Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-29
LIMP INTO PORT
Many Vessels Seek Safety
After Atlantic Gale.
THE BADGER AT NORFOLK
Steel Barge Picked Up by Steamer
Saramanca.
ELEVEN SCHOONERS MISSING
Sixty Newfoundland Sailors Are Be-
ieved to Be Lost-Italian Bark
Strikes on Reef.
THE BADGER AT NORFOLK
ELEVEN SCHOONERS MISSING

NORFOLK. VA. December 29.-After
having been buffeted about on the high
seas by terrific waves and blown help
less before winds of hurricane force,
the steel barge Badger of Searsport.
Me-, which broke adrift from her tow
ing consort, the steamer Bay State, off
Brigantine, n. J.. during the storm of
Christmas, while bound from Lynn.
Mass, to Newport News. is safely an
chored in Hampton roads today. The
vessel was picked up in a helpless con-
dtion at sea Tuesday by the steamer
Saramanca of the Royal Dutch West
India line, which left New York Mon
day, bound to Trinidad and Parama-
ribo.
Capt. Van der Est of the Saramanca.
when his vessel was near Atlantic City,
discovered the helpless barge and went
to her assistance in response to sig
nails for help. The master of the barge
requested tow to Hampton roads, and
as that was only q little out of the
path Of the Saramanca Capt. Van der
Est consented to perform this service
for which he will be paid according to
admiralty law.
Crew Worn Out.
Every one of the crew of six of the
Badger was pretty we'll worn out by their
trying experience after the barge had
been lost by the steamer Bay State. As
their vessel was stanch they had little
to fear from the terrific storm. Word
was sent to the vessels owners as soon
as she reached port.
The British steamer Whitfield. from
Boston to Jamaica, via Norfolk, arrived
| today after a severe experience in the
Christmas gale of the New England
coast. All anchors failed to hold the
Whitfield during the worst of the storm
and she was almost sent ashore. Charies
Huttinger, a German member of the
Whitfield's crew, had to be sent to ST
vincent's Hospital with a broken shoulde.
upon the ships arrival today. The whit
field will load coal here for Jamaica.
The revenue cutter Onondaga. will
headquarters here. put to sea this morn
| ing in search of the schooner Netti'
Champion, reported abandoned eighty-f1v'
miles east by south of Cape Henry. Va
! The vessel is lumber laden. She is l \
feet long and of 455 tons. Her home por
| is Somers Point, n. j.
Eleven Schooners Missing.
ST JOHNS. n. F., December e9.-
Eleven Newfoundland schooners and theil
been lost in the Christmas blizzard
Wlllo great OeStTuCtiOH " pIopcil y
| throughout this island colony has re-
| suited. The storm. which reached iti
height Sunday, ragged for six days. but
today has abated considerably.
| All telegraph lines in the interior OF
| the colony are down and reports from in
land points are slow in reaching here.
The town Of Placentia was flooded fol
three days. and the principal bushes:
| street of that place resembles an ocear
beach, being piled high with fiotsam cas-
up by the unusually high tides. The vii
Ilage of Blackhead, three miles from thi:
city, was almost swept away.
| This December has been the stormies
month the Newfoundland coast has ex
perienced in half century. and it is esti
| mated that it's cost to the fisheries anC
general trade is more than $15OOOO-
Rum Spilled Into Sea.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, December 29.-
The Italian bark Filippo Denegri. from
Barbados for New York, laden with run
and sugar, struck on the north side reef:
yesterday afternoon. There was gale
prevailing at the time and this, with 6
heavy sea, prevented any assistance be-
ing rendered. This morning a tug went
| to the scene and stood by to render al
the aid necessary. The crew is safe. bu
the vessel will be a total loss. She IL
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