Three Schooner and a Sailing Ship . Lay on Virginia and North Carolina Coasts

NORFOLK. Va., March 23, 1906 — Four Failing vessels lay wrecked on the Virginia and. North Carolina coasts today. These vessels are the three-masted schooner Raymond T. Maull, Captain Higbee, from Georgia to Philadelphia, which lies beached on Gull Shoals, N.C., near Hatteras; the three-masted schooner Harlan W. House, Captain Gaskins, from New York to Beaufort, N.C, which lies waterlogged, at Hatteras Inlet: the British sailing ship Clyde, Captain Evans, from the South, for New York and Calcutta, which is stranded south of Cape Hatteras; and the four-masted schooner Harriet Hayward, Captain Concord, which was beached inside of Cape Henry, following her collision last night with the German steamer San Miguel. Efforts are being made to save all of the vessels, but no favorable reports have been received from any but the Clyde.

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