Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-28
All Lines Blocked and About All Travel Given
Up for the Entire Day.
Heavy Damage 10 Shipping and TO Property on
Land on the Coast

Boston, Nov. 27.--E,ven the belief in
the well-lSnown safety of Boston har-
Dor was rudely shaken by the terrific
blizzard of last night and this morning
for it's usual placid waters proved any
thing but harbor of refuge for d
dozen or more of the coasting vessels
while one great ocean steamer, the
Ohio of the Wilson Line. walks torn
from her mornings and driven high and
dry on Spectacle island. Schooners and
coal barges with two anchors out and
every reason to expect a safe weather
ing, of the gale, We're dragged from
their mornings and hurled against
pier heads, dashed on islands and
rocks, or sunk outright.
1t will take many hours to make q
complete list of the casualties arising
from the storm in Boston harbor alone,
but from the present indications, it
certainly looks as though it might be
a long one. Fortunately the greater
portion of the coasting feet was Sc
curely tied up at the wharves.
Anchored at Quarantine was the Will
sou Liner Ohio, just in from Hull Eng
land. She had only small cargo on
board. and her sides being high out of
water offered a tremendous surface for
the wind to blow upon. The swift tide
prevented the steamer from pointing
her nose to the wind and. after fierce
battle of many hours. her cables grad
ually gave way and she ran up on the
beach of Spectacle island, where she
now lies high and dry.
AS the tide was very high when the
Ohio went ashore, and her cargo not a
heavy one, there will be little to tighten
her and the work therefore of hauling
her off is likely to be difficult. The
Ohio lies about a mile from the scene
of the Venetian wreck
On shore, not far from the Ohio, is
the schooner C. A. White from Balti-
more, but she will probably float as
some of her cargo of coal has been re-
moved. Just above Spectacle island is
Thompson's island, and on the beach
on the northern end are three if not
four two-masted schooners. They
are all down east lumbermen. the
Waterman, Fred A. Emerson, Sera-
phine and Virginia. although there is
some uncertainty as to the identity of
the latter. 1t is likely that they will
all be hauled off without any serious
damage.
The schooners John S. Ames and Liz
zie Dyas are also ashore at Fort War
rem. In the, case of the Ames it is said
that she has considerable water in her
hold and while three tugs pulled at her
all the afternoon they We're unable TO
drag her off the beach.
SO far as known there have been no
lives lost from any of the above
schooners. although it is reported two
men We're washed overheard from the
Virginia.
No effort was made, this afternoon.
to reach the unknown schooners on
shore at Moon Head or another farther
up Quincy Bay. on the fats off Atlantic
1t was farther out in the bay that
the casualties began with the sinking
of at least one, If not two coal bargas.
and the loss of the crew of each The
tug Cumberland came in early, last
evening, with two barges, and one of
them, the Consolidated Coal Company.
No. j, brolses away from the tug and
striktng Hunts Ledge, sank almost i'm
mediately with all four Of her crew.
Another barge belonging to the Sta
pie Coal Company. is reported to have
sunk off Long Island Head and her
crew of four men lost. Schooner Abel
Il. Babeock from Philadelphia, which
came around Cape Cod. yesterday, and
anchored late in the day outside of
Boston Light. is reported TO have foun-
dered with her crew Of seven men.