The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1898, Page 1

¢ VOLUME LXXXIV.—NO. 188, SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NINETY-NINE LIVES GO OUT WITH THE WRECKING OF THE PORTLAND Steamship Dashed to Pieces on the Rocky Shore of Cape Cod. IGHLAND LIGHT, Mass., Nov. 28.—(Delayed in trans- mission.)—The steamer Portland of the Boston and Port- land line, has been lost on Cape Cod, with all on board. The life saving men, through a blinding storm, yesterday morning at 6 o’clock, heard the distress whistle of a steamer and last night at midnight the body of a man was found on shore. On the body of the man was a life belt marked “Steamer Portland of Portland.” A gold watch in his pocket had stopped at 10 o’clock. This man was well dressed, wore black clothes and tan shoes, had light hair and mustache and a piece of card in his pocket bore the words “John W., Congress street, Portland.” The body of a large woman, without covering of any kind, was washed ashore at Pamet River, but there was no means of iden- tifying it. It is-believed that the steamer Portland was disabled by the storm at 10 o’clock last night, being unable longer to hold up against the gale, and drifted onto Peaked Hill bars and went to pieces. No part of the ship had drifted ashore and it is not known jiist where she struck. Boxes of tobacco, clothing, cheese, oil, etc., have been washed ashore, also life preservers marked vith the words “Steamer Portland.” BOSTON, Nov. 29.—Dr. Maurice Richardson of Beacon street, this city, was at his summer home at Wellfleet during the storm and corroborated the early accounts of the loss of the Port- land, for he saw two of the bodies washed ashore and on them were life preservers marked with the vessel’s name. Dr. Richard- son was on the first train from Cape Cod, which arrived in this city late to-night. “I saw two of the bodies pic “One was probably that of a dec had on a life preserver marked ° that of a stout woman. She, to er’s name on it. Wreckage i along the coast. Among the wr to Portland.” In addition to the two bodie: that at Orleans the body of a gi had a gold watch and a ring mar ped at 9:17. There are three bo and twenty-eight at Truro and W Portland came ashore at Orleans. The Portland. was cO wheel eamer of 1317 net tons burden. ked up,” said Dr. Richardson. khand, -a man of about 20. He Portland.” The other body was o, wore a life belt with the steam- ming ashore for fifteen miles eckage were cases of Jard directed s, Dr. Richardson brought news rl of about 20 was found. She ked “J. G. E.” Her watch stop- dies at Nauset, eight at Orleans ellfleet. The double wheel of the built in 1890 in Bath, Me., and was a side- Her length is 230 feet, beant 42 and depth 15 feet. She was valued at $250,000, and is fully msured. TWELVE BODIES WASHED i ASHORE AT CAPE COD Nov. 29.—The s received a m its office at Cape Cod, ve bodies from t teamer been washed ashore at French ispatch Nov. 29. at High- d to be the Portland, was 1an department Loom Works, i Association of Worces fc Institute. TWENTY-SEVEN WRECKS | NEAR PROVINCETOWN | PROVINC Twenty-seven ETOWN, Mass.,, Nov. 29.— vere driven ashore and total in this| neighborhood. Fr 3 y of these the crews were saved, although eral lives were los Four or flve the wrecks were coasters, and the rest were fishermen. During th storm ing was destroyed and the beach strewn with wreckage, streets were flooded and wharves drifted out to sea. Four ice houses and a lobster hatchery -situated at Beach Point were | d. | The list of casualties includes the | schooners Daniel Boone, Mary Cabral, Isaac Collins, the steamer A. B. Nicker- son of Provincetown; the schooners Sayward of Gloucester, Sylvester en of Boston, F. P. Foster and F. mith of Provincetown, and the fishing schooner Unique of Boston. f the schooner R. Walker and the coaster Addie E. ts 1ceste Snow of Rockland, Me., drifted ashore at Race Point this afternoon. Flour, pork, lard and whisky barrels have been ting ashore along the beach between Point and_Highland Light lif: 1g station to-day. Seve; es have drifted ashore near High Light, and part of a boat marked ‘‘Steamer Portland.” The Wood Island - life savers made several gailant efforts yesterday to reach the schooner Jordan L. Mott, bound from New York to Rockland with coal, and fi succeeded. The Mott put in here on the 26th for a har- bor, and sank early the same night. The