Show POUNDED TO PIECES Six of the Crew of the Hark Belmont Lost Chatham Mass April 9The bark Belmont of Boston Trinidad for Boston Bos-ton with 5000 bags of sugar went ashore on Beacon Hill bar during last I nights storm and is a total wreck Six I of the crew were lost Three drifted I ashore on a spar The crew of the Belmont was shipped i at Portland Maine Captain Hagan i leaves a widow and two children I When the Belmont was lying on the Peaked Hill bar the snow was driving and a heavy gale blowing A terrific I sea was momentarily driving her higher on the beach The sea was so heavy that the life boat could not be launched As the seas washed over the boat some I of the men were seen on her deck but disappeared and are supposed to have i been carried away by the tremendous waves As the anxious crowd on the shore watched the vessel she was slowly pounded to pieces on the bar and in half an hour was a total wreck Only three men were saved The Belmonts cargo was valued at 50000 fully insured |