The San Francisco CallVOLUME LXXXIV.-XO. 183. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS.

NINETY-NINE LIVES GO OUT WITHTHE WRECKING OF THE PORTLAND

IGHLANDLIGHT,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 andlast night at midnight the body of a man was found on shore. Onthe body of the man was a life belt marked "Steamer Portland ofPortland." Agold watch inhis pocket had stopped at 10 o'clock.This man was well dressed, wore black clothes and tan shoes, hadlight hair and mustache and a piece of card in his pocket bore thewords "Jonn 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.

Itis believed that the steamer Portland was disabled by thestorm at 10 o'clock last night, being unable longer to hold upagainst the gale, and drifted onto Peaked Hillbars and went topieces. No part of the ship had drifted ashore and it is notknown just where she struck. Boxes of tobacco, clothing, cheese,oil,etc. have been washed ashore, also life preservers markedwith the words "Steamer Portland."

BOSTON, Nov. 29.—Dr.Maurice Richardson of Beacon

street, this city, was at his summer home at Wellfleet during thestorm arid corroborated the early accounts of the loss of the Port-land, for he saw two of the bodies washed ashore and on themwere life preservers marked with the vessel's name. Dr. Richard-son was on the first train from Cape Cod, which arrived in thiscity late to-night.

"Isaw two of the bodies picked up," said Dr. Richardson."One was probably that of a deckhand, a man of about 20. Hehad on a life preserver marked 'Portland.' The other body wasthat of a stout woman. She. too, wore a life belt with the steam-

er's name on it. Wreckage is coming ashore for fifteen milesalong the coast. Among the wreckage were cases of lard directedto Portland."

In addition to the two bodies, Dr. Richardson brought news

that at Orleans the body of a girl of about 20 was found. Shehad a gold watch and a ring marked "J- G- E-" Her watch sap-ped at 9:17. There are three bodies at Nauset, eight at Orleansand twenty-eight at Truro and Wellfleet. The double wheel of thePortland came ashore at Orleans.

The Portland was built in 1890 in Bath, Me., and was a side-wheel steamer of 1317 net tons burden. Her length is 230 feet,

beam 4^ and depth 15 feet. She mrtm valued at $250,000, an \u25a0) isfullyinsured.

GATE CITY MAYHAVE GONE DOWN

BOSTON, Nov. 29.—The arrival inthis city from Cape Cod to-night of aparty of hunters has added to the ex-citement attendant upon the report thatthe steamer Portland had been wreckedon Cape Cod, through their reportingthat it is the belief of the life saverson the other side of the cape, southof Nauset Light, that a Savannah linesteamer had struck on Peaked Hillbars. Each member of the party sawbodies washed arhore at Nauset, andthe life saverß claimed to have seen aboard in the surf bearing the name"Gate City." The surf is fullof articlesfrom a vessel's general cargo.

One of the hunters, in an interviewto-riight, says that there is a possibilitythat the Gate City was only swept bythe seas and some of her deck fittingswere washed away. The Gate Citysailed from this port for the south onSaturday.

BOSTON, Nov. 30.— Advices fromHighland Light on the extremity ofCape Cod, received at 2 a. m this(Wednesday) morning, do not indicatethat the Gate City was wrecked offthere Saturday night.

BLOCK ISLAND ISA TOTAL WRECK

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.— A special tothe Evening World from Providence,R. 1., says: "Block Island has beenheard from for the first time since theblizzard began. The island is a wreck,hotels being shattered and vessels tornto pieces by the storm. The entire fish-

ing fleet of twenty-four vessels is atotal loss. The three-masted schoonerLexington of Machias, Me., is lost.The Hartford Dredging Company'splant is gone."

The steamer Martello, from Hull, re-ports that at 2 o'clock yesterday after-noon a wreck was sighted in latitude

40.06, longitude 71.16. The vessel wasa bark or barkentine. No signals couldbe made out from the Martello, whichwas about five miles to the north of thewreck. Soon afterward a steamer wasseen going toward the wrecked craft.The steamer is thought to have been aHogan liner bound for Baltimore.

