People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — OTHER DISASTERS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER DISASTERS.

Sailors Lose Their Lives D urine the Furious Storms. Port Colborne, Ont, Oct. 18.— The spars of a three-masted vessel are reported sticking out of the water 8 miles out abreast of here. The masts are painted black and the boat has a square sail. It is supposed to be the F. C. Leighton, of Port Huron, Capt Calhoon. All hands are undoubtedly lost Cape Charles, Va., Oct. 18.—Sixteen small vessels are ashore near Mulberry Point and nine of them will be total’ wrecks. Several lives were lost and a number of the sailors injured by being caught under falling spars. The bark Ravenswood is washed high upon the shore at Chicaimcomico. Three schooners were wrecked on Deal’s island and two lives lost. St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 18.—The Norwegian bark Martin Luther from Sidney for St Johns with ballast is ashore off Wash Halls, near Northern Head harbor. Two of its crew were drowned.