Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-28
Ten Vessels Wrecked, With Shocking Loss I
Life--Damage Enormous Along the Coast and
On the Shore--Rai|roads, E|ectrics, Light
ing and Power Plants Slowly Recovering.

Boston, Dec 27.-With the news of
the probable loss of the big five-masted
schooner Davis Palmer, and her crew
Oh II men, OF Boston harbOr and of the
"recAlng of nine other vessels along.
the Massachusetts coast, the opening
chapter of the toll taken on the sea
by the great storm which swept New
England Saturday night and Sunday.
was revealed today. Cape Cod is still
cut off, save for it's northern tip where
there is a wireless station. With the
restoration Of communication with this
stornl-sWept section which in common
| win southeastern Massachusetts bore
the hrurt Of the BLIZZARD it is feared
| that scene of marine disasters and
storm damage unequalled in years will
eb unveiled
| Wreckage borne into Boston harbor
today ON an unusually high tide is be-
lleved to be the mute witness of the
loss Of the Davis Palmer, Newport
News for Boston, somewhere near the
entrance to the harbor. A signal box
among the wreckage contained a bur-
gee which bore the Palmer's name, as
did quarter board found nearby. The
wreck itself, however, has not been To-
Gated
| The three rlasted schooner Nartas-
ket was hurled ashore at Scituate Vol
unteer lifesavers, using the breeches
buoy, rescued her crew of 10 men. 1t
is probable that the vessel which lies
on Sands Hill beach, will be a total
loss, as great seas tonight are sweep
| no n or<rA Of Inv l,ox, el,N
was bound for Boston from North Car
DINA.
Another victim of the storm was the
schooner Belle Halliday, which after
grounding Saturday and being re-
foated was again hurled against the
shore at Brant point, Nantucket, where
she is still exposed to the fury of the
sea. The fate of her crew is unknown.
but it. is believed that they have beer
rescued. The Belle Halliday was bound
for Nantucket from Philadelphia, load
ed with railroad iron.
On the rocky shores of Marthas Vine
yard, two schooners are being swept
by every sea. Both are waterlcgged.
They are the A. X. Mclean, a British
vessel, bound from Perth Amboy to
Halifax, and the Stonington, Me,
schooner Maud Seward, Port Reading
for ProvincetoWn. Both crews have
been taken off. The Seward is at Lam
bert's cove.
At Provincetown the sloop Monito is
at the mercy of the waves and on the
flats of Plymouth harbor are four small
schooners, all of which will probably
be relocated with little damage.
he of in h,,
gaps in telegraph and telephone wire
systems and in railroad and trolley
lines which had been opened by the
blizzard was rushed all day. Tonight
the telegraph companies reported a
capacity of about IS per cent. of the
normal, Will the telephone companies
resources have been restored to the eX-
tent of about IS per cent. Railroad and
trolley line schedules were largely fill
ed today, although delays of from one
half to three hours were noted on rail
road trains.
Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape
Gods sandy peninsula particularly
and Rhode Island suffered most and
are still in the most denlOralZed con-
: dition as far as wire transportation
service goes. Many places in South
eastern Massachusetts have not witt
! messed the arrival of a train for dayA.
New Bedford and Fall River have been
cut off from telegraph communication
with the outside world since Sunday
morning.
Fear felt for the safety of vessels in
the vicinity Of Cape Gods southeast
ern extremity were partly allayed to-
!
from Chatham saying that no shipping
disasters We're reported there. On land
the damage due to the tidal flow which
was the highest ever recorded in Chat
ham, was considerable. Monomoy point,
10 miles from Chatham, and one of the
most dangerous points on the entire
coast, has yet not been heard from. The
only life saving station there is cut
off from the rest of the world by the
breaking OF the single telephone wire.
Boston, Dec. Pit was a day of
reckoning in New England today after
yesterdays tempest on sea and land.
Up to noon today Is lives were known
10 have been sacrificed, three in Chel-
sea and Everett, and IL through the
loss of the five-masted schooner Davis
Palmer off Boston Ilarbor, and at that
tiEle it was still believed that the list
of casualties was incomplete.
The storms havoc was apparently
last of a line drawn from New Lon.
don, Conn, to Portsmouth, N. H. West
"rt line. ordinary snow storm con-
ditions prevailed. But to the eastward,
moot koode Island and south
eastern Massachusetts,, where the
storm ragged with great violence for