People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — Ships Wrecked on New England Coast. [ARTICLE]

Ships Wrecked on New England Coast.

Boston, Mass., Jan. 1. —Scores of vessels were driven ashore by the gales of Monday night and early Tuesday morning, and the damage to shipping along the New England coast will exceed $500,000. While no lives are known to be lost, fifteen men are at the mercy of the sea on a stranded vessel off Nantucket, beyond human aid, as the weather and sea preclude their being reached. Many other vessels are driven ashore, but their crews were rescured.