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Documenting STORMS affecting trade, passengers, etc.
Vivid descriptions of vessels, owners, cargo, and MANY STORMS.
1874 - Pascagoula Star, Sept. 19, 1874.
In the big 1874 Gulf of Mexico Hurricane, four of Moss Point/Pascagoula schooners were damaged or lost.
PASCAGOULA - The Pascagoula. Capt. Jas. Smith, owned by S. A. Gartland of this place (Jackson Co.) had trouble on a trip from New Orleans with coal to Houston, Texas, was beached on Pelican Island, but will probably be gotten off with no further loss than lighterage of the cargo.
TEXAS RANGER - Schooner Texas Ranger, a three mast lumber schooner, built in Moss Point, Miss, by Capt. Buchanan, for Walter Denny & Co. “The Texas Ranger was built at Moss Point last winter, for Denny & Co. being the principal owners and partly owned by Capt. Buchanan, her builder and Captain. Last May she was sunk in the Mississippi River and badly injured, was repaired at much expense. On her first trip thereafter, bound for Indianola, from here, with a load of lumber for Westhoff & Co., she encountered the storm (Hurricane) and now lies bottom up, one half mile north of Brazos bar, on Padre Island. Of the ten persons on board, only two, Juan Tarana and Robt. Leffy, were saved. Capt. Buchanan’s body was recovered and buried. The Capt.’s son, a youth of fifteen, just from school, was also lost, and the mate, Perrine, had just married here (Moss Point), to Mary, both of whom were lost. The vessel was uninsured.
INDIANOLA - Schooner Indianola. believed to be large three masted, Capt. Davis, bound to Pascagoula from Indianola with 5 horses, and was caught in the storm (Hurricane) 100 miles east of Indianola - the winds being E. N. E. - was driven 25 miles east of Galveston, dismasted and losing sails, rigging, boats, &c., her decks being swept clean. She was towed into Galveston. She is owned by Denny & Co., Capt. Bloom and J. H. Reinscher & Co. of Indianola, one third each. The insurance expired on the21st of August and had not been renewed.
KATIE BUCHANAN - Schooner Katie Buchanan. Capt. Wilson, master, owned by Capt. Jas. , and Chs. Buchanan of Moss Point, Miss. Was on a trip from New York for Houston, Texas with cargo of cement, encountered a hurricane, went ashore on the 6th, and is high and dry off Saluria, but can probably be gotten off, states the Indianola Bulletin. The is the first vessel, we understood, that ever cleared from New York for Houston.