Show TALESOF OATH AND RUiN fROM THEEASTERN COAST Steamei Portland a Total Wreck and Ninetynine 11 People Drowned Went Ashore On Cape Cod In the Terrible Storm of Saturday I Satur-day Night = List of Victims r Boston Nov 29The passing hours do not bring an end to the reports of I I wrecks and Joss of Ufe up and down the New England coast as the outcome of Saturdays 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 nearly 100 souls overshadows alL The graveyard of the coast the treacherous bars and rips on the outside out-side of Cape Cod claimed victims without with-out number Miles and miles of coastline coast-line Is piled high with wreckage most of which is round so fine by the waves hat identification of helpless craft is impossible As the fury of the wind r was as great on the bleak sand hills which make up the cape it will be 3 many hours before all places are heard from Telegraph wires are thwn and railroads cannot break out tJf the snowdrIfts snow-drIfts and this feature is distressing as much suffering from cold and hunger hun-ger must ensue among the poorer people peo-ple In the nearbY hamlets Tonight the only means of reaching Cape Cod is br steamer across Massachusetts Massa-chusetts bay a disagreeable voyage as the sea is yet boisterous Word from Princetown 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 surnming UD 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 piid up on the shore and those vessels which are afloat seem mere shells The Dexter reports possible additions to the wreck list in two schooners sunk off Menemsha light and two big oaes sunk abreast Pesque Isle The fate of their crew s is unknown Three wrecking steamers 2re around the Fairfax ashore on Sow and Pigs reef The arrlal in this city from Cape Cod tonight of a party of hunters has ad1cd tn the excitement attendant upon thp rl lt that the steamer Portland haC been wrecked on Cap Cod through thlll leporting that it IS the belief of th lifesaers on the outer side of the care south of Kauset light that a Say unah line steamer had SQuck on I Peaed Hm oar Each member of the party siv bodies washed ashore atNau set and thE lifesavers c1nimed to have seen a board in the surf bearing the naml natE City ine surf is full of articles from a yes h genral cargo One of the hunters 111 fin interview tonight says that there r iE a p siblIity that the Gate City was only 5wept by the seas and ame of herd her-d k fittings were washed away The Gate City sailed from this port for he sooth on Saturday The first adices since Saturday from I Highland light on the extremity of Ca II > Cud received at 2 a m this V dresday morning do not indicate that the Gate City was wrecked off there Saturday night From the reports that have come by Wlr mail and messenger to the Asso ciat d Press from Nw England points it difficult to estimate the total t lm of life and damage to shIrlng > LI I this coast as the result of the I rt n t storm The list of disasters seem te gr w yery hour and from cBs p ths thus far received it appears I thlt Ot least thirty schooners have b n wrecked at different points from Et1hJrt Me tro Nev Haven Cone I EIghtrsix sChocncn have been driven aoblrt nd fourLpen barges loaded Or empty are aground I Tins lt does lot include the thirty vtisls either holly or Dartinll w kd in Boston harbor nor half a d 11 111 more craft which are reported ItJssirI including the Wilson line fricllr Ohio which is ashore on S tade island When these are a ll the list exceeds 110 yessls I fbt lces 1 of life 8 hard to determine 1 1 1flOfl that about fifty people peIL hi in and about Boston harbr Rep I Re-p 3 from other llaces in some cases S t that the crew of this or that yes I 51 aped many however state the fa pf the crew is unknown Some I su vri have turned up and ifcsav iili tations and incoming Yes Cs have Nl ht iEW saiors from wreck Per mips 8 store Would coyer t1i1se of iw1om nothing Is known not including the sixtyfixe or more who were onboard on-board the Portland F |