The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-09-01

They are not mvch damaged and the crews are
ail saIe. The American schooner Fannie Rat,
fort hawkesburg, lost two of her crew, spars,
powspfit, anchors, cable and bulwarks.
AN UNKNOWN brig was sunk at anchor in
Carrioo Cove, Lennox passage. All hands
WeLe ioso her topmasts are above water. An
unknown American schooner with keel out,
supposed to be the Samuel ODER of Providence,
is lost
Inc body of an unknown man, dashed to
SPAR drlfted ashore at Port Mulgrave yester-
day.
Inc captain of the Reliance reports that he
saw dismasted vessel and waterlogged. fifty
miles southwest of Halifax. He could not
MAKE out her name. She was about 80 tons
and British built.
lngs are destroyed at Canso and vicinity, en-
talilng loss of 100000. Every ship in Cdnso
narpor Is high and dry above low water mark.
Inc tide during the hight of the storm was
three or four feet higher than ever before
known. Every wharf and fishing establish
menu is swept away and debris lines the entire
shore
Inc schooner Ware is here of Beverly, Mass,
Wltn 19ll cargo of sugar consigned to Ames
Gutter or Gloucester, and lies hundred feet
ABOVE low WAFER mark Her keel at the stern
post is embedded two feet in gravel and at the
waist six feet
The Mary Hurst of Gloucester is almost to-
tai wreck
The schooner Nara Joseph on Burrelrs Is
land, Is broken up
A schooner BELONGING TO Proyipcetown in at
tempting to enter the harbor of Shelburne,
Sunday night struck on the reef of Black Point
anu dragged her anchors, The captain, his
wile ana infant left the vessel in dory, and
aftef rowing about all night succeeded in land
ing the next day in very exhausted condition.
The remainder of the crew, numbering twelve
men, left the vessel in two dorys and have not
oeeh neard from. 1t is feared they all were
lost The vessel has. sunk.
IL is SAID that forty dead bodies have drifted
ashore on the north side of Prince Edward Is.
land,
The schooner Golden West, from Labrador,
wmch arrived to-day, spoke an American fish
ing schooner In the Straits of Can>o which re-
ported twenty American fishing schooners be-
longing to Gloucester, ten belonging to Beverly
Mass and the schooner Ida May of Quebec
ashore at Pleasant Bay, Magdalen Islands, bat
gave no particulars. 1t is reported that fifty
American fishing vessels were lost off the north
side of Prince Edward Island and that only
eighteen lives were saved out of all the crews
but none of the late arrivals at this port credit
the report.
At Charlottown, P. E. l.. the storm was very
destructive to life and property. The crops are
half destroyed and the destruction of fishing
boats is unprecedented. On the northern coast
there was great loss Of life. Six square rugged
vessels are wrecked on the northern coast and
the crews of two Of them were drowned -Four
Amer" an fishing vessels were also wrecked and
their crews all lost.
The collector of customs at Magdalen Island
reports fifty British and American vessels
ashore there.
The Canadian Pacific Railway COnirO.
versy.
New YORK, Aug. Boa Toronto despatch
says that Mr.. Huntington, who originally pre-
ferred charges against the government in the
Pacific Railway matter, has been officially sum-
moned to appear before the commission ap-
pointed to investigate them. He has informed
the commission of his determination to refnse
to appear, saying it is a breach of Parliament
airy privilege that the royal commission issued
without special sanction of the House, should
take cognzance of OF assume to call on him to
Justify words spoken on the floor of Commons
and for which he is responsible to them and to
them only.