The New York herald., 1873-08-31
THAT TERRIBLE GALE.
Additional Details Of the Loss of Life and
Property at Nova Scotia ON Sunday
Last-A Fearful Storm.

HALIFAX. August So 1873
despatch from Sydney c. B., this morning,
states that tpe schooner Eureka, not the bark, OF
New York. as before reported left Port Caledonia
on Saturday OF last week, laden with coal, and on
Tuesday was found bottom up, one mile east Of
Boularderis lighthouse. 1t s supposed that she
capsized during the gale and that all hands were
lost. The Captains name has not been ascertained
The crops throughout the county of Cape Breton
are badly damaged 1t is estimated that there
are over 100 vessels ashore at different parts OF
Cape Breton. There are seventeen ashore at Louis
burg, including the schooners Carrie Douglass, of
Yarmouth, the f. N. Gishorne and the Alba, OF
st. John. The twO.1rst named are total wrecks.
None OF the vessels that went ashore ut Louis
burg have vet been got ahoat.
When the storm set in the Ocean Wave small
schooner, owned by A. w. Hart, of Canso, was
riding at anchor IN the harb0r Of Petit De Grot, O.
b. In the height Of the gale she dragged out OF
the harbor and went to pieces on Cape Hogan, and
all on board perished. son OF IL. X Narrawan OF
PictOu, was on board OF the Ocean Wave. The
schooner Paragon, OF Cape Canso, was also lost,
but the crew were saved. Seventeen American
schOOners are ashore, high and dry, In the harbor
OF LIE Bar, Magdalen Islands. They are not much
damaged and the crews are all safe. The American
schooner Fannie R. is at Port Hawkesbury. She
spirit, anchors, cables and bulwarks.
An unknown brig suEk ut her anchors in Carrib0
Cave, Lennon Passage. All hands were lost. Her
tUpmasts are above the water. She had white
boat with yellow streak. An unknown American
schooner, with reel out, supposed to be the
Samuel Ober, OF Provincetown, Is lost.
The body Of an unknown man, lashed to q spar,
drifted ashore at Port Mugrave yesterday.
The Captain of the Reliance, OF Port Hawkes.
bury, reports that he saw dismasted vessel
water-ogged about fifty miles southwest of Halifax
He could not make out the name. She was Of
about eighty tons burden and British-built. 1t is
estimated that over 100 buildings have been de-
stroyed at Canso and in that vicinity, entailng
loss OF over 100000.
AS Canso every ship in the harbor is hlgn and
dry above low water mark, the tide during the
night OF the gale being three or four feet higher
than ever known before Every wharf and fishing
establishment has been swept away and the debris
lines the entire shore. At the public hall there Is
a heap OF splinters in which Is buried o splendid
organ All the buildings, public and private, are
more or less injured. The Catholic chapel s ruin.
The poor fishermen have lost their all. Many OF
them had to flee from their dwellings with their
children naked out into the pftiless Storm Out OF
a fleet of 800 fishing vessels only twenty re-
main. Several OF the fishermen have lost in fish
and gear upwards OF $1,000 each. Among the
Electra, Mclean, Dusky Lake, and Swan, of CansO.
The schooner We're Here, OF Beverly, Mass, with
full cargo of sugar to Amos Cutter, OF Gloucester,
lies loo feet above low water mark Her
keel at the stern post, Is mbedded two feet In the
gravel and at the waist six feet. The Mary Hurst,
of Gloucester Is almost total wreck. The schooner
Maria Joseph, of Miramichi, previously stranded
on Durel's Island, is broken up. A schooner,
belonging to Provincetown, Mass, In attempting to
enter the harbor OF Shelburne on Sunday night,
struck on o reef OF Black Point and as she
dragged her anchors the Captain, his wife and in
fant left the vessel in "dOry," and after rowing
about all night, succeeded in landing about noon
next day, in u very exhausted condition. The re-
mainder OF the crew, numbering twelve men, left
the wreck In two dOries and have not been heard
from. 1t Is feared that they are all lost The ves
sci has sunk.
1t Is sid that forty dead bodies have drifted
ashore on the north side OF Prince Edwards
Island.
The steamship saltwell, Captain Mace, from Lon
don for Sydney, G. b., fOundered of Scatterie on
sunday night, at eleven O'Clock. a lifeboat with
the Captain and fourteen OF the crew landed at
FOurche, G. b., at ten O'Clock Monday morning.
One boat, with six men, was lost alongside OF the
steamer, and another boat with nine men Is miss
ing but is supposed to be at LOuisburg.
The brgs H. II. Havand and Archie and the
schooners George Hughes and j. X Litngow are
ashore ut Llngan, G. b. The latter is dismasted.
AZ Menhaden the schoOners Margaret Ann, Rapid,
Stronza Active and Isabella Dixon are all believed
to be totally wrecked. sailor named Reuben
Smith was washed overheard and lost from the
Labrador fishing schooner Spring Bird, IN the har-
Dor of Halifax, during the gale Sunday night.
The brig Oak Point, which left Halifax on Sunday,
foundeTed the same night. The crew were picked
up and taken to Port Mugrave.