The Penn's Grove record., 1899-08-25
COAST FULL OF WRECKS.
Wild Shore Near Cape .Hatteras q
Graveyard For Many a Vessel
CURViV0RS TELL OF LIVES LOST.
Story of the Recent Storm About Cape
uatforas-EIeven Wrecks strew the
Shore-Brsve Work of the Life Savers
Houses Swept Away-The Priscilla
Founders-rour of the Crew Lost.

Shore-Brsve Work of the Life Savers
Houses Swept Away-The Priscilla
Founders-Four of the Crew Lost.
NoRFoLx, Va. Especially News which
reached Norfolk of the loss Of eleven yes.
sells near Cape Hatteras during the late
hurricane has grown more appalling sinc'
the fuller story of the survivors OF the disas
Ter has been told. The list of vessels now
known TO have been lost includes the
barkentine Priscilla and the schooners
Minnie Bergen, Robert W. Dazy, Florence
Jrandali and Aaron Reppard. The Dia-
mondS Shoals Lightship, reported to have
parted her anchor chains, drifted a,hor e
and lies high and dry on the beach. An
unknown vessel, re ported to be n bark, has
drifted ashore. Besides these, six more
vessels are stated upon the authority OF
survivors of the storm, to be wrecks on the
shore between Cape Hatteras and New Ia.
let.
New Inlet is a passage which the waters
not long ago mad through the long
tongue OF land which lies outside of Pam
leo Sound. 1t is about twenty miles north
If Hatteras. THIS shore is strewn with
Treckage from known and unknown YES
sells which have foundered at sea or been
ldSlleu 10 pltcBS On tue COhSLs W. Jun
1red and 1fty-six bales of cotton which
1ame ashore are supposed to be from the
largo of some steamer which fOundered.
The vessel upon which the greatest num-
Der of lives, 50 far as is known, were lost
s the barkentine Priscilla, Captain Spring
teen. She was a vessel of 612 tons regis
:er and she sailed from Baltimore for Rio
With a general cargo on August II.
Two days later she passed. out at
gapo Henry and on the night OF
that day went ashore. She is a total
wreck. Captain Springsteen's son, twenty
attempted to swim ashore with his mother
IN his back. Both were drowned. The
aaptain's other sou attempted to swim
ashore with a friend, Fltzhugh Lee Golden.
borough, said to be u relative of General
Fitzhugh Lee, and both were lost. Help
came after this, aud by means of the
breaches buoy CAPTAIN S~pringsteen and the
rev of eleven men were all taken OF.
The Robert W, Day, whose captain. a
German mate, George W. Layleld, of Bal
tlmore, and n crew of four men were taken
OIL in the breeches buoy In safety, went to
pieces. She was bound from Philadelphia
% Jacksonville with a cargo of coal.
The schooner Florence Randall. of Port
Jefferson, Captain Cavileer, from Promised
Land, L. l., with fsh scrap for Charles
ton, struck n went to pieces, all on board
being saved.
VI lhb NltM u tho HIuppItl AtlOu 4Ntl-
pard, the first vessel reported to have
gone ashore at Hatteras, five men, includ-
ing Captain Oscar Vessel, were lost, while
three swan ashore through the breakers.
The lost are, besides the captain, W. Robin
son, steward, of st. Adams; Tony Nelson
and James McLynsett, of Philadelphia,
and u man named Cummings, OF Charles
ton, q passenger.
The three-masted schooner Minnie Ber-
gen, Captain Sykes Bowman, was bound
from Philadelphia for Nuevitas, Cuba. with
Garoad iron, one locomotive,
200 tons of zeal and 1900 cases OF coal oil.
She struck near Chickmecomico on Friday
morning, August IL, and went to pieces
within an hour. All aboard were rescued
by the life savers who used the breaches
buoy.
The fury of the storm is stated to nave
oeen awful. Twelve houses and two
churches were washed away at Big Kin
laknut, and twenty-five homeless people
are housed in the little life-sa ring station
here. The spars of the schooner Ram
lall we're found nine miles from the wreck
1t the vessel and are said to have been
clown through the air with the canvas at
Rched to them to the place where they
we're found. The loss of life is great.