The times., 1899-08-24
GRAVEYARD OF THE SEA
Hurricane Disasters Off Hatteras
Reach Appalling Numbers.
Thirty Vessels Are Now Relieved to
Have Been Lost Farther Details
Cleaned From the Suryivors-A
Tremendous Loss of LiGe-UnSnosvn
ships Seen Enguifed by the Waters.

| Norfolk, Va. Aug. 2s.-Captain Cavilier
| OF the schooner Florence Randall which
was wrecked near Cape Hatteras. on
| August ii, left for New York tonight tc
| report in person TO his owners the loss oi
their vessel, In an interview today he
| gave the following additional particulars
of the wrecking of the Randall and the
| loss of many other vessels in the storm
which forced them ashore on Hatteras.
He said that when he left the shore three
schooners whose names are unknown, were
IN the outer breakers, off the cape. All
are total wrecks, he said, and were going
to pieces when he saw them last. He said
that as his vessel was being blown ashore,
he saw near her another ship, whose name
he does not know. sink before his eyes.
No man of her crew or none OF the crew
of three other vessels which he reports
got ashore so far as Is known, living or
dead.
Captain Cavilier made clear the reason
why communication between Cape Henry
and Cape Hatteras is interrupted. He said
that when his vessel came ashore the shock
lifted one of her iifeboats from the davtS
and the wind carried the boat over and
knocked down telephone pole, breaking
the wire. The break was followed by 9TH
ers until large portion OF the line was
down.
1t is feared here that the schooner NJ. b.
Miller, which put in for harbor here and
sailed on August IL for Darien, Ga. the
schooner Frank w. Mccullough. from Nor
folk for Savannah and an unknown
schooner which sailed in their company
may be among the lost. Captain Ransome
of the tug Reliance saw them sail out of
Chesapeake Bay, and SO far as known
neither has been heard of since. They are
overdue.
1t is believed here that the extent of the
disaster caused by the storm is not yet
half known, and that many vessels not
known to be lost will never come into port.
From North Carolina news comes OF the
loss in Pamlico Sound of the schooners
Goodwin, Aurora. L. r. Hill, and Berwick,
and the probable drowning of as many as
sixty persons.
Reports received today by rail from
points on the North Carolina coast, be-
tween Bodies Island and Cape Hatteras.
and embracing the stations of Big and
Little Kinnakeet and Chiekamicomieo, in
dicate that nearly thirty vessels have met
their fate at the graveyard of American
shipping" The Government wires are
mostly down, and news has to be carried
ninety miles to a steamer which connects
with rail to Norfolk. The coast is strewn
with wrecks, large and small, and of
eleven vessels ashore in the immediate vi
cinity of Hatteras, the names of six are
unknown. An occasional body washes
ashore, and where there is no means OF
Identification it is buried by the life
savers.
The report today is confirmed that the
famous Diamond Shoals lightship is
stranded in Hatteras Inlet, and her crew
Of twenty-three men are able to walk
ashore The recent hurricane snapped the
steel hawsers, and the steam propeller OF
| the ship counted for nothing in the gale.
Fortunately the life-saving service as
not crippled. although the station barns
were swept away and horses drowned. The
crews of four stations saved forty-five per-
sons from eleven wrecks. Fully seventy
five seamen are unaccounted for.
The telephone lines between stations
south of Hatteras being down, it is not
known how many ships are ashore or how
many lives have been lost. Shipping men
say that the aggregate number OF vessels
lost is very large, and it may be weeks
before fun list Of lives and vessels lost
is obtained
A tugboat man reports a large British
steamer breaking up south of Hatteras.
Two hundred and fifty bales of cotton and
many oak slaves have fioated ashore. The
fate Of her crew, which probably numbered
about twenty seven men, is unknown.