The steamer Comanche, from Jack-sonville and Charleston, reached portabout ten hours late owing to thestorm. She reports that about a milenorth of Northeast End lightship shepassed a spar standing out of the wa-ter and attached to a sunken vessel.

Off Martins Industry light two float-

ing wrecks, apparently bottom up, werepassed.

Reports are coming in of wrecksabout the north and east shores ofLong Island. An unknown three-masted schooner is ashore on Old FieldsReef with two masts gone. Anotherschooner is ashore on the sound beachnear Miller's place. The schooner Ob-server is ashore at Port Jefferson and isa total wreck. The schooner OliveLeaf was also wrecked and will provea total loss. Darlings wharf was badlydamaged.

The schooner Everett with a cargo ofbrick foundered off Shelter IslandHeights, and the crew had a narrowescape from drowning.

The schooner Reganet was wreckedoff Long Beach light. The crew aftersuffering from exposure and want offood for thirty-six hours was finallyrescued in an exhausted condition. Themen lost all their personal effects.

Three sloops are sunk at Orient.

Crew Picked Up at Sea.GLOUCESTER, Mass., Nov. 29.—The

schooner Hiram Lowell has arrived

with twenty-three persons, the crew

and passengers of the British schoonerNarcissus, from Boston for Shelburneand Liverpool, N. S., wrecked off SealIsland.

FATE OF CAPTAINAND CREW IN DOUBT

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.', Nov. 29.—The schooner Hattie A. Butler, Cap-

tain Mullen, bound from Onsej; to New-York with a cargo of sand was drtven.ashore on the rocks at Angelica Point.Buzzards Bay. The fate of the captainand crew is not known.

FISHERMEN LOST INTHE GALE OFF PLYMOUTH

PLYMOUTH, Mass., Nov.; 29.^TheGurnet Life Saving Station picked upthe body of a man this morning.- Afishing schooner was wrecked off Brant

Rock and eight of the fourteen men onher were saved. Aherring schooner wasalso destroyed there, and the life sav-ing crew picked up three bodies.

NEW ENGLAND'S COASTSTREWN WITH CORPSES

AND WRECKED VESSELSBOSTON, 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 terribleaccounts of ruin and death are coming, and of these the loss of the steamer Portland, with allon board, near-ly100 souls, overshadows all. The graveyard of the coast, the treacherous bars and rips on the outside ofCape 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 railroads cannot break out of the

snow drifts. This feature is distressing, as much suffering from cold and hunger must ensue among thepoor 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 slightlyalong Vineyard Sound, so far as means of communication is concerned.

The best summing up of the disasters in that section 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 theghore, and those vessels which are afloat seem mere shells. The Dexter reports possible additions to the wrecklist 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.Itis 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 far received 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, norhalf 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 smallsteamer, George Chaffee, foundered at Rockport, Mass. When these are added the list exceeds 110 vessels.

The loss of life is hard to determine. Itis 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. Perhaps a score would cover those of whomnothing is known, not including those who were on board the Portland.

PASSENGERS AND CREW OFTHE LOST PORTLAND.

BOSTON, Nov. 29.—

There were ninety-nine persons on boardtite wrecked Portland, including the officers and crew. Following isa fkHi of tne passengers &aid to have been ou boaxd when she sailedfrom Boston Saturday night:

ORON HOOPER.H. TRUE HOOPER, .ISAIAHFRYE,MISS RUTH FRYE,MISS MAUDFRYE,MISS MAUD SIMMS,MRS. EZEKIEL DENNIS,MRS. THEODORE ALLEN,MISS ALLEN,MISS COLE,MRS. DANIEL ROUNDS,MISS SHERWOOD,MISS ROSS,MISS EDNA McCRELLIS,C. F. WILSON,HON. F. DUDLEY FREE-

MAN,D. 0. GRETCHELL,MISS SOPHIE HOLMES,MISS HELENLANGTHORNE,MISS EMMAL. PLIMPTON,G. W. COLE,MISS BURNS,CHARLES WIGGIN,

M. C. HUTCHINSON,MISS HUTCHINSON,M. L. SEWELL of Portland.FRED STEVENS, Portland,MR. PIERRE, Portland,Child of Charles H. Thompson

of Woodford, Me.

