The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-05
MARINE DISASTERS
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Oil dlst cape yesterday
and eleven others are missing. The
Dutch steamer Prina Maurits is be-
lieved to have gone down with all
aboard. numbering about 40. The res
sci was last heard from early yester-
day off Hatteras when her wireless
calls for help said she was in a dan
gerous condition
Two British warships. the coast
guard cutter Onondage and several
other vessels rushed to the Maurits'
aid. The British warships. one the
Corona. reached the position given
by the steamer az o'clock yesterday
afternoon. but there was no trace of
the vessel.
Wireless messages received tonight
indicate that none OF the other search
ing vessels had been successful. one
message said:
British warships found no trace OF
the Prins Mauries at position given.
Probably sunk"
Got No Response.
Another said that all efforts TO get
responses from the Prins Maurits to
wireless calls had failed. The coast
guard cutter Onondaga still is search
ing for the steamer.
Reports from the coast between
False Cape and Hatteras tonight were
meagre. because OF the crippled con-
dition of the government seacoast
wires. No news was received from
Hatteras.
Large quantities OF wreckage are
reported along the coast from False
Cape to Cape Henry.
The barges Henry Endicott. Nanti-
coke. Georgia and Potomac. which
broke away from the tug Resolute.
Friday night. were lowed into port to-
day. with all on board safe. The tugs
Albatross. Resolute and Defiance
picked up the barges so miles OF the
Virginia capes.
Lightship No. As. stationed OF cape
Charles. which was torn from her
moorings and carried far out TO sea
Friday. was found ten miles north or
Virginia Beach today by the light
house tender Orchid. The lightsnip
was not seriously damaged.
Schooner 7eseued.
The Diamond Shoals ightship
drifted four miles of her station. but
her anchors then held and she rode
out the storm in safety. She is re-
ported to have rescued the crew or
the schooner NJ. r. Cressey.
The schooner Baker Palmer. re-
ported ashore near Lynn Haven Day,
proved to be safe today. she an
chored close inshore to escape the
gale.
The Old Dominion steamer Jener-
son from New York. due to arrive
here at IL O'Clock this morning had
not arrived up to midnight. Agents
of the company said the steamer
would arrive about daybreak tomor-
row.
Damage done BY the storm at vir-
ginia Beach. Oceanview and Buckroe
Beach Is estimated at 100000.
LEwEs. Del. April 4,-Yesterday's
coast storm claimed ten victims in the
vicinity OF the Delaware Capes Tney
were the crews OF the Consolidation
Coal Company's barges Nos. and y.
bound from Baltimore for Boston with
coal and were drowned when the craft
foundered near Cape Henlopen and
went TO pieces in the gale.
The barges. which were In tow or
the tug Cumberland. broke adrift
early in the day. Despite heroic -.
forts In the face Of a binding snow
storm and a sixty mile gale. the Cum
berland's crew was unable 70 get an
other line 10 the barEes which drifted
helplessly for some time. finally 20
ing aground For hours the tug stood
by but because Of the fury OF the sea.
found Il impossible to render any as
sistance. About noon the barges
broke 20 pieces and sank with ali
hands aboard The bodies % Captain
Johnson. Baltimore: Karl Larsen. a
Swedish subject. and Dempsey Jarvis.
also ~ Baltimore. washed ashore late
In the day and were recovered BY
coast guards.
The wind during the storm averaged
90 miles an hour a. tho Breakwater
and AZ one time attained a velocity o.
more than seventy miles Coast
guards and life savers o. the T.ewes
and Rehoboth stations made repeated
efforts 20 launch q iifeboat when the
plight % the barRes was discovered.
but they found o. impossible 70 get
throuah the boiling surf
A third barge. which was also being
towed by tho Cumberland. was
brought safely into the harbor a. the
BreakWater
She These functions are 90 an.
natural people pretending 60 o. some.