Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30
TWO WRECkS OFF BOSTON
Indications that Davis Palmer and
Another Schooner Collided.
NEWPORT Is STILL CUT OFF
only News from Rhode Island
City Comes by Messenger-TwO
Hunters FrOseB 20 Death
In New Jersey.

BOSTON, Dec. 2.-The discovery today
OF the wreck Of the five-masted schooner
Davis Palmer. which sank with twelve men
Sunday morning at the entrance OF Broad
sound, was followed by the report Of an
other wreck in the outer harbor. This sec
ond victim OF the great storm which swept
New England Saturday night and Sunday
was reported by Captain Kemp OF the tug
Ariel, who asserts that he saw three masts
OF a schooner projecting above the water
near the shoals known as THE Graves"
Although Captain Kemp locates the yes
sci three miles east OF the wreck OF the
Palmer, some marine authorities think hat
he may have been mistaken In his bearings
and that he saw the Palmer's masts.
Seafaring men. who believe the tuRboat
captain Is not in error about his bearings,
are discussing the possibility Of a collision
between the Palmer and the unknown
schooner.
Probably the last person to see the Palmer
before it sank was Captain Sookamp of
the barge Hopatcong, which docked at
Lynn today from HoboNeI. He reported
passing the Palmer off Cape Cod late
Christmas afternoon. At that time the
Palmer's crew were on deck singing and
celebrating the holiday in true sea fashion,
III unhnoWlNk Ol lHb lhAe NhaN NaAN
them within a few hours at the entrance
TO their home port.
Roll of Wrecks Increased.
Yesterdays roll Of wrecks was increased
today. The schooner. Ada X. Damon, the
sole support of its aged master, Captain
A. X. Brewster OF York, Me. went ashore
near Ipswich. 1t will probably be a total
loss. Its crew managed to reach shore
safely.
In Chelsea, where a tidal wave broke a
dyke and flooded the homes Of 1900 people.
a high tide today opened two new breaks.
Many of the cellars on high ground, which
had been pumped out by fire engines were
again flooded. II will be weeks before the
tpeople in the eighty acres which are I'M
der water will be able to return to their
homes.
Newport in Cut off.
NEWPORT, r. l., Dec. 29.-Newport has
now been three days without wire COM
munication with the outside world, as a
result OF the Christmas night storm. 1t is
estimated by telephone company officials
, that the damage to their systems will reach
500, 900. Today. as yesterday. brokers Of
fees were without their usual market
quotations.
inter Frozen to Death.
WILDWOOD. N. J., Dec 2S-Two g~unners
who were found frozen to death near here
yesterday were identified by members of
their families today as Lewis c.. Krautter,
an instructor in botany in the University
Of Pennsylvania and Ernest ]. W. Nc
Farlane, a son OF Prof. John NJ. McFarlane
Of the University of Pennsylvania. The
young men had left their homes in Phila-
delphia last Friday for a cunning trip at
the shore.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29.-With food
products becoming scarcer and their price
consequently higher, with street railway
traffic uncertain and slow and with many
railroads trains arriving late, Philadelphia
is still busy raising the blocade caused by
the great Christmas snowstorm.
Only Is per cent of the daily milk supply
reached the city yesterday and wholesale
dealers estimated that today's supply was
25 per cent below normal.
Eggs, vegetables and other food products
are scarcer than they were yesterday and
prices have gone up all round.