OFFICERS AND CREW.HOLLIS H. BLANCHARD,

Captain,LEWIS STROUT, First Pilot,

LEWIS NELSON, SecondPilot,

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,JOHN WALTON, Second En-

gineer,C. VERRILL, Third Engineer,

A. V. MATTHEWS, Steward,

EBEN HEUSTON, SecondSteward,

JOHN DALY,Seaman,

GEORGE McGILVARY, Sea-man,

ARTHTJR SLOAN, Seaman,

JAMES DAVIDSON, Seaman,

PETER COLLINS, Seaman,

MORRIS GRAHAM, Seaman,

CORNELIUS O'BRIEN, Sea-

man,

MRS. GEORGE O. 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.,WILLIAMCHASE, Worcester,MASTER PHILIP CHASE,

Worcester,MRS. KATEFOY,East Boston,MARTINHERSONANDMRS.

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.,

D. BRUCE, Seaman,MATTB_EW BARRON, Sea-

man,RICHARD HARTLEY, Sea-

man,GEORGE F. REPLY, Seaman,F. M. LEIGKBTON, Electrician,J. M. 1/iXLON, Oiler,J. M. McNEIL, Oiler,£L MERRIAM Fireman,T. E. FENNELL, Fireman,C. H. CARTER, Fireman,W. J. DOUGHTY,Fireman,H. ROLLINSON, Fireman,J. E. MATELY,Fireman,W. B. ROBICHAW, Baggage

Master,ARTHTJR JOHNSON, Waiter,LEE FORMAN, Waiter,GEORGE GRAHAM, Waiter,

GETTLIN, Waiter,SAMUEL SMITH, Waiter,

LATLMER, 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.

FLOODS AND TIDALWAVE BRING DEATH

LONDON, Nov.. 29.—The Vienna cor-respondent of the Daily Mail says:

Trieste and the districts roundaboutwere flooded on Sunday by a tremen-

dous tidal wave, which did much dam-age to property and ships and causedthe loss of many lives. There was a

violent earthquake throughout thesouthern provinces of Austria. Fromvarious causes no fewer than twenty-eight lives, it is reported, were lost.

TWELVE BODIES WASHEDASHORE AT CAPE COD

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—The French

cable company has received a dispatch

from its office at Cape Cod. Mass., say-

ing that twelve bodies from the steamer

Portland have been washed ashore atthat station.

PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Nov. 29.—Two bodies that came ashore at High-

land Light, and are supposed to befrom the Portland have been brought

here. One is that of a well dressed man.The other body is that of a womanwith only shoea and stockings on.

WORCESTER, Mass.. Nov. 29.—Wil-liam L. Chase, who with his son Philip

was a passenger on the Portland, waschief in the draughtsman departmentin the Crompton-Knowles Loom Works,

and secretary of the Alumni Associationof Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

TWENTY-SEVEN WRECKSNEAR PROVINCETOWN

PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Nov. 29.—Twenty-seven vessels were drivenashore and totally wrecked in thisneighborhood. From the majority ofthese the crews were saved, although

several lives were lost. Four or five

of the wrecks were coasters, and therest were fishermen. During th storm

shipping was destroyed and the beachwas strewn with wreckage, streets

were flooded and wharves drifted out

to sea. Four ice houses and a lobsterhatchery situated at Beach Point weredestroyed.

The list of casualties includes the

schooners Daniel Boone, Mary Cabral,

Isaac Collins, the steamer A. B. Nicker-son of Provincetown; the schoonersf'lara Sayward of Gloucester, Sylvester

Whalen of Boston, F. P. Foster and F.

