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fatherless children as the fruits of this sad disaster. The father of the four 

 brothers mentioned, an aged man named Owen Hines, was indeed terribly 

 afflicted. His wife died five weeks previous, and only one crippled son was 

 left him of a family which a few days before was full of health and promise. 

 The vessel, too, was his, and all the property he possessed was bound up in 

 her. A short time previous he was offered $1,500 for the schooner, but as it 

 furnished a means of livelihood to his family as well as to himself, he refused 

 to part with it. There was no insurance on the vessel, consequently what 

 represented the savings of a lifetime disappeared in a moment, and with it 

 went every one whose strong hands should have supported the old man's 

 trembling steps toward the grave. 



The Storm off Cape Cod. — Five Vessels Wrecked — Terrible Sufferings 

 of the Men on the Powwow — Thrilling Scenes of Death — How the Survivors 

 were Rescued. — The night of the 2d and the morning of the 3d of January, 

 1878, were terrible for those unlucky mariners who found themselves in a 

 snowstorm, being driven on the treacherous sands of Cape Cod. Five ves- 

 sels were lost. From the largest two not a soul was saved ; every man, 

 from the captains down to the deck boys, was buried beneath the cold 