captain and crew of five men took to the rigging. A terrible sea and gale prev: i at the time. The captain, Charle Dyer, lashed his who acted as stew- ard, to the mast. For eighteen hours they weré exposed thus before assist- ance arrived. When the Wood Island crew made its successful launch and | came within hailing distance of the Mott Captain Dyer said: “T can hold on. Save my crew. My father is frozen to death at the mast. Do not wait to cut his body down, for the men are freezing.” The three-masted schooner Lester A: Lewis, Captain Kimball, from Eliza- bethport, N. J., for Bangor with a car- go of phosphate and guano, came in shortly after the Mott and Captain Dyer thinks both capsized and sank at about thé same time. The captain and crew of the Lewis perished. The Peaked Hill life-saving station reports the schooner Albert L. Butler, Captain Leland. from Black River, Ja- maica, for Boston, went ashore one mife east of the life-saving station at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. The captain father, C. G. Dye and four men were saved. Mate Rath- burne, Sailor Offlander and a colored passenger named Wetherburn were | drowned. The Butler is a total loss. THREE LIVES LOST IN I THE SAWYER WRECK v EYARD HAVEN, Mass.,, Nov. 29. Three lives were lost in the wreck of |the schooner Sawyer, which was | wrecked on the north side of the island. The dead are Captain Norwood. Cook Anzever. Seaman Lander Ashley. | Mate Dudley and Seaman Tapley were saved. The Sawyer, which was bound from Calais, Me., for New York, with lum- ber, anchored off Falmouth, Mass., for shelter Saturday evening, but the gale increased with such fury that the ves- sel broke adrift and was driven across Vineyard Sound and cast ashore. When the vessel struck Captain Norwood was washed overboard and his body was thrown upon the beach shortly after- ward by the heavy seas. The bodies of the cook and the seaman were re- covered. The British schooners, Tay and Rondo, lost all their masts and are full of water. These schooners were seri- ously damaged. Flora Condon, Hattie Howes, Henrietta Simmons, Morenci, i‘fflmrd Walters, Lugano, -eorge A. Plerce. The schooner William Todd was fouled and sunk by an unknown barge. The Carrita was wrecked on the east side of the harbor. The Lunett, from Perth Amboy with coal, went on the rocks at Tarpaulin Cove. The Cathie | C. Berry is ashore at Edgerton. The cargo of lime of the stranded E. C. Willard took fire to-night and the ves- sel was totally destroyed. The Succon- | set Lightship has been damaged and moved from its former position. Bt GATE CITY MAY HAVE GONE DOWN BOSTON, Nov. 29.—The arrival in this city from Cape Cod to-night of a party of hunters has added to the ex- citement attendant upon the report that the steamer Portland had been wrecked on Cape Cod, through their reporting that it is the bellef of the life savers on the other side of the cape, south of Nauset Light, that a Savannah line steamer had struck on Peaked Hill bars. Each member of the party saw bodies washed achore at Nauset, and the life savers claimed to have seen a board in the surf bearing the name “Gate City.” The surf is full of articles froom a :e‘s:e!'g g(;nerul cargo. ne ol e hunters, in a to-night, says that there is :p‘:stseilsfifg that the Gate City was only swept by the seas and some of her deck fittings zatled Kfiffi‘e&x;"fi'&&‘ Tor e e sal or Snturdag»v " the south on BOSTON, Nov. 30.—Advi Highland Light on the exltignur;ofi Cape Cod, received at 2 a. m. thig (Wednesday) morning, do not indicate that the Gate City was wrecked off there Saturday night. BLOCK ISLAND IS A TOTAL WRECK NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—A special to the Evening World from Providence, R. I, says: “Block Island has been heard from for the first time since the blizzard began. The island is a wreck, hotels being shattered and vessels torn to pieces by the storm. The entire fish- =—==ta [GLOUCESTER [g 7 P s .sne ROCKS SRt =— "42 NANTASKET Mononoy Pr. VINEYARD.. - S EI N g vias il g DCALE oF MILES THE &REAT STORM. Birdseye View of the Massachusetts Coast From Martha’s Vineyard to Cape Ann, Showing the Scenes of the Numerous Wrecks Which Have Just Occurrea There. The steamer Comanche, from Jack- ing fleet of twenty-four vessels is a|40.06, longitude 7L16. The vessel was | | sonville and Charleston, reached port total loss. The three-masted schooner |a bark or barkentine. No signals could Lexington of Machias, Me., is lost. | be made out from the Martello, which |about ten hours late owing to the The Hartford Dredging Company's |was about five miles to the north of the | storm. She reports that about a mile plant is gone.” wreck. Soon afterward a steamer was | north of Northeast End lightship sh The steamer Martello, from Hull, re- | seen going toward the wrecked craft. passed a spar standing out of the wa ports that at 2 o'clock yesterday after- | The steamer is thought to have been a | ter and attached to a sunken vessel. noon a wreck was sighted in latitude \ Hogan liner bound for Baltimore. Off Martins Industry light two float- NEW ENGLAND’S COAST STREWN WITH CORPSES AND WRECKED VESSELS BOSTON, Nov. 29.—The passing hours do not bring an end to the reports of wrecks and loss of life up and down the New England coast, as the outcome of Sunday's terrific storm. From Cape Cod the most terrible accounts of ruin and death are coming, and of these the loss of the steamer Portland, with all on board, near- 1y 100 souls, overshadows all. The graveyard of the coast, the treacherous bars and rips on the outside of Cape Cod, have claimed victims without number. Miles and miles of coast line is piled high with wreckage, most of which is ground so fine by the waves that identification of helpless craft is impossible. As the fury of the Wind was as great on the bleak sandhills which make up the cape, it will be many hours before all places are heard from. Telegraph wires are down and rallroads cannot break out of the snow drifts. This feature is distressing, as much suffering from cold and hunger must ensue among the poor people in the nearby hamlets. To-night the only means of reaching Cape Cod is by steamer across Massachusetts Bay, a disagreeable voyage, as the sea is yet boisterous. ‘Word from Provincetown tells of nearly thirty total wrecks, with the number of lives lost unknown. Matters are improving slightly along Vineyard Sound, so far as means of communication is concerned. The best summing up of the disasters in that sectiori is made by Captain Hard Jr. of the revenue cutter Dexter, who has cruised along the shore all day. He says that in Vineyard Haven hulls are piled upon the shore, and those vessels which are afloat seem mere shells. The Dexter reports possible additions to the wreck list in two schooners sunk of Menemsha Light and two big ones sunk abreast Presque Isle. The fate of the crews is unknown. Three wrecking steamers are around the Fairfax, ashore on Sow and Pigs Reef. It is difficult to estimate the total loss_of life and damage to shipping along this coast. The list of dis- asters seems to grow every hour, and from dispatches thus farreceived it appears that at least thirty schooners have been wrecked at different points from Eastport, Me., to New Haven, Conn. Eighty schooners have been driven ashore, and sixteen barges, loaded or empty, are aground. This list does not include the thirty vessels either wholly or partially wrecked in Boston harbor, nor half a dozen or more craft which are reported missing, including the Wilson Line freighter Ohio, which is ashore on Spectacle Island. In this harbor the steamer John J. Hill is ashore at Atlantic; the Merchants’ and Miners’ transportation steamer Fairfax is ashore on Sow and Pigs Ledge; off Cuttyhunk, north; a small steamer, George Chaffee, foundered at Rockport, Mass. When these are added the list exceeds 110 vessels. The loss of life is hard to determine. It is known that about fifty persons perished in and about Boston Harbor. Reports from other places in some cases state that the crew of this or that vessel escaped. Many, however, state that the fate of the crew is unknown. Some survivors have turned up, and life-saving stations and incoming vessels have brought a few sailors from wrecks. 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The crew after suffering from exposure and want of food for thirty-six hours was finally rescued in an exhausted condition. The men lost all their personal effects. Three sloops are sunk at Orient. . ————— Crew Picked Up at Sea. GLOUCESTER, Mass., Nov. 29.