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missing vessels and crew would greatly swell the list but the above fi gures were taken from accounts of wrecks where the fate of the unfortunates has been fully established. While the winter has been comparatively mild on shore the season at sea has been one of extreme severity, particularly in waters off the provinces. There the year’s greatest calamities have occurred. Cape Cod, commonly the scene of numerous wrecks, was usually free from fatalities up to last Monday’s blizzard. Many vessels were driven ashore but with few exceptions were saved with little accompanying loss of life. In this week’s storm, however, at least three vessels were lost on the cape and others were driven ashore where there is some chance of saving them, the coastwise and fi shing gleets, as usual, have been the greatest sufferers. Of the 54 vessels wrecked 37 have been sailing craft, and with one or two exceptions, all have been schooners, square riggers in these waters being now almost extinct. Nine steamships and eight barges complete the list. Ships fl ying the British fl ag lead those of other nations in the list of fatalities with a total of about 27 against 15 of merchant rigged and a sprinkling of Norwegian, German and Swedish craft. By far the worst disaster in this territory for the winter was the foundering of the steamer BRITISH KING off Sable Island on March 11, on a voyage from New York to Antwerp when it is estimated that at least 18 and possibly 20 out of a crew of 56 lost their lives. The correct fi gures will probably never be known as there were said to have been desertions before the ship sailed. Only the heroic work of the steamers, BOSTONIAN and MANNHEIM, who brought off 17 and 11 men respectively, prevented a much greater loss of life.
The season of storm and shipwreck commenced in November when the Norwegian steamer TURBINE struck the rocks off Clark’s Harbor, N. S., and in sight of persons on shore, struck and held for a brief moment on the ledges then surged forward on the crest of a huge wave and disappeared with her crew of 14 men. In less than a fortnight after the TURBINE tragedy the British steamer LUNENBURG struck the rocks in a heavy storm off Amherst Harbor, Magdalene islands, and 12 out of a crew of 17 perished. From then on scarcely a week has passed without its story of wreck and hardship and Boston has been the port
of entry for many a vessel bringing thrilling tales of hardship and heroism. * * * * *
Bad Freight Wreck on the Lake Shore Cleveland, Ohio, March 23. – Offi cials of the Lake Shore and Michigan southern railroad have received reports of a serious freight wreck which occurred early Friday at Goshen Indiana. Three freight trains were involved in the wreck. An eastbound freight train containing a number of cars of live stock stopped for water and was run into by a second train, demolishing many cars and killing a large number of hogs. Some of the wrecked cars were thrown over into the westbound track and were run into by a third freight train. It is reported that fi ve railroad employees were injured. The wreck is one of the most serious from a fi nancial view point that the road has experienced in some time. Offi cials here now state that only three men were injured.
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The LEJOK Sunk by Four-master Ellsworth Schooner Sent to Bottom Off Sandy Hook By Unknown Vessel Captain and Crew Were Saved Capt. Norwood Blames Fourmaster for Accident and Describes How it Happened. Boston, March 23. – The Boston and Philadelphia Steamship company’s steamer PERSIAN which arrived here Friday from Philadelphia, has on board the captain and crew of six men of the schooner LEJOK which was in collision Thursday morning off Sandy Hook with an unknown four-masted schooner. He LEJOK was struck below the water line and all her headgear was carried away. She was in a sinking condition when abandoned by her crew who were picked up later by the PERSIAN.
The LEJOK, a three-masted schooner, was bound from Brunswick, Georgia, for New York, with 303,000 feet of kiln dried pine boards.
Those rescued were: W. S. Norwood, captain, of Tremont,
Maine.
Bert McLeod, mate, Calais, Maine. Chaney Sadler, cook, Pembroke,
Maine.
John Terrell, engineer, Sidney, C. B. Charles Brown, seaman, home
unknown.
John Ray, seaman, of Ellsworth, Maine. Continued on Page 24.
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