not use sails in such 4 gale
| and had no other means of propulsion.
/ Nire small schn0nerS We're wrecked in
/ Salem harboT without loss of life
! At Plum island, Newburyport. three
! masted schooner went ashore and her
/ crew was rescued u! the lIesaFlng crew
! Die from Exposure.
| At Lynn. Mass, Policeman Benjamin n
! T. Boynton died from the effects of ex-
/ poSure and solomon Switzer. snow
| ShoveIer. died of cold while Shoveling
! snow.
| AT South Berwick. Ne. Harley Bates
/ and Fred Hallway of Portland engineer
| and fireman Of a Boston & Maine loco
! Eoti7c driving Il snow piow. were killed
| By the engine plungins over an embank-
EaCnt.