The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-18
DEATH I.ISI
 IsG;s SHOWING Result E Atlantic Coast
 { Storm. !. THE RELIANCE DAMAGED The Cup Defender Rammed
 by a Pile Driver. Story of the Thrilling Experience of the Freight Steamer s. E. Spring-The Cook .t. Was Q Hero.
THE RELIANCE DAMAGED

New York, Sept 1.-The death list of yesterdays storm was further increased to-day when the Fulton Market fishing fleet arrived. A. B. Latham of New Lon- don. captain of the schooner Esther and Anita, and two of his crew were swept overheard and drowned and Captain John G. Morgan and a Norwegian sailor are missing from the schooner M A. Bar ton. Henry Snyder and George Schaub. Long Island brakemen, who were swept
 from a box car by the gale yesterday; Edgar W. Bassford, injured by being
 blown from a roof and James Grimes, struck by falling lumber dislodged by the gale, died in Brooklyn hospitals to- day.
 In Jamaica Bay. Long Island. scores of yachts were wrecked. The entire fleet of the Jamaica Bay Yacht Club. com prising more than thirty boats. valued
 at sums up to $1,000 was destroyed.
 The beaches at New Rochelle. on Long Island sound and City Island are strewn
 with wreckage from yachts, and it is esti-
 mated that not less than $500,O00 damage
 was done these vessels alone. Reliance Damaged. The cup defender Reliance is reported to have been somewhat injured through
 being rammed by a pile driver which
 broke loose from it's moorings and drift S however, was not serious.
 A barge loaded with 800 pounds of dy-
 namite broke from it's moorings and
 drifted toward the Larchmont Yacht Club house. Many yachts of wealthy New Workers have been anchored in this har- bor since the races. and 1t was feared that the barge would drift among them. careening about, the dynamite barge fin- ally grounded on the mud flats without doing any damage.
 Rough estimates of the financial loss due to the storm are $2.0O0,0O0 on and around Manhattan Island alone. So far eighteen lives are known 10 have been lost in the storm and 1t Is believed this
 number will be doubled when all reports are fin. F--s --s-==7---e T,s-s 4 Thrilling Story. One of the most thrilling stories of dis aster Is that of the excursion and freight steamer S. E. Spring. which was driven ashore near Greenwich. Conn. The Spring was trying to put back to | Stamford and the gale had reached a | velocity of eighty miles an hour when | the rudder failed and the steamer l foundered at the mercy of the huge seas which swept over her.
 The panic-stricken passengers fled to
 the upper-deck, where they sought re- fuge in the cabins, and the women be-
 
 | ing to turn about when a sudden gust of wind tore off the entire roof of the upper deck, leaving only the pilot house. When the roof went off the boat was lifted half out of the water The strain | was so great that it tore off the rudder and when she settled down again in the | trough of the sea she was perfectly help 1 less.
 Life Rafts Smashed. ha af ha of the storm, the sailors, as a last resort,
 made determined effort to get an anchor | down to hold the steamers head to the | wind. No sooner had they done so than | the chain snapped. The steamer was fast | being driven toward Shelving Rock. one
 of the most dangerous shoals on the Con- necticut shore. The passengers were or-
 dered to put on life preservers and be l ready to board the life rafts.
 A scene of wild confusion followed. The crew launched the largest life raft and l the passengers with life preservers stood
 ready to get upon it when the raft sud-
 denly struck the hull of the boat and
 was pounded to pieces. A second life raft
 put over by the crew also was destroyed. The Cook as a Hero. This left only one small boat of any | description on the steamer, and 1t was | SO small that Captain Mcdonald was afraid to put 1t over. He tried to put
 up distress signals, but the wind snap | ped off the flagstaff.
 The steamer drifted along the shore an hour until she hit the rocks off the point at E. c. Benedicts country home and | stove in her bow As soon as she touched
 a colored cook dropped fifteen feet to the
 rocks. The water was over his head and | he was tossed until he was badly bruised.
 but he kept on swimming and was finally
 tossed on the beach. The man ashore
 grasped lines from the ship and in a few minutes all hands had been safely landed.