Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-16
Dreadful Gale.

One hundred Fishing Vessels ashore at Prince
Ed,cards Isiand-three hundred 6res sup
posed to Be lost.
Bv despatch received BY the collector at
Boston. from u S. Consul at Pictou, we learn
that the northeast coast has been swept by
terrible and destructive gale, and that one hun
dred fishing vessels were ashore on the north
side of Prince Edwards Island. 1t is estlma-
ted that at least one hundred sail are ashore
and from three to four hundred lives lost, and
it is feared the accounts further westward will
prove equally distressing. A great many bod
les have been taken from the holds and cabins
of the stranded vessels. 1t is stated that it oc-
CURED on the Sd, 4th and 5th insts The most
intense anxiety prevails in our fishing towns to
get at the facts in the case. A letter from
Newburyport says =" There is an intense ex-
citement pervading large portion of our pop
ulatiou relative to the disasters of the fishing
vessels, as we have seventy sail on that coast.
l am told that the wife of Capt. Morey, of the
sch. Martha, worked up to insanity by rumor
th1t hSh uuSostuu NC>SSl "1c ioSs W hu al Vu
board, committed suicide last night, and now
lies dead in the house, leaving large family
of young children"
DETAILS OF THE SHIPwRECK.
A despatch was received at Boston, on Sat
urday, from Pictou, in the Bay Chaleur, which
gives the details in part of the terrible loss of
vessels and lives by the great gale -
The schoouers Forest, of Newburyport. and
Mary Moultou, of Castine, lost all hands =
Sch. Franklin Dexter, of Harwich, had ten
hands lost. Sch Flint, of Gloucester, had
fourteen hands lost. Sch. Telegraph, of Bos-
ton, had eighteen hands lost. Sch Harriet
Newell, of Harwich, had two hands lost
Sch. Lyon, of Castine, master, mate and six
hands. Sch. Hiram, of Boothbay, six hands
lost.
Vessels ashore and cre,cs sdred-Schs. Com
merce, of Harwich; Powhattan, Golden Rule
and Constitution, Of Gloucester; Bloomfield,
of Boston; Rival and Nettle, of Truro; Mary
Scotchburn, James, and Aims, of Newbury-
port; Mt. Hope, of bingham; Oscar Coles,
of Boston; Caledonia, of Portland; Triumph
ant, Cape Elizabeth; Bangor, of bingham
Naiad Queen. of Cohasset; Golden Grove, of
kennebec; Durock, of Amesbury, and Henry
Knox, of CohaSset.
Sch Palm, Tobey, from Bay Chaleur, ar
rived at Portsmouth, Yesterday. Left Gut of
Canso Sd, at which time the wind was west
and light. The night of the Sd, the weather
was somewhat rongh. Afterwards the wealth
er was fair for the season, and the Palm has
made very good passage up.
The Newburyport Herald of Saturday last,
says =
Sumner & Swazey, the owners of schooner
Traveller, received despatch yesterday, from
the Consul at ST. John. n B., stating that this
vessel had been lowed into Richabucto harbor,
and all hands supposed TO be lost. There were
eight persons on board, mostly belonging to
Massachusetts,
There are about $50 fishing vessels from
Gloucester and probably twice that number
from other towns In Mass, and the uncertainty
attending this calamity causes intense anxiety
in numerous families.
4 despatch also states that the crew of the
Wanderer, of Beverly, are bound home in a
boat. The crew of the Belle, of Beverly, also
left IN boat, and that the schs. Belle and
Seth Hail. of Dennis, SCH George, of Castine,
schs. Garland and Lucy Pulcifer, of GIouces-
ter, schs. Hickory and William, of Portland,
are all ashore, and the crews are supposed to
be saved, as nothing is said respecting them.
Accounts have been received Of the wreck
ing of forty vessels belonging to this State and
Massachusetts,, nine of which, and eighteen Of
the lives lost, were from Newburyport.
In addition TO the loss of persons belonging
to Newburyport, by this gale, the schooner IS
abel, Labradorman, is missing. She had
about fourteen men, and was seen off Cape Sa-
bic four or five weeks since, and probably
foundered in gale on her passage up.
We learn that the schooner w. R. Burn
ham, of Gloucester, is among the vessels
ashore at Prince Edward Island, and that all
her crew are safe.
A despatch to the Traveller, dated New
buryport, Oct. 18th, says:
Arrived-schooner Pioneer, Bay of ST.
Lawrence, fishing. Came out of Cascompeque
harbor, P. E. Island, LIST inst, in company
with about three hundred American fishing
vessels, most of which ran down the coast to
complete their fares. Many of these were
nearly full, and among the fleet were most of
the sail which have been reported as lost
We have accounts of the wrecking of forty
vessels belonging to this State and Maine, and
the loss of Sc lives-nne of the vessels and
eighteen of the lives lost were from Newbury-
port
A company in Provincetown have chartered
the schooner Sunbeam, Capt. Smith, to take
the necessary apparatus, oil casks, &C., and
proceed to Prince Edwards Island, TO aid in
getting off the dismasted vessels ashore at that
place. The Equitable and Insurance offices
at Provincetown, have also sent two vessels
for the same purpose. Mr.. E. Smith, agent
of the underwriters, has also proceeded to look
after their interests
OPENING OF THE HupsoN RIVER RAILROAD.
The opening of this great road on the whole
line, which took place on the LIST instant, was
celebrated with great enthusiasm, at Green
bush, its terminus, opposite Albany The
stockholders the publc authorities of tho c;,;as