H. Smith of Provincetown, and thefishing schooner Unique of Boston.Fragments of the schooner R. Walkerof Gloucester and the coaster Addie E.Snow of Rockland, Me., drifted ashoreat Race Point this afternoon. Flour,

pork, lard and whisky barrels havebeen drifting ashore along the beachbetween Race Point and HighlandLight life-saving station to-day.

Several bodies have drifted ashorenear Highland Light, and part of aboat marked "Steamer Portland."

The Wood Island life savers madeseveral gallant c-fforts yesterday toreach the schooner Jordan L. Mott,

bound from New York to Rocklandwith coal, and finally succeeded. TheMott put in here on the 2Cth for a har-bor, and sank early the same night.The captain and crew of five mentook to the rigging. A terrible seaand gale prevailed at the time. Thecaptain, Charles F. Dyer, lashed hisfather, C. G. Dyer, who acted as stew-ard, to the mast. For eighteen hoursthey were exposed thus before assist-ance arrived. When the Wood Islandcrew made its successful launcti andcame within hailing distance of theMott Captain Dyer said: ."Ican hold on. Save my crew. My

father is frozen to death at the mast.

Do not wait to cut his body down, forthe 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 inshortly after the Mott and CaptainDyer thinks both capsized and sank at

about the same tine. The captain andcrew of the Lewis perished.

The Peaked Hill life-saving stationreports the schooner Albert L. Butler,

Captain Leland. from Black River, Ja-maica, for Boston, went ashore onemile east of the life-saving station at10 o clock in the forenoon. The captain

and four men were saved. Mate Rath-burne. Sailor Offlander and a coloredpassenger named Wetherburn weredrowned. The Butler is a total loss.

THREE LIVES LOST INTHE SAWYER WRECK

VINEYARDHAVEN,Mass., Nov. 29.Three lives were lost in the wreck ofthe schooner Sawyer, which waswrecked on the north side of the island.

The dead are:Captain Norwood.Cook Anzever.Seaman Lander Ashley.

Mate Dudley and Seaman Tapleywere saved.

The Sawyer, which was bound fromCalais, Me., for New York, with lum-ber, anchored off Falmouth, Mass., forshelter Saturday evening, but the galeincreased with such fury that the ves-sel broke adrift and was driven acrossVineyard Sound and cast ashore. Whenthe vessel struck Captain Norwood waswashed overboard and his body wasthrown upon the beach shortly after-ward by the heavy seas. The bodiesof the cook and the seaman were re-covered.

The British schooners, Tay andRondo, lost all their masts and are fullof water. These schooners were seri-ously damaged. Flora Condon, HattieHowes, Henrietta Simmons, Morenci,Leonard Walters, Lugano, A.Pierce.

The schooner William Todd wasfouled and sunk by an unknown barge.The Carrita was wrecked on the eastside of the harbor. The Lunett, fromPerth Amboy with coal, went on therocks at Tarpaulin Cove. The CathieC. Berry is ashore at Edgerton. Thecargo 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 andmoved from its former position.-

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Steamship Dashed to Pieceson the Rocky Shore of

Cape Cod.

THE GREAT STORM.Birdseye View of the Massachusetts Coast From Martha's Vineyard to Cape

Ann, Showing the Scenes of the Numerous Wrecks Which Have JustOccurred There.

WANT BOUNTIES ABOLISHED.

LONDON, Nov. 30.—The Daily Mailthis morning1 makes the following an-nouncement: "We are able to- state thaton the invitation of the Secretary ofState for the Colonies, Hon. JosephChamberlain, some English capitalistshave indicated their readiness to en-deavor to revive the sugar industry inthe West Indies ifbounties are abolished.Sir Thomas Lip+.on is prepared to spend1,000,000 pounds sterling, and Itis probablethat some arrangement will be arrivedat."