Salt Lake Herald | 1901-11-26 | Page 1 | Bodies Are Washing Ashore

BODIES ARE WASHING ASHORE 4 Fatal Results of Storm Off At Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic lantic Coast NUMBER OF LIVES ARE LOST J 4 A REPORTS OP O GREAT DAMAGE CONTINUE TO COMB IN m INA A CITY N J Nov 26 ATLANTIC Wrecking and bodies bode bod I 6 are wash wasTi washing washIng ing on the beach north of Toms rier er supposed to be bd from t om the barge H A Hawgood H and vessels es Philadelphia aR Advices re me received received today by the maritime 1 exchange state that five men were drowned yes yesterday at Long Branch during the height of the northeast st rm which swept the Atlantic coast Saturday night and ad Sunday The men are sup supposed supposed posed poled to have h ve been members of the crews of the barges Wilmore and Grant which were lost by the tug tUb Eureka which arrived in New York yesterday YE and aDd reported that s se ie e nad had lost her tow and hard had h d no tidings of either orew crew The two barges came ashore at Chadwick N J 3 about one and a belt miles south of Long Branch There were seven men me on the barges when they went ashore AH AU of the crew of or four on one of the barges barge were washed overboard and lost while the life Ute lifesavers lifesavers savers with the aid of the breeches buoy saved two of the men on tile the theother other barge The third man was washed overboard and drowned Further advises advices to the Maritime ix x change report the loss lOBS of the barges bages H A Hawgood for Providence Merce Mercedita Mercedita dita dUa for New London Lond n and Davis DaIs for Fall River The crews were all saved saied