The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-17
RAGING BLIZZARD
BRINGS DISASTER
Four Schooners Known to Have
Been Wrecked Off Massa-
chusetts Coast.
REVENUE CUTTER BUSY
Gresham Spends Day Trying to
Undo Havoc Wrought
by Storm.

Boston, Mass. = December ls.-The
northwest blizzard OF last night and
to-day brought disaster to shipping
along the Massachusetts coast and to-
night four schooners were known to
have been wrecked. another was In
tow disabled, one barge had toundered.
and other barges were reported adrift
and missing.
The revenue cutter Gresham, which
took aboard the crews of two sinking
schooners, and assisted other vessels.
spent the entire day and most of the
night undoing the havoc of the storm.
Up to tonight no definite report Of
loss of life had reached this city.
The vessels which suffered from tho
storm included the following:
Schooner Thomas d. Garland, OF
Portsmouth, q total wreck on Great
Point bar. Nantucket, The crew was
rescued early to-day by the Coskata
life-saving crew.
Schooner Abbie c. Cole, of Machias,
Ne, stranded and waterlogged on Stone
Horse Shoal. off Monomoy Point The
crew was rescued by the Gresham this
morning when the Monomoy Point life
savers found the seas too heavy to
man their lifeboats.
The two-masted schooner H. E.
Aver was taken in tow by the Gresham
off Old Harbor
British schooner S. a. Fownes ashore
off Monomoy Point The Gresham took
on board the crew late to-day.
Lumber laden schooner Stephen G
Loud. abandoned thirty three miles
southeast Of Boston Light. The crew
was rescued this morning by the
steamer A. w. Perry, and brought here
AT Portsmouth. n, H., the three
masted schooner Annie Il. Conlon ar
rived to-day in disabled condition,
twenty-one days out from Philadelphia
The barge May Wood, one Of tow
of three behind the tug Margaret
foundered last night off Cape Cod and
the other barges of the tow. the Scran-
ton and Binghamton, are missing One
of the barges in tow of the tug cum
berland is also reported missing.
Anchorage ordinarily safe proved
treacherous to vessels last nilllt, owing
to the strength of the blizzard, The
storm was also heavily laden with
snow. Mariners We're unprepared for
TIE change in the mild southerly
breeze of Wednesday to the gusty
Of Thursday.
Dnrses III Trouble.
Vineyard Haven Mass, December.
l6,--The laundering of the barge May
wood the rescue of her crew OF four
men and the probable loss OF the |
bnrges Scranton and Binghamton with
their crews of three and four men re-
spectively, We're reported here tonight |
by Captain NauN, OF the tug Margaret |
which had the barges, all coal laden
in tow from New York to Boston
The Margaret left here with
her tow Yesterday morning Favorable
weather prevailed until about r NJ. |
Then the wind changed suddenly and |
Increased to violent gale with snow.
The tug slowly proceeded north, with !
the haywood, Scranton and Blnghamton
In tow. In the order named AT > A.
Nj. to-day It was discovered that tho |
towing hawser had parted and that |
the Scranton and Binghamton We're
hdrift. They We're not seen again.
The haywood sprank a-leak during !
the night, and ut a. NJ to-day her
captain, George West, hois,ed signals |
Of distress, With eight fee OF water
IL her hold It was found thgt the May
wood must soon he abandoned
Twenty minutes after the tug had |
taken the Maywood's crew aboard
the barge Went down with her cargo of
!. 400 tons of coal.