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COAST FULL OF WRECKS.
Wild Shore Near Cape Hatteras a
Graveyard For Many Vessel.
SURVIVORS TELL OF LIVES LOST.

story OF tho Recent Storm ABOUT Cape
Hatteras-Eleven Wrecks strew the
shore-Brave Work Of the Life Savers
-Houses Swept Away-The Priscilla
Founders-Four of tho Crew Lost.
NonFoLK, Va. (speclaD.-News which
reached Norfolk OF the loss Of eleven ves-
sells near Cape Hatteras during the late
hurricane has grown more appalling since
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 Jergen, Robert ". Dazy. Florence
Crandall and Aaron Reppard. The Dia.
mond Shoals Llghtship, reported to have
parted her anchor chains, drifted ashor q
and lies high and dry on the beach. An
unknown vessel, re ported to be bark, has
drifted ashore. Besides these. six more
vessels are stated upon the authority o.
survivors OF the storm, to be wrecks on tie
shore between Cape Hatteras and New In.
let.
New Inlet Is passage which the waters
lot long ago made through the long
tongue OF land which lies outside OF Pam.
llco Sound. It Is about twenty miles north
Of Hatteras. This shore Is strswn with
wreckage from known and unknown ves-
sells which have foundered at sea or been
dashed to pieces on the coast. Two hun.
dred and f1fty-sl1 bales Of cotton which
came ashore are supposed to be from. the
cargo OF some steamer which foundered.
The vessel upon which the greatest nun.
Der OF lives, 80 far as Is known, were lost
Is the barkentlne Priscilla, Captain Spring.
steen. She was vessel OF 612 tors regis.
ter and she sailed from Baltimore for Rie
with general cargo on August IL,
Two days later she passed out at
Cape Henry and on the night Of
wreck. Captain Sprlngsteen's son, twenty
tour years old, mate OF the vessel,
attempted to swim ashore With his mother
on bis back. Both were drowned. The
captains other son attempted to swim
ashore with friend, Fitzhugh Lee Golden.
borough, said to be relative Of General
Fitzhugh Lee, and both were lost. HELP
came after this, and by means Of the
breeches buoy CAPTAIN Springsteen and the
crew OF eleven men were all taken of.
The Robert "; Dazy, whose captain, a
German mate, George ". Layaeld, OF Bal
timore, and crew Of four men were taken
of In the breeches buoy in safety, went to
Eieces. She was bound from Philadelphia
to Jacksonville with cargo OF coal.
The schooner Florence Randall, Of Port
Jefferson, Captain Cavileer, from Promised
Land, L.. l., with fish scrap for Charles
ton, struck and went to pieces, oil on board
being saved.
or the crew OF the schooner Aaron Rep
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 a man named Cummings, OF Charles
ton, d passenger.
The three-masted schooner Minnie Ber.
gen, Captain Sykes Bowman, was bound
from PHILADELPHIA for Nuevitas, Cuba, with
200 tons Of railroad iron, one locomotive,
200 tons OF coal and 1900 cases Of coal oil.
She struck near Chickmecomico on Friday
morning, August II. and went to pieces
within an hour. All aboard were rescued
by the life savers who used the breeches
buoy.
The fury of the storm 1s stated to have
been awful. Twelve houses and two
churches were washed away at Big Kin
aaknut, and twenty-five homeless people
are housed in the little life-sa7ing station
there. The spars Of the schooner Ran
1all were found nine miles from the wreck
u the vessel and are said to have been
blown through the air with the canvas at.
.ached to them to the place where they
we're fouLd. The loss OF life Is great.