The Grenada sentinel., 1898-12-03
iX1 STEAMER PORTLAND.
~. Death List by the Wreck Of the
v.ssel is Now Known to Ex-
ceed $50 Persons.
.nyE ARE lEfT1o TELL The SAD STORY.
,.u,ots Points Continue to bs Heard
- the Sum Total Of the storms Do
Ing. Continues to sw'll-Anoth'r Heavy
..,,.ast storm Ii Raging, Hampering
.,. Work Of ResCues

,..on Nov. 3O.-News of the loss
.he BOSTON & Portland Steam Pack
o. Wv ~ y steamer Portland off Cape Cod,
I'D tbe death of more than $50 per-
an snns comprising the passengers and
s .aw of the steamer, and news from
, ,;.hs,to unheard-of ports of Cape Cod,
nan;no that at least a score and a
sn 1t If vessels were wrecked along
% 'n.t shore with the loss Of IL lives,
,as % .ome as a dire climax to the pre-
,;ous @ report of disasters resulting
trom from Saturday nights storm. There
.ra still other places to be heard from
~ ~ both sides of the. cape, which have
MT been reached by train on account
~ ~ washo,,ts, and which are cut off
tnom other means of communication
hv broken wires. blocked highways
and shattered bridges.
,o.. of Life Can Not be Accurately EstI-
I"'' mated.
While the total loss of life can not
he estimated with any degree of ac-
.uracy it is known that more than
9oO persons have perished. This esti-
mate is made on the basis of only one
from each crew reported missing, and
.,ch of which would include at least
tbree, while the larger schooners
wouId have seven or eight men on
board.
Financial Loss. Can Not be Figured Up.
Attempt to estimate the financial
losses sustained by shipping interests
is equally difficult from facts in hand,
but it appears that the bulk of the
damage was done between Cape Ann,
where score or more of vessels We're
lost. to Cuttyhunk, where the steamer
Warwick is OH the rocks.
The Wrecked Vessels.
From present reports it is known
that Sc vessels have been totally
wrecked. while 40 are ashore with
hardly a chance of being saved. OF
the Sc total wrecks, barges not in
cluded, 43 craft aggregate 12,202 gross
tonnage. OF those in perilous positions
2, aggregate 1850 tons. The strand
ing of the big English liner Ohio and
the ocean tug Tamaqua are not in
cluded in the estimate given, nor
many of the big coal barges ashore
in Boston harbor. The position OF
these latter craft is now dangerous,
for they are exposed to the prevailing
northeast storm,
The number of schooners which
have been driven ashore in fairly safe
berths or damaged by collision or dis
masted can be reckoned by the scores,
and many of them are likely to be in
cluded in the list of total wrecks be-
fore another day comes.
Another Heavy Northeast Storm.
Boston. Nov. 30.--Another heavy
northeast snow storm started in here
Just before Z a. m., and an hour later
had settled down in a way that prom
ised several inches OF snow at least.
A brisk wind of 20 miles an hour was
blowing from north-northeast. These
conditions will greatly interfere with
the work that is being done at points
where vessels were wrecked, as the
sea is running high and the snow is
thick on the water. The weather bu-
reau officials state the storm probably
will continue all day.
Washed Up by the Waves.
Orleans, Mass, Nov. 3O.--Five bodies
have been recovered here from the
Portland. The vessel was wrecked
just north of Cape Cod. The wreck
age and a great many bodies are drift