—The PASSENGERS THE 1LOST from Boston Saturday night: ORON HOOPER, H. TRUE HOOPER, ISAIAH FRYE, MISS RUTH FRYE, MISS MAUD FRYE, MISS MAUD SIMMS, MRS. EZEKIEL DENNIS, MRS. THEODORE ALLEN, MISS ALLEN, MISS COLE, MRS. DANIEL ROUNDS, MISS SHERWOOD, MISS ROUSS, MISS EDNA McCRELLIS, C. F. WILSON, HON. F. DUDLEY FREE- MAN, D. 0. GRETCHELL, MISS SOPHIE HOLMES, MISS HELENLANGTHORNE, MISS EMMA L. PLLMPTON, G. W. COLE, MISS BURNS, CHARLES WIGGIN, M. C. HUTCHINSON, MISS HUTCHINSON, M. L. SEWELL of Portland. FRED STEVENS, Portland, MR. YIERRE, Portland, Child of Charles H. Thompson of Woodford, Me. OFFICERS HOLLIS H. BLANCHARD, Captain, LEWIS STROUT, First Pilot, LEWIS NELSON, Second |+ Pilot, F. A. INGRAHAM, Purser, HORACE MOORE, Clerk, EDWARD DEERING, Mate, JOHN McKAY, Second Mate, ANSEL DYER, Quartermaster, F. PETERSON, Quartermaster, R. BAKE, Watchman, T. SEWALL, Watchman, W. G. WHITTEN, Watchman, D. WILLIAMS, Watchman, THOMAS MERRILL, First Engineer, JOEN WALTON, Second En- gineer, C. VERRILL, Third Engineer, A. V. MATTHEWS, Steward, EBEN HEUSTON, Second Steward, JOHN DALY, Seaman, GFORGE MCcGILVARY, Sea- man, ARTHUR SLOAN, Seaman, JAMES DAVIDSON, Seaman, PETER COLLINS, Seaman, MORRIS GRAHAM, Seaman, CORNELIUS O’BRIEN, Sea- man, +R+E+ R BB R E schooner Hiram Lowell has arrived with twenty-three persons, the crew and passengers of the British schooner Narcissus, from Boston for Shelburne and Liverpool, N. S., wrecked off Seal Island. FLOODS AND TIDAL WAVE BRING DEATH LONDON, Nov.. £9.—The Vienna cor- respondent of the Daily Mail says: Trieste and the districts roundabout were flooded on Sunday by a tremen- dous tidal wave, which did muck dam- age to property and ships and caused the loss of many lives. There was a +8+8+8+8+ 2+ 2+ B4+ EHEHEH R R R R B(;STON, Nov. 20.—There were ninety-nine persons on board the wrecked Portland, including the officers and crew. Following is a Hst of itio passengers said to have been on board when she ‘sailed +E-H N+ R R | violent earthquake throughout the southern provinces of Austria.. From various causes no fewer than twenty< eight lives, it is reported, were lost. FATE OF CAPTAIN ‘ AND CREW IN DOUBT { NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 20.— The schooner Haitie A, Butler, Cap- | tain Mullen, bound from Omnsef to New | York with a cargo of sand :was driven |ashore on the rocks at Angelica Point. Buzzards Bay. The fate of the captain and crew is not known. FISHERMEN LOSTIN THE GALE OFF PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH, Mass.,, Nov.: 29.—The Gurnet Life Saving Station picked up the body of a man this morning.. A fishing schooner was wrecked off Brant +E+E+ AND CREW OF PORTLAND. MRS. GEORGE 0. CHICKER-~ ING of Weymouth, Mass., MRS. WHEELER, Mrs. Chick- ering’'s sister, of South Wey- mouth, Mass. FRED SHERWOOD of Port- land, CHARLES H. THOMPSON, MRS. THOMPSON and child, ‘Woodford, Me., WILLIAM CHASE, Worcester, MASTER PHILIP CHASE, ‘Worcester, MRS. KATE FOY,East Boston, MARTIN HERSONANDMRS. HERSON, Chelsea, MRS. SWIFT, Portland, HENRY SWIFT, East Boston, MRS. CORDELIA N. MITCH- ELL, North Boston, MISS JENNIE HOYT, North Boston, J. M. CARROLL, Lowell, MISS JENNIE EDMONDS, East Boston, MISS ANNA ROUNDS, Port- land, GEORGE B. KENNISON JR., Boothbay, Me., PERRY JACKSON, wife and child, South Portland, Me., AND CREW. D. BRUCE, Seaman, MATTREW BARRON, Sea- man, RICHARD HARTLEY, Sea- man, GEORGE F. REPLY, Seaman, F. M. LEIGHTON, Electrician, J. M. LLLLON, Oiler, J. M. McNEIL, Oiler, f. MERRIAM Fireman, T. E. FENNELL, X C. H. CARTER, Fireman, W. J. DOUGHTY, Fireman, H. ROLLINSON, Fireman, J. E. MATELY, Fireman, W. B. ROBICHAW, Baggage Master, ARTHUR JOHNSON, Waiter, LEE FORMAN, Waiter, GEORGE GRAHAM, Waiter, —— GETTLIN, Waiter, SAMUEL SMITH, Waiter, —— LATIMER, Head Saloon- man, —— COMER, Barber, MRS. CARRIE M. HARRIS, Stewardess, MRS. A. BERRY, Stewardess. The list given above numbers fifty-one passengers and forty: eight officers and crew. : { BBy BY B g R Bg B By Ry By Ra-Bo BF PO [0 BY B9 + ] + +E+E+E+ Rock and eight of the fourteen men on her were saved. A herring schooner was also destroyed there, and the life sav- ing crew picked up three bodies. WANT BOUNTIES ABOLISHED. LONDON, Nov. 30.—The Daily Mail this morning makes the following an- nouncement: “We are able to.state that on the invitation of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, some English capitalists have indicated their readiness to en- deavor to revive the sugar industry in the West Indies If bounties are abolished. Sir Thomas Lipfon is prepared to spead 1,000,000 pounds sterling, and it {s probable that some arrangement will be arrived - ate