The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-09-25
MANY BOATS AND WRECKS STREWN
ASHORE FROM N. o. TO COAST.
Scene of Wreck and Ruin on Lake and Coast
Shore---Top of St. Joe's Lighthouse Blown
Off and Landed in the Marsh

FROM New orleans tnFOugn Lake
Pontchartrain to the Rigolets is a scene
of wreck and ruin among the shipping
at differentpoints and sailing boats OF
various kinds and sizes are high and
dry in the marshes.
The steam schooner Florence is
aground at Baldwin's Lodge and efforts
were made last night to pull her into
deep water again. The Florence was
loaded with lumber when she was driven
ashore by the wind Monday. Tuesday
the cargo was unloaded on to the barge
June. This lightened the steamer con-
siderably and by means Of tug the
owners thought they would able to save
the boat, either during the night Or
today.
That the storm was not without its
freaks of nature is evident by the fact
that a two-masted schooner was picked
up by the water, carried a mile through
channels and marshes and landed along
side the railroad tracks between Dunbar
and Baldwin's Lodge. The crew and
captain remained with the boat, being
utterly unable to get off safely, and
none Of them were injured in the least.
Neither vas the boat itself damaged to
any great extent. The schooner rests
on a pile of debris on the south side Of
the Louisville and Nashville tracks.
The vessel is in an upright position,
her decks being nearly level with the
cross arm on the telegraph poles.
The cove at Baldwin'S Lodge is nearly
filled with wreckage and five or six
schooners were on land fully four feet
above the level OF the water yesterday.
Another schooner is partially under
water, with her bow in the air.
Ten or twelve schooners were wrecked
at the cove and immediate vicinity
Some are lying on their sides, the ma5ts
and sails of others having been blown
away and several practically wrecked
altogether. The scene is one Of desola-
ton. Along the north beach OF the
little inlet there is a tangled mass OF
rigging, with here and there boat fol
fully 200 yards. Yesterday the futile
efforts of the different boatmen to save
| their schooners was almost pathetic as
they worked single-handed or assisted
! by a man or two. Each man tried to dc
the best he could to bring about results,
but in most instances this work has
brought but little progress.
When the wind began it seems that
many of the boatmen made for the cove
at Baldwin's, hoping against hope that
they would find shelter there. instead
in most cases, the boats went to their
very doom, but it would probably have
been worse for them had the men en-
deavored to keep their schooners out in
the open.
Another freak of the storm was the
carrying away of the top of the st. Joe
lighthouse, near Half Moon Island. The
top, which sheltered the light, was lifted
bodily from from its position and landed
in the marshes half mile away. The
lamp itself was not damaged in the
least and last night and the night before
burned as brightly as ever. The wharf
landing in front of the lighthouse was
demolished. Only few piles remain.
Not far from the lighthouse is the hull
of a schooner with the masts gone. The
captain cut the masts to save himself
and oeB