The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-12-03
BIG SHIP GOES DOWN.
The Steamer Portland Wrecked and
All on Board Perish.
The Accident Occurred on Highland
Light-Terribie work Done by the
storm on the New Eng
land Coast.

Boston, Nov. 3o.-The big sidewheel
passenger steamer City of Portland, of
the Boston & Portland Steam Packet
company, which left her wharf in this
city at seven o'clock Saturday night,
lies a complete wreck on the beach at
North Truro. near Highland light. OF
the human freight of 121 souls not one
lives to tell the tale of suffering and
shipwreek. The story is told by mute
and CHASTITY evidence, "a bodies having
been washed ashore, many of them in
cased in life preseryers marked steam
er Portland" Besides this thousands
of pieces of freight and other wreckage
line the beach for miles.
Fate of the Portland.
The Portland was last seen afloat by
a fisherman in the vicinity of Thatch-
er's island at eight O'Clock that same
evening. Nobody knows what hap
pened in the awful hours on the angry
sea which followed, and the lips that
might tell the tale are sealed in death.
The surmise is that with the wind
blowing a gale at the rate of 40 miles
an hour, rate which has never been
equaled but once before in the written
history OF weather along this coast,
with the waves running to mighty
heights, the great steamer became dis
abled The Portland, with its side pad
die wheels and large exposure OF hull,
must have been smashed by the seas
and rolled by the mad waves.
First body Found.
The first tidings OF the Portland came
from Surfman Bowley, OF the High
Head life-saving station. who discov-
cred the body of negro which had
been washed ashore near the station
Around the body was a life preserver
marked steamer Portland. Follow
ing close upon this discovery came the
/ finding OF the body OF white woman
about 30 years old The body was terri
bly, bruised, showing that 1t had been
thrown upon the rocks. All told "a
bodies have been washed ashore, but
none have been identified
Partial List of Passengers.
Following is partial list Of the pas
sengers said TO be on board the Port
land when she sailed from Boston sat
u
Orion Hooper, H. True Hooper, Isaiah
i Frye. Miss Ruth Frye. Miss Maud Frye,
/ Miss Maud Symms. Mrs. Ezekiel Dennis
Mrs. Theodore Allen. Miss Allen, Miss Cole
II or Springfield, Mass; Mrs Daniel Rounds
Fred Sherwood Miss Ross, Miss Edna Me-
Crillis, c. +. Wilson. Of Bethel, Me-; Hon.
4 II. Dudley Freeman, ID. o. Getchell. Of Bos-
ton; Miss Sophie Holmes, Miss Helen
i Langthorne, Miss Emma L. Plimpton, OF
Charles River. G.. w. Cole, Miss Burns.
Charles Wiggin. M. G. Hutchinson, Miss
Hutchinson. Mrs. George o. Chickering.
\ Weymouth. Mass. and sister; Mrs W noel
er, OF South Weymouth Mass. nj. L.
\ Sewell. Of Portland Fred Sherwood, OF
i Portland Charles III. Thompson. Mrs
! Thompson and child, Woodfords, Ele.
/ William Chase and Master Philip Chase
| Worcester; Mrs. Kate Coy, East Boston
Arthur H. Heersom and Mrs Heersom. OF
Chelsea, Mass. Miss A. Swift OF Port
land Harry Swift. q Marion street. East
Boston; Mrs Cornelia NJ Mitchell
and Miss Jennie Hoyt, North Easton. Mrs
j. A. Carroll. OF Lowell; Miss Jennie I'D
monds. Marion street, East Boston: Mrs
Anna Rounds. Portland; George u. Ken
nison, Jr.. Boothbay, Me-: Perry jacks IN
wife and child OF South Portland. Me
Fred Stevens. Portland: Mr.. Pierre, Port
land
The Portland was built Ia Bath, Me.
In 1890, and was n side-wheel steamer
OF 1917 tons net burden. Her length
is $50 feet; beam, AZ, and depth 1,
feet. She was valued at $250,00O and /,
! fully insured