The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-23
COAST FULL OF WRECKS.
STORY OF THE RECEvT STORM IBoUr
CAPE HATTBRAS

Many Vessels Reported Lost-The Names OF
Only a Few Known-Four Drowned From
Tho Barkentine Prisciila-Brave Work
OF The Live Snvers-Houses swept Away.
NORFOLK Va. Aug. 22.-News which reached
Norfolk this afternoon Of the loss OF eleven ves~
sells near Cape Hatteras during the recent hur.
richno has grown more appalling since the,
fuller story Of the survivors OF the disaster has
been told. The list OF vessels now knows
to have been lost includes the
barkentine Priscilla and the schooners
Minnie Bergen. Robert W. Dazy. Florence
Crandall and Aaron leopard. Tho Diamond
Shoals LiRhtship. reported yesterday to have
parted her anchor chains. drifted ashore and
lies high and dry on the beach. An unknown
vessel. reported to be bark. has drifted
ashore. Besides these six more vessels are
stated upon tho authority Of survivors OF the
| storm. who arrived here to-day. to be wrecks on
the shore between Cape Hatteras and New
Inlet.
New Inlet is passage which tho waters not
| long ago made through the long tongue oe
| land which lies outside OF Pamlico Sound 1t
| Is about twenty miles north OF Hatteras This
| shore is strcwn with wreckagc from known and
| unknown vessels which have foundercd at sea
| or been dashed to pieces tho coast. Two
| hundred and ffty-siX bales OF cotton which
| came ashore are supposed to be from the cargo
| OF some steamer which foundcred. Cotton ex-
'portcrs fear that somo coastwise steamer
| probably also carrying passengers. has beeK
| lost on a voyage for New York or a Now Eng
| land port
The telephone wire along tho coast has not
| yet been restored. and the only definite newa
received was brought by the survivors who
arrived to-day Letters were put aboard the
| river steamer Ncusc. which aftcrwarl ground-
| ed and still lies ashore in the sound near
| Hatteras Tho persons who arrived here came
| by rail from Elizabeth City. n. G. They trav-
elied ninty miles in order to reach the railway.
Most OF them were sent to their homes in
Philadelphia. Baltimore. New York and other
cities tonight. All asked that the heroic work
| OF the life-savrrs at Cape Hatteras. Big kinnak-
nut and Little Kinnaknut stations be especially
| commended. saying that to these men they
owe their lives.
The vessel upon which the greatest number
OF lives. 30 far as Ia known. were lost Ia the
barkentine Priscilla, Capt. Sprngsteen. She
was vessel OF 6l2 tons register and she sailed
from Baltimore for Rio with a general cargo.
on Aug. H. Two days later she passed out at
Cape Henry and on the night OF that day went
ashore. She is total wreck. Capt. Spring.
| stems son. "a years old. mate OF the vessel.
attempted TO swim ashore with his mother on
his back. Both were drowned The captains
other son attempted to swim ashore with q
friend. Fitzhugh Lee Goldenborough. said to
be a relative Of Gen. Ftzhugh Lee. and both
were lost. Help came after this. and by means
OF the breaches buoy Capt. SprinRstoen and tho
crew Of eleven men were all taken of.
The Robert W. Day. whose captain. a Ger
man. mate. George W. Layleld OF Baltimore.
| and crew OF four men were taken of in the
| breoches buoy In SAFETY. went to pieces. She
| was bound from Philadelphia to Jacksonville
| with n cargo OF coal.
| The schooner Florence Randall Of Port Jeffer~
| son. Capt. Cavileer. from Promised Land. L. L..
| with fish scrap for Charleston. struck and went
| 10 pieces. all on board being saved.
| or the crew OF the schooner Aaron Peppard-
| the first vessel reported TO have gone ashore
| at Hatteras. five men. including Capt Oscar
| Vessel. were lost. while three swan nshore
| through the breakers. The lost are. besides
| the captain. W. Robinson. steward. OF st. Al,
| bans: Tony Nelson and James McLynsett, OF
| Philadelphia. and man named Cummings OF
Charleston. passenger.
The three-masted schooner Minnie Bergen.
| Capt. Sykes Bowman. was bound from Phila-
delphia for Nuevtas. Cuba. with 200 tons OF
railroad iron. one locomotive. 200 tons OF coal
| and 300 cases OF coal oil She struck near
| Chick mccomico on Friday morning, Aug. IL.
| and went to pieces within an hour. All aboard
| were rescued by the life savers who used the
| brooches buoy.
| The fury of the storm is stated to have been
| awful. Twelve houses and two churches were
washed away at Big Kinnaknut. and twenty
| five home people are housed in tho little
| life-saving station there. The spars OF the
| schooner Randall were found nine miles
| from the wreck Of the vessel and said
| 10 have been blown through the air with
the canvas attached to them to the place where
| they were found The loss OF life is believed
| to he much greater than is now known.
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