The age-herald., 1902-02-04
Storm Brings Death and De-
 structiOn Along Coast
FORCE OF WIND NOW ABATEC
Wrecking Tugs Swamped and Crews Had Narrow Escape-AII Assist ance Possible Being Ren-
 dered-Bodies Ashore.

l New York, February 3. - The gale which has been sweeping the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey for more than "A hours and is continuing tonight though with abated force, has brought death and disaster to sailors and their craft. Wreckage strews the shore in the vicinity of the Bellport life-saving sta l tion and one body came ashore east of this station. The finding of two other bodies was reported later from the sama point.
 The crew of the American merchant man Schepp, a full-rigged ship which went ashore on the Long Beach, L. l.. shoals early today were in peril all day Late reports tonight say they are stili on the stranded vessel. though the dan ger of death has been lessened.
 The crews of the sea-going tugs John F. Berynd and C. S. Atwood had a mar row escape from going to the bottom with their craft Sunday afternoon. Nothing was known of their plight until the arrival today of the German steamer Barcelona, the crew of which rescued the tugmen. The tugs had been delivering provisions to the stranded steamer Ca vour, ashore at Long Beach, L. l., and proceeding back to this point.
 Waves Washed Over Them.
 When the gale struck them the wave. began to wash over them not only sweep ing off everything movable but flooding their holds and getting into the fire boxes. The seven men on each tug were in imminent danger of death for over two hours. The tugs were absolutely help- less and gradually sinking when the Bar celona hove in sight and took the half | frozen crews aboard. Within half an l hour after this the two tugs went to the bottom with the dunnage of the men.
 Captain Claus Bohn was utterly ex-
 hausted when the Barcelona reached the
 South Central pier this morning, as he
 had been forty-eigh hours on the bridge
 Last year he was presented with gold
 medal by the New York Life Saving As. | sociation for his gallant rescue of seven
 teen men in mid-ocean. the crew of a | Russian bark that he found sinking in | the Atlantic ocean.
 FEARFUL WIND
 ON THE JERSEY COAST.
 Philadelphia, February 3.-The wind storm which began yesterday afternoon and which reached a velocity of fifty miles along the Southern New Jersey l coast and in the vicinity of the Delaware | breakwaters. has greatly diminished, and | tonight is blowing at a rate of about | twenty miles an hour. Reports from the South Jersey coast and Delaware river points indicate that vessels that were exposed to the gale weathered the storm fairly well. Two vessels are ashore on Brigantine Shoal short distance north of Atlantic City, New Jersey. and two steamers are reported aground in Dela- ware bay about fifty miles below this city. The British steamer Cloverdale, which grounded on Brigantine Shoal yes terday, is still fast. The wind and set are unfavorable and during the last twenty-four hours she has been swung around by the elements until she now lies broadside on deep in the sand. Wrecking tugs are with her.
 The schooner Edith L. Allen, which went ashore during the night on the same shoal within short distance of the Cloverdale, is also fast in the sand. The schooner which was bound from Bruns- wick, Ga., for New York with lumber, was mislead by the lights of the Clover dale and the tugs that were around her. and before the captain saw his mistake the Allen touched bottom.
 Advices to the Maritime Exchange say the British steamer Europe Is reported aground in Delaware bay, six miles below Reddy Island and the British steamer Drummond, Philadelphia for St. Thom- as, is reported fast in the mud in Della ware bay. The schooner R. D. Ribber from Mobile for New York, was blown ashore in the Delaware breakwater har- bor, but was soon afterward foated and | sailed for her destination.