Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-17
COMING NORTH.
The Southern Gale Rapidly
Working Up the Coast.
Schooner Hattie A. Marsh, Her Cap
tain and Four Men Lost.
Ashore Outside Delaware Breakwater
Only Two Men Saved.

Delaware Breakwater, Del, Sept. 16.
The southern storm which has been
coming up the Atlantic coast for sew
eral days, struck the Delaware Capes.
early this morning, with almost cy-
clonic force and as a result at least five
lives were lost. The storm lasted from
A. M. until A. M. The wind reached
maximum velocity of so miles an
hour and the rain fell in torrents.
The most serious accident reported
was that which befell the schooner
Hattie A. Marsh, whose captain, j. b.
Mehaffy, and four members of the
crew We're drowned. The Marsh hailed
from New London, Conn.,, and was
bound from Painters Point, Me-, for
Philadelphia, with a cargo of paving
stones. She was caught in the terrific
wind storm outside the new stone
breakwater. The captain tried to reach
the harber of refuge, but before he
could do so the vessel had to anchor
and try TO ride the storm. Her anchor,
however, did not hold and the schooner
with her dead weight Of stone was
dashed on the rocks Of the harbor Of
refuge. The steam pilot boat Phila-
delphia went to the rescue, but only
succeeded in saving Mate Norman
Campbell and one man. The rescued
men were taken to the Lewes life saw
ing station. Thy We're in a very ex-
hausted condition when picked up.
In the old harbor southeast of the ma
rine reporting station, three schooners
dragged their anchors and collided. They
were the Emily F. Northam. Adeline
Townsend and Sea Bird. The Sea Bird.
which was a two-masted vessel sank and
her crew was rescued and landed on the
point of Cape Henlopen. The men, were
cared for at the life saving station. The
Northam held her jibboorh carried away
and her yawl stove. The Townsend lost
her headgear and jibboom.
The barges Elmwood, Gilbertons and
Kalmia, laden with coal from Philadcl-
phia for eastern points, were sunk in Del
aware bay, westward of the, Brown shoal
Their crews were rescued by the tug
Tamaoua, which was towing the barges.
The tug Spartan. which was towing the
barges Tiverton. Hammond and and UNI
known barge. is reported to have sunk.
The barges are anchored at Bear shoal.
There are no tidings of, the Spartan's
crew. 1t is reported that three coal
bdrSeS were SUNK OIL the capeS anu IndL
their crews were probably lost
An unknown bark is anchored off Ocean
City. Md, with distress signals in her
rigging. The pilot boat Philadelphia has
gone to her assistance.
Considerable minor damage was done to
the breakwater. The harbor of refuge.
east end light and day mark on the
breakwater, were carried away. Some of
the pilng at the reporting station was
washed away and the telegraph line was
down all day. Many trees were blown
down and chimneys damaged. The smoke
stack of the city power house fell and
considerably damaged the buildings.
The names of the four sailors of the
schooner Marsh who We're drowned,
were: Harry Joyce, Charles Smith, jos
seph -Inyce and a sailor called New
foundland joe" Their homes were at
Cape Breton, N. S.
Angle Sea, N. j., Sept 16.-The ocean
going tug Spartan, which was engaged
in towing coal barges between Phila-
delphia and New England ports, foun-
dered during this mornings storm on
the ocean at the entrance to Delaware
bay and it is feared five of her crew
are lost. The other 10 members Of the
crew were rescued off floating wreck
age near Cape Henlopen. The Spartan
was towing the barges Triverton,
Hammond and an unknown barge
when she went down 61a miles from the
Delaware Breakwater.
Boston, Sept. 16.-The center of the
vigorous atmospheric disturbance
which caused such havoc in New York
and down the Jersey coast, today,
passed across New England in north
easterl direction. tonight. The storm
while causing considerable damage in
the interior, had little effect upon the
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